This is not the first time that Xidian has gone abroad. As early as a few years ago, the school and the Ningbo Municipal Government jointly established the Ningbo Institute of Information Technology of Xidian, and at the same time established the Industry-University-Research Platform of Xidian Ningbo.
Of course, this is not the only university in Shaanxi that goes out. 20 18 Jiangsu provincial government and Xigong University signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Nanjing to jointly build Yangtze River Delta Research Institute of Northwestern Polytechnical University and Taicang Campus of Northwestern Polytechnical University.
While actively "tackling key problems", Shaanxi has paid more and more attention to the cooperation between schools and localities in recent years. For example, innovative port in the west of Jiaotong University and soaring town in Xigong University have sprung up in Industry-University-Research.
Changzhou is located in the south of Jiangsu, in the hinterland of the Yangtze River Delta, more than 200 kilometers away from Xi 'an/KLOC-0.
However, in the modern society where talents, funds and information flow at a high speed, a Northwest University can cooperate with coastal cities without any contradiction.
According to Changzhou official news, on September 1 day, Xidian signed an agreement with Changzhou Wujin National High-tech Zone, and the two sides will jointly build the Changzhou Branch of the National Engineering Center for Wide Band-gap Semiconductors. Xidian will provide technical support for Changzhou Sub-center, assist local universities to jointly train microelectronics professionals, and provide talent support for the construction and development of Changzhou Sub-center.
At the scene, Xidian team, Wu Yuefeng Capital, Wu Nan Huizhi, Changzhou Chengxin and other industrial chain partners signed a letter of intent, which will integrate the resource advantages of all parties, promote the development of compound semiconductor industry and achieve win-win cooperation.
The identity of several parties is crucial. Wu Yuefeng Capital, a well-known private equity fund, is committed to equity investment in high-tech emerging industries in the whole life cycle, and one of the core investment areas is integrated circuits. 20 15 Shanghai Wu Yuefeng integrated circuit equity investment fund led by Wu Yuefeng Capital acquired the American listed company, Core Semiconductor (ISSI).
Cheng Xin Wu Nan Huizhi, a venture capital company under Changzhou Wujin High-tech Zone, is a semiconductor company in Wujin High-tech Zone.
Coupled with the research team of Xidian, it covers almost the whole industrial chain from research projects to capital incubation to market application.
Hao Yue, an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and a professor at Xidian Microelectronics College, said that the cooperation with Wujin High-tech Zone will strive for more scientific and technological achievements to be transformed in Changzhou and make the integrated circuit industry stronger and bigger.
As for Changzhou, the party and government delegation visited Xidian in July this year.
Qi Jiabin, secretary of the Changzhou Municipal Party Committee, said that Changzhou's integrated circuit industry has a good foundation and is planning the layout of integrated circuits and the third generation semiconductor industry with a strategic vision to build a strong "heart" of industrial intelligence. It is hoped that Xidian will give full play to its scientific research and talent advantages and support the development of Changzhou integrated circuit industry.
On the one hand, it is affectionate, and on the other hand, it is interested. The industrial chain of technology, capital and policy has all been opened. It is logical for Xidian to cooperate with other provinces this time.
Going back a few years, another school-land cooperation of Xidian is also "not far".
20 13 Ningbo institute of information technology and Ningbo Xidian industrial park settled in Zhenhai, Ningbo. Official website of Xidian Ningbo Industrial Park shows that in less than four years, the park has gathered more than 140 science and technology enterprises that are in line with the industry orientation, and introduced more than 1 billion yuan of domestic and foreign investment, with an annual output value exceeding 1 billion yuan.
This year, Xidian also established the Xidian Guangzhou Research Institute in cooperation with the Guangzhou Municipal Government.
In addition, Xi Jiaotong University is an early university seeking overseas cooperation in Shaanxi. In 2004, Suzhou Research Institute of Xi 'an Jiaotong University was established. In 2006, Xi 'an Jiaotong University and Suzhou Liverpool University jointly organized it.
