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Korea Herald
a day ago
- Science
- Korea Herald
The 2025 International Congress of Basic Science Opens in Beijing
BEIJING, July 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2025 International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) officially kicked off on July 13 at the China National Convention Center in Beijing, gathering the world's brightest scientific minds for a landmark two-week conference. The event brings together four Fields Medalists, three Nobel Laureates, and two Turing Award winners, including Shing-Tung Yau and Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, alongside more than 80 academicians and nearly 1,000 researchers from leading global institutions. President of Tsinghua University Li Luming warmly welcomed scientists from around the world. He emphasized that the ICBS has evolved into a premier platform for global scientists to engage in dialogue and deepen collaboration. Tsinghua University will continue to support Professor Shing-Tung Yau's efforts to advance basic science, and will work together with scientists from all countries to strengthen fundamental research, drive scientific and technological innovation, promote socio-economic development, and jointly create a better future for humanity. Shing-Tung Yau — ICBS President, Fields Medalist, and Chair Professor at Tsinghua University — highlighted recent breakthroughs in mathematics, physics, and information science. He believes a new era driven by theoretical breakthroughs and technological innovations may be dawning. Six trailblazing scientists—Samuel C.C. Ting, Steven Chu, David Gross, Robert Tarjan, Shigefumi Mori, and George Lusztig—were honored with the 2025 Basic Science Lifetime Award, the most prestigious award honoring scientists' contributions to fundamental science. The Congress also awarded 118 Frontiers of Science Awards (FSA) across mathematics, physics, and information science, with winners from over 20 countries. Global AI leaders OpenAI and Meta's FAIR team were also among the recipients. The ICBS was initiated by Shing-Tung Yau in 2023 and is held annually with the theme "Advancing Science for Humanity". Over the next two weeks, nearly 1,000 scholars and students—including over 400 world-leading scientists—will gather at the Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications. Over 500 sessions will cover mathematics, physics, and information science and engineering, with a focus on cutting-edge AI research, interdisciplinary innovation, and frontier theoretical breakthroughs. Beyond academic exchange, ICBS emphasized youth engagement through a diverse range of activities, including the "Tsinghua Day" special event on July 19th. ICBS 2025 celebrates international collaboration and academic exchange in global scientific advancement. "Science thrives on collaboration," said Yau. "This is where the next era of discovery begins."
Cision Canada
a day ago
- Science
- Cision Canada
The 2025 International Congress of Basic Science Opens in Beijing
BEIJING, July 22, 2025 /CNW/ -- The 2025 International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) officially kicked off on July 13 at the China National Convention Center in Beijing, gathering the world's brightest scientific minds for a landmark two-week conference. The event brings together four Fields Medalists, three Nobel Laureates, and two Turing Award winners, including Shing-Tung Yau and Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, alongside more than 80 academicians and nearly 1,000 researchers from leading global institutions. President of Tsinghua University Li Luming warmly welcomed scientists from around the world. He emphasized that the ICBS has evolved into a premier platform for global scientists to engage in dialogue and deepen collaboration. Tsinghua University will continue to support Professor Shing-Tung Yau's efforts to advance basic science, and will work together with scientists from all countries to strengthen fundamental research, drive scientific and technological innovation, promote socio-economic development, and jointly create a better future for humanity. Shing-Tung Yau — ICBS President, Fields Medalist, and Chair Professor at Tsinghua University — highlighted recent breakthroughs in mathematics, physics, and information science. He believes a new era driven by theoretical breakthroughs and technological innovations may be dawning. Six trailblazing scientists—Samuel C.C. Ting, Steven Chu, David Gross, Robert Tarjan, Shigefumi Mori, and George Lusztig—were honored with the 2025 Basic Science Lifetime Award, the most prestigious award honoring scientists' contributions to fundamental science. The Congress also awarded 118 Frontiers of Science Awards (FSA) across mathematics, physics, and information science, with winners from over 20 countries. Global AI leaders OpenAI and Meta's FAIR team were also among the recipients. The ICBS was initiated by Shing-Tung Yau in 2023 and is held annually with the theme "Advancing Science for Humanity". Over the next two weeks, nearly 1,000 scholars and students—including over 400 world-leading scientists—will gather at the Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications. Over 500 sessions will cover mathematics, physics, and information science and engineering, with a focus on cutting-edge AI research, interdisciplinary innovation, and frontier theoretical breakthroughs. Beyond academic exchange, ICBS emphasized youth engagement through a diverse range of activities, including the "Tsinghua Day" special event on July 19th. ICBS 2025 celebrates international collaboration and academic exchange in global scientific advancement. "Science thrives on collaboration," said Yau. "This is where the next era of discovery begins."
