加拿大总督戴维·约翰斯顿访渝在重庆大学探讨双方教育科技领域合作机会

“我的5个女儿有4个都来过中国学习或参加交流项目，其中有两个汉语都讲得很不错。出国学习给她们带来很大的提升，希望你们以后能得到同样的体会和经历。”2017年7月11日，加拿大总督戴维·约翰斯顿一行访问重庆，在美丽的南滨路，与计划前往加拿大学习的部分中国学生共进火锅晚餐，并寄语中国青年：“希望你们通过在加拿大的学习生活，变得更有好奇心、包容心、判断力和同理心，这些可贵的特质将伴随你们成长。”

这是约翰斯顿第二次以加拿大总督身份访华，重庆是其此次行程的第一站。此次随同约翰斯顿访华的代表团成员，包括政府驻众议院领袖兼小企业和旅游部长查格、加拿大驻华大使麦家廉，以及多位国会议员和来自教育、科研、体育、旅游和文化等领域的知名领袖。

约翰斯顿一行出席重庆大学“科学、技术和创新圆桌讨论会”，体现了加拿大对科学、技术与创新的重视，和对中加科技合作的支持。会上，包括重庆大学校长周绪红、云南大学党委书记杨林、西南大学校长张卫国、电子科技大学副校长熊彩东等中加高校领导及研究人员共同分享经验，探讨双边在科学、技术和创新方面的研究合作。约翰斯顿为3位“加拿大总督访问勋章”获得者颁发奖章。其中，重庆唯一获得该殊荣的是重庆医科大学附属儿童医院前院长李廷玉教授。

此前，约翰斯顿曾分别于2002年、2010年两次访问重庆大学，已经是重庆的“老朋友”。近年来，重庆大学与加拿大交流合作日益紧密，该校已与滑铁卢大学等7所加拿大大学建立了密切合作交流关系。

加拿大总督约翰斯顿（中）一行访问重庆大学。

在科学、技术与创新领域，与中国西南地区合作的加拿大主要机构包括不列颠哥伦比亚大学、阿尔伯塔大学、加拿大国家研究委员会、温莎大学、滑铁卢大学、麦吉尔大学、西安大略大学和纽芬兰纪念大学。主要合作领域包括核电站安全仪表控制技术、云南高原湖泊环境保护、长江三峡水科学、医学机器人、呼吸疾病、高风险妊娠病、阿兹海默病、多元文化和少数民族教育等。

讨论会后，约翰斯顿一行前往华夏航空飞行训练中心，参观和亲测了由一家加拿大公司制造的飞行模拟器，并与重庆市副市长刘桂平共同见证加拿大蒙特利尔TRU模拟+培训公司与华夏航空商务协议的签署；在重庆市规划展览馆详细了解重庆发展布局，并参观重庆来福士广场项目的完整沙盘模型。该项目由加拿大建筑师莫瑟·萨夫迪担纲设计，是将重庆的历史文明和未来想象的融合呈现给世界的窗口。

■编辑：熊怡

David Johnston, Governor-general of Canada,Visited Chongqing Discussed the cooperative chance on education and science in Chongqing University

Wu Kangming, Director of the Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs of Chongqing Municipality (the first one on the right side) met the guests at the airport. Photography / Zhou Yi (China News Service)

“I have five daughters, four of them came to China before or took part in exchange programs to China, and two of them can speak Chinese well. Studying abroad improved them a lot, I hope you can have the same experience.” On July 11, 2017, David Johnston,Governor-general of Canada, visited to Chongqing with his party and had hotpot as their dinner at Nanbin Road with students who plan to study in Canada, he said to the latter: “Hope you can learn more about curiosity, tolerance, judgement and empathy, which are praiseworthy characteristics in you growing up”

It is the second time for David Johnston to visit China as the Governor-general of Canada, Chongqing is the first place in his visit at this time. Members of delegation who visit China with David together include Zag, the leader of Government House of Representatives and the minister of small business and tourism;John McCallum, Canadian ambassador to China, and some wellknown leaders in fields like education, scientific research, sports,tourism and culture etc.

David Johnston and his party participated in Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation held by Chongqing University, which showed their attention highly paid on science,technology and innovation and their support to cooperate with China on science and technology. In this conference, leaders

and researchers from universities shared their experience, like Zhou Xuhong, the President of Chongqing University; Yang Lin,Secretary of the Party Committee in Yunnan University; Zhang Weiguo, the President of Southwest University; Xiong Caidong, the Vice-president of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and etc. and discussed the bilateral research and cooperation on science, technology and innovation. David Johnston awarded medals to three persons, among which professor Li Yanyu, Ex-president of Children’s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, is the only winner of Chongqing.

David Johnston visited Chongqing University in 2002 and 2010 respectively, he has been an old friend of Chongqing. Recently,Chongqing University has the close communication and cooperation with Canada and has established intimate relationship with seven universities in Canada, like University of Waterloo.

The main Canadian institutions cooperated with the southwest areas of China in fields like science, technology and innovation include The University of British Columbia, University of Alberta,National Research Council Canada, University of Windsor,University of Waterloo, McGill University, University of Western Ontario, and Memorial University of Newfoundland. The main cooperative fields involve control technology of safety instrument in nuclear power station, environment protection of plateau lakes in Yunnan Province, water science of three gorges of Yangtze River,medical robots, respiratory illness, high-risk diseases in pregnancy Alzheimer disease and education of multi-culture and national minority.

After a discussion on the meeting, David Johnston and his party went to Flight Training Center of China Express, visited and tested a flight simulator made by a Canadian company, witnessed the success of signing the contract of TRU simulation + training of Montreal, Canada and a business agreement of China Express,realized Chongqing’s development in Chongqing Planing Exhibition Gallery, and watched the complete sand table model of Raffles City Program, which was designed by Safdie Moshe, a great Canadian architect, this program is like a window to the world by combining historical civilization and future imagination of Chongqing.

■ Editor: Xiong Yi

Tr. by Han Fanglan