Tsinghua Launches "Tsinghua Xuetang Personnel Cultivating Plan"

The launching ceremony of the "Tsinghua Xuetang Personnel Cultivating Plan" was recently held outside the oldest campus building, Tsinghua Xuetang. Students selected for the cultivating plan will receive instruction in this historic edifice.

Tsinghua University President Gu Binglin made a speech at the ceremony, in which he explained the two key ideas of the "Tsinghua Xuetang Personnel Cultivating Plan". One is turning the advantage of comprehensive subjects, frontier research, outstanding professors and students, and international exchanges to the advantage of talents cultivation and education. The other is keeping the leading students as "in the lead", i.e. to stimulate and enhance the cultivation of personnel in all the schools at Tsinghua.

President Gu hoped that each chief professor and project director would cultivate more talents with creativity. He also encouraged the students to study hard and seize every opportunity to enhance their futures still further.

President Gu and Tsinghua University Council Chairman Hu Heping presented certificates to the chief professors and project directors of the plan. The plan invited many well-known professors, among them the famous mathematician, Fields Award winner and Wolf Prize winner Shing-Tung Yau, Zhu Bangfen of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhangxi of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, renowned structural biologist Shi Yigong, and Turing Award Winner Professor Andrew Chi-Chih Yao. They will be chief professors of the Tsinghua Xuetang mathematics class, physics class, chemistry class, life science class, computer class, and mechanics class.

Tsinghua began to develop its "Tsinghua Xuetang Personnel Cultivating Plan" early in 2009. With the support of the Organization Department of the Central Committee and Ministry of Education, the University has substantially developed the plan during the two years with 290 students enrolled.

(Photo by Guo Haijun)