Siheung City delegation expands cooperation and network with China’s Tsinghua University, KOTRA, and KTR

[시흥=뉴스핌] Reporter Park Seung-bong = The delegation from Siheung City, Gyeonggi Province, which is scheduled to visit Dezhou City, China, a sister city, announced on the 10th that it visited Tsinghua University in Beijing, China and the KOTRA Trade Center in Beijing on the 8th and 9th in succession to focus on cooperation and network expansion.

The Siheung City delegation visiting Tsinghua University is listening to the remarks of Professor Gu Chen of Tsinghua University. [사진=시흥시]

First, on the 8th, the Siheung City delegation visited Tsinghua University, considered one of the world’s best universities. Tsinghua University is a university with a global reputation beyond Asia in the fields of science and technology and management, and has produced a variety of talented individuals who are active in Chinese politics, business, and academia, including President Xi Jinping.

In addition, it produced a Nobel Prize winner in physics, established Tsinghua Holdings, an industry-academia cooperation organization with government investment of 200 billion yuan (approximately 34 trillion won) in the field of science and technology, and operated the Korea-China Technology Exchange in cooperation with Korea to discover cutting-edge technologies and We are taking the lead in business support.

Siheung City delegation expands cooperation and network with China’s Tsinghua University, KOTRA, and KTR

Tsinghua University and Siheung City delegation. [사진=시흥시]

This visit was made at the invitation of Professor Gu Chen, Director of International Affairs at Tsinghua University, and the Korean Student Association at Tsinghua University. Siheung City explored Tsinghua University’s successful industry-academia cooperation model, benchmarked the future modeling of Seoul National University’s Siheung Campus, and explored the possibility of developing industry-academia cooperation infrastructure.

Siheung Mayor Lim Byeong-taek said, “I am deeply grateful to Tsinghua University and the Korean students at Tsinghua University who made an effort to invite us. This visit was meaningful as it allowed me to directly encounter world-class industry-academia cooperation infrastructure, and the visit to Tsinghua University was the cornerstone of building a network between Siheung City and global talent. “I hope this happens,” he said.

A commemorative photo taken by the Korean Student Association at Tsinghua University and the Siheung City delegation. [사진=시흥시]

Then, on the 9th, they visited the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) trade center in the center of Beijing to understand local economic information and trade trends and discuss cooperation plans for Siheung-based companies to advance overseas.

Siheung Mayor Lim Byeong-taek said, “I realized that the KOTRA Trade Center, which is a window that helps exchange trade information between Korean and local companies and promotes trade exchanges between Korean and local companies, is an important base for Korean companies’ import and export and investment diplomacy. 10,000 people in Siheung City “We hope that more than a thousand diverse companies will cooperate with KOTRA to expand their possibilities for entering overseas markets, and we hope to expand the attraction of overseas companies within the complex,” he said.

The Siheung City delegation visiting KOTRA is shouting “fighting spirit.” [사진=시흥시]

Previously, the city delegation visited Dezhou, China, on the 7th to discuss ways to expand cooperation between the two cities. After completing the Beijing schedule, on the 11th, the city delegation visited the Korea Testing & Research Institute (KTR) Bio Center to be newly built in Siheung. We plan to visit the Shanghai branch of the Chemical Convergence Research Institute to explore ways for K-Bio products to enter the global market.