On the morning of January 17, Zhejiang University Moral Education and Student Development Center was inaugurated. Party Secretary Jin Deshui, Education Secretary Feng Gang from Ministry of Education and Deputy Party Secretary Ren Shaobo attended the inauguration ceremony.

On January 16, “The Most Beautiful China” National College Students Photography and Micro-film Contest announced its final results. 45 photos and 30 micro-films stood out and won various awards. Micro-film "Dilemma 18:13” written and directed by Zhejiang University student Chen Xiaoqiang was among the Top Ten Micro-film at the contest and won “The Most Beautiful Award”. "Gray’s Equation” produced by Han Tianhe won "The Best Animation”. In addition, Zhejiang University won the Outstanding Organization Award, and 4 instructors was acknowledged as excellent instructors.

In 2010 and 2012, the U.S. Association of College and Research Libraries twice released top ten trends in academic libraries, among which there is “Internet technology continues to change library service and requires libraries to promote service skills”. Currently, the same trend applied to libraries in Chinese colleges and universities. On January 14, at the “Transformation and development: Library serves the future Seminar”, directors of library and experts from about 30 universities including Peking University, City University of Hong Kong, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University and etc. gathered to explore the concepts of and approaches to management of library. Experts reached consensus on the construction of user-centric information commons and the building of intelligent library.

On January 14, “National High-Level Talent Special Support Plan” announced the first batch of candidates for public scrutiny including 6 outstanding talents and 72 leading talents in science and technology. Four professors at Zhejiang University were on the list -- Professor Bao Hujun of State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Professor Sheng Kuang of College of Electrical Engineering, Professor Gao Xiang of Department of Energy Engineering and Professor Zhou Jiyong of College of Animal Sciences.

On the morning of January 14, at the “Transformation and development: Library serves the future – Seminar on Library Information Commons” held at Zhejiang University, Robert Miller, Global Director of Books of the largest U.S. non-profit digital library “Internet Archive”, signed a donation agreement with Vice-President Luo Weidong to donate 700,000 paper books in foreign languages to Zhejiang University.