MIT expands and strengthens its links to China
MIT’s connections to China, already well-established, are set to be strengthened and expanded as part of a major, long-term effort that is underway. Within the last year, MIT has formalized working relationships with multiple research universities in Greater China, created a new faculty position to study China, and received new funding for grants enabling many more MIT students to study in China.These measures are all intended to produce greater exchange in terms of research and innovation at a time when China’s economy and education infrastructure are growing rapidly. Earlier this year, China surpassed Japan as the world’s second-largest economy, behind the United States; the number of scientific researchers in China has increased by 77 percent in the last decade. To address MIT’s continued engagement with China, the Institute’s MIT–Greater China Strategy Working Group, established in 2008 and chaired by Victor Zue, the Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer...