Therefore, in recent years, the state has paid more and more attention to university education and talent training, and the requirements are getting higher and higher. So for countless students, if they want to enter an excellent university, they must study day and night. Only in this way can I achieve my goal and start a new starting point in my life, and my future life may be brighter.
For these hard-working students, Tsinghua and Peking University are undoubtedly the institutions that everyone dreams of. Even though we know that we may miss such a school in the end, it still doesn't prevent us from expecting it.
Because if you can study in such a university, it means that you can learn the essence of countless people's research, exploration and summary in such a school. Only a university that has gone through a hundred years of precipitation like this will have this unique charm and ability.
I think every student who has experienced the college entrance examination, or anyone who has studied in a university, will know that the formation of a prestigious school has experienced many years of precipitation and breakthrough. Countless people use their own efforts and talents to run such a school better and better, discard its dross and take its essence, and then become a prestigious school at home and abroad.
However, in recent years, a university has threatened to surpass Tsinghua within five years. He is Shi, the former vice president of Tsinghua University who spent 20 billion yuan to build West Lake University. Now that five years have passed, has Shi realized the brave words he once said?
The original intention of building West Lake University
Shi, the founder of West Lake University, was the vice-president of Tsinghua University. Before returning to work in Tsinghua, Shi was the youngest tenured professor in the history of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University in the United States, and was known as the "academic star" in the international biology field.
Even though he had such an honor at that time, he finally chose to return to China to build an education career in China. Because of Shi's outstanding achievements, he went directly to Tsinghua University to lead the research team in Tsinghua University.
He was very capable and later served as assistant to the principal and vice principal. But for Shi, just leading a research team in Tsinghua University is not his ultimate goal of returning to China. His ultimate goal is to strengthen the education construction in China and establish a research school similar to California Institute of Technology. In this way, he applied to the state to establish West Lake University.
Regarding the idea of West Lake University, the teacher has always planned to establish a research university, which will be of great help to the country's construction.
Therefore, at the beginning of the university, in order to meet such conditions, only doctoral students can be recruited for the first time. Because undergraduates are basically learning the knowledge in textbooks during their college years, they don't have the research ability, so West Lake University doesn't plan to recruit undergraduates in the past few years.
As for the teaching staff, because West Lake University only recruits doctoral students at this stage, it needs teachers to have certain achievements in the professional field, otherwise there is no way to lead these doctoral students to conduct independent research. Similarly, because West Lake University only recruits doctoral students at this stage, it also attracts talents from all over the country to apply.
Because doctoral students will certainly play a role in promoting research for teachers in these professional fields, both in learning and research ability. Because only the collision between the strong, there will be dazzling sparks.
There is no doubt that history will build West Lake University into a research-oriented high-level university like California Institute of Technology, no matter from the enrollment goal of West Lake University or the requirements for teachers. Judging from these circumstances, it seems that it is not necessarily a pipe dream to surpass Tsinghua in five years.
The first five-year plan is coming to an end. Is it possible to catch up with Tsinghua?
Because of the positioning and future planning of West Lake University from the very beginning, after a period of time, West Lake University will definitely become a leader among many universities in China.
So at the beginning, as soon as the project started, it attracted many investors, even those entrepreneurs we are familiar with, and attached great importance to West Lake University. So in the end, more than 20 billion yuan was raised to build West Lake University.
Judging from the amount of investment, hardware and equipment, faculty and enrollment targets, West Lake University should be extremely strong in any aspect. So for Shi, the first five-year plan is coming to an end. Does the current West Lake University meet the expectations at that time?
At present, at the end of the first five-year plan, West Lake University has not surpassed Tsinghua University, at least not yet. Although Shi used to be the vice president of Tsinghua, he knew all about Tsinghua's teaching, advantages and disadvantages. After all, Tsinghua has experienced a hundred years of accumulation, and it is not a simple transcendence that can really be surpassed.
In fact, even as ordinary people, we all know that no matter what kind of schools, they will have their own excellent and sought-after majors, including Tsinghua. But the teacher's expectation for West Lake University is to make all majors the strongest.
So in such a short time, there is actually no way to do it. Because even Caltech has achieved today's achievements after years of accumulation and precipitation.
It is normal to say that West Lake University has surpassed Tsinghua University in a certain field, but it will take time to fully surpass it.
West Lake University has accumulated a lot, and the future can be expected.
Although the current West Lake University has not surpassed Tsinghua in five years, as history has said, we have reason to believe that in the future, West Lake University will gradually grow, accumulate experience and crush those rumors with its own strength.
Although the five-year contract of West Lake University has not been completed, its strength and ability are really there. We believe that West Lake University will eventually accumulate wealth and give everyone a future worth looking forward to, just as Shi imagined.
In fact, even if the current West Lake University does not seem to have achieved the goal it once envisioned, we have seen the future of the motherland and the future of education from this incident. The country and people are paying more and more attention to education.
Seeing the construction and rise of West Lake University, we have reason to believe that one day in the future, we don't need to envy foreign famous schools and scientific research resources. One day, we can finally learn the best scientific research resources in the world without going abroad.