Yunnan and Tsinghua seek win-win development
Chen Xiaobo
On December 17, Yunnan Province signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Tsinghua University in Beijing. Through this agreement, Yunnan hopes Tsinghua will provide strong support for the provinces scientific and technological innovation, disaster prevention, poverty alleviation and border development, facilitating upgrades in Yunnans industrial, economic and social development.
In the past, according to Qiu Yong, president of Tsinghua University, Yunnan and Tsinghua have carried out fruitful cooperation in personnel training, targeted aid, poverty alleviation through education and health care and many other fields. Tsinghua will combine its advantages with Yunnans actual situation. It will strengthen pragmatic cooperation with Yunnan in education, health care, poverty alleviation and technologic innovation to boost Yunnans leap-frog development.
Based on the Agreement, the two parties will establish a stronger cooperation mechanism. They will exploit their respective advantages and deepen cooperation in personnel training, discipline construction, scientific research, cultural heritage, poverty alleviation and other areas, jointly building Yunnan into a demonstration zone of ethnic unity and progress, a vanguard in ecological civilization construction and a pivot of Chinas opening up to South Asia and Southeast Asia.
