School of Geography and Planning of SYSU Signed an Agreement with IGSNRR of Chinese Academy of Sciences to Jointly Build “Bingwei Elite Class”
Source: School of Geography and Planning
Written by: School of Geography and Planning
Translated by: Wang Xue
On the afternoon of October 24, the signing ceremony of the cooperation agreement between School of Geography and Planning (SGP), SYSU and Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to jointly build “Bingwei Elite Class” was held in SGP. Liu Lin, Dean of SGP and Yu Guirui, Deputy Director of IGSNRR, CAS, signed the cooperation agreement on behalf of each side. Bao Jigang, Assistant President of SYSU and Dean of School of Tourism Management, Zhang Yuanxun, Secretary of SGP Party Committee, Dong Yuxiang, Executive Vice Dean of SGP, Zhou Chunshan, Xue Desheng and Liu Zufa, Vice Deans of SGP, as well as Liu Weidong, Assistant to IGSNRR Director and Director of Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, Wu Shaohong, Director of Department of Physical Geography and Global Change, and Lu Feng, Assistant to IGSNRR Director and Executive Deputy Director of State Key Laboratory for Resource and Environment Information System, attended the signing ceremony.
A scene of the signing ceremony
SGP has cultivated five outstanding geographers in China’s geography circle. They are Prof. Lin Chao, Academician Zhou Tingru, Academician Zhou Lisan, Academician Huang Bingwei and Academician Zheng Du. “Bingwei Elite Class” is named after SYSU Alumnus Huang Bingwei, a famous geographer in China and the former Director of IGSNRR, CAS. In their speech at the signing ceremony, Assistant President Bao Jigang, Dean Liu Lin and Deputy Director Yu Guirui highly commend the cooperation mode between SGP and IGSNRR. They believe that such move is beneficial to promoting mutual communication and collaborative education, making full use of the intellectual resources and scientific and technological conditions of both sides, complementing each other’s strengths, improving the research and practice abilities of undergraduates, and exploring new cooperation mode between universities and research institutes to cultivate outstanding innovative talents.
According to the agreement, SGP will annually recommend to IGSNRR seven to eight junior undergraduates (including senior undergraduates of the five-year program) who are exempted from the MA or PhD entrance test to form “Bingwei Elite Class”. The students who pass joint scientific research training and selective reexamination will obtain the qualification to pursue master’s degree or doctoral degree at IGSNRR.
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