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
APEC 2025 Seminar on Promoting Green Jobs and Resilient Development by Enhancing the Capacity Building of Sustainable Entrepreneurs
Beijing, 16–17 July 2025 BEIJING, July 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- APEC seminar on "Promoting Green Jobs and Resilient Development by Enhancing the Capacity Building of Sustainable Entrepreneurs" was held on 16 - 17 July 2025, at Tsinghua Science Park, Beijing, China. Organized jointly by National Entrepreneurship Research Center, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University and Tus-Holdings Co., Ltd., the event convened government officials, scholars and industry experts from 14 APEC economies, including Australia, Canada, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Singapore, Korea, Thailand, United States, and etc., to share best practices and explore the effective pathways for promoting sustainable entrepreneurship across the APEC region. Opening Remarks Mr. Jiang Wei, Deputy Director General of International Cooperation Department in Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of China, stressed that green jobs and sustainable entrepreneurship are critical levers for high-quality employment and economy-wide green transition. He outlined China's three-pronged approach: (1) embedding "dual-carbon" goals in national strategy and green-growth frameworks; (2) reskilling and redeploying workers in traditional sectors such as coal through retraining grants, severance top-ups and green-industry funds; and (3) integrating 134 green occupations into the national occupational classification—more than 8 % of the total—while scaling up green-skills training nationwide. Mr. KIM Minkyu, representative of 2025 APEC presidency of Korea，Labor Attaché Counsellor in Embassy of the Republic of Korea in China, highlighted sustainable entrepreneurship as essential for inclusive and resilient growth and the effort of Korea as 2025 presidency to deepen APEC collaboration on green-job creation amid geopolitical uncertainties. Mr. Wang Jiwu, Chairman of TusHoldings Co., Ltd. reiterated the company's commitment to leveraging Tsinghua Science Park as a global innovation hub and to sharing resources and experience with APEC members to accelerate technological upgrading worldwide. Prof. GAO Jian, Director of National Entrepreneurship Research Center, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, noted that this was the first APEC meeting dedicated to capacity building of sustainable entrepreneurs. He emphasized youth as the primary entrepreneurial force and called for continued improvement of inclusive, resilient entrepreneurial ecosystems. Keynote Speech Prof. Donna Kelley, Frederic C. Hamilton Chair of Free Enterprise in Babson College, and head of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor team in USA, demonstrated through cross-economies indices that GDP level does not automatically translate into superior social and environmental performance. GEM data reveal that more than three quarters of entrepreneurs in China and Thailand already take SDG-oriented actions. This figure stands in a contrast with several high-income economies, which reflects the difference of regional incentives mechanism and culture background. Mr. Chen Hongbo, Executive Senior Vice President of TusHoldings Co., Ltd., President of the International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP), introduced Tus-Holdings'"Four Step Theory" for building sustainable entrepreneurship ecosystems, which is resource gathering, integration and cooperation, prioritizing target areas, and generating innovative outcome. Mr. Mou Rui, on behalf of National Entrepreneurship Research Center, launched the report "The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and Capacity Building of Sustainable Entrepreneurship in APEC Economies". Based on surveys and policy reviews across 16 APEC economies, four recommendations are proposed in the report as: (1) an APEC Sustainable Entrepreneurship Platform for policy learning and industry cooperation; (2) dedicated financing facilities; (3) an APEC Sustainable Entrepreneurship Academy for scaled-up, quality training; and (4) enhanced policy coordination, evaluation and data sharing. Panel discussions The Seminar includes four session with following topics:1. Creating More Green Jobs – Policies and Scaling Strategies for Green Tech Startups 2. Skills Upgrading for Entrepreneurship and Employment in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 3. Enhancing the Resilience of Startups through Digital and Green Transition 4. Challenges and Opportunities for Women, Youth, and Persons with Disabilities in the Digital and Green Transition Characterized by broad representation and a diverse range of participants, the seminar set up a multi-level, cross-sector platform for international cooperation and exchange. China's innovative practices in green entrepreneurship and green employment, together with Chinese entrepreneurs' proactive efforts to align with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, offered all APEC economies the valuable insights on how to turning sustainable development from vision into action. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Tus-Holdings Co., Ltd Sign in to access your portfolio
