At a meeting marking the 20-year cooperation between USTC and UT, CAS president Lu Yongxiang meets with Prof. Akito Arima, former president of University of Tokyo, and former Minister of Science and Technology in Japan. (Photo: Duan Xu)
The 20-year cooperation between the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and the University of Tokyo (UT) has been successful. This was announced at a meeting marking such cooperation on September 12.
Under an agreement signed in 1979 by the Chinese and Japanese governments on cultural exchanges between the two countries, USTC was to engage in a 20-year program of exchange and cooperation with the University of Tokyo (UT) beginning April 1982.
USTC has of late announced completion of the program, describing it as "fruitful". The USTC-UT cooperation program and similar programs between other key universities in China and Japan contributed to effort of the USTC to develop new academic disciplines and upgrade its scientific research. Such cooperation proved important to training of young scientists by USTC.
USTC was able to open itself to the world science community through implementation of the program. During this 20-year period, it sent 300 scientists to work as visiting scholars at the UT. Visiting scholars exchanged between the two universities numbered 1,200 in total.
(Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences)
