Chinese University’s research centre on mainland helped turn new technology into products and services amid Hong Kong’s Covid curbs, scholars say

Researchers from an institute set up by the Chinese University of Hong Kong in neighbouring Shenzhen have said the centre has helped overcome hurdles in transforming new technology into products and services in the past two years of cross-border travel curbs amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Liu Yunhui, a professor of mechanical and automation engineering at the university, was one of the scholars who led about 50 staff members to take more than 10 projects to mainland China since the founding of the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Research Institute (Futian) in December 2020.