A special database focusing on Chinese households was officially released at Zhejiang University on December 25. This is China’s first database integrating offline sample survey data, Internet-based big data and data from governments and administrative agencies.The Big Database of Chinese Households includes the basic data concerning tens of thousands of urban and rural households in China, including information about the basic household structure, income, expenditure, wealth, employment, etc. ...

LED lights powered by ultrafast batteries designed by ZJU scientistsAluminum-ion battery (AIB) has significant merits of low cost, nonflammability, and high capacity of metallic aluminum anode based on three-electron redox properties. However, due to its inadequate cathodic performance, especially in terms of capacity, high-rate capability, and cycle life, AIB still cannot compete with Li-ion batteries and supercapacitors.To address these issues, a research team led by GAO Chao, a professor in Z...

Replicas in Qingdao, Shandong ProvinceWhat's HappeningRecently, three reproductions of Buddhist statues in the Yungang Grottoes, a 1,500-year-old UNESCO World Heritage site, went on display in east China's Qingdao city. These are new fruits of a two-year program jointly launched by Yungang Grottoes Research Institute, Qingdao Publishing Group and Zhejiang University.In the Media3D printed Buddhist statues displayed in east China. Xinhua3D printed replicas of 1500 year old Buddhist s...

ZHENG Shuseng (middle), MD, Professor of Surgery and an expert in organ transplantation, has been elected a member of the French National Academy of Medicine. The French National Academy of Medicine announced the election of new members during its annual meeting on December 19, 2017.ZHENG Shusen, a renowned professor of surgery at Zhejiang University and member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, has been elected as an international member for his eminent contributions to organ transplan...

Stereoscopic vision depends on the correct matching of corresponding features between the two eyes. It remains obscure where the brain solves this binocular correspondence problem. Although our visual system is able to make correct global matches, there are many possible false matches between any two images.A research team led by Professor CHEN Gang with ZJU’s Qiushi Academy for Advanced Studies has offered a novel solution. By using optical imaging data of binocular disparity response in ...

Headed by Professor XU Xiaozhou, dean of ZJU’s Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences and chair-holder of the UNESCO Chair in Entrepreneurship Education, a ZJU delegation has just concluded a three-day visit to South Korea.From December 11 to 13, XU met with president of Seokyeong University (SKU) and CEO of NCSOFT Corporation to facilitate knowledge sharing and foster cooperation in innovation, entrepreneurship education and child studies.On the afternoon of December 12, XU met with Mr...

The first China-New Zealand Innovation and Commercialization Conference, co-organized by the University of Auckland and Zhejiang University, was held in Hangzhou on December 12-14.The conference featured an impressive line-up of keynote speakers, including nine fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and opinion leaders from various facets of the innovation ecosystem. It provided a wonderful opportunity for making meaningful connections and identifying ideas for investment and future c...

ZJU alumna Hodan (right) wont the Best Domentary Award for her film Africans in Yiwu.Online movies and television series have been increasingly popular in China, attracting capital giants into this massvie industry. By the end of 2016, the number of online video users in China had reached nearly 550 million, and the total market volume had reached RMB 60 billion (US$ 9 billion).Against the backdrop of this “mass carnival” of China’s online movie and TV industry, more and more attention is bei...

In “Dream Trip in Zhejiang”, a talent show organized by the provincial government on December 8, 20 international students from ZJU gave a virtuoso performance of Chinese opera, drawing rounds of thunderous applause from the audience.Representing 15 countries, including Russia, Ukraine, South Korea, and Malaysia, the students performed a series of time-honored Chinese opera selections. They chose to sing the two most popular opera genres in China, namely Peking opera and Shaoxing opera&nb...

While kids around us are pursuing their dreams in “ivory towers”, a group of left-behind children have been trapped in a dire predicament due to insufficient food supply, ragged clothes and backward education in outlying mountainous areas of southwest China’s Guizhou Province.Guizhou is a relatively poor and economically undeveloped province, but rich in natural, cultural and environmental resources. Demographically it is one of China's most diverse provinces.When designers from the Archi...