On the afternoon on 21 September, the cooperation signing ceremony between Guangdong Polytechnic Institute and Greatoo was held in the fourth floor of the office building at Longgang Road. Fang Jianzhuang, the secretary of the party committee of Guangdong Polytechnic Institute, Liu Wenqing, the president of the institute, Lin Lijiao, the vice mayor of Jieyang, Chen Jiapeng, the vice general secretary and Wu Chaozhong, the chairman of the board attended the ceremony which was hosted by Men Chao, the general manager of the company.

In the ceremony, Wu gave a speech and warmly welcomed the leaders and guests at present. Guangdong Polytechnic Institute is an institute with the strength of faculty, superior environment and fruitful research achievements. For years, the institute has persisted the innovation-oriented development strategy, deeply implemented the project of strengthening the school by innovations and realized the cooperative development, professional education and open education with enterprises. Guangdong Polytechnic Institute is a leading institute with obvious characteristics and demonstrative effects who actively carries out the modern mechanism to cultivate talents and increase the cultivation quality of talents. With strength in production, quality, market and culture, Greatoo is a leading enterprise. The company has established “mold polishing technology center” with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and “research base of digital molds” with Guangdong University of Technology. With these think tanks, Greatoo has made fruitful scientific achievements. Many of the company’s projects have been listed in the national high technology promotion project, national key products project. Also, the company has carried out many national key technology projects. He expressed that this cooperation would establish “Greatoo Robot Institute, which indicated that Guangdong Polytechnic Institute and Greatoo has planted a lotus symbolizing win-win cooperation. Also, the cooperation showed the innovations of running schools and the ambitions of Greatoo. We had reason to believe that under the correct direction and support of municipal committee and government, with the efforts of Greatoo and the institute, the locus will surely come out and produce fruits.

Later, Secretary Fang of Guangdong Polytechnic Institute gave an introduction of the institute. The institute has two characteristics. First, the science subjects have obvious characteristics. The institute has majors like internet technology, computer application technology, mechanical and mechanic technology and engineering technology, among which are national-level demonstrative majors, provincial brand majors and majors supported by the central finance; the second characteristics is the institute cultivates talents in a comprehensive way. The institute pays attention to the cultivation of students’ comprehensive quality, expertise, practical ability and exploration ability, emphasizing the spirit of “practicing, working and innovating”. With excellent students, good employment opportunities and sound university atmosphere, the students show high quality. The cooperation to establish robot department responded to the implementation of central and provincial plans and the integration of industries and universities. Also, the cooperation has set up the links between majors and enterprises, majors and industries, courses and industrial production process, assessment and the core ability of posts, diplomas and qualification certificates. The institute and Greatoo will try their best to develop a leading department and cultivate excellent talents, contributing to the economic development of Guangdong.

Later, Vice Mayor Lin of Jieyang gave a speech. She pointed out that “Greatoo Industrial Robot Department” established by Guangdong Polytechnic Institute and Greatoo was another example of university-enterprise research bases established by excellent enterprises of Jieyang and universities and colleges. She hoped that Guangdong Polytechnic Institute could consider to cooperate with other local enterprises and regard Jieyang as a industry practice base. Besides, she also hoped that Greatoo could make the best use of this platform to further develop robot industry and cultivate more practical talents for Jieyang and the country.

At last, Zheng Xuxu, the president of Greatoo, signed “University-Enterprise Cooperation Contract with Liu Wenqing, the president of Guangdong Polytechnic Institute. Leaders also took photos. The signing ceremony ended in warm applause.