Chinese vice premier urges strengthened efforts to cultivate outstanding engineers

Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang on Thursday called for intensified efforts to deepen the reform of engineering education and cultivate outstanding engineers for the country's development.

Speaking at a symposium on the reform of outstanding engineer cultivation, Ding, who is also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, encouraged more top universities and enterprises to participate in this work.

Cultivation should focus on the needs of the modern industrial system and engineering development, Ding said.

He also called for the deepened integration of production and education, as well as university-enterprise cooperation, to improve the quality and efficiency of talent development.

Additionally, he stressed the need to promote the bilateral and multilateral mutual recognition of engineer qualifications and education standards to better support enterprises in their overseas business activities.

Chinese vice premier urges strengthened efforts to cultivate outstanding engineers

The U.S. dollar strengthened in late trading on Thursday.

The dollar index, which measures the greenback against six major peers, gained 0.14 percent to 98.990 at 3 p.m. (2000 GMT).

In late New York trading, the euro fell to 1.1652 dollars from 1.1672 dollars in the previous session, and the British pound decreased to 1.3339 dollars from 1.3350 dollars in the previous session.

The U.S. dollar bought 155.03 Japanese yen, lower than 155.15 Japanese yen in the previous session. The U.S. dollar increased to 0.8032 Swiss francs from 0.7994 Swiss francs, and it rose to 1.3953 Canadian dollars from 1.3948 Canadian dollars. The U.S. dollar was up to 9.4173 Swedish kronor from 9.3744 Swedish kronor.

U.S. dollar ticks up