HUTB, Xiangjiang Laboratory, and People’s Government of Liuyang City Sign Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement
2025-03-23
On the afternoon of March 22, the signing ceremony for the strategic cooperation agreement between HUTB, Xiangjiang Laboratory, and the People's Government of Liuyang City was held in Liuyang Economic and Technological Development Zone. Chen Xiaohong, Secretary of the CPC HUTB Committee, Director of Xiangjiang Laboratory, and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Xiao Zhengbo, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Changsha Municipal Committee and Secretary of the CPC Liuyang Municipal Committee, attended the cooperation discussion meeting and witnessed the signing of the agreement.
The meeting was attended by leaders including Liu Guoquan, Executive Deputy Director of Xiangjiang Laboratory, Gan Dejian, Member of the CPC HUTB Committee and Vice President of HUTB, Hou Junjun, Deputy Director of Xiangjiang Laboratory, Member of the CPC HUTB Committee and Vice President of HUTB, Xia Jichun, Executive Vice President of the Alumni Association of HUTB, Hu Chunhua, Deputy Director of Xiangjiang Laboratory, Wang Xiongwen, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Liuyang Municipal Committee and Mayor of Liuyang, Dai Wuming, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Liuyang Municipal Committee and Director of the United Front Work Department, Xie Bo, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Liuyang Municipal Committee and Director of the Office of the CPC Liuyang Municipal Committee, and Wang Hao and Sun Qian, nominees for Vice Mayor of Liuyang. The event was also attended by representatives of HUTB’s outstanding alumni entrepreneurs including Tan Xiancai, Yang Zhenghua, Kong Yiguo , Yi Li, Xiong Jun, and Chen Qian, as well as heads of relevant departments from Xiangjiang Laboratory and HUTB, and heads of relevant units from Liuyang City.
Academician Chen Xiaohong, on behalf of HUTB and Xiangjiang Laboratory, expressed gratitude for Liuyang Government's long-standing care and support, and commended the city's remarkable development achievements in recent years. She stated that the signing of the cooperation agreement not only serves as a concrete measure to implement the important decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee and CPC Hunan Provincial Committee, but also represents a vigorous action to promote mutually beneficial and win-win results. HUTB and Xiangjiang Laboratory will fully leverage their disciplinary strengths, talent resources, scientific research capabilities, and platform advantages to enhance support for Liuyang City in multiple areas such as scientific research achievement transformation, student innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives, establishment of entrepreneurship bases and internship and training bases, and talent introduction initiatives through alumni reference, so as to mobilize more university graduates and high-end professionals to pursue employment, start businesses, and develop ventures in Liuyang. She expressed hopes that both parties would further leverage their distinctive strengths, innovate approaches and initiatives, refine cooperation mechanisms, promote deep integration and mutual benefit, complement each other’s strengths, synchronize efforts, and jointly write a new chapter of win-win government-industry-university-research collaboration.
Secretary Xiao Zhengbo expressed heartfelt gratitude to HUTB and Xiangjiang Laboratory for their long-standing support for Liuyang City and conveyed deep admiration for their remarkable achievements. He stated that Liuyang is currently advancing the high-level development of a "new model for county-level economy and a pioneering area for common prosperity", planning and promoting future industries, and developing new quality productive forces at a faster pace. He expressed hopes that Xiangjiang Laboratory and HUTB would deepen cooperation with and enhance support to Liuyang in areas such as transformation of sci-tech achievements, promotion of student entrepreneurship, cultivation of sci-tech innovation talents, construction of sci-tech innovation platforms, and sharing of alumni resources, thereby contributing to Liuyang's high-quality development and modernization drive. Adhering to the principle of "non-interference in routine operations and full responsiveness to needs", Liuyang Government will provide as strong support as possible for scientific research, project development, achievement transformation, employment and entrepreneurship, and business incubation to ensure the concrete implementation of cooperation projects.
At the meeting, Executive Deputy Director Liu Guoquan provided an overview of the development progress of Xiangjiang Laboratory, and Vice President Hou Junjun introduced the educational profile of HUTB. Sun Qian, nominee for Vice Mayor of Liuyang, presented an overview of the city’s industrial development and sci-tech innovation efforts. Tang Jianguo, Member of the Party Working Committee and Deputy Director of the Management Committee of Liuyang Economic and Technological Development Zone, introduced the industrial investment promotion initiatives within the zone. Tan Xiancai, General Manager of Tianzhi International Accounting Firm, and Yang Zhenghua, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Vice Chairman, and General Manager of Hunan Agricultural Development Investment Group, delivered speeches as alumni entrepreneur representatives of HUTB during the exchange session.
Witnessed by leaders including Academician Chen Xiaohong and Secretary Xiao Zhengbo, HUTB and Xiangjiang Laboratory signed strategic cooperation framework agreements with the People's Government of Liuyang City respectively. The three parties of the agreements will establish collaboration mechanisms focusing on sci-tech innovation and achievement transformation, talent exchange and cultivation, innovative platform development, and high-end think tank resource sharing. They will carry out comprehensive, multi-sectoral, vigorous, and highly effective cooperation to jointly create an exemplary model in areas such as integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent cultivation, synergistic advancement of sci-tech and industrial innovation, and promotion of university graduate employment and entrepreneurship. Warm applause erupted on the scene.
Before the meeting, Academician Chen Xiaohong and related personnel paid on-site visits to industry-leading enterprises including Lens Technology Co., Ltd. and Changsha HKC Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. They learned about the development history, key technologies, core products, market share, economies of scale, and corporate culture of these enterprises, and highly commended them for their remarkable performance.
(Written by Zhang Gaoyang and photo by Ling Haotian)
