Visit by Hunan Mango Entertainment

HME delegates with UTAR lecturers and students

Hunan Mango Entertainment Co Ltd (HME) delegates visited UTAR Sungai Long Campus on 26 October 2017.

UTAR Vice President for Internationalisation and Academic Development Prof Ir Dr Ewe Hong Tat expressed his gratitude for their visit and said, “UTAR is currently having the collaboration with more than 40 China Universities. We hope to provide a comprehensive international exposure for our students. Besides the collaboration, we also provided the students with internship and student exchange opportunity to ensure that they benefit from the collaboration.”

HME Deputy CEO Wang Pingbo thanked Prof Ewe for his warmest welcome and said, “Hunan Broadcasting System Company (HBS) is a television network that emphasises on the talents training. We believe that talents will be the one who runs the company to a higher level. So, I truly hope that our collaboration with UTAR will bring in more talents to HBS and bring more benefits to UTAR students.”

Deputy CEO Wang also conducted a seminar on “Entertainment media development and future in China” right after his meeting with the UTAR representatives. During the seminar, he shared his experience in the telebroadcasting industry and said, “HME set up an office in Malaysia to connect headquarter in China with the affairs in Malaysia as well as to improve the collaboration between HME and Malaysian filming industry including producing more quality television programmes or movies in Malaysia. With a very open-minded platform, we will increase our collaboration and adjust it along the way to ensure it creates a win-win situation.”

“HME and UTAR will strategically collaborate in a long-term period and work closely to form a strategic collaborative alliance. Recent years, the partnership between Malaysia and China is increasing in a very fast pathway. So, I believe UTAR will nominate high-quality students and send to HME to carry out training and internship, in order to nurture and cultivate the emerging talents in the area of media in Malaysia and China,” he added.

As an effort to vigorously materialise and propel the Belt and Road Initiatives, to facilitate the friendly interaction between people of Malaysia and China and to strengthen the cooperation in the areas of economic and trading, tourism, culture and education between two economies, HME signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on 27 October 2017 to form strategic collaboration in the areas of culture, media and broadcasting as well as education, to fully utilise the resources of the two parties for the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiatives.

Hunan Mango Entertainment Co Ltd is a professional entertainment and media corporation under the Hunan Broadcasting System. It possesses powerful media platform and capability for the production of movie, television and cultural content. It has rich experiences in organising, promoting and implementing large-scale cultural events and cultural tourism programmes. In these recent years, it has successfully organised few cross-borders major cultural events.

Prof Ewe (left) taking a photo with Deputy CEO Wang right after the discussion

Deputy CEO Wang receiving a token of appreciation from Faculty of Creative Industries (FCI) Department of Mass Communication Head Dr Lim Chai Lee while FCI Department of Media lecturer Beh Chun Chee looks on

Deputy CEO Wang signed an MoU with UTAR President Ir Prof Academician
Dato’ Dr Chuah Hean Teik (third from right)