On 8 May, 2025, ZHANG Chunxiang, the Party Secretary of Southwest Medical University, and HE Tao, the Vice Party Secretary and President, visited Chongqing Medical University for an exchange. QIN Zhengjie, the Party Secretary of Chongqing Medical University, and other university leaders and relevant functional departments participated in the activities.
A symposium was held at Yuanjiagang Campus of CQMU for both universities to discuss the innovative development of medical education and to explore deeper inter-university cooperation. QIN Zhengjie extended a warm welcome to ZHANG Chunxiang and HE Tao and briefly introduced the development of Chongqing Medical University. He expressed his deep admiration for Southwest Medical University’s commitment to serving the people in the western region and hoped that both sides would deepen their cooperation and work together in strategies such as the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle.
ZHANG Chunxiang and HE Tao thanked Chongqing Medical University for its warm reception and introduced the development process, distinctive features of running the university, scientific research, talent training and medical services of Southwest Medical University. They expressed their hope that through in-depth exchanges, they could fully learn from Chongqing Medical University’s experience and advanced practices in running the university to complement each other’s strengths and to promote Southwest Medical University into a new stage in medical education, collaborative innovation in industry-university-research and the construction of regional medical centres.
At the symposium, YUAN Jun, the Vice Party Secretary and Vice President of the university, YU Huarong, the Vice President of the university, and LIU Enmei, the Vice President, exchanged views on the issues of concern to Southwest Medical University.
After the meeting, ZHANG Chunxiang and HE Tao visited the exhibitions on the university’s history, achievements in running the university and scientific and technological achievements. In the afternoon, the university leaders of Southwest Medical University and Chongqing Medical University, had in-depth exchanges on deepening comprehensive educational reform. The relevant functional departments and affiliated hospitals and colleges of both universities also had one-on-one exchanges on talent training, “Double First-Class” construction, teaching reform, university-local-enterprise cooperation and information technology construction.
（Translated by AI)
