By Li Han

Staff Writer of the Tsinghua News Center

At an inauguration ceremony on June 13rd, Tsinghua University unveiled its Center for High-speed Railway Technology (CHRT), a cross-disciplinary research institute. The purpose of the Center is to provide strategic support for the development of China’s high-speed railway through research on strategic plan for future high-speed railway construction in China and related science and technological problems.

Mr. Zhang Shuguang, Deputy Chief Engineer of the Ministry of Railways and Director of Transportation Bureau, Mr. Xie Huanzhong, Director-General of the Department of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Education, and Tsinghua University President Gu Binglin together inaugurated the Center. Tsinghua University Vice President and Director of the Center Kang Kejun hosted the ceremony.

(Photo by Guo Haijun)