It is a well-known fact that NTHU and Tsing Hua Beijing is two sister institutions developed from the same root. Relationship between these two sisters have been expanding and intensifying since the 1990's. During the early stage, most of the cooperative projects were initiated by departments or institutes from either side and set up with their respective counterparts. Since 2001, a regular student-exchange project was instituted allowing both universities to send ten students to their sister institute to participate in the research laboratories of the hosting universities. Starting in the first semester of 2006, both sides have been sending twenty exchange students to their counter parts each year and these exchange students can actually enrolled in regular classes/seminars and pursue their studies in their hosting university for a semester. All of those who took part in such exchange programs enjoyed and cherished their experiences and became enthusiastic promoters for a formal and expanded exchange programs between the two Tsing Huas.

President Wen-Tsuen Chen led a group of NTHU administrators to visit Beijing Tsing Hua in last October. During this visit, he and President Guo signed a formal agreement that will institutionalize not only the existing student exchanges but also establishes a mechanism through which students can pursue a master degree by combining the course works that are offered at the two campuses. In addition, the delegates from both sides agreed to establish a foundation to promote cooperative research projects proposed jointly by faculty member and students from Beijing and Hsinchu.

As the relationship between China and Taiwan is getting "warmer" and the Government is about to introduce legislations that will formally recognize the educational credential offered by selected Chinese universities, the relationship between NTHU and Tsing Hua, Beijing has somehow become of model of the cross-strait cooperative efforts for the years to come.