As the most significant place on the ancient Silk Road, Dunhuang became a place for the convergence, collision, and integration of ancient Chinese and other cultures. Dunhuang grottoes, especially the Mogao Grottoes, are of significant scale and well-preserved, with a long history, rich content, and fine art, endowing them with precious historical, artistic, and scientific value.To provide stud...

On September 9-10, Beijing time, the fourth China-UK Higher Education Alliance Young Talent (HEYTA) Conference hosted by the University of Exeter and co-organized by Tsinghua University was held online. Scholars and students from the University of Exeter, Tsinghua University, Wuhan University, Fudan University, and many other universities in China participated in the event. Three students from ...

In July 2022, China’s first synthetic biology innovation competition was successfully held. The WHU-mNucleoside team from the School of Pharmacy at Wuhan University won the only and highest Grand Prize in this competition, as well as the Gold Award of the Innovation Competition, the Best Team Award, and the Best Response Award. WHU-mNucleoside won the Gold Award of the Innovation CompetitionTh...

On July 28th, the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Germany and China, the European Study Centre of Wuhan University (WUESC), the Climate Change, Energy Economics Study Center of Wuhan University (CCEE) and the Institute for East Asian Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen co-organized the 5+5 high-level dialogue on Sino-German cooperation in the contex...

Recently, the Wuhan Cultural and Creative Manhole Cover System (WCCMCS) for Wuhan Water Group was selected as a featured case in UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network. This system was designed by Professor Deng Jun’s team from the School of Urban Design (SUD) , Wuhan University (WHU). Huangxi Xieli, Liu Weisen, Long Qianqian, and Xu Yuan, four junior students of SUD, are the main designers in the ...

On July 12, Prof. Shahbaz Khan, Director of the UNESCO Beijing Office, visited Wuhan University to attend the unveiling ceremony of the ‘UNESCO Chair on Asia-Pacific Water-Food-Environment Nexus’ and the signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding with UNESCO. Han Jin, Secretary of the University CPC Committee, and Prof. Tang Qizhu, Vice President of WHU, met with Director Shahbaz Kha...

‘LuoJiaNET’, the world’s first dedicated deep learning framework for remote sensing image intelligent interpretation, and ‘LuoJiaSET’, the industry’s largest remote sensing image sample library, have been launched by Huawei Shengsi Community. Both were jointly created by WHU and the Huawei team. LuoJia “Gemini” is geared to serve as an open source to users all around the world, acceptin...

​On July 11, WHU and Durham University held a virtual signing ceremony to renew their inter-university cooperation agreement, undergraduate exchange agreement and doctoral student exchange agreement, with a view to continuing comprehensive and substantive cooperation. WHU’s President Dou Xiankang and Vice President Tang Qizhu and Durham University’s Vice-Chancellor Karen O’Brien attended th...

Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) recently published the list of newly elected academicians of 2022 on its official website. Professor Yao Liangzhong from Wuhan University’s School of Electrical Engineering and Automation is included as an elected academician.Among the newly elected academicians of 2022, Professor Yao is the only Chinese scholar in the field of physics and engineering ...