The Luohu district government has signed a strategic partnership framework agreement with Guilin University of Technology (GUT).

The Luohu district government has signed a strategic partnership framework agreement with Guilin University of Technology (GUT).

Fan Defan, deputy head of the Luohu district government and Zhou Guoqing, vice-president of the GUT inked the agreement on April 21, witnessed by Liu Zhiyong, district government head, and GUT President Xie Qinglin.

Headquartered in Guilin of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, GUT is the first one in the country offering a jewelry major, and it has special talent and innovation strengths in jewelry, machinery, artistic design and information technology.

The gold and jewelry industry is a traditional competitive industrial sector of Luohu. The Shuibei-Buxin zone in the district is the country's important gold and jewelry industry cluster zone. The fast development of the industry over the past decades has made the zone a brand of Shenzhen or even of China.

The strategic cooperation agreement represents a concrete move by both sides to implement a new development philosophy, form new development paradigm, and pursue high-quality development, as well as an important move for Luohu to deepen its all-around cooperation with Guilin city.

In the future, the two sides will take advantage of Luohu's industrial base in the gold and jewelry industry to promote the construction and development of the Shenzhen Institute of GUT. 

According to their agreement, the to-be-built institute will train talents for jewelry design and conduct research on key technologies to become a comprehensive and open platform for research, commercialization and technological upgrading to serve the development of the gold and jewelry industry of Luohu.

GUT also hoped that, by building the Shenzhen institute it can further consolidate its leading position in gold and jewelry talent training and technology research in the country.

Liu Zhiyong said the two sides would be able to give full play to their respective strengths and carry out all-around cooperation in talent training, design research and development and commercialization of research fruits to foster the high-quality development of the gold and jewelry industry in Luohu.

Luohu would provide thoughtful services and seek common development with GUT for win-win results, he pledged.