Wanlin Cai is a visiting student at the Higher Education Research Center of Southern University of Science and Technology, and a recipient of the visiting doctoral fellowship program. he is currently pursuing her PhD at the Department of Education, University of Oxford. Prior to her doctoral study, Wanlin read for the M.Sc in Higher Education at the University of Oxford and the M.Sc in Management and Enterprise Growth at the University of Glasgow. Currently she is a member of the Centre of Global Higher Education and a research assistant of a project within Oxford’s Social Science Division and the Department of Education. IN this role, she assists project leaders in systematic literature review, interview data and policy analysis and management of collaborative data analysis. Her main research interests include university-industry-government collaboration, integration of higher education in the Greater Bay Area of China, regional innovation and world-class university.