China News Service, Lanzhou, November 14 (Wen Shuyao, Gao Wen) The 24th China International Talent Exchange Conference Lanzhou Jiaotong University branch venue opened in Lanzhou on the 14th. 61 experts and scholars from 27 countries around the world gathered on the banks of the Yellow River to conduct dialogue and exchanges around transportation industry innovation and international talent collaboration. Using intellectual cooperation as a link, they will inject overseas wisdom and momentum into the high-quality development of Gansu's integration into the "Belt and Road" countries.
This sub-venue, with the theme of "Intelligent Silk Road, Transportation First", is an important practice for Gansu to implement the strategy of strengthening the province with talents and expand institutional opening up.
On November 14, the Lanzhou Jiaotong University branch venue of the 24th China International Talent Exchange Conference opened in Lanzhou. Photo by Wen Shuyao
Min Ping, director of the Gansu Provincial Department of Science and Technology, said that currently, multiple national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation trunk corridors intersect and overlap in Gansu, making Gansu an important comprehensive transportation hub in the country and a new highland for opening up to the west. Facing the future, Gansu will continue to cultivate the entire chain of innovation ecology in the transportation field, implement high-level talent development policies, proactively integrate into the global innovation network, and embrace the world with a more open and inclusive attitude.
Gansu is located in the golden section of the ancient Silk Road and is a strategic route for the country's opening to the west. In recent years, the province has been deeply integrated into the high-quality "Belt and Road" countries and the construction of the New Land-Sea Corridor in the West. It has continued to promote institutional opening up and strengthened the "Belt and Road" university alliance, international exchange seminars, 100-school friendship and other special platforms. It has concluded 73 pairs of sister cities with 41 countries on five continents, and a new pattern of all-round, multi-level and wide-area opening-up is accelerating.
The conference’s many achievements, such as the unveiling of the talent introduction base, the signing of inter-school cooperation, and the appointment of international editorial board members, will further enhance the level of Gansu’s global scientific and technological innovation cooperation, gather high-end overseas intelligence, and promote high-quality regional development.
Zeng Huahui, deputy director of the Gansu Provincial Department of Education, said that the location of this branch venue at Lanzhou Jiaotong University provides a valuable opportunity for Gansu’s education to open up to the outside world, gather international high-quality educational resources, and deepen the joint education of transnational talents. Gansu has a solid industrial foundation and broad space for cooperation in the fields of transportation, new energy, new materials, ecological protection, and advanced manufacturing. It is hoped that this conference will be used as a link to give full play to the advantages of university discipline platforms, attract more overseas experts to understand Gansu and deepen their cultivation in Gansu, and continue to produce practical cooperation results such as talent training, academic innovation, and scientific research.
The picture shows Chinese and foreign scholars, teachers and students visiting Lanzhou Jiaotong University. Photo by Wen Shuyao
As an industry-specific university that has been deeply involved in the western region for 68 years, Lanzhou Jiaotong University inherits the spirit of westward migration and adheres to the educational background of "rooting in the western region and serving transportation". It is an important base for the cultivation of national rail transit talents and is known as the "cradle of Chinese railway engineers." The school has the only first-level doctoral program in transportation engineering in the six provinces of Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, New Mongolia and Tibet. It has formed irreplaceable regional advantages in the fields of plateau permafrost, alpine construction, intelligent operation and maintenance, and traffic surveying and mapping. It is deeply involved in major national railway projects such as Qinghai-Tibet, Sichuan-Tibet, China-Laos, China-Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, and continues to overcome global engineering problems and provide solid scientific and technological support for national infrastructure interconnection.
Nie Lei, executive vice president of Lanzhou Jiaotong University, said that the school will take this international talent exchange conference as an important opportunity to continue to expand high-level opening up to the outside world, adhere to openness and inclusiveness, build a diverse and interoperable international academic platform, and deepen mutual learning and academic exchanges between Chinese and foreign civilizations. It will focus on pragmatic cooperation, promote the joint construction of joint laboratories, joint application for international projects, and joint master's and doctoral training, and transform the advantages of the platform into advantages in education and scientific innovation.
