From 15 to 17 May, 2025, QIN Zhengjie, the Party Secretary of Chongqing Medical University, and QIU Jifu, the Vice President, led a delegation to the Second Medical College of Xinjiang for a visit and exchange. They had a symposium with FENG Shujiang, the Party Secretary of the Second Medical College of Xinjiang, LI Jianguang, the Vice Party Secretary and President, HUANG Bin, the Vice Party Secretary, XU Peilan and GUO Yuting, Vice Presidents, and GU Hongfei, the Secretary-General of the Party Committee of Karamay, and other relevant municipal leaders, focusing on deepening the cooperation of counterpart support and jointly cultivating medical talents.
On 15 May, Chongqing Medical University and the Second Medical College of Xinjiang held the signing ceremony of the cooperation agreement to jointly build the Clinical Medicine “Chongqing Medical University Class”, which marked a new stage of cooperation between the two universities and a new chapter in their development.
QIN Zhengjie said that the establishment of the Clinical Medicine “Chongqing Medical University Class” is not only an important exploration of the two universities in the sharing of educational resources and the joint training of talents, but also marks a more in-depth, comprehensive and pragmatic stage of cooperation between the two universities. Both sides will further play to their respective resource advantages and carry out all-round cooperation in the joint construction of courses, exchange of teaching staff, teaching reform, scientific research collaboration and student practice. It is believed that with the joint efforts of both sides, the Second Medical College of Xinjiang will play a more active role in serving the national strategy, promoting the construction of a healthy China and the development of the Western Development Strategy, and write a new chapter in the high-quality development of regional medical education.
In his speech, FENG Shujiang reviewed the cooperation between the two universities since the signing of the cooperation agreement for counterpart support. He expressed his sincere gratitude to Chongqing Medical University for its strong support in many aspects, including education and teaching, discipline and speciality construction, scientific research innovation, teaching staff training and undergraduate teaching assessment. He hopes that the signing ceremony of the Clinical Medicine “Chongqing Medical University Class” will be an opportunity for both universities to fully play to their respective resource advantages, further continue, consolidate and deepen their cooperation, and jointly open a new chapter of coordinated development and a shared future.
At the signing ceremony of the Clinical Medicine “Chongqing Medical University Class” cooperation, both sides jointly watched the promotional video of the Second Medical College of Xinjiang, were informed of the progress in the construction of the “Chongqing Medical University Class”, and three senior experts from Chongqing Medical University teaching at the Second Medical College of Xinjiang shared their teaching experiences.
In the afternoon of the same day, Qin gave a course to the teachers and students of the Second Medical College of Xinjiang. Qiu gave a special lecture to the relevant functional departments of the Second Medical College of Xinjiang on the construction of grassroots teaching organisations and shared the university’s experience in education and teaching as well as the construction of affiliated hospitals.
Qin and his delegation also visited the teaching buildings, characteristic classrooms and laboratories of the Second Medical College of Xinjiang to get a better understanding of the construction of various teaching and training places. They learned about the development of Karamay’s petroleum industry at the “Great Ideological and Political Course” practice teaching base of the Second Medical College of Xinjiang. They also went to Karamay Central Hospital and Karamay Cloud Computing Industry Park to exchange views on clinical practice teaching and counterpart support and to learn about the local information technology construction.
Since November 2023, Chongqing Medical University and the Second Medical College of Xinjiang, bearing the national mission and implementing the requirements for the development of the western region in the new era, have built a comprehensive and three-dimensional cooperation system based on the principles of “complementary advantages, shared resources and coordinated development”. They have carried out in-depth discussions and exchanges on several occasions, focusing on jointly training future excellent medical talents who “take root in the western region, have noble medical ethics and superb medical skills”. On 29 April 2024, the two universities signed the “Cooperation Agreement for Counterpart Support between Chongqing Medical University and the Second Medical College of Xinjiang”.
It is understood that the “Chongqing Medical University Class”, as an excellent talent training project jointly carried out by the two universities, is committed to cultivating compound talents with solid medical knowledge and innovation ability through measures such as integrating cutting-edge courses, innovating teaching methods and carrying out scientific research practice. The class adopts a collaborative management mechanism, with students studying at the Second Medical College of Xinjiang from the first to the third year of university and going to Chongqing Medical University for exchange in the fourth year to share the high-quality teaching resources of both universities. Chongqing Medical University will, with a strong sense of responsibility and mission, continue the spirit of moving to the west, take the construction of the “Chongqing Medical University Class” as an opportunity, carefully organise and implement talent training, promote all-round cooperation between the two universities in education and talent training, and jointly promote the high-quality development of medical education in the western region.
(Translated by AI)