The Star
3 days ago
- Politics
- The Star
As Trump flip-flops on US academia, China's brightest head back home. Here's why
This year, Beijing's Tsinghua University is up two spots to be just outside the top 10. Peking University and Zhejiang University have also moved up the list, climbing to 25th and 45th respectively. The rankings are the latest list of the Best Global Universities compiled by American media company US News and World Report, which looks at 2,250 top institutions from 105 countries. The assessment focuses exclusively on the overall academic research and reputations of the universities, weighing up 13 factors, from publications to citation impact. This year's results show just how far Chinese universities have come in a few short years. In 2018, Tsinghua University was 50th and Peking University 68th, the only two in the top 100. Now they are among 15 Chinese universities in the top 100, with Tsinghua leading the pack at 11th. It has been a steady rise for Chinese institutions up these kinds of ladders in recent decades, one built on sustained investment in education, students and recruitment of overseas staff. That brain gain is growing in momentum, as the administration of US President Donald Trump flip-flops on visas for international students and cuts research funding, deterring more of China's best and brightest from study and research in the United States. The decline in Chinese students heading to the US has been particularly stark over the past five years. In the 2019-20 academic year, China accounted for the largest group of international students in the United States, with 372,532 crossing the Pacific for further studies. By the 2023-24 school year, that number had fallen to 277,398, a decline of more than a quarter over that period. So much so that India now sends more students to the US than China. Similarly, almost 20,000 scientists of Chinese descent left the US for other countries between 2010 and 2021, according to a study by Princeton University sociologist Yu Xie. The rate jumped after 2018 when the US government launched the 'China Initiative' in what it framed as an effort to uncover 'Chinese economic espionage' threatening US national security. The China Initiative was launched during Trump's first term and reportedly involved US Department of Justice investigations of thousands of scientists suspected of hiding Chinese connections. Most cases were quickly dropped due to lack of evidence, and the programme was scrapped in 2022 under Trump's successor, Joe Biden. However, the academic chill between China and the US is still apparent at the institutional level. In January, the University of Michigan ended a two-decade partnership with Shanghai Jiao Tong University over what it said were national security risks. The University of California, Berkeley, recently announced it was decoupling from the Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute after the US government began investigating millions of undisclosed dollars given to the institute by the Chinese government. And in September 2024, the Georgia Institute of Technology announced the end of its participation at the China-based Georgia Tech Shenzhen Institute, also due to national security concerns. The effect could be lasting. While the most popular American universities – Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stanford – continue to dominate the top spots in the US News university rankings, 'visa challenges and government scrutiny could deter talented Chinese students and researchers from choosing to study in the US in the future', according to Rick Carew, adjunct professor of finance and economics at Fordham University's Gabelli School of Business in New York. 'China-born scholars contribute immensely to academic research in the US. The heightened US-China political tensions have made them a target for scrutiny,' Carew said. 'Generous funding and the opportunity to teach the next generation of top Chinese students in their native language have made offers to return to Chinese universities attractive for some top scholars more interested in conducting research than geopolitics.' One of the major pull factors for returning to China – the increase in funding – stems from Beijing's efforts to ramp up domestic innovation and development. China is seeking to move up the industrial value chain and is counting on investment in high technology to help get it there. At the National Science and Technology Conference in the capital last year, Chinese President Xi Jinping set a 2035 goal to develop the country's science and technology sectors into world-leading research hubs. That involves a bigger emphasis on research. According to a report released in March by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, China spent more than US$780 billion on research and development in 2023, reaching 96 per cent of US R&D spending, measured in terms of gross domestic expenditure. That compared with just 72 per cent 10 years earlier. In 2017, China surpassed the US in terms of research output, and since then has generated an increasing number of cited publications, a sign that Chinese research is attracting more attention from the international research community, according to the Springer Nature 2024 China Impact Report. Xiong Bingqi, dean of the 21st Century Education Research Institute in Beijing, said conditions for researchers had improved over the past five years, with incentives such as higher salaries, better research funding, and benefits like housing subsidies and healthcare. 