Recently, Chongqing University and Sichuan University are uniting famous counterparts in the Chengdu-Chongqing region, aiming for a Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle university alliance. Members are expected to recognize the credits and scientific achievements of the others and supplement themselves with others’ competitive disciplines. Also, they will jointly conduct researches and complete key scientific projects.
Zhang Zongyi, Principal of Chongqing University, said the school saw rapid growth over the past two years, with promising development in talent training, discipline progress, scientific research, team building, and international cooperation and exchanges as well as increasing competitiveness in school running.
It’s worth noting that Chongqing University is building an experimental facility for the super-transient matter. Zhang said as a move of the school to grow into a world-class university, this task was innovative but also challenging. Chongqing University, supported by the CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee and Chongqing Municipal People’s Government and working with relevant research institutes and universities, has been vigorously boosting this process over the past two years. According to Zhang, the project will powerfully serve universities in Chongqing and Sichuan and integrally improve the fundamental research capability of the Chengdu-Chongqing region once completed.
Chongqing University is actively fueling the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle university alliance. Zhang said preliminarily, it would incorporate about 20 universities. As a basic consensus has been achieved, cooperation frameworks and declaration will come soon. Member universities are slated to deeply cooperate in discipline building, talent training, scientific research, faculty building, and international cooperation and exchanges, regardless of separate locations.
“We can complement each other with respective competitive disciplines, such as the engineering in Chongqing University and arts, science and basic courses in Sichuan University,” Zhang said the alliance would also try to encourage professors to work at other universities, to tackle scientific projects and break through the bottlenecks.
Zhang believed the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle created a massive market for the two cities and was a great helper to the scientific achievements transformation. Previously, experts and scholars mainly considered carrying out the process in local areas. Afterward, they can focus on a larger market while scientific achievements can find cooperation enterprises and enter the international market more easily.
The alliance is also going to offer intellectual support to the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle. Zhang mentioned some experts and scholars at Chongqing University were thoroughly studying the economic development of the two cities and schools concerned were planning to set up a special research institute. For instance, scholars from the international trade, logistics, laws, etc. try to contribute to the establishment of rules of land-borne trade by joining in the research projects on China Railway Express (Yuxinou).