MSCF to build national lab with Chongqing University

Representatives of Mashang Consumer Finance Co (MSCF) and Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications sign a cooperation agreement. [Photo/liangjiang.gov.cn]

Mashang Consumer Finance Co (MSCF), a tech-driven financial institution based in Liangjiang New Area, Southwest China's Chongqing municipality, and Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications recently inked an industry-education-research cooperation framework agreement, and the two sides pledged to jointly build a national-level advanced manufacturing and smart computing laboratory.

This will be the 21st industry-education-research innovation lab that the company has invested in.

According to the agreement, MSCF will work together with the university to create sci-tech research project applications, solve bottleneck technology research, hasten the invention patent application process, create new industrial standards, and cultivate talent. They will do so by building practical training centers for college undergraduates, creating off-campus postgraduate bases for talent cultivation, innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as jointly cultivating doctoral students.

Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications is one of the national major universities of its kind, and is known as the cradle of Chinese information communication talent.