On the afternoon of April 26, led by the Science and Technology Industry and Information Technology Bureau of Tianhe District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (hereinafter refer to as GTIIT) school-enterprise cooperation exchange meeting was successfully held at the Guangzhou (International) Science and Technology Achievement Transformation Tianhe Base. The event was organized by the China Israel Exchange Center and co-organized by Provincial Science and Technology Association Haizhi Workstation | China-Israel Jizhi (Guangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd.

Mr. Shou Zhou, Deputy Director of the Bureau of Science, Industry and Information Technology of Tianhe District; Guangzhou, Section Chief Zhuanghui Zhao; Mr. Xuequan Liao, director of the Student Affairs Department of Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology; Mr. Zengyu Huang, manager of Industrial Relations and Development, and Ms. Xixi Fu, general manager of China-Israel Technology, presided over the meeting. Tianhe Talent Port, Tianhe Software Industry Association, Guangzhou Doctor Information Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd., Guangzhou South China New Material Innovation Park Co., Ltd., Wanchuang Zhice Talent Service (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Baiyun Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., Guangdong Aisheng Daily Chemicals Co., Ltd., more than 30 people from the human resources department and technology research and development department of related companies attended the meeting.

Shou Zhou, deputy director of the Science and Technology Industry and Information Technology Bureau of Tianhe District, Guangzhou, said in his speech that the development of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in the fields of information technology, nanotechnology, and life sciences has been recognized globally. GTIIT, with its "innovation and entrepreneurship" genes, has initially shown its results in running a school in just a few years. "Tianhe District gathers high-tech enterprises, and the school has outstanding academic advantages. We look forward to using today's platform as an opportunity to further develop talent connections, strengthen industry - school - research cooperation, and solve key technical problems for enterprises."

"Thank you very much for coming. I hope this opportunity can strengthen school-enterprise linkages, in-depth communication, and form a virtuous circle of long-term cooperation mechanism." The organizer of this event, general manager of China-Israel Jizhi (Guangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd. Xixi Fu said.

Dr. Xuequan Liao, director of the Student Affairs Office and Admissions Office of GTIIT, introduced the school’s development history, major settings, faculty team, teaching characteristics, and school-enterprise cooperation models. Dr. Zengyu Huang, manager of Research Innovation and Graduate Office, shared the school’s scientific research layout and industry-university-research cooperation. The response was enthusiastic:

"When do students of mathematics and computer science graduate? We are urgently need of talents in this field", "We are very optimistic about GTIIT, and hope that we can locate students in advance through the establishment of joint training classes for talents", "Our company is working on sealants and the development of the field is in a leading position in the world, and we look forward to the next in-depth cooperation in the fields of chemistry and materials to bring the development of the enterprise to a higher level", "Welcome student innovation and entrepreneurship projects to land in Tianhe District, and we have a supporting policy for this"...… Enterprise representatives exchanged ideas on joint training of talents, construction of internship bases, technical requirements and achievement transformation, reached consensus on further exploration of new models of school-enterprise cooperation, serving the local economy to achieve mutual benefit.

As a world-renowned university of science and engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has become a well known institution for cultivating high-level technology and engineering talents after a century of development. Its fields of nanotechnology, life sciences, stem cells, water resources management, renewable energy, information technology, biotechnology, materials engineering, aerospace engineering, and medicine have been recognized by the world and lead the development.

The Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is the only Sino-foreign cooperative university with independent legal personality that introduces high-quality Israeli higher education resources in China. It is the most important project of China - Israel cooperation in the field of education. Its construction has received great attention from the two governments. It is committed to cultivating outstanding engineers and scientific and technological talents with innovative capabilities, global vision and humanistic literacy, and aims to build a high-level science and engineering research university.

Currently, GTIIT offers five undergraduate majors in "Materials Science Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering and Robotics". The 2021 and 2022 graduates are from the first three majors. This year, GTIIT will have its first graduates, and about 80% of the graduates plan to continue their studies. So far, more than 170 admissions letters have been received, of which about 55% are among the top 50 well-known universities in the world. The quality and effectiveness of the school's teaching have been recognized by well-known universities around the world.

This school-enterprise cooperation matchmaking conference promoted the talent training and transfer between GTIIT and enterprises, and promoted the work of other technology transfer and transformation methods such as school-enterprise cooperation in GTIIT scientific research projects. Well combine "Learning", "research", "politics" and "use".