The second meeting of the first session of the association between equipment manufacturing industry and universities in Liaoning province, led by Shenyang University of Technology, was held on April 27 on its central campus. The chairman of the association and the president of Shenyang University of Technology Zhang Tieyan made a report respectively. The meeting was chaired by Yan Mingyin, vice president of the university and the association.

In the meeting, Zhang Tieyan made a summary of the work accomplished in 2017, including top-level design, research on the quality of talents, science and technology, innovative ways to promote scientific and technological innovation, work concerning employment and entrepreneurship, building cloud service platform for resource sharing among equipment manufacturing industry of Liaoning province and so on. Zhang Tieyan stressed that in 2018 the association is dedicated to building a better platform and systematic organization and government support will be guaranteed. The construction of five modules is to be completed including module for employment and entrepreneurship, module for science and technology innovation, module for curriculum resources, module for internship and practice resources and module for social service. He introduced the project of cloud service platform for resource sharing, research on key issues of university-enterprise cooperation, and the forum about the development of the equipment manufacturing etc.

After the meeting, the working groups held group discussions on the construction and development of the association and proposed some specific solutions.