A signing ceremony for a supplementary agreement for strategic cooperation between China Unicom and Xiamen University is held on April 30. [Photo/en.xmu.edu.cn]

A signing ceremony for a supplementary agreement for strategic cooperation between telecom giant China Unicom and Xiamen University, or XMU, was held on April 30.

It took place in Fuzhou, capital of Fujian province, during the 8th Digital China Summit held in the city on April 29-30.

Under the agreement, both parties will focus on deepening school-enterprise cooperation in the low altitude economy and jointly establish a low altitude economy joint laboratory.

Moreover, they will boost cooperation for top-level planning of the low altitude economy, low altitude intelligent fusion testing field, various application scenarios and key technologies, ecosystem construction, talent cultivation and more.

Since the signing of the original strategic agreement in April 2023, the two have carried out deep cooperation in areas such as new infrastructure, information technology applications, the construction of scientific computing centers, scientific research cooperation and talent cultivation and exchanges, which have helped XMU to build an advanced campus network and advance the intelligent upgrading of its teaching and research.