Professor Tao Liu from University of Toronto Visits HITSZ

Professor Tao Liu, Deputy Dean of the School of Applied Science and Engineering in the University of Toronto, visited HITSZ on 19th July, accompanied by Jingyun Bao who is the president of Longyun Innovative Ltd. for Aviation Technology. Asistant to HIT President, Exucutive Vice Director of the Preparation Office of HITSZ Liang Zhen met the guests in Room 404.

Liang Zhen gave a general introduction of HITSZ to the guests. He said that 400 undergraduate students are expected to enroll in the canpus this coming autumn, which would be a milestone of HITSZ. Majors in HITSZ would include advantages ones in HIT and those which make good complement to HIT Harbin such as Economics Management. HITSZ would focus on internationalization during its later development, for which Liang Zhen hoped to have more communication and cooperation with the University of Toronto in the future. Tao Liu then gave a brief introduction on the cooperation between the University of Toronto and universities in China. He said that Shenzhen is an open city and a large amount of innovative companies emerge in recent years. One of the technologies Shenzhen is leading the world now is unmanned plane. He thought it would be quite promising to cooperate with HITSZ in the area of Electral Mechanics. Participants had deep discussion on how to carry out communication and cooperation between the two institutions later in the meeting.

A tour to labs was arranged for the guests after the meeting. Chuang Ma, Vice Derector of the Office of Science and Technology Development, and Haiyan Guan who is Director of Office of International Affairs also presented in the meeting and the lab tour.