Opening Ceremony of the 2025 Jiangsu International Exchange Week on the Cooperation and Integration of Industry, Education, Research and Application Held in Suzhou
On the afternoon of October 27, the opening ceremony of the 2025 Jiangsu International Exchange Week on the Cooperation and Integration of Industry, Education, Research and Application was held in Suzhou. The event brought together representatives from universities, research institutes, and leading enterprises both at home and abroad. Professor Hu Zhibin, President of Nanjing Medical University (NMU), attended the ceremony on behalf of the university. Hosted by the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education, the Exchange Week saw NMU play a key role as one of the major participating institutions, taking the lead in organizing the Biomedical International Academic Special Event.
The ceremony commenced with a themed promotional video, followed by recorded addresses from Ren Youqun, Vice Minister of Education, and Jiang Yong, Director-General of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education. Both speakers praised the vital role of international collaboration across industry, education, research, and application in integrating high-level talent cultivation and scientific innovation. They also extended warm congratulations on the successful opening of this year’s Exchange Week.
During the announcement of the Top Ten Achievements in International Industry-Education-Research-Application Cooperation, the project titled “A Multinational Birth Cohort Research System and Information Platform for Heavy Metal Exposure”, jointly completed by NMU, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (USA), and the Dhaka Community Hospital Trust (Bangladesh), was successfully selected among the winners. The project established standardized procedures suitable for cross-national birth cohort studies between China and Bangladesh and developed an innovative cloud-based information platform supporting Chinese, English, and Bengali. This achievement provides a robust scientific basis for the formulation of reproductive health policies in the Belt and Road Countries, underscoring NMU’s growing academic influence in the field of global health.
At the Appointment Ceremony for Supervisors of the Sino-Foreign Joint Graduate Training Program, President Hu Zhibin presented a letter of appointment to Dr. Kazuhiro Horimoto, Founder and CEO of SOCIUM Inc. (Japan), officially appointing him as an international co-supervisor under NMU’s joint mentorship program for postgraduate students.
During the Exchange Ceremony for Cooperation Documents between Partner Institutions and Overseas Organizations, President Hu Zhibin exchanged cooperation documents with Du Yanyu, Deputy Director of the Management Committee of the Taizhou Medical High-tech Zone, and Professor Henry Kiptiony Kiplangat, Vice Chancellor of Kabarak University (Kenya), ushering in a new chapter of strategic collaboration among the three parties in pharmaceutical innovation and global health.
In addition, the opening ceremony also featured the inauguration of the Jiangsu–Africa University Cooperation Alliance and the launch of several international cooperation platforms. In his concluding remarks, Yang Shubing, Deputy Director-General of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education, emphasized the importance of universities continuing to promote institutional and policy innovation and to build a new internationalized framework for the deep integration of industry, education, research, and application.
(Drafted and Photographed by the Department of International Cooperation and Exchange; Translated by Zhang Bei; Reviewed by Chen Yun and Wu Wei)
