Date: Oct. 19, 2020    
Source: News Center
Author: Su Yunsheng, Lai Xinyi

JNU has been one of the first universities in China to explore the joint construction of laboratories with the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The JNU-CUHK Joint Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, was first approved by the Ministry of Education in 2007, creating a new mode of scientific and technological exchange and cooperation between universities in Guangdong and Hong Kong.
In June JNU signed a contract with Guangzhou Lixin Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., to transfer the exclusive development rights to JND32066, a class 1 innovative anti-tumor drug, in the global market for 100 million yuan. The two sides had jointly built a new technology platform for the research and development of new tumor immune drugs through the joint construction of a drug research and development laboratory.
 

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After years of exploration and practice, JNU has made achievements in fields including brain science, regenerative medicine, neuroscience and innovative drugs, precision medicine and optical fiber photonics. JNU has reached in-depth cooperation in those fields with universities including the University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the University of Macao, and 14 joint laboratories have been built, as well as a number of collaborative innovation centers. Also approved are three innovation and intelligence introduction bases of the Ministry of Education’s State Foreign Affairs Bureau; two joint international cooperation laboratories of the Ministry of Education; and, the Ministry of Science and Technology, four provincial and ministerial key laboratories and one international scientific and technological cooperation base
In health care, JNU has initiated medical research institutions such as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Joint Laboratory for Modernization and Innovation of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Alliance of Bone and Joint Disease Research Centers to accelerate the sharing and circulation of medical research.
In recent years JNU has made great efforts in “new engineering” and gradually formed new advantages. To help the Greater Bay Area build an international science and technology innovation center, JNU will initiate key laboratories, such as the already established Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Key Laboratory of Environmental Science, the Guangzhou Brain Program, the Large Animal Disease Model Preparation and Research Center, the Future Photonics Technology Research Center and the Key Laboratory of Innovative Drugs.
The unveiling ceremonies of JNU's Belt and Road Initiative and the Greater Bay Area Research Institute (Zhuhai) and JNU's Belt and Road Initiative and Greater Bay Area Research Institute Hengqin Research Center were held on JNU's Zhuhai campus in July.
 

To date, nine think tanks, including the Institute of Industrial Economic Research, the Haiguo Tuzhi Research Institute and the JNU Research Base in the Guangzhou Nansha Free Trade Pilot Zone, have been selected as source think tanks for the China Think Tank Index. Among them, the Overseas Chinese Research Institute ranked in the top 15 of the think tank index for three consecutive years since 2016.
The university's Latin American, Southeast Asian, Philippine and Indonesian Research Centers have all been approved as national and regional research centers by the Ministry of Education.
In January 2019 JNU signed a cooperation framework agreement with the Training (Propaganda) Center of the National Development and Reform Commission to jointly build the Belt and Road and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Research Institute.
JNU has become the largest training base for students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and international students. Over one-third of its nearly 40,000 full-time students from 112 countries and regions are overseas Chinese, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and international students. It has trained more than 60,000 and high-quality talents for Hong Kong and 20,000 for Macao.
 

As Covid-19 rages around the world, more and more students at home and abroad have enrolled at JNU. According to 2020 statistics, there are 2,469 undergraduates, including overseas Chinese from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and international students, an increase of about 20% over 2019. Among them, 1,435 Hong Kong students registered, 320 more than in 2019, an increase of about 29%. As the chairman unit, JNU established the nation’s first online open curriculum alliance for universities in the Greater Bay Area in November 2018, attracting 63 universities from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. During the pandemic, this alliance has provided more than 1,600 high-quality massive online open courses (MOOCs) to over 100,000 registered students.
Based on the Thousand-Hundred-Ten Project for the cultural and practical education of outstanding students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, JNU has carried out a series of activities including the Leaders Training Camp for Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Overseas Chinese Students; the Hundred Enterprises and Thousand Talents Internship Program; and the Summer Internship Program for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Overseas Chinese Students. These activities allowed young people from Hong Kong and Macao to understand the development strategy of the Greater Bay Area and unite its people.