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...

As a follow-up to ZJU’s visit in October, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) of the University of Toronto (U of T) paid a return visit to ZJU’s College of Education in early December, furthering discussions on promoting all-round cooperation between the two sides.“Zhejiang University is speeding up its process of developing a world-class comprehensive, research-intensive, and innovative university. We regard OISE as one of our most important partners worldwide,” said ...

In honor of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and South Korea, Zhejiang University and the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies teamed up with each other to produce A Complete Collection of Goryeo Paintings in four languages, including Chinese, English, Korean and Japanese. The book made its first appearance at Zhejiang University on December 11.Present at the unveiling ceremony were ZHANG Xi, Chairman of the Development Committee of Zhejiang Univer...