YNU cooperates with State-owned group in Yunnan

A strategic cooperation signing ceremony between Yunnan University, or YNU, and Yunnan Communications Investment and Construction Group Co was held at the group's premises on Sept 20.

Leaders of the university and the group sign a cooperation agreement on Sept 20. [Photo/ynu.edu.cn]

Before the ceremony, leaders of the university accompanied by leaders of the group visited the highway micro-exhibition hall and big data service center of the group to learn about the construction and operation of expressways in Southwest China's Yunnan province.

Leaders of the university visit the big data service center of the group before the signing ceremony. [Photo/ynu.edu.cn]

At the ceremony, Lin Wenxun, secretary of the Party committee of Yunnan University, expressed the hopes for the cooperation: to form a team to conduct in-depth research, to focus on the project and use the team as the carrier to produce high-quality and high-level results, and to establish a well-communicated docking mechanism to promote the implementation of the work.

In addition, Lin invited the leaders of the group to participate in the centennial celebration of Yunnan University next year.

Chi Zhonghua, chairman of Yunnan Communications Investment and Construction Group Co, delivered a speech at the ceremony, in which he expressed his hopes that the two parties will focus on the development of digital industrialization, build a transportation think tank based in Yunnan, which faces South and Southeast Asia, and advance the comprehensive construction of transportation in Yunnan province.

In addition to signing the cooperation agreement, Lin and Chi also jointly unveiled the "Yunnan Transportation Digital Economy Research Institute" at the ceremony.

Lin and Chi unveil the Yunnan Transportation Digital Economy Research Institute. [Photo/ynu.edu.cn]