Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2006

Chinese University Bulletin Autumn · Winter 2006 52 T o strengthen Hong Kong’s role as the premier supply chain management and logistics centre in the Asia-Pacific region, CUHK with the sponsorship of Li & Fung Group, has established the Li & Fung Institute of Supply Chain Management & Logistics to further consolidate research in these areas. The institute pools the strengths of the Centre for Supply Chain Management and Logistics of the Faculty of Business Administration, the Centre for Logistics Technologies and Supply Chain Optimi- zation, and the Research and Development Centre for Supply Chain and Logistics Management of the Faculty of Engineering. The institute will focus on technology development, applied researchandbusiness process innovation on logistics and supply chain management. Open forum and high-level executive programmes will be developed for professionals of the logistic industry through the Knowledge Transfer Office. New Li & Fung Institute of Supply Chain Management & Logistic Hub T he Faculty of Engineering of The Chinese University and the Tsinghua Shenzhen Graduate School has jointly es- tablished the Tsinghua Shenzhen Graduate School — CUHK Faculty of Engineering Joint Research Centre for Media Sciences, Technologies and Systems. The centre will pool the expertise and research findings of both institutions. Its research areas include multimedia tech- nology, human-computer spoken language systems, information retrieval, information security technology, embedded systems, and computer networks technology. Prof. Guan Zhicheng (left), Dean of the Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University and Prof. Ching Pak-chung, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of CUHK at the inauguration ceremony New CUHK–Tsinghua Centre (From left) Dr. William K. Fung, managing director, Li & Fung Group; The Hon. Stephen Ip, Secretary for Economic Development and Labour; and Prof. Lawrence J. Lau, Vice-Chancellor, CUHK