The signing ceremony of “USTB-Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. ‘Intelligent Base’ Industry-Education Integration and Collaborative Education Base Project Agreement was held in Administration Building (AD Building). Mr. ZHANG Zhichao, Vice Director of Huawei Enterprise Business Group (Beijing), Mr. WANG Ziyu, Director of Beijing Government and Enterprise Education Business Department, Ms. LUO Jing, Director of University Research and Talent Development Department of Computing Product Line, Prof. XUE Qingguo, Vice President of USTB, Mr. SONG Bo, Director of the Department of Academic Affairs, and Mr. YANG Debin, Head of the Office of Information Technology (IT), and other attended the ceremony. Relevant personnel from Department of Academic Affairs, School of Computer and Communication Engineering, School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, School of Advanced Engineering，Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. attended the ceremony to witness the signing. The signing ceremony was presided over by Mr. SONG Bo.

On behalf of the USTB, Prof. Xue Qingguo extended a warm welcome to all the arrival leaders and guests of Huawei, and thanked Huawei for their strong support to the talent cultivating of USTB. After a brief introduction of the university, he pointed out that it is of great significant for both sides to build the “Intelligent Base” for industry-education integration and collaborative education. USTB will following the principle of high standard and high quality to consolidate the establishment of the Base.

Mr. Zhang Zhichao gave a speech on behalf of Huawei. He expressed his gratitude to the university for providing numerous outstanding graduates to the company and introduced the development strategy of Huawei company and universities.

The two sides presented the work plan of “Intelligent Base” in 2021 and the progress of the project respectively. According to the agreement, both sides will conduct in-depth cooperation in curriculum construction, students’ extracurricular practical activities, internship and employment. At the same time, the participants from both sides had in-depth discussions on issues like talent training, integration of industry and education, and jointly building Huawei ICT Academy.

Under the common witness of the participants, Mr. SONG Bo and Mr. WANG Ziyu signed the agreement on behalf of both parties, Prof. XUE Qingguo and Mr. ZHANG Zhichao unveiled the plaque for the Ministry of Education-Huawei “Intelligent Base” Industry-Education Integration and Collaborative Education Base.

The “Intelligent Base” is an innovative pilot project jointly conducted by the Ministry of Education and Huawei to select some universities with outstanding achievements in the talent training reform in the field of information technology. It aims to deepen the reform and collbrative innovation of talent training mode in the field of information technology, and thus lay the talent foundation for promoting high-quality economic development.

Under the agreement of the “Intelligent Base”, USTB and Huawei will jointly build 25 courses in the first batch. At the same time, the university will carry out in-depth cooperations in teaching resources construction, teacher training, students’ innovation, entrepreneurship and practical ability training, and jointly devote to cultivating outstanding innovative engineering and technical talents.