Fifth, establish a benchmark for high-quality urban development. Nansha should strengthen urban planning and construction, vigorously develop smart transportation, smart energy, smart municipal affairs and smart communities,
and build a smart city. Based on the spatial advantages of 803 square kilometers, Nansha should join hands with Hong Kong and Macao to build a quality living circle that is suitable for living,
business and tourism, and provide a high-quality development benchmark for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to build an international first-class bay area and a world-class urban cluster.Shi Yigong: The energy and fuel of science come from imagination
"What's the point of reading?" This question is frequently asked at Westlake University, and everyone gives their own answer.
On July 16, the 2022 "West Lake Spring Reading Party" and the second Westlake University Library Endowment Fund Activity Day were held at the Yungu Campus of Westlake University.
In his speech at the event, Shi Yigong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and president of Westlake University, answered the question "What is the meaning of reading?" this way - "Regardless of all utilitarian purposes,
reading is a kind of spiritual enjoyment, which can give human imagination wings." It is a pleasure to have your own paradise in the book through reading, and to form various strange or wonderful pictures in your mind. Because of this,
reading has become the only way for humans to lead to science. The energy and fuel of science comes from imagination, and if human beings had not imagined nature, science would not have been born. As Einstein said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge, knowledge is limited, and imagination can go around the world."
Shi Yigong said that in the course of human civilization, many seemingly unconventional "fantasies" have provided fresh propositions and infinite space for scientific exploration. More than 150 years ago,
French science fiction writer Jules Verne wrote in his work "From the Earth to the Moon", describing the story of three explorers who rode a cannonball to the moon, and 104 years after the publication of the work, mankind finally realized the dream of landing on the moon for the first time.
In another work, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, he depicted the scene of the submarine "Nautilus" crisscrossing the sea floor. "Imagination helps people open a door to the unknown, and today, these fantasy scenes have come true, and human exploration of the deep sea and deep space is constantly challenging to a higher limit."
It can be said that imagination is the source of social progress, and it is with extraordinary imagination that human beings have extraordinary innovations, and human beings have today and future."
"As a beacon of human civilization, what universities need to do is to constantly expand the boundaries of understanding nature and open up new cognitive frontiers. In this process, it is particularly important to protect the most primitive and precious imagination of human beings." Shi Yigong said.
It is reported that the West Lake University Library is under construction at the Yungu campus, and it will be a truly open and compatible place for learning and exchange in the future.
As a research-oriented university, timely access to academic information and maintaining a cutting-edge research perspective are crucial to scientific research work. In order to provide first-class library information resources for teachers and students of Westlake University,
Westlake Education Foundation launched the Westlake University Library Endowment Fund last year, setting up 50 donation seats, and planning to raise 150 million yuan to support the construction of electronic journal database, which has been supported by 28 Westlake family members.
At the event ceremony, Liu Minhao, Secretary general of the West Lake Education Foundation, introduced the use of the West Lake University Library Endowment Fund in 2021. In 2021,Westlake University purchased 33 full-text databases and 6 secondary literature databases, 37 of which are foreign language databases, covering the whole subject field of life science, science and engineering of the university.
"If the scientific research achievements of Westlake University today and the top-notch talents we have cultivated deserve a little applause, that applause also belongs to everyone who supports the library endowment fund," Liu said.
At the event, Shi Yigong and Liu Minhao jointly issued an exclusive donation certificate for the donors of the library endowment fund.
As the organizer of Westlake University and the main body of fundraising, the Westlake University Library Endowment Fund set up by Westlake Education Foundation will be open for a long time.
In the future Westlake University Library, there will be a permanent memorial wall to the donors of the Westlake University Library Fund to remember their dedication and expectations for the university.
