On January 19, 2016, MUST and Nanjing University of The Arts signed cooperation agreement in the administrative building of the Nanjing University of the Arts, which is adjacent to the Stone City near the Qinhuai River; the two parties confirmed to co-build the “Macau Center of the Nanjing University of The Arts” to jointly foster excellent talents of Art for Macau and Nanjing and to move forward the cultural creative industry.
Vice President Tong Ka Lok of MUST and President Liu Wei Dong of Nanjing University of the Arts signed the Agreement, representing respectively the two universities, under the witness of Deputy Chairman Luo Yi Min of the People’s Political Consultative Conference of the Jiangsu Province. Other guests that have attended the ceremony include Member of the United Front Work Department of Nanjing, Tang Wen, Party Secretary of the Nanjing University of The Arts, Guan Xiang Qun, Vice President He Xiao You, Vice President Xie Jian Ming, Associate Vice President Pang Chuan, and Executive Vice Dean Zhang Zhi Qing.
Vice President Tong Ka Lok noted that as Macau is currently exploring for a path of diversified development of economy and has made the cultural creative industry one of the priorities for development, which coincides with the fact that the mainland of China is also working on a cultural rejuvenation and construction of the culture industry. At such a golden timing for cultural and art development, for Nanjing University of The Arts and Macau University of Science and Technology to take the opportunity to co-build the “Macau Center of Nanjing University of The Arts”, it has strong reality-based operationally and far-reaching historical significances. It is hoped that the two universities’ cooperation will become a more effective platform for cooperation of the two places and two universities so as to jointly move forward the “industry-education-research” co-development.
President Guan Xiang Qun of Nanjing University of The Arts spoke on a positive note of the achievements of MUST over the past years, hoping that the two universities’ cooperation could contribute to the development of the cultural creative industry of the two places.
