Wang Jingli

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ZHU DIJIAN, Party secretary and vice rector of Shenzhen MSU-BIT University (SMBU), said high-quality development is unachievable without high-quality education during an interview with Shenzhen Daily prior to the opening of the Guangdong Provincial High-quality Development Conference yesterday.

“Without high-quality development, there will be no Chinese modernization. Without internationalization, there will be no high-quality education. Without high-quality education, there will be no high-quality development in Shenzhen. This is also the theme of the Guangdong Provincial High-quality Development Conference,” Zhu said.

Zhu emphasized the importance of raising public awareness in regard to high-quality education being closely related to the city’s high-quality development. Moreover, education modernization and China’s modernization are interrelated.

“As a political adviser I have been calling for a version 2.0 of Shenzhen Internationalization, which represents wider internationalization,” Zhu said.

Zhu believes economic modernization and internationalization have become more powerful through legalization and increasing respect for laws. He also believes that the lessons learned from economic modernization can be applied to modernizing education and expanding internationalization efforts.

As the first Sino-Russian university built on an important consensus reached by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, SMBU has played an important role in cultivating top talents.

According to Zhu, the university will combine MSU’s advantages in basic education and BIT’s advantages in applied science to serve the city as well as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

To that end, the university has introduced basic education and applied science programs closely related to Shenzhen’s and Guangdong Province’s development strategies.

Zhu believes that SMBU’s special contribution is cultivating talents in the natural sciences who are simultaneously proficient in Chinese, English, and Russian.

“We believe that, in the future, this talent pool will serve the country’s national development strategies because they are irreplaceable. At present, SMBU is the only university in the world that teaches mathematics, physics, and chemistry in three languages. We will continue to strive to become bigger and stronger,” Zhu said.