On the afternoon of 25 April 2007, Minister XU Guanhua met with Mr. LIU Zunyi, President of Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and his party in the office building of MOST. The two sides conducted friendly and in-depth talks on how to further S&T exchange and cooperation between the Mainland and Hong Kong as well as CUHK’s application for building national key laboratories and the participation of CUHK’s research personnel in national key research projects.

Minister XU said S&T cooperation between the Mainland and Hong Kong cover the construction of national key laboratories and cooperation in scientific research projects. He indicted that MOST is willing to provide necessary assistance and service for the S&T and economic development of Hong Kong.

President LIU Zunyi expressed thanks to MOST for its support and assistance on behalf of CUHK and hoped to take this opportunity to obtain further support from MOST and carry out cooperation and exchange, deepen understanding and facilitate cooperation with correlated institutions of the Mainland so as to continue CUHK’s contribution to the country.