Intel Vice President, Director of Intel China Research Labs, Dr. Jesse FANG visited Institute of Advanced Technology (IAT), USTC, on March 4th. Member of Anhui Provincial Standing Committee, Party Chief WU Cunrong of Hefei City held a meeting with the Intel delegation. USTC Vice President CHEN Chusheng, leaders of Hefei City government YANG Sisong, HAN Bing along with other leaders of Hefei High-Tech Zone also attended the meeting.

WU introduced briefly to Dr. FANG the current situation of Hefei’s economic and social development as well as high-tech industries. He pointed out that Hefei is deepening reform of the science and technology structure. The city will provide full support to the advances of science and education so as to create an innovative highland with a wise foresight. IAT will be a great cooperation opportunity and innovation platform, on which integration of technology and human resources will be realized, collaborative innovation will be implemented, and transformation of scientific and technological achievements will be accelerated. He welcomes Intel and other famous enterprises to cooperate with local institutes and to fulfill the dreams together in Hefei.

On March 8th, Dr. FANG met USTC President HOU Jianguo and Dean LI Weiping from School of Information Science and Technology, USTC, in Beijing. The two sides exchanged views on collaboration between Intel and IAT, and reached a consensus on  complementary missions as well as collaborative innovation between universities and industry.