“May Xi’an Jiaotong University and Chongqing Jiaotong University walk hand in hand make achievements on a new track of technological research and development”! On the afternoon of July 19, Wang Shuguo, President of Xi’an Jiaotong University paid a visit to Chongqing Jiaotong University. He learned more about the founding history of Chongqing Jiaotong University and its assistance in the innovative development of major national and local projects. He gave a special lecture titled Reform and Development of Higher Education in the Context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution for teachers and students of Chongqing Jiaotong University. He had cordial exchanges with teachers and students and cheer them up. He looks forward to the integration of the two fraternal universities and walking hand in hand, injecting vitality of two “Jiaotong” universities for the national and local economic and social development. Gong Hui, the Chairman of Chongqing Jiaotong University Board, and Lai Yuanming, the President and academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, accompanied the research and also attended the seminar.

In the School History Gallery at Nanan Campus, President Wang Shuguo read over graphic and historical materials of great historical significance such as campus distribution data of Chongqing Jiaotong University, group photo between teachers and students taken on the University’s first opening ceremony in 1951, guidance by Rang Mingde, the Former President of the university, in road construction, and the inaugural issue of the Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. He had an in-depth understanding on Chongqing Jiaotong University’s arduous development course in teaching, specialty setting, national platform, innovation and entrepreneurship, campus culture, cooperation and exchange and other aspects as well as achievements made in recent years. He had sincere admiration for road-building spirit of generations of forefathers of Chongqing Jiaotong University who worked hard and strived indomitably.

“President Wang Shuguo is a scientist, an educator and a thinker and practitioner loved and respected by people from all walks of life at home and abroad and walking in the forefront of The Times”! At the symposium, Gong Hui, Chairman of Chongqing Jiaotong University Board extended a warm welcome to President Wang Shuguo on behalf of all faculties, students and staffs of the University.