OREANDA-NEWS. June 15, 2012. Baosteel signed with Northeastern University ,a comprehensive cooperation agreement. Under the agreement, Baosteel, Northeastern University, will carry out new round (2012-2018) of comprehensive cooperation in line with both sides' future development direction , full use of both advantages, focusing on "talent" and "research" . Baosteel's leaders, HE Wenbo, ZHU Junsheng, ZHOU Jianfeng, HU Xuefa, GUO Bin ,and Northeastern University leaders , DING Lieyun, JIANG Maofa, ZUO Liang, and the former party secretary of Northeastern UniversityJiang JIANG Zhongle attended the signing ceremony, reported the press-centre of Baosteel.  

Baosteel and Northeastern University established a long-term friendly cooperation relationship since 1986, especially since the first round of comprehensive cooperation agreement signed in 2006, a more broad range of cooperation with richer contents has been carried out. Both sides  have  launched a series of fruitful cooperations through deepening the support system for  diversified talents, boosting school-enterprise personnel training, focusing on the exchange of cutting-edge technology, strengthening scientific research and cooperation in many fields, and together building a high-level scientific research bases.

For example, since Baosteel Branch of Northeastern University Graduate School  was  established, so far, a total of  126 doctors, 865 masters were fostered for  Baosteel. Both sides  have achieve the sharing of intellectual advantages by means of  inviting both sides' instructors and part-time professors, experts and visiting professors for lectureing  to promote deep exchange of professions and  high-level personnel fostering. Both sides has continued to carry out high-level scientific research cooperation, shared four national key projects such as "high speed train with stainless steel carriage sheet.

Assistant managing director of Baosteel Group Corporation, director of Planning and Development Department, Mr.HU Xuefa, and Mr. ZUO Liang, vice president of Northeastern University on behalf of  two sides signed the Comprehensive Cooperation Agreement (2012 -2018) between Baosteel Group Corporation and Northeastern University.

According to the agreement, the "talent" and "research" are the focus of the two sides' comprehensive cooperations. In the field of talent cooperation, both sides will focus on the following aspects : sharing of intelligence bank, fostering high-level and potential personnel, and talent brand management . In terms of scientific collaboration, the two sides have developed a new round of research cooperation guidelines, involving ten research areas, and forty research directions. Baosteel and Northeastern University will strengthen cooperations  in high-tech materials development, application and assuming e government and international projects, planning the construction of a new generation of rolling technology and equipment innovation platform and  expanding  non-steel business.

President of Northeastern University, Mr. DING Lieyun said, during more than twenty years of cooperation, Northeastern University and Baosteel  have harvested numerous fruits, and also has built an bridge of friendship of "across history, leading to the future" . The signature of new round of comprehensive cooperation agreement marked the cooperation between the two sides entering into a new stage of development with the goal of collaborative innovation , which will definitely play an important role in promoting the two sides to achieve the objectives for the future development of planning.

HE Wenbo, managing director of Baosteel Group Corporation, delivered a speech at the meeting. He said, Baosteel's steel dreamworks road,  requires for not only Baosteel people's courage, vision and determination, but also a strategic partner  like Northeastern University of strong strength, international perspective and deep friendship to work jointly  for pursuing and achieving . He also expects both parties will further play a role in  advantages gathering, broaden cooperation in scientific research space , continuously complete "seamless" sharing of Baosteel and Northeastern University talents  in a new round of cooperation, by means of new mode of expanding intelligence bank for  actively exploring joint training of talented people.