"Although I can't come to this historic moment, I feel incredibly happy and excited." Lee Jung-do, who had just celebrated his 95th birthday in late November, wrote again. He said that he was very touched by the fact that the infrastructure work of the Lee Jung-dao Research Institute had progressed in an orderly manner despite the epidemic.
A giant 6-storey glass sphere connecting two parallel buildings to the north and south. On the 3rd, on Shengrong Road in the area of Jinke Road in Zhangjiang, the experimental building of the Li Zhengdao Research Institute was officially opened.
Mr. Li Zhengdao's eldest son Li Zhongqing and eldest grandson Li Shanshi read his handwritten congratulatory letters and delivered speeches on behalf of Li Zhengdao. Li Zhengdao said in the letter that for a long time, the construction of the institute has been highly valued by party and state leaders, and the strong support and full investment of the national ministries and commissions, Shanghai Municipality and Shanghai Jiaotong University and other parties. He believes that with the joint efforts of all parties, the Lee ZhengDao Research Institute will be able to attract more world-class talents and produce major scientific results.
The Jiefang Daily Shangguan News reporter learned that as early as the end of 2014, Li Zhengdao proposed to the party and state leaders to establish an international scientific research institute at Shanghai Jiaotong University, benchmarking the Bohr Institute established in the 1920s and engaging in cutting-edge scientific research in physics and astronomy. With the approval of party and state leaders, 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 5 years of construction and development, at present, 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.
With the delivery of the Lee Institute, all the staff of the Lee Jeong-do Research Institute moved into the new building. The Li Institute Experimental Building, located in Zhangjiang Science City, also welcomed a new director- Academician Zhang Jie. As a famous physicist, Zhang Jie worked under the words and deeds of Mr. Li Zhengdao during his tenure as the 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 Li Zhengdao. At the same time, the school invited Frank Wilczek, 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 organization.
Zhang Jie believes that the original intention of the Establishment 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." He said that the Lee Zheng Dao Research Institute carries the expectations of the party and state leaders and the entrustment of Mr. Lee Zheng Dao, and he will lead the staff of the Institute to build the Lee Zheng Dao Institute into a world-class frontier basic research institution, form the "Shanghai School", play the role of the innovation engine of the new research and development institutions, and make the Lee Zheng Dao Research Institute a bright pearl of the global science and technology innovation center that the people of Shanghai are proud of.
For the completion and opening of the experimental building and the substantive operation of the Li Institute, Chinese and foreign scientists yearn for it. Professor Lee Jeong-do and Japanese scholar Akira Yanagida, who was one of the main builders of the "Covy Rikvi" Institute of Cosmic Physics and Mathematics at the University of Tokyo, has been working at the Lee Jeong-do Institute for three years and is confident in the future of the Lee Seong-do Institute. He said he would continue to do his best to contribute to the development of a younger generation of scientists.
Zhong Ruidan, a scholar and young scientist who studied and worked in the United States for nearly a decade, deeply felt that only by combining career planning with national needs could personal value be better realized. At present, she said that she is ready to open a new chapter with the Lee Jung-do Research Institute.
Academician Lin Zhongqin, president of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, said that Jiaotong University is accelerating the construction of the world's important talent centers and innovation highlands, giving play to the role of high-level research universities, creating first-class scientific and technological leaders, and creating a large-scale team of young scientific and technological talents; actively exploring the world's most cutting-edge scientific problems, accelerating China's scientific and technological self-reliance and self-reliance; and actively exploring the new scientific research institutions under the national system to operate and manage innovative models, shouldering the responsibility of the times of "world-class, Li should". Be the vanguard and forerunner of Shanghai's construction of a science and technology innovation center with global influence.
On the same day, Wu Qing, member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and executive vice mayor, Shi Erwei, executive deputy director of the Office of zhangjiang Comprehensive National Science Center, Chen Mingbo, deputy secretary general of the Shanghai Municipal Government, Xu Feng, secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Work Party Committee, Zhang Quan, director of the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission, and Peng Song, executive deputy director of the Shanghai Science and Technology Founding And Standing Committee of the Pudong New Area District Committee, attended the meeting. Wu Qing, Shi Erwei, Chen Mingbo, Yang Zhenbin, secretary of the party committee of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Lin Zhongqin, president of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Ma Dexiu, former party secretary, zhang jie and Li Shanshi, jointly lit up the experimental building of the Li Zhengdao Research Institute.
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