On October 28, Managing Director of Elsevier Greater China, Li Lin, and other delegates visited ShanghaiTech University. President Jiang Mianheng, Vice President & Provost Yin Jie, Vice President Zhu Zhiyuan, Vice Party Secretary and Vice President Jiang Ge, the directors of relevant administrative departments and some professors who are in cooperation with Elsevier attended the meeting.
During the meeting, Elsevier delegates gave an introduction about its business development in China, and expressed an interest in utilizing its core capability to provide diverse solutions for ShanghaiTech’s research demands. Vice President Yin Jie then introduced an overview and recent research dynamics of ShanghaiTech. In the following discussion session, President Jiang Mianheng expressed his welcome to the Elsevier delegates, saying that Elsevier is an excellent science and academic content provider, and that ShanghaiTech is always committed to the combination of research and teaching, so that high-level teaching and research work could be carried out, and high-quality textbooks would be published through the cooperation between ShanghaiTech and Elsevier. In addition, President Jiang also emphasized that ShanghaiTech has been focusing on the energy issue and has established an institute for the research of future energy. He expressed his expectation for the strengthening of cooperation in the energy field and that Elsevier would have more focus on large-scale scientific facilities.
Li Lin highly affirmed ShanghaiTech’s achievements and said that Elsevier would like to strengthen cooperation with ShanghaiTech in the environment of research and teaching. During the discussion, both sides also talked about the sharing and opening of knowledge resources, sustainable development in teaching, and forefront issues in the energy field.
