The 5th meeting of Steering Committee on Partnership Development between The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) was held on 22 November 2012 in CUHK. The meeting was co-chaired by Prof. Wei Minghai, Vice President of SYSU and Prof. Jack Cheng, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of CUHK. At the meeting, members from joint projects in Oncology, Computer Sciences and Information Engineering, Biochemistry, Chinese Medicine, Sociology, Geography, Law, Gastroenterology, Food Safety, academic exchanges and student affairs reported the progresses of the projects and reviewed the possibilities to facilitate deep collaboration.

SYSU is one of the major strategic partners of CUHK. Since the establishment of partnership in 1981, CUHK and SYSU have carried out a wide range of collaborative projects in student exchange, research collaboration and academic programme. In 2006, CUHK established the State Key Laboratory in Oncology in South China in collaboration with SYSU. In 2011, CUHK-SYSU Centre for Historical Anthropology was launched as the first national-level joint centre in humanities and social sciences in CUHK and Hong Kong. The Steering Committee on Partnership Development was set up by the two universities in 2007 to forge effective and sustainable relationship.