Top Hong Kong scientist seeks alliances with mainland

Professor Nancy Ip Yuk-yu, an internationally renowned scientist and one of the city’s 36 deputies to the National People’s Congress, said she has proposed to China’s top legislature lifting the ban on local scientists getting mainland funding for their research, writes Kimmy Chung for South China Morning Post.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology vice-president for research and graduate studies told the Post she saw great opportunities in building a stronger academic alliance in the Greater Bay Area – a national scheme linking Hong Kong and Macau with nine other cities in southern Guangdong province.

“Twenty years ago, there was more research funding in Hong Kong than on the mainland, but now it’s reversed. It would be very good for Hong Kong if we could tap into resources on the mainland,” Ip said in Beijing, where she is attending the ‘two sessions’ – annual meetings of the National People’s Congress and the central government’s top advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
Full report on the South China Morning Post site