Then there are Guangdong Xi Jiaotong University Research Institute, Zhejiang Xi Jiaotong University Research Institute, Qingdao Xi Jiaotong University Research Institute, and Henan, which just signed this year. ...
20 18 Xigong University first established the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute of Xigong University in Taicang, Jiangsu Province, and then simply built a new campus in Taicang, which is the largest among several universities.
This is not to mention the research institutes established by Xigong University in Beijing, Qingdao, Ningbo and Shenzhen.
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The main reason for such frequent cooperation in different places is, of course, that Shaanxi universities are too "fragrant".
In 20 17, three universities in Shaanxi were selected as world-class universities in the list of "double-first-class" universities issued by the Ministry of Education. You know, only 1 universities in some eastern provinces were selected.
This is not to mention the five world-class discipline construction universities in Shaanxi.
However, compared with the resources available to universities in eastern provinces, western universities are somewhat dwarfed. The eastern provinces themselves have a high level of economic development, and the financial industry and manufacturing industry are developed, so the scientific research projects of colleges and universities are easier to incubate.
However, the western region itself can provide limited resources. Under the pressure of "double first-class" competition, colleges and universities urgently need to expand their scale and improve their scientific research level. At this time, the eastern cities with limited higher education resources but outstanding economic strength extended an olive branch, and cooperation naturally came naturally.
This is another reason why western universities frequently cooperate with eastern coastal cities.
Take Changzhou, which cooperated with Xidian this time, as an example. With a good industrial foundation, it is an "industrial star city". At the same time, it is located in the hinterland of the Yangtze River Delta, less than 200 kilometers away from the financial center Shanghai.
From a national perspective, in the past two decades, running schools in different places has gradually become a trend.
Dr. Wang Chunchun, an associate researcher at the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, mentioned in a paper published this year that running schools in different places is an exploratory behavior in the rapid development of higher education in China. As of 20 17, there are about 146 colleges and universities in China running schools in different places.
Among them, universities located in the western region or the northeast region are more prominent in running schools in different places in economically developed provinces in the eastern region.
However, in recent years, the Ministry of Education has made it clear that it is not in favor of building new campuses in different places. With the increasing efforts of western provinces in industrial introduction and policy support, more and more western cities have begun to attach importance to cooperation with universities in Industry-University-Research (non-new campuses).
As far as Shaanxi is concerned, the actions in recent years are obvious to all. According to the overall orientation of "national mission, global science and education highland, serving Shaanxi engine, innovation-driven platform and smart town demonstration", Xixian New Area Huaxi Innovation Port has created a number of firsts in China, combining campus, park and community, combining technology with service, and integrating technology with industry.
Daxiang Town, Xigong, Xixian New Area is the first innovative demonstration town with the unmanned system industry of "air, sky, land and sea" as the core and integrating science, education, production and integration. It is also a typical representative of the "school-enterprise" cooperation model.
In addition, the Agricultural Research Institute of Northwest A&F University will "settle down" in Xixian New Area in the future, and the Science City Project of Xi University of Technology, which is being promoted in Tongchuan, is playing a school-land cooperation card.
Chongqing, which belongs to the west, is not to be outdone. In 20 19, Chongqing introduced 14 famous universities at home and abroad, including Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shandong University, Bauhaus University in Germany and Manchester University in England.
Moreover, this year, the Sichuan Research Institute of Xiamen University landed in Chengdu, and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and Yibin jointly built the Sichuan Digital Economy Research Institute. ...
Industry-University-Research cooperation between western cities and universities is becoming more and more frequent.
The 15th meeting of the Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform held in September emphasized that:
To revitalize higher education in the central and western regions, we should uphold and strengthen the Party's overall leadership over colleges and universities, adhere to Socialism with Chinese characteristics's educational development path, fully implement the Party's educational policy, implement the fundamental task of educating people by moral education, promote connotative development, actively connect with major regional development strategies, take root in running schools in China, highlight advantages and characteristics, pool resources for running schools, promote the flow of factors, effectively stimulate the endogenous motivation and development vitality of higher education in the central and western regions, and promote the formation of a higher education system that matches the development and opening up pattern in the central and western regions.
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