NCEPU signed cooperative agreement with People’s Government of Changping District and Zhongguancun Management Committee

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A signing ceremony on the strategic cooperative agreement between NCEPU and People’s Government of Changping District, together with an unveiling ceremony on Overseas Students Pioneer Park co-established by NCEPU and Zhongguancun Management Committee, was held in the multi-functional hall of International Communication Center of NCEPU at 4 pm on October 21, 2008. The ceremony, presided over by Zhang Jinhui, deputy secretary of NCEPU committee of CPC, was attended by Guan Chenghua (secretary of Changping Central Committee of CPC), Cao Pengcheng (member of standing committee of Changping Central Committee of CPC and director of Changping Committee Office), Fang Yan (vice administrative leader of People’s Government of Changping District), Dai Wei (director of management committee of Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park), Xia Yingqi (deputy director of management committee), Zhang Maosheng (director of Industrial Sector of management committee), Zhang Jinsong (director of Industry-Academy-Research Cooperation Department of Science and Technology Development Center in the Ministry of Education), Wu Zhigong (secretary of NCEPU committee of CPC), Liu Jizhen (president of NCEPU), Zhang Jinhui (deputy secretary of NCEPU committee of CPC), vice president An Liansuo, Li Heming, Sun Pingsheng, president assistant Sun Zhongquan, and so were leaders from People’s Government of Changping District, from relevant departments of Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park, from  Science and Technology Parks of our brotherly universities including Tsinghua University and from relevant departments of NCEPU.

    Secretary Zhang said this signing ceremony was an important part of the 50th anniversary of NCEPU and he expressed heartfelt gratitude for the substantial support NCEPU has received during the preparation from Changping District Committee, People’s Government of Changping District, Management Committee of Zhongguancun, science and technology development center of Ministry of Education, and other social sectors.

    President Liu, on behalf of all faculty of NCEPU, congratulated on the large-scale cooperation and thanked People’s Government of Changping District and Zhongguancun Management Committee for their support for and interests in NCEPU. Later on, President Liu introduced the development and discipline setting of NCEPU, and stated in details our school’s characteristics and advantages formed for ages.

    President Liu said, for the past many years, NCEPU has considered promoting the development of energy and electric power industry in China as its own responsibility. While establishing a high-level university, NCEPU also strives to deepen industry-academy-research cooperation, take a positive part in building national innovative system and serve local economic development, through which unique characteristics and advantages have been formed as follows.

    First, highlight university-running features by building a distinct disciplinary system of “overall electric power”.

    Second, innovate on the talent cultivating mode with the aid of industry-academy-research cooperation.

    Third, carry out scientific and research innovations actively in accordance with national strategy on science and technology development.

    Fourth, conduct multi-layer industry-academy-research cooperation on the platform of university board of directors.

    Fifth, accelerate hi-tech transformation into practical applications and upgrade regional economy of the service area.

    In President Liu’s opinion, with the correct leadership of the party and the government in Changping District, the size of power and science industry has expanded significantly and the products of independent innovation arise now and then through taking advantage of resource, environment and position, which creates a sound environment for constructing a power and industrial base (the strategic object put forward by the party and the government in Changping District). With the leadership of the Zhongguancun Management Committee in the past 20 years, Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park is one of the most creative areas in China that has developed high scientific industry with independent innovation as the core and made great contribution to the science and technology innovation and development of both Beijing and the whole nation. On the event of the 50th anniversary of NCEPU, we are honored to sign the strategic cooperation proposal with the government of Changping District to found the “NCEPU Overseas Students Pioneer Park”, which is both an important measure to construct the national scientific and creative system and develop local economy as well as extend honor to the 50th anniversary of NCEPU.

    Finally, President Liu expressed his wish to integrate resources of the two parts to realize complementary advantages and multi-level, multi-area cooperation. Only in this way can we make greater contribution to the establishment of a new Changping District as a scientific and educational base and a human ecological community where many overseas personnel work, and in turn facilitate economic construction and social development.

