2022 was undoubtedly a year of many challenges and changes, but it was also a year of great achievement.

We released ZJU’s refreshed global strategy in June, seeking to maximize the university’s impact on the world stage, joined hands with our global partners to launch the inaugural SDG Global Summer School in August, which attracted nearly 1,000 outstanding students from more than 80 countries and regions, and hosted the TWAS 16th General Conference in November, where the released Hangzhou Declaration stressed the vital role of basic sciences to attaining SDGs.

In our continued efforts to partner for impact, we held up to 50 bilateral meetings with our global partners from 15 countries, and organized Sino-German Sustainable Development Forum, and Asia-Pacific Carbon Neutrality Symposium. We were also thrilled to celebrate ZJU’s 125th anniversary with more than 100 leading universities around the world, which sent their warm congratulations via videos and letters.

The year also saw ZJU researchers make further advancements in science and technology, and scholars from the social sciences, arts and humanities offered new ways to preserve traditional culture and understand problems facing society.

We look forward to continuing to work together over the coming year in pursuit of our collective vision to shape a better world.

Join us in revisiting a few of the highlights from the year.

Hangzhou Declaration released at ZJU, heralding a new era of global cooperation in basic sciences

New CAR-T technology brings hope to patients of refractory and relapsed lymphoma

Scientists develop a novel catalyst to promote CO hydrogenation

Zhejiang University inspires youngsters in response to UN's 2030 Agenda

Insects harbor over a thousand genes from microbes, which help them survive

ZJU Green Origin Association wins UN PRME Award

Zhejiang University and government of Aichi Prefecture sign MoU online

Zhejiang University and Politecnico di Milano ink MoU online

2nd Sino-German Forum concludes, green building a key focus

Scientists discover inter-generational “memory” mechanism of diabetes

Can smell trigger tumors?

What was the “childhood” of the Solar System like?

ZJU inks MoU with Australia’s top university

A “masterpiece” created with craftsmanship in 17 years at ZJU

1st Asia-Pacific Carbon Neutrality Symposium successfully held

Insight@ZJU: School of Management releases the Innovation Economy Index for 57 Chinese Cities

Scientists craft a new world with an ultra-fast laser “burin”

The story behind the cool and dazzling “Ice Ribbon”