President Ding Present at Pujiang Forum and Delivered a Speech

From June 5th to 6th, “2021 Pujiang Innovation Forum—National Universities Scientific Innovation and Achievements Transfer” was held at Shanghai. Hosted by the Ministry of Science and Technology and Shanghai Municipal Government, the forum won supports from the Ministry of Education, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality, Organizing Committee for Pujiang Innovation Forum.
With a theme titled “take on the mission of sci-tech self-reliance and self-strengthening, push ahead the innovation in sci-tech institution and system”, circling around the important speech spirits of General Secretary XI Jinping at the general assemblies of the members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences （CAS） and the Chinese Academy of Engineering （CAE）, and the National Congress of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST). Heads of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Natural Science Fundation of China and other universities carried out deep talks about addressing challenges in changes, strengthening responsibilities, serving national innovative development, to achieve the goal of high-level sci-tech self-reliance and self-strengthening.
President Ding attended the forum and addressed a keynote speech. He pointed out that with the aim to build a first-class university of science and technology with distinctive features, guided by the running-school philosophy of cultivating outstanding engineering-driven talents, focusing on the industrial demands in integrated circuit, biomedicine and artificial intelligence, USST builds cross-disciplinary innovation center, promotes core technologies tackling, and establishes medical-engineering center, and artificial intelligence and intelligent manufacture innovation center.

Ding pointed out that oriented by demands, the discipline of medical-engineering plays an irreplaceable role in domestication of high-end medical equipment, establishes interdisciplinary innovation institution and pattern, construct industrial technological innovation closed ring, explores pluralistic evaluation system. In recent years, USST has kept improving medical-engineering interdisciplinary innovation system, built many medical-engineering interdisciplinary platforms, totally initiated 159 projects jointly finished by doctors and professors. More than 200 projects were approved.
Set up in 2008, Pujiang Innovation Forum is a high-level and high-grade international forum jointly hosted by the Ministry of Science and Technology and Shanghai Municipal Government, which exerts great influence at home and abroad.