Beijing universities ally to promote Xiong'an growth

Beijing universities in Xiong'an New Area, Hebei province, will coordinate activities to better contribute to the economic zone's high-quality growth and high-level management, according to a report in Hebei Daily.

The universities are Beijing Jiaotong University, the University of Science and Technology Beijing, the China University of Geosciences (Beijing) and Beijing Forestry University.

As the first four universities from the capital to have set up campuses in Xiong'an, they jointly founded a collaborative innovation alliance on Sept 23 that will explore a comprehensive mechanism for teaching and research and will serve as an innovative model for talent development, according to the report.