China News Service, Hong Kong, July 27th. Title: Interview with Guo Yike, Vice President of Hong Kong Baptist University: Hong Kong universities must play an active role in the development of the country
China News Agency reporter Zhang Xiaoxi
"Under the new environment and situation, Hong Kong universities should seize good opportunities to play an active and distinctive role in the development of the country. I believe that the future prospects are very broad." Recently, I have accepted China Singapore in Hong Kong. This is what Guo Yike, the vice president of Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), said in an interview with the reporter.
Guo Yike studied at Tsinghua University, and then studied and worked at Imperial College in the United Kingdom for more than 30 years. He is an internationally renowned pioneer in data science research and an artificial intelligence expert.
Since serving as the Vice President of Hong Kong Baptist University in January 2020, he has in-depth thinking about the development of Hong Kong and Hong Kong universities.
In Guo Yike's view, after the implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law, Hong Kong society has returned to stability, and it is an important time to start again.
The national "14th Five-Year Plan" mentioned supporting Hong Kong's construction of an international innovation and technology center and the development of Sino-foreign cultural and artistic exchange centers. He believes that this is both a correct guidance and a certain inevitability.
"Hong Kong's biggest advantage in the development of the country is to play a very important role as a window and bridge." Guo Yi can believe that as long as Hong Kong continues to play this role and closely integrates itself with the country's development, its advantages are still irreplaceable. .
When talking about the construction of universities in Hong Kong, he even pointed out that whether it is establishing branches or branches in cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, or co-organizing schools with mainland universities, Hong Kong universities have been rapidly integrating into the overall development of the country in recent years.
"Integration is also a process of continuous development and evolution, because Hong Kong and the Mainland are still different in education systems and other aspects." Guo Yike said, but from a forward-looking perspective, the future of Hong Kong universities is not just local Hong Kong. The universities in China can be regarded as universities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Taking HKBU as an example, Guo Yike pointed out that HKBU and Beijing Normal University jointly established Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College in 2005. It was the first university jointly established by the higher education sector in Hong Kong and Mainland China. Located in Zhuhai.
After years of development, the university has a high quality of students. It is a new liberal arts university and has a certain reputation in the world.
"Of course, Hong Kong's universities have their own characteristics to develop in the Mainland, but they can make up for some of their own limitations and expand new development space." Guo Yi can believe that HKBU relies on liberal arts education, interdisciplinary research, media and The advantages in the development of Chinese medicine, coupled with actively cooperating with the needs of Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area and even the country, have a very broad prospect.
Just this month, the research project "Human-Computer Symbiosis Art Creation Technology Platform" co-led by Guo Yike and HKBU Associate Vice President Pan Minglun received a grant of HK$52.83 million from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council for a five-year research project.
This is also the first time the institution has allocated a large amount of funding for art, creativity and technology projects.
During the interview, Guo Yike introduced to reporters that this project combines artificial intelligence and artistic creation, and adds humanistic elements to it. It aims to change the way humans and machines interact in artistic creation and provide "emotional" art. content.
The project is not only an interdisciplinary cooperation, but also the participation of internationally renowned universities such as Imperial College, Cambridge University, and Yale University.
Guo Yike said that internationalization is also very important for the development of Hong Kong universities, not only in the international ranking of the university, but also in the university's research results and international influence.
For Baptist University, it is necessary to continue to maintain its characteristics, give full play to its advantages, and seize new opportunities in the context of world development and changes.
"I have full confidence in the future development." Guo Yike said that the development of the Baptist Church has always been closely related to the needs of society and the country.
The contractor of Hong Kong's first Chinese medicine hospital was also selected by HKBU through an open tender not long ago. The hospital is expected to open in 2025.
Guo Yi can believe that rooting in China and facing the world is the development direction of Hong Kong universities, including HKBU, and Hong Kong universities should play an active role in the development of the country.
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