On the morning of October 16, Ma Xingrui, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee and Secretary of the CPC Shenzhen Municipal Committee and Xu Qin, Mayor of Shenzhen met with a delegation led by Steven Chu, a professor of physics at Stanford University and the 1997 Nobel laureate in Physics.

Shenzhen is an innovative modern international city, the municipal committee and government have attached great importance to constantly optimizing Shenzhen’s innovation and entrepreneurship environment in such aspects as policy, fund and talent, explored a model of research organization and an educational model geared to international practices, and focused on building a world technology and industrial innovation center. He expected Prof. Chu and other world top scientists to work with Shenzhen in fields such as higher education, key laboratory construction and major research projects, thereby contributing to the innovative development of Shenzhen, said Ma.

Shenzhen’s development is exciting, said Zhu, expecting Shenzhen to learn successful experience from the Silicon Valley, vigorously develop high-level education, attract outstanding talents from across the world, and speed up the collaborative innovation in technology, research and education. He pledged to fully support Shenzhen in pooling world top talents to accelerate the building of Shenzhen into the “Silicon Valley” in China and Shenzhen.

Municipal leader Guo Yonghang; Council Chairwoman Guo Yurong and President Chen Shiyi of Southern University of Science and Technology were present.

A group photo