On January 9, Liu Dongshun, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Yangtze River Water Conservancy Committee of the Ministry of Water Resources, and his delegation went to Hohai University to carry out cooperation and exchanges and sign a strategic cooperation agreement. Academician Tang Hongwu, Secretary of the Party Committee of Hohai University, attended the meeting and delivered a speech, and President Yang Guishan presided over the meeting. Wu Daoxi, Deputy Director of the Yangtze River Commission, Cheng Haiyun, Director of the Hydrological Bureau of the Yangtze River Commission, Xu Quanxi, President of the Yangtze River Academy of Sciences, Hu Xiangyang, General Manager of the Yangtze River Design Group, Hu Zaoping, Deputy Director of the Office of the Yangtze River Committee, Luo Xiaoyong, Director of the State Science Bureau of the Yangtze River Commission, Ning Lei, Deputy Director of the Planning and Planning Bureau of the Yangtze River Commission, Tan Jie, Deputy Director of the Personnel Bureau of the Yangtze River Commission, Zheng Jinhai, Vice President of Hohai University, and Lu Guobin, Vice President of Hohai University, attended the meeting.
Tang Hongwu expressed his gratitude to the Yangtze River Committee for its support and concern for Hohai University. He said that with the support of the new strategic cooperation, the two sides will give full play to their respective characteristic advantages, gather and make good use of platform resources, promote the integration of innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain and talent chain, seek major scientific and technological projects, jointly introduce and cultivate high-level leading talents, and accelerate the construction of excellent engineer colleges and river basin colleges.
Yang Guishan extended a warm welcome to Liu Dongshun and his entourage. He pointed out that the Yangtze River Commission, as a river basin management agency dispatched by the Ministry of Water Resources and the "spokesperson" of the Yangtze River, is responsible for the important mission of protecting and managing the Yangtze River and promoting the economic and social development of the river basin. The signing of a strategic cooperation agreement between Hohai University and the Yangtze River Commission indicates that the cooperation between the two sides has reached a new starting point and a new level. He believes that the two sides should take this cooperation as an opportunity to establish a special class for cooperation work, sort out the list of cooperation, further strengthen resource sharing, deepen pragmatic cooperation, highlight complementary advantages, and achieve win-win cooperation, which will surely create new achievements in the new era and new journey
Liu Dongshun affirmed the achievements of Hohai University in its career development. He said that Hohai University, as the first institution of higher learning in China to cultivate water conservancy talents, has opened a precedent for water conservancy higher education in China, and is the university with the most prominent water conservancy characteristics and the most complete water conservancy professional settings in the country. He pointed out that the signing of the strategic cooperation agreement between the Yangtze River Commission and Hohai University will open a new chapter in the cooperation between the two sides, which is of great significance for gathering innovative forces, continuously improving the ability of scientific and technological support and leadership, and helping the protection of the Yangtze River and the high-quality development of water conservancy in the new stage. It is hoped that the two sides will cooperate sincerely, share responsibilities and work together, promote the implementation of the goals and tasks of the cooperation agreement, enhance the overall joint force, make the cooperation develop in a wider field, a wider dimension and a deeper level, and work together to take the new era of water conservancy science and technology innovation.
At the meeting, Wu Daoxi and Lu Guobin signed the "Strategic Cooperation Agreement between the Yangtze River Water Conservancy Committee of the Ministry of Water Resources and Hohai University" on behalf of the two sides. The two sides will fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, deepen cooperation in key areas in the implementation of major national strategies such as the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, and create a new situation of integrated development and win-win cooperation between the two sides.
Heads of relevant departments and member enterprises of the Yangtze River Commission, and heads of relevant departments and colleges of Hohai University attended the signing ceremony. (Correspondent: Chai Zhishang, Peng Guoping).