On August 31, 2018, Liu Jiayi, secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee, met with Chen Xu, party secretary of Tsinghua University, and his delegation in Jinan.
Before the meeting, witnessed by Gong Zheng, Deputy Secretary of Shandong Provincial Party Committee and Governor of Shandong and Chen Xu, Party Secretary of Tsinghua University, Shandong Heavy Industry Weichai Power Chairman Tan Xuguang and Tsinghua University Vice President You Zheng signed the Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement and the Agreement on Construction of the Joint Institute for Intelligent Manufacturing.