The UK-China University Consortium on Engineering Education and Research (UCEER), launched by Southeast University and Queen’s University Belfast, is comprised of the nine Chinese engineering universities of the Excellent Alliance of Universities (E9) and nine UK universities of the Russel Group. At the fifth meeting of the UK-China High-Level People to People Dialogue held in December 2017, Southeast University and Queen’s University Belfast signed the Joint Declaration on establishing a UK-China University Consortium on Engineering Education and Research, which signifies the establishment of UCEER. This Consortium aims at enhancing the cooperation in higher education, scientific research and innovation between Chinese and UK universities.