On September 4, the Kunshan Practice Base of Digital Economy and Management Education of Southeast University was inaugurated. Zuo Wei, Secretary of Party Committee of Southeast University, and Zhou Wei, Secretary of Kunshan Municipal Committee, jointly inaugurated the practice base. Chen Liyan, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, and Zhong Wenqi, Vice President of Southeast University, delivered speeches. Xu Huadong, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, Yuan Jianhong, Secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Economics and Management of Southeast University and Special Advisor of Kunshan Industrial Innovation Cluster, and Hu Hanhui, Professor of the School of Economics and Management and Special Advisor of Kunshan Industrial Innovation Cluster, attended the event.
Chen Liyan welcomed the arrival of Zuo Wei and others on behalf of the Kunshan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government. She expressed her gratitude to Southeast University for its long-term care and support for the economic and social development of Kunshan. She said, for the "new track" and "main track" of digital economy, Kunshan had the industrial advantage of advanced computing, the location advantage of "East Digital and West Computing", and Southeast University had the innovation advantage of theory, discipline, talent and technology. Kunshan will adhere to the concept of open sharing and win-win cooperation, carry out all-round and deep docking around industry, projects, science and technology, talents and MBA course development, further strengthen the complementary advantages of the university and local enterprises, promote the resonance of industry, study and research, and strive to build Kunshan into a gathering place for the transformation of achievements of higher education institutions, the preferred place for innovation and entrepreneurship of teachers and students, and the source of scientific and technological innovation in digital economy, and work together to achieve the vision that digital makes production more advanced and life better.
"The famous city feeds the famous university, and the famous university feeds the famous city." Zhong Wenqi said in her speech that at present, Southeast University is aiming at the forefront of world science and technology competition and the main battlefield of economic and social development, aiming at the new needs of the people and the grand strategy of national governance, and striding forward to build a world-class university with Chinese characteristics. Southeast University will strongly support and sincerely hope that the practice base can align with the theoretical frontier and market application of digital economy, build a new ecosystem of government, industry, academia and research, form a new model of university-enterprise cooperation with shared innovation resources, promote digital industrialization and industrial digitization, give full play to the empowering, amplifying, superimposing and multiplying effects of digital technology on economic development, and create an open and inclusive, domestically leading and globally renowned cross-disciplinary research platform in the field of digital economy and achieve a new breakthrough in the development of the integration of famous cities and universities.
The inauguration of the Kunshan Practice Base of Digital Economy and Management Education of Southeast University is another landmark platform for the two sides to deepen cooperation. The two will focus on the development of digital economy and the construction of industrial innovation clusters, and make efforts to promote a number of high-quality and effective research projects and achievements to implement in Kunshan.
(Source: Kunshan Daily)
Translated by: Luo Jiaoying
Reviewed by: Wang Xuanyu
