Closer collaboration between the United Kingdom and China in the fields of education and research has been urged by the recently announced new chancellor of the University of Bristol, a prestigious higher education institution in the UK.

Sir Paul Nurse, who was jointly awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, was appointed the eighth chancellor of the university in July.

Defining his role as "ceremonial and ambassadorial", Nurse said he hoped to use his position to help raise Bristol's profile and advance its interests nationally and internationally, including with China.