The signing ceremony of the strategic cooperation between Renmin University of China (RUC) and Communication University of China (CUC) was held in the newly built Academic Center of CUC on Jan. 9.
Zhang Donggang, Chairperson of the University Council, RUC, Wang Yi, Vice President of RUC, Hu Baijing, Vice Chairperson of the University Council, RUC and Vice President of RUC, and Liao Xiangzhong, Chairman of the University Council, CUC, attended the signing ceremony. Zhang Shuting, Vice Chairman of the University Council, CUC, and President of CUC, presided over the signing ceremony.
Liao Xiangzhong delivered a welcome speech, in which he emphasized that the in-depth cooperation between the RUC and CUC has created a precedent for in-depth cooperation between “985” universities and “211” universities, also in-depth cooperation between “double first-class” construction universities and “double first-class” discipline construction universities.
Hu Baijing, Yang Yi, Vice President of CUC, and Zhang Shuting made speeches in turn, expressing their earnest hope for the cooperation between the two universities. Taking the establishment of an independent knowledge system of journalism and communication as an important fulcrum, the two universities would carry out comprehensive and in-depth cooperation in discipline construction, personnel training, and scientific research to promote the high-quality development of higher education and cultivate high-quality talents for national development.
Wang Yi and Zhang Shuting signed a strategic cooperation agreement on behalf of RUC and CUC.
In his concluding speech, Zhang Donggang reviewed the history of the development of the two universities and the long-term profound friendship. He also spoke highly of the achievements made by CUC in reform and development in recent years.
Zhang Donggang remarked that the two universities should further strengthen communication and docking, and solidly promote their strategic cooperation to achieve fruitful results.