On November 22, the 5th Global Zhejiang Entrepreneurs Innovation & Entrepreneurship Symposium was convened at Zhejiang University. Themed on “Innovation empowers high-quality development,” it attracted 300 distinguished participants in academic and business circles.Present at the symposium were HUANG Zhengqiang, Vice Chairman of Zhejiang Federation of Industry and Commerce, and WU Xiaocheng, Vice Secretary of the CPC Committee of Zhejiang University.“Since the founding of the People...

Two Zhejiang University researchers are among 139 new members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS）and Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and 49 foreign associates from 19 countries, the academies announced Friday.The two – YE Zhizhen, a professor of Material Science and Engineering; REN Qilong, a professor of Chemical Engineering and Technology– bring the total number of living ZJU faculty members who are members of the academy to 49.YE, who is director of MOE's Key Laboratory of Biom...

The annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America (ESA) was hosted in St. Louis, USA, on November 17-20. LIU Shusheng, a professor at the Zhejiang University College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, was elected as a Fellow of ESA for 2019.ESA is the largest organization in the world serving the professional and scientific needs of entomologists and individuals in related disciplines. Founded in 1889, ESA has more than 9,000 members affiliated with educational institutions, health ...

20 Zhejiang University scholars are among the world's most influential in their fields, according to the Clarivate Analytics 2019 Highly Cited Researchers List.Spanning several fields of the sciences and engineering, from IoT and soil pollution remediation to clean energy solutions, ZJU scholars named on the list this year are: HUANG Feihe（Chemistry）QIAN Guodong（Chemistry）WU Haobin (Chemistry，Materials Science)REN Kui (Computer Science)SU Hongye (Computer Science，En...

On November 18, the construction of the Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility (CHIEF) kicked off in Hangzhou. Located in Hangzhou Future Sci-tech City, CHIEF covers an area of 89 mu (1 mu≈667 m2) and is expected to be completed within 5 years. CHIEF, the outcome of 13-year scientific and technological research, is headed by CHEN Yunmin from the College of Civil Engineering and Architecture at Zhejiang University. CHIEF is a large-scale complex scientific experi...

Zhejiang University (ZJU) has been featured in a documentary developed by BBC StoryWorks in cooperation with International Association of Universities (IAU). This series, named “Aiming Higher in a Transforming World “conveys the key role of universities in addressing societal transformations.The "Aiming Higher" documentaries were unveiled during the plenary session of the IAU conference in Puebla, Mexico, held from November 13th-15th, 2019. CHEN Weiying, deputy director of Offic...

[Editor’s message: On the occasion of the TWAS Council meeting in Hangzhou (11 November) and the "Science for Future" workshop at Zhejiang University (12 November), Prof. YANG Wei accepted the interview by Global Communications，ZJU] Question: How would you envision China in relation to the world that will be in 30 to 50 years?YANG:In 30 to 50 years from now, China will still progress at a pace faster than the most countries in the world, and will be served as the role-model of a...

The latest version of the four-legged “Jueying” robot dog was released on November 1. “This new version is featured by remarkable kinetic and perceptive capabilities. It has made another major breakthrough in algorithms, particularly in bounding and jumping,” introduced ZHU Qiuguo from the Zhejiang University College of Control Science and Engineering.  The new “Jueying” robot dog is 85 centimeters in length, 65 centimeters in height when standing, and approximately 40 kilograms in we...

[Editor’s message: On the occasion of the TWAS Council meeting in Hangzhou (11 November) and the "Science for Future" workshop at Zhejiang University (12 November), Prof. M. Hassan accepted the interview by Global Communications,ZJU] Question：How would you envision China in relation to the world that will be in 30 to 50 years?Hassan：Of course one has to speculate. But I think it would be interesting to give two scenarios: The whole world now is struggling to achieve the United ...

On November 12, the “Science for Future Society” workshop, one of the events in the 2019 General Meeting for the World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS), was held on Zijingang Campus at Zhejiang University.Keynote speakers include Mohamed Hassan (President of TWAS), HUAI Jinpeng (Fellow of CAS and Executive Vice President of China Association for Science and Technology), WU Zhaohui (Fellow of CAS and President of ZJU), RomainMurenzi (Executive Di...