Chinese company explores partnership avenues at NUST

Islamabad:Yang Jie, Executive Director and Chairman of China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC), along with a high-level delegation, visited the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) to explore opportunities for collaboration in research, innovation, and emerging technologies here Wednesday.

Upon arrival, Pro-Rector Research, Innovation & Commercialisation (RIC), Dr Rizwan Riaz warmly received the guests. During a comprehensive briefing on NUST, he emphasised NUST’s strong focus on international collaboration and its robust ecosystem fostering academia-industry linkages. Following the briefing, the delegation toured the National Science & Technology Park (NSTP), engaging with R&D firms and startups developing cutting-edge solutions in AI, Cyber Security, and Ed-Tech. The visiting dignitaries were shown successful examples of industrial collaboration and were proposed similar ideas like labs, projects, trainings, etc., to create a meaningful collaboration framework.