An alliance between Chinese and French institutions of higher education to promote artificial intelligence (AI) is established so as to apply innovation to a wider spectrum of domains by means of cross-disciplinary international cooperation.Eight educational institutions from the two countires, including Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University and Sorbonne University, set up the France-China AI Consortium.“This alliance brings together a galaxy of AI experts from China and France and is of imm...

XIA Changliang, member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, has become a chair professor at ZJU.On January 6, Zhejiang University held an appointment ceremony to welcome XIA Changliang, an accompolished member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, to join his alma mater as Qiushi Chair Professor. ZOU Xiaodong, secretary of the Party Committee of ZJU, presented XIA with an appointment certificate. Present at the ceremony were heads of relevant departments of ZJU as well as students and faculty fr...

Led by LI Lanjuan, Member of Chinese Academy of Science, “Major innovations and technological breakthroughs in the prevention and treatment system of emerging infectious diseases: Prevention of human infection with H7N9” won the grand prize of the State Science & Technology Progress Award. Emerging infectious diseases have long posed a severe threat to global safety and constituted a significant challenge to mankind all over the globe. This research team achieved 6 major innovations and te...

With the rapid development of modern intensive agriculture and its reliance on high-yielding and genetically uniform varieties, many traditional agricultural systems have been progressively abandoned, resulting in the loss of local genetic resources and indigenous technical knowledge. How to preserve heritage resources in the agricultural system has captured immense attention globally.A research team led by Professor CHEN Xin and Dr. TANG Jianjun at ZJU’s College of Life Sciences have foun...

Atherosclerosis, a disease in which the inside of an artery narrows due to the build of plaque, can result in coronary artery disease, stroke, peripheral artery disease, or kidney problems depending on the arteries which are affected.At present, coronary artery disease can be effectively cured via stent implantation. However, this therapy may well induce the abnormal growing thickness of vascular intima, thereby causing the recurrence of cardiovascular cases. Thus, it is of immense significance ...

Rice fish. Credit: NOZOGenetic DiversityWith the rapid development of modern intensive agriculture and its reliance on high-yielding and genetically uniform varieties, many traditional agricultural systems have been progressively abandoned, resulting in the loss of local genetic resources and indigenous farming techniques. How should we preserve heritage resources in the agricultural system?ZJU findingsProfessor CHEN Xin and his colleagues at ZJU’s College of Life Sciences examined how tra...

Credit: DreamtimePhone HackingSpeech recognition assistants such as Siri are increasingly popular. Allowing devices to be controlled by voice gives hackers a way of targeting these devices. Thus it raises an important question: is it possible to activate these assistants with hidden voice commands that are incomprehensible to humans?ZJU solutionsProfessor XU Wenyuan and her colleagues from the Ubiquitous System Security Lab (USS Lab) at ZJU’s College of Electrical Engineering have designed a ty...

A village in southwest China. Credit: CHEN SiyuanSocial SurveyChina is capturing increasing attention globally. However, due to the lack of systematic survey microdata, the objective reality of China’s microcosmic society remains blurred, and that has kept scholars both at home and abroad from seeing the “whole elephant”.ZJU solutionsA special database focusing on Chinese households was officially released at Zhejiang University in December 2017. This is China’s first family database which i...

The CBD skyline of Hangzhou. Credit: ZHU DifengMy experience in ever-changing ChinaBy Mark Greeven (for China Daily)The first response from my academic colleagues in the Netherlands when I announced I would study innovation in China in 2004 was, “That must be a short project!”Today the world is embracing China as an innovation nation, one where residents have a “ringside seat to entrepreneurial development”, according to Thinkers50. Facilitating the talent development of hundreds o...