On October 12, the Beijing University of Technology High-quality Development Conference was held in Pingyuanyuan Campus. With the theme of "Starting a New Year and Striving for First-Class", the conference focused on serving the major strategic needs of the country and promoting the high-quality development of the school. At the meeting, Beijing University of Technology officially established four new colleges, including the School of New Energy, the School of Integrated Circuits, the School of Artificial Intelligence and the School of Cyberspace Security, and signed strategic cooperation agreements with Beijing Institute of Technology, Capital Medical University and Xiaomi Group.
Yu Yingjie, member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and secretary of the Education Working Committee, Fan Boyuan, former vice mayor of Beijing and former president of Beijing University of Technology, Li Zhaoling, former vice chairman of the China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and alumnus of the 1971 semiconductor device major, Qiao Wei, former deputy secretary of the party group and vice chairman of the China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, and alumnus of the 1977 forging major, Li Junfeng, deputy secretary of the Education Working Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee in charge of daily work, Li Yi, deputy secretary of the Education Working Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and director of the Municipal Education Commission, Wu Xiaojie, secretary of the Chaoyang District Party Committee of Beijing, Yang Bo, secretary of the Fangshan District Party Committee of Beijing, Sun Chongzheng, former secretary of the Party Committee of Beijing University of Technology, Wang Shoufa, former secretary of the Party Committee, Guo Guangsheng, former president and other leading guests; Dai Qionghai, Dean of the School of Information Science and Technology of Tsinghua University, Chairman of the Chinese Society of Artificial Intelligence, and Director of the Academic Committee of the Beijing Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Li Shushen, Researcher of the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ji Xunming, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Peking Union Medical College of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Ding Zhiming, Member of the Party Committee and Director of the Data Science Research Center of the Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chu Jian, President and Chair Professor of Nanyang Technological University, and Shen Changxiang and Peng Yongzhen, Professors of Beijing University of Technology , Du Xiuli, Tang Jie and other strategic scientists; As well as leaders from various committees and bureaus of Beijing, districts, townships and streets, representatives from the business community, brother universities inside and outside Beijing, representatives of high-quality students, outstanding alumni representatives who are struggling on the front line of various industries, leaders and guests of the school's friendly and cooperative units, journalists, all school leaders, teachers and student representatives of Beijing University of Technology, etc. attended the conference.
In order to better serve the major national strategic needs such as the "double carbon" goal, integrated circuits, artificial intelligence, and network power, strengthen the layout of emerging interdisciplinary disciplines, and solve the core technical problems of the "bottleneck" of the industry, Beijing University of Technology officially established the School of New Energy, the School of Integrated Circuits, the School of Artificial Intelligence and the School of Cyberspace Security. The establishment of these four new colleges is a "combination punch" of discipline construction for the major needs of the country, and will build a new matrix of disciplines covering strategic key areas and connecting national needs and regional development. The leaders and guests at the meeting jointly unveiled the new college, marking a key step in optimizing the discipline layout and filling the gap of high-end innovative talents.
While deepening the layout of disciplines on campus, Beijing University of Technology actively promotes external collaboration and cooperation, and signs strategic cooperation agreements with Beijing Institute of Technology, Capital Medical University and Xiaomi Group. These three cooperation revolves around multiple dimensions such as inter-university collaboration, medical-engineering integration and industry-education linkage, aiming to build an open and integrated innovation ecology through complementary advantages and resource sharing, and provide systematic support for talent training, scientific research and industrial upgrading.
Dai Qionghai, a representative of strategic scientists, said in his speech that the establishment of the four new colleges is an important measure for Beijing Institute of Technology to build a world-class university, and hopes that the school will continue to face the development of national strategy and new quality productivity, vigorously promote interdisciplinary development, and actively lay out cutting-edge emerging fields.
On behalf of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College and Capital Medical University, strategic scientist Ji Xunming congratulated Beijing Institute of Technology on its achievements, and said that it will continue to go hand in hand, take the construction of new engineering and new medicine as the guide, and deepen cooperation in talent training, scientific research platform sharing, and achievement transformation.
He Ming, Secretary of the Party Committee of Beijing University of Technology, emphasized in the keynote report that the university will continue to anchor the national strategy and the development needs of the capital, take the construction of the new campus as an opportunity, take high-quality development as the main line, and accelerate the planning and solid promotion of the construction of a first-class university.
Nie Zuoren, president of Beijing University of Technology, said that Beijing University of Technology keeps in mind the original mission of "educating people for the party and educating talents for the country", will deepen the integrated development of educational science and technology talents, and lead high-quality development with high-level cooperation.
The convening of this high-quality development conference and the implementation of a series of measures demonstrated the firm determination of Beijing University of Technology to serve the national strategy and strive for world-class production, and injected new momentum into the future development of the school.
