Today is National Youth Day. It also marks the 100th anniversary of May Fourth Movement.ZJUers across the globe celebrate this special day with a classical patriotic song, “Sing in Praise of our Motherland”. With deep feelings of the new era, we yearn for a more glorious future of China.Guess who are the singers?Prof. LI Lanjuan, epidemiologist and member of Chinese Academy of EngineeringProf. TANG Xiaowei, nuclear and high-energy physicist, member of Chinese Academy of Sciences and ...

Aiming high, participating actively and sharing openlyOn April 25-26, the second Belt and Road Forum is hosted in Beijing, which takes stock of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) five years on and draw a new roadmap for the coming years. As an important part of BRI,“Belt and Road” Education Action Plan was published by Ministry of Education in 2016, which shows China’s determination to work with and expand people-to-people exchanges, strengthen cooperation in the cultivation of...

ZJU was named International Strategy of the Year at 2019 Times Higher Education (THE) Awards Asia on May 1. “It is only with the strategic thinking of our senior management team and joint efforts across the whole University that we are able to better embed international and intercultural dimensions into our education and research, and contribute to our global future,” said Dr. CHEN Weiying, deputy director of the Office of Global Engagement of ZJU. The judges said that they were...

Hi ZJUers!Let’s celebrate the start of a new month and the 4-day holiday break with these top Labor Day happenings in the city of Hangzhou. Enjoy diverse activities of the 15th China International Cartoon & Animation Festival at Xiaoshan District, or soar into the holiday via an exciting neon run at Xianghu Lake, the sister lake of West lake.More importantly, our congratulations to Prof. GAO Xiang and Prof. YANG Bo. Prof. GAO is titled with the honor of the National May 1 Labor Me...

“Please report the status of the patient.”MD LI Qiang in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine (SAHZU) talked to the remote paramedics in the 5G connected ambulance through real-time audio-video system. “The patient is in stable condition and there is no sign of increased abdominal bleeding,” the paramedic responded. Meanwhile the patient's data (blood pressure, heart rate and blood oxygen level) were transmitted to the hospital control center and ...

The brain is comprised of “cities” and “buildings” with different functions. Like “information roads”, numerous neural connections link them into a network. Based on the brain network, information is input from sensory organs and transmitted and processed in the brain. It ultimately produces memories, emotions, and behaviors. Therefore, understanding the brain calls for the command of the “traffic map", just as people should have a GPS when they travel. However, at present, there is ...

"What a beautiful and relaxing Sunday!" said HE Binjun, an international student from Thailand and member of ZJU International Tea Culture Club. An ice breaker was held by ITCC on April 21 for new members, where people played games and made new friends. Winners of the games were awarded prize like osmanthus Longjing tea and rose pu-erh tea, while those failed in the games had to drink kuding, a bitter tasting Chinese tea.Consisting of 92 members from 25 countries, ITCC of ZJU prov...

The International Conference on Technology and Design and the Chinese Congress on Innovation Design Zijingang Summit, jointly initiated by Zhejiang University and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), were held at Qiushi Great Hall on Zijingang Campus. The conference served as an international communication platform that bridges world-renowned institutions of higher education and leading industrial organizations to discuss the trends, challenges and opportunities in the realm of ...

Because of the lethal infection of chytrid, many frogs around the world are on the verge of extinction. Candida auris, as a“super fungus” that presents a serious global health threat, has recently appeared on the “emergency threat” list of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This pathogenic fungus carries an astonishingly high mortality rate, approaching 60%, but no drug has yet been developed.  The incessant emergence of new pathogenic fungi has profoundly impacted biota...

Congratulations to HOU Yaochun, WANG Yuxuan and LIU Qin, all of them juniors majoring in Process Control in the College of Energy Engineering, for their exceptional performance in the 47th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva. The team, mentored by Dr. CHU Ning, clinched a silver medal.It is one of the few award-winning undergraduate teams from China.The team developed a “Doctor Wukong” platform—a smart operation and maintenance platform for the heating and ventilating system in ...