President of Macau University of Science and Technology and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Chair Prof. Liu Liang received honorary citizenship of Zhuhai at the City’s 10th Honorary Citizenship Award. Deputy Party Secretary of Zhuhai Municipal Committee and Mayor of the City of Zhuhai, Mr. Yao Yisheng presented the Honorary Citizenship Certificate and Medal to President Liu Liang.
At the award-presentation ceremony (on the left is Deputy Party Secretary of Zhuhai People’s Government and Mayor of Zhuhai, Mr. Yao Yisheng; on the right is President Liu Liang of M.U.S.T. and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering)
President Liu Liang has been long devoted to development of high-quality education and extraordinary research, has led Macau University of Science and Technology to the Top 20 of the Ranking of Universities in the Greater China and the top 300 in the 2020 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and has taken advantage of the professional talents and technological strengths of M.U.S.T. in combination with the geographical advantages of Zhuhai to prompt a deeper cooperation of Macao-Zhuhai, co-develop innovative science and technology enterprises and empower research development and cultural prosperity in the Greater Bay Area. In recognition of the outstanding contributions of President Liu Liang to economic and societal development of Zhuhai, the Zhuhai People’s Government bestows Honorary Citizenship on President Liu Liang. Deputy Party Secretary of Zhuhai Municipal Committee and Mayor of Zhuhai, Mr. Yao Yisheng, Deputy Mayor of Zhuhai, Mr. Liu Jiawen, Secretary-General of the Zhuhai Municipal Committee and Director of the General Office of the Zhuhai Municipal Committee, Mr. Wu Lin, other awardees of the 10th Zhuhai Honorary Citizenship Award, and heads of other relevant departments of various boroughs and organizations attended the award presentation ceremony. Including President Liu Liang, altogether 28 Chinese and non-Chinese individuals were awarded the honor of Honorary Citizenship.
President Liu Liang felt it a great honor to receive the Honorary Citizenship. Zhuhai is a core city located at the west coast of the Pearl River estuary. It’s an essential link point to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, as well as one of the earliest four Special Economic Zones established in China. In the Greater Bay Area innovation science and technology corridor, Zhuhai and Macao are positioned as the “Zhuhai-Macao Poles” of the west coast of the Greater Bay Area, which plays an indispensible role in the implementation of the national goals of establishing Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area international innovation centers. He said that he would continue to campaign for all-round cooperation between Macao and Zhuhai in education and science and technology, accelerate social and societal development of Macao and Zhuhai, and contribute forces to development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Since 1997, when Zhuhai first began to award Honorary Citizenship, altogether 150 individuals have received the honor. In October of 2018, the formulated “Implementation Guidelines for Awarding Honorary Citizenship in Zhuhai Special Economic Zone” was officially put in force. The Implementation Guidelines specify that individuals satisfying one of the ten categories of conditions would be eligible to be awarded “Honorary Citizenship of Zhuhai”. The Award selects awardees once every three years, and awards no more than 30 persons each time.