'The good scientific research environment has attracted a large number of foreign academic talent to teach in China, and the talent attraction policies are also quite helpful,' Xiong said. Zhejiang University, a cradle of tech start-ups in China, has been on the receiving end of some of the research funding and has attracted notable scientists from the US. That reputation was burnished this year when university engineering graduate Liang Wenfeng made the world sit up with his AI start-up DeepSeek and its cost-effective, open-source and competitive approach to large language models. Notably, many of the people at DeepSeek were young and educated wholly in China. In an interview with The China Academy, an academic networking hub, Liang said his hiring practice was to pick and nourish fresh young graduates from the very top Chinese universities but with little to no work experience. Apart from DeepSeek, Zhejiang University graduates have been at the forefront of other innovative tech start-ups such as Deep Robotics, known for specialising in robot dogs and pioneering autonomous inspections of electrical substations and dangerous high-voltage environments. Both companies are part of the 'Six Little Dragons', the Hangzhou-based tech firms whose successes have come to embody China's tech aspirations. 'China produces an estimated 1.4 million engineering graduates each year, providing fresh talent to technology firms like Huawei and BYD competing with Silicon Valley,' Carew said. 'Chinese tech innovation has benefited from a combination of engineering talent, China's advanced manufacturing ecosystem in Zhejiang and Shenzhen, and government policies supporting investment in hard tech industries.' In addition, US controls on technology exports to China, such as a ban on sales of some advanced chips, introduced in 2022 were supposed to help secure technological leadership, but they ended up costing US companies billions of dollars in market capitalisation while boosting Chinese domestic innovation and self-reliance, according to a 2024 report by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. But this has not always been the case. China-US relations, arguably one of the world's most important sets of bilateral ties, boast decades of strategic academic cooperation and competition. In 1979, the two countries signed the US-China Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement. That agreement was renewed late last year after much delay and some changes but the extension signalled a continued willingness to cooperate. And in May, Beijing's Tsinghua University opened four new residential colleges aimed at developing talent in science, engineering and AI, with one of them designed specifically for international students. The colleges were part of a global strategy launched in 2021 to boost worldwide competitiveness. 'Promoting internationalisation is an important part of efforts by Chinese universities to enhance their competitiveness,' Xiong said. Attracting American students to China is one of Xi's goals. In late 2023, Xi said China was ready to invite 50,000 young Americans to China on exchange and study programmes in the next five years to increase exchanges between the two peoples, especially between the youth. The number of American students studying in China is a shadow of just a decade ago. In the 2023-24 academic year, 800 US students were enrolled in Chinese universities, according to a 2024 American Chamber of Commerce in China report. Enrolments peaked in 2011, when around 15,000 Americans studied in China. The drastic decline was attributed mostly to three years of the zero-Covid policy and ongoing bilateral tensions. Just before the pandemic, 11,000 American students had been studying in China, according to the report. Improving those numbers would not just benefit international relations. Xiong, from 21st Century Education, said that maintaining a global education push was 'a strategic step in building a strong country'. 'The tensions will have a severe impact on Chinese universities to achieve joint international cooperation in scientific research and talent cultivation,' Xiong said. And university rankings may not be the best way of measuring that success. Xiong said that rating systems could have a negative influence on university operations, leading to more pressure for quantity over quality and more frequent cases of fraudulent research papers. 'Ranking universities by using indicators such as the number of papers published and the number of citations is a simplistic and quantitative approach, but the spiritual qualities and traditions of a university cannot be quantified,' Xiong said. 'Talent development is the key to competitiveness. We cannot have first-class scientific research without first-class talent.' -- SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
