The founding ceremony of the Association of the Industry and Education (AIE) of the Greater Bay Area as well as the 2020 School-Enterprise Cooperation Awarding Ceremony of GUST was successfully held at the 4-101 meeting room of Nancheng campus at GUST on the morning of Dec 19, 2020, which was attended by more than 200 leaders and representatives from related government departments, social associations and Nanbo Group.
The President of GUST Liang Ruixiong delivered a speech. He expressed his warm welcome and heartfelt gratitude to all the leaders and guests who participated in the ceremony. He mentioned that since the foundation of the school, it has adhered to the motto of "creating a century-old university, nurturing elites for the industry". After 16 years of development, GUST now ranks among the first-class private undergraduate universities in Guangdong Province. In order to build the school into a high-level applied innovation university, high-quality companies and scholars have been invited to GUST for the purpose of carrying out high-dimensional and in-depth cooperation, thereby promoting the integration of production and education and building the platform of "production, learning, research and utilization". President Liang hoped that the members of AIE can achieve mutual benefit as well as win-win results for the government, enterprises, universities and scientific research and contribute to the economic development and talent cultivation of the Greater Bay Area.