The government of Shenzhen, a Chinese mainland city bordering Hong Kong, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) signed Memorandum on Monday to promote Shenzhen-Hong Kong collaboration.

The memorandum of cooperation was signed by Liu Yingli, visiting executive vice-mayor of Shenzhen, who led a 70-strong delegation to Hong Kong and Lawrence J. Lau, vice-chancellor of CUHK.

The two sides agreed to promote together the collaboration between Shenzhen and Hong Kong in education, science research, training of talents, and the establishment of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Innovation Zone.

Liu said while giving a lecture at the university that the Shenzhen has been attaching importance to the cooperation between Shenzhen and Hong Kong and the ongoing construction of the Shenzhen-HK western border check point has been going on smoothly and is expected to be completed by the end of this year.

According to the memorandum, Shenzhen and CUHK will develop a close partnership in higher education to nurture undergraduate, master and doctoral students.

The Shenzhen government will recommend talents in medicine, science, education, engineering, and business administration to attend professional training at CUHK.

The Shenzhen government will provide CUHK with physical space and other facilitation to set up a permanent organization in the Shenzhen Virtual University Science Park.

CUHK will cooperate with Shenzhen's institutions of higher education, including mutual visits of teachers and student exchange.

The Shenzhen government will promote CUHK's research in Shenzhen through technology transfer and encourage Shenzhen enterprises to collaborate with CUHK in research and development.

Shenzhen and CUHK will cooperate to take part in key technology research projects of the nation. They will share research facilities and resources.

Source: Xinhua