On 15 October, QIN Guangrong, Mayor of Qidong City in Jiangsu Province, led an eight-member delegation to Harbin Engineering University (HEU) for a research symposium on deepening university-local government cooperation, co-building achievement transformation platforms, and promoting the coordinated development of the ship and ocean engineering industry. YAN Rujian, Vice President of HEU, attended the symposium.

Vice President YAN extended a warm welcome to Mayor QIN and his delegation. He noted that Qidong’s pillar industries are highly aligned with HEU’s leading disciplines, laying a solid foundation for broad cooperation prospects. He expressed hope that the two sides would leverage their respective strengths, deepen industry-university-research collaborative innovation in scientific research, talent training and achievement transformation around key industrial technologies and practical needs, and accelerate the local transformation of scientific and technological achievements, making new and greater contributions to the high-quality development of the ship and ocean engineering industry.

Mayor QIN introduced the development of Qidong’s marine engineering industry and fully affirmed the proposals and achievements of the Yangtze River Delta Advanced Research Institute. He noted that Qidong and HEU enjoy complementary advantages in industry and disciplines, with vast cooperation space and promising prospects. Taking this research visit as an opportunity, he hoped that the university and local government would further deepen cooperation, jointly cultivate high-level talent, build pilot testing platforms together, promote the in-depth integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and inject new impetus into the high-quality development of China’s marine economy.

The head of the Yangtze River Delta Advanced Research Institute introduced HEU’s scientific and technological innovation progress and the development of the institute.