If there is a place in Shanghai that allows physicists to look up at the stars and explore the endless stars and universe, it also allows scientists around the world to freely exchange scientific discoveries and inspire inspiration. That is the Lee Zheng Dao Research Institute in Zhangjiang Science City. This morning, the Lee Jung-do Research Institute was officially opened.
Wu Qing, member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and executive vice mayor, attended the launching ceremony of the construction of the experimental building of the Li Zhengdao Research Institute. The new president is Zhang Jie, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Li Zhengdao wrote a handwritten congratulatory letter yesterday.
2021 is the 95th birthday of Mr. Lee Jeong-do. Mr. Li Zhengdao is concerned about the development of science and technology and higher education in the motherland, and has played a very important role in the history of China's scientific and technological development.
At the end of 2014, Mr. Li Zhengdao proposed to the party and state leaders to establish an international scientific research institute at Shanghai Jiaotong University, benchmarking the Bohr Institute of the 1920s and engaging in the most cutting-edge scientific research in physics and astronomy.
With the strong support of relevant ministries and commissions of the state and Shanghai Municipality, the Li Zhengdao Research Institute was officially established in Shanghai Jiaotong University in November 2016. After nearly five years of construction and development, at present, the Li Zhengdao Research Institute has gathered a number of research teams led by academic masters, attracted a group of young talents with vitality in scientific and technological innovation, carried out original basic research in a number of cutting-edge fields, and the construction of experimental platforms is steadily advancing.
The new director, Zhang Jie, is a well-known physicist who worked under the words and deeds of Mr. Lee Jeong-do during his tenure as head of the Chinese delegation to the Sino-US High-Energy Physics Talks from 2003 to 2006, and was called "forgetting to make friends" by Mr. Lee Jeong-do. At the same time, the school invited Frank Wilczek, the founding director, Nobel Laureate and foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to serve as the chief scientist of the Lee Zheng Dao Research Institute, and continued to play an active role in scientific research planning, important research directions and major scientific program organizations.
In his welcome speech entitled "Mission and Future", Zhang Jie told the beginning and end of becoming a "forgetting to make friends" with Mr. Li Zhengdao and the background of the construction of the Lee Zhengdao Research Institute. He said that Mr. Li mentioned many times at that time that China should become the world's scientific and technological center in the future, there are examples in the world, the Bohr Institute made world-leading discoveries in quantum physics in the early 20th century, and hoped that China would have the Bohr Institute. "His words took root in my heart, which was both the dream of Mr. Li many years ago, but also the dream of all my colleagues and me, since 2006, Mr. Li began to pay attention to the development of Jiaotong University and began to donate his various works to Shanghai Jiaotong University. In 2014, I was commissioned to forward his handwritten letter to the Central Committee, hoping to build a scientific research institution for the Bohr Institute, to find the great and minimal connections in the universe, and to explore the secrets of the universe, as he wrote ," "The Way of Heaven, the Word of Solution". This recommendation was approved. ”
He said that the original intention of the Lee ZhengDao Research Institute is to focus on building a world-renowned source of major original innovation, a gathering place for top scientific elites yearning for the world, and a holy place for young scientists to realize their dreams.
With the reorganization of teachers and students into the experimental building of the Lee Zheng Dao Research Institute, the Lee Zheng Dao Research Institute has entered a new stage of development. "The Lee Jeong-do Research Institute carries the expectations of the party and state leaders and the entrustment of Mr. Lee Jeong-do." Zhang Jie said that he will lead the staff of the institute to build the Li Zhengdao Research Institute into the world's top frontier basic research institutions, form the "Shanghai School", play the role of the innovation engine of the new research and development institutions, and make the Li Zhengdao Research Institute a bright pearl of the global science and technology innovation center that the people of Shanghai are proud of!
Mr. Li Zhengdao's eldest son, Li Zhongqing, and his eldest grandson, Li Shanshi, read congratulatory letters and congratulatory messages on behalf of Mr. Li Zhengdao, respectively. Mr Lee Wong-do wrote that although he could not come to this historic moment, he was also extremely happy and excited. For a long time, the construction of the institute has been highly valued by the party and state leaders, and he has been very touched by the strong support and full investment of the national ministries and commissions, Shanghai Municipality and Shanghai Jiaotong University; the infrastructure construction work has been carried out in an orderly manner despite the epidemic. It is believed that with the joint efforts of all parties, the Lee Zheng Dao Research Institute will be able to attract more world-class talents and produce major scientific achievements.
Professor Lee Jeong-do, Japanese scholar Yanagida Mian and Lee Jeong-do scholar and young scientist Zhong Ruidan spoke as representatives of scholars. Under the leadership of Professor Mitsuru Yanagida, one of the main builders of the "Covari" Institute of Cosmic Physics and Mathematics (IPMU) at the University of Tokyo, IPMU has become one of the world's leading research institutes, and he has been working at the Lee Jeong-do Institute for three years and is confident in the future of the Lee Jeong-do Institute. He said he would continue to do his best to contribute to the development of a younger generation of scientists.
Zhong Ruidan, who has studied and worked in the United States for nearly a decade, deeply feels that only by combining career planning with national needs can he better realize his personal value. Now she is poised to open a new chapter with the Lee Jung-do Research Institute. She said: "There is a sentence posted on the Minhang campus of Jiaotong University, 'The motherland will eventually choose those who have chosen the motherland', and I feel very touched every time I see it. Before returning to China, I was a little worried about the academic atmosphere, but when I came back, I found that the international atmosphere was good, the atmosphere of Li Suo was very good, and there was an efficient government, so that we could engage in research without distraction, which was very good. ”
Academician Lin Zhongqin, president of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, said in his speech that Shanghai Jiao Tong University actively responded to the call of the state, always walked in the same direction as the motherland, and fully promoted the construction of the Li Zhengdao Research Institute around the construction of a comprehensive national science center. The inauguration of the experimental building of the Li Zhengdao Research Institute is standing at the historical intersection of the "two hundred years", which is an important stage in the growing economic development of the motherland and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Shanghai Jiao Tong University will bear in mind the entrustment of the party and state leaders, implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the Central Talent Conference, accelerate the construction of the world's important talent center and innovation highland, give play to the role of high-level research universities, create first-class scientific and technological leaders, and create a large-scale team of young scientific and technological talents; actively explore the world's most cutting-edge scientific issues, accelerate the promotion of China's scientific and technological self-reliance and self-reliance; actively explore the new scientific research institutions under the national system to operate and manage innovative models, shouldering the "world-class, Li should "be the responsibility of the times, and be the vanguard and forerunner of Shanghai's construction of a science and technology innovation center with global influence!"
Wu Qing, Shi Erwei, Chen Mingbo, Yang Zhenbin, Lin Zhongqin, Ma Dexiu, Zhang Jie, and Li Shanshi jointly lit up the experimental building of the Li Zhengdao Research Institute.
Author: Jiang Peng
Editor: Jiang Peng