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Trade delegation visits USA, MexicoA BAO’AN government delegation paid a visit to the United States and Mexico last month to seek cooperation in high technologies, life health, genomics, smart city construction and industrial integration.

During a visit to Boston on June 16, Gu Jinghua, head of Invest Bao’an, which is tasked by the district government with attracting investment, signed an MOU with Prof. Shao Zhong, dean of the Computer Science Department of Yale University, on Yale-Shenzhen Innova-tive Center Project, which will inject new vitality to Bao’an’s smart city and AI industry development.

Gu also signed an MOU with Prof. L. Jay Guo with the University of Michigan on the industrialization of nanostructured color research. Guo and his innovation group agreed to set up a headquarters and a nanostructured color research institute in Bao’an, which will build a nanostruc-tured color gene bank for future develop-ment of the industry.

A Bao’an investment and trade pro-motion was held at Stanford University on June 18, at which Charles Cantor, a globally celebrated molecular biologist, was invited to give a lecture on precision medicine. Gu gave a brief introduction on Bao’an’s investment environment and policies at the meeting.

That afternoon at the China Shenzhen-U.S. Silicon Valley Investment Collabo-ration and Exchange Conference, Bao’an and Apostle, a local life science company devoted to technologies for early cancer detections, clinched a deal to cooperate

Acupuncture research center opensBAO’AN District Acupuncture Clinical Research Center was inaugurated July 10, the latest fruit of the district’s unre-mitting efforts to promote the develop-ment of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).

The center is located at Bao’an TCM (Group) Hospital and will be led by Fu Wenbin, a leading acupuncturist and professor at Guangdong Provincial TCM Hospital. Its medical team will be mainly made up of Fu’s apprentice

doctor group, with support from the Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial TCM Hospital, and Spaulding Neuro-modulation Center of Harvard Medical School. The center is expected to help improve clinical acupuncture tech-niques and modern rehabilitation technologies in the district, as well as scientifi c research and medical staff training in TCM.

The district government hopes that

the center will become a fi rst-class treatment center for acupuncture, a healing technique that has thousands of years of history.

At an inauguration ceremony, Bao’an Party chief Yao Ren said that as a grass-roots government, Bao’an has been ded-icated to carrying forward the tradition and ensuring the development of TCM in an effort to implement the strategy of “Healthy China 2030.”

(SD News)

BAO’AN is playing an exemplary role for Shenzhen in promoting high-end international education, which tops the district government’s agenda for this year, Bao’an Daily has reported.

The district has taken the lead in rolling out rules pertaining to foreign teachers, such as employing foreign teachers for disciplines other than English, setting up an international education expert workshop, and con-ducting regular trainings for foreign teachers, the report said.

Cooperation with Richmond, Canada, has contributed remark-ably to the advancement of Bao’an’s international education. In the past fi ve years, Canadian educators have been invited to give lectures to Bao’an teachers, while the district’s education authorities have organized local teachers to receive training in Canada. A Sino-Canadian English-teaching experimental class has also been opened.

The district government has also reached out to Germany, con-cluding the Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement with IB and TINC of Germany on Sept. 12, 2016. The German sides agreed to conduct in-depth cooperation with Bao’an Vocational Technical School in major and curriculum construc-tion, teacher evaluation, and teacher training and exchanges.

Bao’an introduced 160 foreign teachers in 2017, covering all public schools and kindergartens across the district. More than 50 teach courses other than English. Five Bao’an primary and middle schools established sistership with foreign counterparts in May. (SD News)

BAO’AN became the home to Shenzhen’s fi rst public health Ph.D. studio June 28 when the center was inaugurated at the district’s disease control and prevention center (CDC).

Nine doctorate degree holders in the center specialize in health toxi-cology, physical testing, chemical analysis, pathogeny biology, viral immunology, epidemiology and public hygiene.

They are tasked with the preven-tion and supervision of epidemics, as well as the supervision of food, drugs and public environmental hygiene, according to Liu Kaiqian, head of the center.

The studio will keep a close watch on the latest developments in domestic and international public health, conduct scientifi c research on the subject, and promote coop-eration between universities and research institutes to enhance the capabilities of the CDC. It will also serve as a think tank for the district’s public health authorities. (SD News)

SZ’s 1st public health PhD studio set up

Fri/Sat/Sun July 20~22, 2018

2018 Bao’an Industry Development Expo to be held next week

THE 2018 Bao’an Industry Develop-ment Expo will be held from July 26 to 28 to showcase key industries of the district in western Shenzhen.

The main venue will be the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center in the city’s CBD area, while 12 subvenues will be spread across 10 subdistricts in Bao’an, bringing the latest products and technologies to fairgoers.

The expo at the main venue will cover a total area of 37,500 square meters. The 30,000-sqm Hall 1, named Intelligent Manufacturing Hall, will be divided into sections based on the district’s various industries, including intelligence manu-facturing, electronic information, new materials and new energy, AI, aero-space, laser equipment, big data, mari-time industry, life science and creative culture.

The Sino-German cooperation booth

is a new highlight of this year’s expo, which was fi rst launched in 2016. It will demonstrate cooperative achievements between Bao’an and Germany.

Hall 6, or the Bao’an Image Hall, will cover 7,500 square meters, displaying the district’s achievements in media, fi nancial industry, scientifi c innova-tion, medical service, education, talent and investment promotion.

Forums and product launches are also among the highlights of the exhibition. Think tanks and industry experts from home and abroad are expected to share their viewpoints on the state of their industries during the exhibition.

Two high-end forums will also take place, including a summit focusing on upgrading industries in Bao’an and another upscale forum on global intel-ligent manufacturing development.

Meanwhile, more than 55 product

launches, sourcing conferences and experiential activities regarding cutting-edge technologies have been prepared for visitors.

The expo is organized by the Bao’an District Government, Bao’an Economic Cooperation and Promotion Bureau, and Shenzhen Logistics and Supply Chain Management Association. More than 400 Bao’an fi rms will take part in the expo, which is expected to attract over 200,000 professional visitors.

According to the organizers, the purpose of the expo is to attract more quality fi rms and talents to settle in Bao’an. The expo will serve as a plat-form to integrate and share industrial resources. Two other exhibitions — an intelligent equipment expo and an elec-tronic equipment expo — will be held at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibi-tion Center in the three days. (SD News)

on the industrialization of Apostle’s technologies by developing a reagent for early cancer detection.

The delegation’s visit to Los Angeles resulted in the signing of strategic coop-eration deals with the Chinese American Federation and CF Kent, a company specializing in serving the needs of the hospitality industry. The federation, a California-registered nonprofi t NGO, will organize its member entrepreneurs to visit Bao’an in the near future, while CF Kent, which was founded in 1976 and provides interior design services for cruises and hotels, expressed keen

interests in cooperating with Bao’an enterprises.

China (Bao’an)-Mexico High-tech Investment Exchange Conference took place in Mexico City on June 22, the last stop of the delegation’s visit. Invest Bao’an signed an MOU with the China Chamber of Commerce and Technol-ogy Mexico, agreeing to capitalize on each other’s resources and enhance collaboration in technical services. The chamber promised to provide fi nancial, informational and technological support to Bao’an’s high-end industrial projects. (SD News)

Gu Jinghua, head of Invest Bao’an, shakes hands with David Ge Dongliang, CEO of Apostle, at an agree-ment-signing ceremony in Silicon Valley. Tan Junjie

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