On November 10, the awarding ceremony of the First Zhejiang University Guohua Distinguished Scholar Award was held on Zijingang Campus. Ren Shaobo, Secretary of the CPC Committee of Zhejiang University, and Fu Chengxia, General Manager of East China Region of Country Garden Group, presented the awards to the winners.
In June 2019, Mr. Yang Guoqiang, Chairman of the Board of Country Garden Group Office, financed Zhejiang University Guohua Distinguished Scholar Award for supporting the faculty and the research and for helping the University to be a top world-class university. After a rigid selection process, Professor Li Jun from School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Professor Ren Kui from College of Computer Science and Technology, and Professor Paul Boulos Chalhoub from College of Agriculture and Biotechnology were granted the awards.
After congratulating the winners, Ren Shaobo said that talent is the key to winning the future, and a respectable university should have respectable teachers who can cultivate respectable students. In aiming higher and making better innovations, the University should be equipped with a team of respectable teachers.
It is hoped that the winners, cherishing this honor and taking it as a starting point, play the role of models, hold fast to ideals, embrace the mission and vision, shoulder the responsibility of education, work for sci-tech frontiers, economic field, major national needs and serve the “greatness of China” and national rejuvenation. He extended his appreciation to Country Garden Group for its support and promised that, on behalf of the University, at the new historical starting point, Zhejiang University will cherish the encouragement and support from all walks of life, take root in Chinese land to cultivate the students with integrity, scale the sci-tech height, forge a faculty who are proficient at addressing China’s issues, having high quality and significant global impact and truly respected by the international community so as to facilitate the University to be a world-class one with Chinese characteristics, and to repay the community with top performances.
Fu Chengxia expressed that, as a top comprehensive, research-oriented and innovative university in China, Zhejiang University has nurtured generations of masters and made remarkable contributions to China’s sci-tech progress and talent training. Country Garden Group, with the goal “To create a better society with our excellence”, is developing new businesses of robotics, modern agriculture and community retail for social progress, and for transforming itself into a “high-tech comprehensive enterprise”. In the future, Guoqiang Foundation will continue to work for social progress while keeping its original aspiration, and make contributions to an education power, an innovative nation and a sci-tech engine.
Vice President Huang Xianhai chaired the ceremony and announced the list of winners, and then Li Jun, Ren Kui, winners of the Award, shared their insights and experiences, and expressed their determination and confidence for working for a new round of “Double First-class Initiative”.
Those present at the ceremony included Mr. Yu Junjun, Manager of East China Region of Country Garden Group, and the heads of Talent Work Office, Education Foundation, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Life and Environment Sciences, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, College of Computer Science and Technology, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology of Zhejiang University.