清华大学百年校庆贺信【英文版】
Dear members of the Tsinghua Community,
Please accept my festival greetings for the 104th anniversary of Tsinghua University.
In retrospection, Tsinghua has observed a year of reform marked by unfettered accomplishments. We have enacted the Articles of Association of Tsinghua University, the first constitutional document in the university’s history to guide the governance and operation of the university. This enactment will improve the governance and decision-making system, as well as the teaching and research atmosphere, of the university. Among Chinese universities in the mainland, Tsinghua leads the comprehensive university reforms. These reforms, staged for the period between 2013 and 2020, are set to escalate the university’s world leading competency. Among the series of reforms, the reform of the faculty system is the first break-through. Fourteen schools and departments have completed their plans and launched the new system. The reformed faculty system brings in more autonomy in faculty recruitment and administration. The education reform focuses on enabling student-centered learning and teaching. During this reform, creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship will be better integrated in our teaching programs. In addition, Tsinghua has launched an initiative to establish the innovation and entrepreneurship alliance of Chinese universities, in hope to strengthen the national technology innovation scheme.
We have made notable achievements in internationalization education programs and research programs. For example, the Schwartzman College program has begun to recruit its pilot cohort of students from around the world. The Tsinghua-Berkeley Joint Institute at Shenzhen, the Tsinghua-Yale Dual Master degree in environment studies, the Tsinghua-Johns Hopkins Dual Master degree in global politics and economics, and the Tsinghua-Columbia Dual Master degree in business analytics have all delivered substantive progresses. A number of research programs have achieved world leading breakthroughs in the fields of life and medical sciences, dark-matter measurement, quantum computing, liquid metal artificial machinery, unearthed documents and sinology.
In prospect, I foresee opportunities and challenges that Tsinghua is to embrace. In this world of accelerated globalization and cross-culture integration, the University shall cultivate students with the sense of global citizenship and the sensibility of culture diversity. In this perspective, Tsinghua has begun to emphasize shaping the value and ethics of young students, and nurturing them with skills and characters that could yield greater social contribution.
As I contemplate the future of the university with confidence and passion, I thank all members of the Tsinghua community for your dedication to the university. I thank all friends for your support to Tsinghua. In the years to come, Tsinghua will continue to strive with unstinted endeavors.
With warmest regards,