Borneo Post
3 days ago
- Automotive
- Borneo Post
Sci-tech tour inspires German youth to promote Germany-China automotive cooperation
Niklas Klingel (L) and Alexander Kuch (R) pose for a photo with a staff member of Guizhou's PIX Moving at the company's automotive manufacturing plant in Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province, July 4, 2025. (Xinhua/Zhou Xuanni) GUIYANG (July 21): As Niklas Klingel stood inside the PIX Moving automotive manufacturing plant, watching the automated minibus frames take shape on the assembly line, his eyes sparkled with excitement. The 24-year-old German eagerly engaged in a lively technology discussion with the person in charge. Recently, as one of the invited guests for the Eco Forum Global Guiyang 2025, he participated in the six-day trip hosted by Tsinghua University and Guizhou Province, which titled 'Opportune China, Youth Talks — 2025 Global Youth Dialogue', and fifteen international youths participated in the journey. They explored Guizhou's innovative breakthroughs in various fields, including big data, autonomous vehicles, and the construction of the world's highest bridges. Klingel expressed his joy of back to China again and said that his experiences in Guizhou were reshaping his understanding of the global automotive landscape. Parallel to his Master of Science in Politics and Technology at Technical University of Munich, he had been also working as a financial consultant. With the global EV vehicle's booming development, he is now transitioning from traditional financial consulting to the field of automotive safety consulting. 'The prosperity of China in electric vehicles and autonomous driving is evident, but what touched me more is their continuous innovation in autonomous driving technology,' Klingel added in a later interview. In order to learn more about consumers and the global market, he furthered his studies in Tsinghua University's School of Social Sciences as a visiting student in 2023, focusing on consumer behavior and public organization management. Klingel went back to Germany after he finished his studies in China. He is currently providing safety consulting services and quality management training for German car manufacturers like BMW. During his visit to the PIX Moving factory, Klingel inquired in detail about the company's breakthroughs in autonomous driving algorithm optimization and sensor fusion. 'Their algorithm integration innovations and 3D printing intelligent manufacturing capability are eye-catching and should be learned from by German automotive enterprises.' He particularly emphasized that the advancements made by Chinese companies in the commercialization of autonomous driving offers valuable insights for traditional automotive powerhouses. He views this technological complementarity as an opportunity for fostering cooperation between the two countries. Niklas Klingel visits Guizhou's Long March Cultural Digital Art Museum in Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province, July 6, 2025. (Xinhua/Zhou Xuanni) In regard to the competition and cooperation between the automotive industries of China and Germany, Klingel has a borderless industrial vision. He believes that international competition is not a zero-sum game but an accelerator of innovation that creates boundless opportunities. This positive interaction between the two countries has the potential to create an upward spiral of innovation. 'Ultimately, it is the global consumers who benefit when German precision manufacturing meets Chinese smart technology, and we look forward to witnessing the most exciting innovations and transformations in automotive history.' 'There is a deep foundation of research in autonomous driving at both the Technical University of Munich and Tsinghua University. In the future, the two institutions can collaborate on research and innovation in the fields of autonomous vehicles and EV, thereby promoting the integrated development of the automotive industries in both countries,' said Klingel, highlighting the broad prospects for specific cooperation paths between the two countries. 'The two countries could establish a regular delegation exchange mechanism, set up more cross-border offices, and build technology transfer platforms that integrate Germany's quality management system with China's speed of innovation,' Klingel explained. 'From Munich to Guiyang, I see not only the undulating mountains but also the synchronized beats of innovation from two automotive powerhouses,' Klingel said. Before concluding his visit to Guizhou, Klingel expressed his enthusiasm for initiating collaborative discussions between Guizhou's autonomous driving firm and traditional German automotive companies. 'I look forward to having more discussions with Guizhou's autonomous driving enterprise, considering the potential large-scale commercial deployment of autonomous vehicles from Guizhou in Germany,' Klingel added. – Xinhua automotive industries China germany technology
