Eight projects developed by ECNU professor teams received awards from the Shanghai city government last month for being of great value in decision-making consultation.
The awarding ceremony is held
It was the best performance in the university's history, with both the award winners number and first-prize winner’s numbers ranked second among all universities in Shanghai. Of the eight, two won first prizes, four second prizes and two third prizes.
The top winners are “A Strategic Research on Building Shanghai into A Global Science & Technology Innovation Center”, which was completed by a team led by Prof. Du Debin with the Faculty of Earth Sciences of ECNU. “A Survey About the Development of Returned Overseas Science and Technology Talent in Shanghai”, presided over by Prof. Wu Ruijun with the School of Social Development.
Starting with the fact that the world economy is becoming increasingly dependent on scientific advancement, the research report clarified the advantages the city possesses and bottlenecks its face in its drive to build the city into a global science innovation hub, and proposed new thoughts, development paths and measures to achieve their goal. All the advices from the projects were feasible and policy-supporting.
The survey, which was worked out of massive empirical studies and statistic analysis, narrated general trend and characteristics of the growth of returned overseas talent in Shanghai, cited their contributions to Shanghai's economic development, listed problems confronting them in their daily life and work, and advised the government to improve the environment for returning overseas scientific talent to startup new businesses.
The other award-winning projects were accomplished by Prof. Lin Tuo and Mao Zhichang with the Faculty of Earth Sciences; Prof. Gao Xiangdong and Bao Qifan, and Associate Prof. Cao Yanchun with the Faculty of Economics and Management; and Prof. Yu Nanping with the School of Advanced International and Area Studies.
The top winners, Prof. Du and Wu, were called to the stage to receive the prizes from Shanghai Mayor Yang Xiong at a city government meeting on March 29, which was attended by other city leaders including Executive Vice Mayor Tu Guangshao and Xiao Guiyu, Secretary-general of the Shanghai government.
A total of 86 projects won the decision-making consultation award at the meeting, among which 19 were granted first prizes, 44 second prizes and 23 third prizes.
The Shanghai government established the award to encourage brainstorming for the development of the city.
