On January 15, the signing ceremony of the Agreement of Strategic Cooperation Framework between South China University of Technology (SCUT) and China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation (CBPM) was held at Yifu Humanities and Social Sciences Library. Song Gao, Principal of SCUT, Jianchen Bu, General Manager of CBPM, Hua Zheng, Vice President of CBPM and Kefu Chen, Academician of China Academy of Engineering attended the event. Vice President of SCUT, Yechun Wu, signed the agreement on behalf of SCUT.

Song Gao first introduced to the participants the achievements of talent cultivation and discipline construction of SCUT. He said that personnel in SCUT not only have the belief and action of building world-class universities, but also have the responsibility and practice of serving the needs of national and regional development of China. It is hoped that through strong cooperation between the two sides, complementary advantages and win-win cooperation, CBPM will make breakthroughs in various related technologies, comprehensively enhance the innovative ability and economic benefits of the company, and at the same time enhance the ability of SCUT to serve the national and regional innovation-driven development strategy and support the country's major needs, so as to enhance the "double-class" construction of the university to a new level.  

Hua Zheng gave an introduction about the planning of strategic cooperation. HuaZhengsaid that SCUT, as a "two-class" university with distinctive advantages and characteristics of science and engineering, has made important contributions in transforming scientific and technological achievements, supporting and serving national innovation-driven development. CBPM is a large state-owned enterprise directly belonging to the People's Bank of China. Its R&D field covers money making, paper making, ink, optical anti-counterfeiting, credit card and so on. They hope to take advantage of the special advantages of SCUT in light industry technology and engineering, chemistry, materials, computer and other disciplines to take advantage of the existing ones of CBPM and SCUT. Relying on superior resources, scientific research achievements that conform to the development direction of CBPM should be tapped, and strategic cooperation with the main content of promoting the application of new technologies in the banknote printing and Minting industry should be carried out.

Related person in charge of Party committee (school) office, finance department, science and technology department, science and technology achievements transformation office, college of light industry science and engineering attended the activity.(photo/chunxu zhao news/School of Light Industry and Engineering)