Tongji University launches three new centers of learning

Three centers were launched in Tongji University in Shanghai on Wednesday, promoting the digital, green and syncretic transformation of the academy.

The Center for Frontier Interdisciplinary Research in Fundamental Sciences, the Center for Digital & Intelligent Humanities and the Center for Cultural & Artistic Education have been established in an effort to implement the university's action plan (2024-27) to empower discipline innovation and development with artificial intelligence.

Lu Shan, vice-mayor of Shanghai, said, "Unveiling the establishment of three centers to stimulate original innovation through interdisciplinary research, reshape humanistic research through the integration of data and intelligence, and cultivate innovative talents through art education, is inspiring.

"The municipal government will continue to support the construction and development of the university with greater efforts and more practical measures."

Shu Hua, deputy director of the Ministry of Education's Department of Science, Technology and Informatization, said: "It is expected that Tongji University will take the establishment of the three major centers as a new starting point, stand at the forefront of cross integration, and achieve new results in digital empowerment, making new contributions to the construction of an education, technology, and talent powerhouse."

"In the process of constructing the three major centers, we must adhere to the principles of 'goal orientation, problem driven, and task driven', and promote the construction of these three centers as new engines and driving forces for Tongji University's disciplinary transformation, innovation, and development," said Zheng Qinghua, Communist Party secretary of Tongji University and member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.