"Universities create knowledge, share knowledge, cultivate knowledge, and then share this knowledge with society. Universities play an important role, especially in researching, teaching and training future leaders, which makes society more resilient and able to cope with more challenges. " Su Bide, President of Yale University, said at the China Development Forum 20 18 Economic Summit "Knowledge Capital and * * * Enjoy Development" on March 24th.

Taking environmental challenges and public health issues as examples, Su Bide said that universities can establish partnerships with various stakeholders and cross the boundaries of politics, economy and disciplines. Environmental policy needs a lot of data and is more efficient. For example, the environmental performance index involves 180 countries, and there are 24 indicators in environmental health. This is a very important means to change environmental policy and make environmental policy more data-driven and this is also a goal of Yale University. Yale University has such resources and hopes to use them to make society more flexible and rich. The goal of a university can also be a laboratory, where you can experiment with new ideas and show others the future of innovation and sustainable development. Universities have the responsibility to regard sustainable development as the core of education and research.

Su Bide believes that global public health is another major challenge and universities can play an important role. "We have established public health cooperation projects with some African countries, carried out some interdisciplinary research and promoted some global alliances to solve public health problems. In addition, we have established medical research institutions in Ghana and cooperated with local medical research institutions. Moreover, the young medical staff in the cooperative project go to Yale University to study, and the medical students of the two schools can communicate with each other. "