Sino-Russian Transportation University Alliance “2020 Exchange Meeting of Sino-Russian Transportation University President Forum” was held online to offline on November 20, 2020. With the theme of “Fighting against epidemic hands in hands, exchange and cooperate under new situation”, the exchange meeting was sponsored by Russian Federation Ministry of Transport and Ulitsa Serysheva, and more than one hundred Chinese and Russian universities and enterprises such as Ulitsa Serysheva, St. Petersburg State Transport University, Beijing Union University, Beijing Jiaotong University, China Railway Electrification Engineering Group Co., Ltd. and Traffic Control Technology Co., Ltd. were invited. Russian Federation Duma, The Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China sent special congratulatory messages to the forum.

Sino-Russian Transportation University Alliance aims to implement the national strategy “The Belt and Road” and the “Go global” of high-speed rail, as well as promote the exchange and cooperation between universities of both countries in the traffic field.

As the enterprise representative of rail transit field, Chairman Gao Chunhai of TCT was invited to attend the forum, made a speech and put forward expectations on challenges facing by the global rail transit development, talent cultivation and university-enterprise cooperation:

First, since more and more technical and engineering problems emerged during rapid construction and updating of urban rail transit, universities in both countries were expected to do more researches based on the current demands;

Second, the cultivation of international talents could not meet the requirements of fast industry development, which required the alliance to build a platform for cultivating more international talents in technology, business and management;

Third, it was imperative to strength university-enterprise cooperation by means of the forum. Enterprises and universities should have more cooperation in new infrastructure, 5G, big data and the field significant for future rail transit and carry out more basic and specific researches.

Finally, Gao Chunhai expressed his willingness that TCT would strengthen talent cultivation, technological innovation and international cooperation with all sides in the field of rail transit and made more contributions to establish a comprehensive strategic partnership between two countries in the new era.