On the morning of December 3rd, President Wang Shuguo met with alumna Gu Liqing in his office, discussing the preliminary international cooperation about the XJTU sci-tech innovation harbor project. Others who attended the meeting were Vice-President Xi Guang, Chief of International Cooperation and Exchanges Department Liang li, as well as Director of the Department of Alumnus Relations Development Zhou Gang.

President Wang introduced the project to Gu and pointed out that the project was an exploration of new models and new patterns of cohesion between universities and social development in the 21stcentury, rather than a simple relocation of former campus. And the project, with a new urban community management pattern, involving scientific research, cooperation and innovation, demonstration of industry, academia and research, and cultivation of talents, aims at establishing an international and comprehensive supporting service system. Thus the area will develop into a new internationalized scientifically-and-technologically innovative demonstration community of world-class universities with Chinese Characteristics, fulfilling the prospect of "Rich Shaanxi, harmonious Shaanxi and beautiful Shaanxi", according to President Wang.

Ms. Gu said that the project will play a leading and exemplary role in such aspects as scientific research, cooperative cultivation, cohesion of industry, academia, and research as well as development of new-type urbanization. She added that it has great potential to cooperate with universities and corporations. She indicated that she would contribute with her social network to the development of this project.

A brief introduction to Gu Liqing:

Gu Liqing, female, is from Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. She came with her family to Xi'an from Shanghai in the westward relocation of JiaoTong University in 1957. She began to teach in XJTU after acquiring a bachelor's degree here in 1880 and acquired her master's degree two years later. At the end of 1987, she went to the United States to work toward her master's degree in engineering in Syracuse University in New York. After graduation in 1990, she continuously worked in big companies and newly established companies in Silicon Valley.