On October 30, during the 27th China Annual Conference for International Education, Shu Gangbo, Assistant to the President of CUC, was invited to attend the China–Thailand University Presidents’ Dialogue and chaired the roundtable session.
Hosted by the China Education Association for International Exchange (CEAIE) and co-organized by Huazhong University of Science and Technology, the International Exchange Branch of CEAIE’s Double First-Class Universities, and Thailand’s Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (MHESI), the dialogue was themed “Digital-Intelligent Connectivity: Co-Creating a New Future for China–Thailand Higher Education Cooperation.” It brought together senior leaders and scholars from 17 leading universities in China and Thailand, with more than 200 participants. The meeting held in-depth discussions on two themes — “AI-Driven Innovation in Talent Cultivation Models” and “AI-Empowered Innovation in Industry–University–Research Collaboration” — and released the Consensus on Deepening China–Thailand University Cooperation in the Digital-Intelligent Era.
The roundtable was chaired by Shu Gangbo. Together with Chamaipak Maiklad, Vice President of Kasetsart University (Thailand); Zhan Jingjing, Assistant to the President of Dalian University of Technology; Hong-mingKu, Assistant to the President of King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT, Thailand); and Xiao Qian, Director of the Office of International Cooperation and Exchange at Tsinghua University, Shu Gangbo led an in-depth dialogue on two questions: “The Changing Role of Universities in the AI Era” and “Recommendations for China–Thailand Higher Education Cooperation in the AI Era.” He noted that AI is profoundly reshaping talent cultivation and industry–university–research innovation in higher education. Universities should seize the opportunities of transformation and play a greater role in interdisciplinary talent cultivation, cross-disciplinary program development, and innovation and entrepreneurship education. Chinese and Thai universities should build on their own realities, deepen practical cooperation on AI-empowered talent cultivation and industry–university–research innovation, and jointly cultivate high-caliber talent with an international outlook and innovative capacity.
Participants agreed that the dialogue provided an important platform for deepening China–Thailand higher-education exchanges and cooperation, and forged broad consensus on coordinated development between Chinese and Thai universities in the digital-intelligent era. CUC will take this dialogue as an opportunity to continue expanding practical cooperation with Thai universities in talent cultivation, research innovation and industry–education integration, contributing to the high-quality development of China–Thailand educational cooperation.
This article was translated with the assistance of a large language model.
Editor: Li Jialu
