Cooperation between Baosteel and Jiao Tong University commences

It is just yesterday that yesterday the signature ceremony of one more round of Strategic Cooperation Agreement between Baosteel and Shanghai Jiao Tong University plus the reciprocal engagement of the part-time professors was held in the Minhang Campus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Xu Lejiang, Liu Guosheng, He Wenbo, Zhao Zhouli, CuiJian, Chu Junsheng etc, leaders from Baosteel and Mr. Ma Dexiu, Zhang Jie, Su Ming, Lin Zhongqin etc. leaders from SJTU attended the ceremony. On behalf their own respective parties, He Wenbo, General manager of Baosteel and Zhang Jie, President of SJTU appended their signatures on the Agreement. Liu Guosheng, vice-chairman of the board of directors of Baosteel Group and secretary of The Communist Party Committee of Baosteel Group and Mr. Zhang Jie, President of SJT awarded the engagement letters to the part-time professor and the tutors.

Long term and cordial cooperation has been going on between Baosteel and SJTU, it was on March,2004 that both parties signed an agreement engaging themselves in scientific and technological research, afterward, both parties concluded a complementary agreement for joint scientific and technological research and talent training, by this, a strategic cooperation relationship come into being between the two parties.

For 4 years ever since then, both parties have devoted themselves to more than one hundred scientific and technological research projects, among them, two projects such as "The study on the Baosteel-produced high standard automotive steel sheet varieties, production and usage" and "The Vehicle body coverage The accurate forming technology of vehicle body coverage and its application" have won the first prize and second prize of the National Science &Technology Advancement Award respectively.

And also, the two parties have attained some outstanding and substantial achievements on aspect s of the tutoring teams, graduate selection and joint graduate student training. Up to now from 2004, 40 senior technical staff and administrative staff from Baosteel have been employed as the tutors for graduate students by SJTU.

From 2005 to the end of 2007, 72 graduate students have been enrolled jointly by both parties. Nowadays, nearly 400 graduates from SJTU have been offered with suitable positions in Baosteel, 70 of them are working as superintending staff and 11 of them are employed as senior staff for Baosteel.

With the advantage of the scientific and technological research by SJTU and development desire of Baosteel, the one more round of cooperation between the two parties will be focusing on the fields such as the automotive steel sheet application, equipment, control, energy sources, environmental protection and steel making, etc.

Cooperation in multilevel and multipath is demanding greatly; both parties will jointly apply for and undertake the important scientific and technological research projects issued by the government; both parties determined to establish a permanent talent training mechanism through cooperation to enhance the reciprocal high-level part-time talent employment between.

In the field of multi branches of knowledge, both parties will conduct the joint training and selection of doctoral students and graduate student and the undergraduate students and in addition, create favorite conditions and space for those excellent special talents to serve and help the enterprise to develop.

Furthermore, both parties will take the UNISPAR (University-Industry-Science Partnership)" as the important software topic to perform joint research so as to explore and find a new effective path for establishing a national technological innovation system.

In his speech, Mr. Ma Xiude, secretary of the communist party committee of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, pointed out that taking the new round of cooperation as a starting point, SJTU will continue to expand the cooperation scale with Baosteel to struggling to search for new fields for cooperation, to make SJTU into a world top level university and to work hard for Baosteel's new splendid development and create a new chapter for the development of University-Industry Partnership.

Mr.Xu Lejiang, chairman of board of directors of Bosteel Group, expressed that, with the Baosteel's the bigger-stronger development of the iron and steel as the major task with synergistic development of multi elements, The extent and profundity of cooperation with SJTU will be surely further pushed forward.

In order to realize the great leap for development, the social talents and technical sources must be sufficiently utilized, the approach of UNISPAR must be adopted. While pushing forward the technological innovation, Baosteel will launch the full scale of innovation including the idea, management, system and enterprise culture at the same time, Baosteel is eagerly looking forward to the vigorous support from SJTU so as to materialize the win-win development.

Prior to agreement signature, cordial talks between Baosteel leaders and SJTU leader, accompanying with the leaders of SJTU, Baosteel leaders visited the university planning display and Minhang Campus of SJTU.