Officers from the Guangdong Academy of Education visited the Luohu Education Bureau, Aug. 19, to conduct a survey on the exchanges and cooperation among sister schools in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.
The survey aims at promoting education cooperation in the Greater Bay Area, and thereby facilitating high-quality development in the education sector across the region.
Fu Xianglong, director of the academy, said that deepening the exchanges and cooperation between sister schools in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao should be regarded as an integral part of the construction of the Greater Bay Area, as well as a driving force for the development of education in Guangdong.
Luohu happens to be the first region from the Chinese mainland to establish sister schools with its counterparts in Hong Kong. As such, officers from the academy hoped to summarize Luohu’s experience and further deepen future cooperation between schools from the three sides.
Yin Gang, director of the Luohu Education Bureau, said the department attaches significance to deepening cooperation between sister schools through specific projects.  These projects will encourage Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to draw on their respective strengths such that all the three sides can benefit from the collaboration.
Liu Jinying, a researcher with the Shenzhen Education Bureau, said Luohu’s work is productive and urged the academy to help Shenzhen resolve some practical difficulties, which would pave the way for better cooperation. For instance, the flow of personnel between regions involved in the sister school initiatives should be simplified.
Ouyang Wuyi, deputy director of the office of the Luohu Academy of Education, delivered a report on an engineering project from the sister schools to the visiting officers.
Shu Junhua, headmaster of the Cuiyuan Middle School in Dongxiao, Luohu, said that the government should set the stage for schools to find their sister schools according to their unique practical needs.