耶鲁大学校长在清华百年校庆上的致辞Greetings on the Occasion of the Tsinghua Universi

Greetings on the Occasion of the Tsinghua University Centennial Celebration

Posted 星期二, 04/26/2011 - 20:18 by Fishville

Richard Levin

Yale President Richard C. Levin

April 24, 2011

Beijing, China

President Hu Jintao, President Gu Binglin, distinguished guests, faculty, students, staff, alumni, and friends:

It is an honor to bring greetings on behalf of the many universities represented here. And it is a particular hono r to reinforce in the presence of China’s leaders the high regard in which Tsinghua is held by universities around the world.

In its first century, Tsinghua has played an integral role in the development of China. Many of its 170,000 graduates have become leaders in their fields. The first two Chinese to be awarded the Nobel Prize – Chen Ning Yang and T. D. Lee – were both educated at Tsinghua. Professor Qian Xuesen, Professor Zhu Guangya, and Professor Qian Sanqiang, among other Tsinghua graduates, have made important contributions to China's scientific development. We at Yale are especially proud of our role in your early history. Four of the first five presidents of Tsinghua studied at Yale.

Everyone who visits Tsinghua is impressed by the rapid pace of investment in new facilities and the growing strength of the faculty. Tsinghua’s contributions in science, engineering, environment, and sustainable design are known around the world, and its entrepreneurial efforts in educating leaders in business and public policy are much admired. Tsinghua is consistently recognized with the most State Science and Technology Awards of any of China’s universities. Tsinghua has been at the forefront in forging partnerships with institutions around the world.

You have longstanding and successful collaborations with MIT, Johns Hopkins, the University of Michigan, and Columbia University. Tsinghua has also been a leader in forging collaborations with industry. You have joint research centers with more than 30 companies, including Toyota, United Technologies, and Boeing.

Yale is fortunate to be Tsinghua’s partner in some of these important collaborations. The

Yale-Tsinghua Program in International Healthcare Management, established in 2009 as part of Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Women initiative, is providing advanced training to 500 women from rural China. And a Yale-Tsinghua collaboration with the China Association of Mayors is helping municipal leaders meet the challenges of sustainable development in the 21st Century. Universities around the world salute Tsinghua for its commitment to send its students overseas and to host students from abroad. Over 3,200 Tsinghua students go abroad annually, and each year Tsinghua hosts more than 800 visiting students, in addition to the nearly 2000 who are pursuing their degrees. In this way, Tsinghua is contributing importantly to improving the understanding of China by future leaders around the world and to improving the understanding of the world by