    After that, Guan Chenghua (Party Secretary of Changping District) and Xia Yingqi (deputy director of Zhongguancun Science Park Community) delivered speeches respectively.

    Guan Chenghua, Secretary of Changping District Committee of Chinese Communist Party, said that the strategic cooperation agreement signed with NCEPU on such a joyful occasion as NCEPU was to celebrate its 50th anniversary was a common friendship achievement. In recent years, the economy and society of Changping District has developed in a steady and fast way and progressed into an industrial system dominated by energy science, biomedicine, etc. At present, conforming to the strategic plan of “humanistic Beijing, scientific Beijing and green Beijing” of Beijing Municipal Committee and Government and centering on the goal of developing into a first-class modernized urban developing area, Changping District is making full use of its current scientific and teaching resource superiority and actively building a regional innovation system which integrates industry, academy and research. As a national key university distinctive of energy resources research, NCEPU has highly capable research staff, substantial research achievements and extensive social influence. NCEPU is also the only university of 211 Project that sets home campus in Changping. NCEPU is itself a superior resource for developing energy and scientific industries and a critical support for the formation of the industry-academy-research regional innovation system of Changping District. He said that, on the basis of mutual trust over the past years, we signed formal strategic cooperation agreement to further expand the scope, enrich the contents and promote the standard of cooperation. This was both an essential part of the history process of NCEPU as well as a fabulous chapter of the social and economic progress of Changping District. Finally, Secretary Guan expressed his congratulations on the 50th anniversary to NCEPU once more.

    Xia Yingqi, Deputy Director of Committee of Zhongguancun Haidian Science Park (HSP)， stated that Zhongguancun had highly concentrated scientific and teaching resources, information resources and financial resources, and the support and help of universities and scientific research institutes was indispensable for the achievements made in the past 20 years. NCEPU, as a national key university featured by energy resources and electric power research, shouldered significant historical mission in the energy field, especially in the energy-saving and emission-reducing fields. We set up Overseas Students Pioneer Park now so as to create a local superior environment and focus on solving common problems so that more overseas students could contribute to our country and realize their own value at the same time. Overseas Students Pioneer Park was a good platform for combining the superior resources of NCEPU and Zhongguancun. through which we could promote and develop more world first-class science and technologies and cultivate more well-renowned enterprisers.

    Then，Fang Yan （Chief Executive of People´s Government of Changping District） signed the strategic cooperation agreement with An Liansuo, Vice President of NCEPU.

    Mr. Xia Yingqi (Deputy Director of Administrative Committee of Zhongguancun HSP) and Li Heming (Vice President of NCEPU) signed the agreement to jointly found Overseas Students Pioneer Park.

    Mr. Dai Wei, Director of Administrative Committee of Zhongguancun HSP, together with Mr. Wu Zhigong, Secretary of NCEPU Party Committee, unveiled the nameplate for Overseas Students Pioneer Park, NCEPU.

    Administrative Committee of Zhongguancun HSP invested construction funds of 2 million to Overseas Students Pioneer Park, and its member Zhang Maosheng and Mr. Yao Kaiwen (Chief of Industry Division) carried out the donation handover ceremony on behalf of the two parts respectively.

    Deputy Secretary Zhang Jinhui concluded that, for the past many years, NCEPU had attached great importance to cooperation with all social sectors, played an active role in the construction of national innovation system and local economy, and established strategic cooperation relationship with a variety of power utilities and scientific research institutes. The contract signed today represented the enormous faith of the local government, and it was both a symbol of new breakthroughs NCEPU had accomplished in promoting local economic growth and deepening the industry-academy-research cooperation and a reward for all of us. He promised that, under the leadership of Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China and with the help of Beijing Committee of Communist Party of China, Beijing Municipal People´s Government and all parts of society, seeing this signing ceremony as a starting point, NCEPU would strive continously to speed up its construction and realize the goal of making greater contributions to the development of national energy and power science research, technology industry, and our country’s economic construction and social development.