Tsinghua University was founded in 1911. Under embellishing and edification of five-thousand-year Chinese culture, with progress and development of civilization of human beings in the 20th century as well as unremitting effort of more than 90 years, Tsinghua School has developed into a comprehensive university integrating advantageous engineering courses and science, economic management, liberal arts and art courses, etc. It is famous as a cradle for cultivating high-level excellent talents, important science, technology and research center and incubation base of scientific and technology results. It has good reputation at home and abroad.
Tsinghua University has glorious revolutionary tradition, deep-seated culture details and excellent education environment. The university motto of "Self-discipline and social commitment", style of study of "precision, diligence, being practical, and innovation" and requirements of "ability and moral integrity and all-rounded development" are power of Tsinghua students to cultivate their mortality and study energetically. Generations of outstanding students learn knowledge and edify sentiment in the university and grow into social elites and pillars. Many Tsinghua people are honored to be academicians of Chinese Academy of Science and academicians of Chinese Academy of Engineering. While cultivating excellent talents, the university, by taking advantages of combination of engineering and science and integration of multiple disciplines, has achieved plentiful and substantial results in the fundamental research and application research and successfully applied the results to the social development and national defense construction, making outstanding contribution to the modernization construction of the homeland.
Tsinghua University gathers lots of Chinese and foreign famous experts and scholars at present, including 31 academicians of Chinese Academy of Science and 24 academicians of Chinese Academy of Engineering. The university has set up 12 schools, 48 faculties, 40 research institutes, 35 research centers and 167 laboratories, 15 of which is national-level laboratories (1/10 of the national total). The university has been placing priority to external exchange and cooperation, especially since the opening up and reform of China. Setting foot in China, facing with the world and running school in an opened way, Tsinghua University has built stable and permanent university-level cooperation and exchange relationship with more than 100 world famous universities such as Harvard, MIT, Oxford, and Cambridge, etc. Tsinghua University has closely cooperated with international famous enterprises including IBM, GM, P&G, Hitachi and Siemens and has built more than 40 united scientific and research and training organizations. Meanwhile, overseas and domestic enterprises, groups and friendly persons make donations with generosity to Tsinghua University. With the donations, Tsinghua University has built lots of modernized teaching, scientific research and cultural activity halls and buildings including Liang-Qiu-Ju building (Architecture Hall), Weilun Building (Hall of School of Economic Management), Mong Man Wai Building (Student Culture Activity Center), Yifu Library Building (Phase III Project of University Library), Mingli Building (Hall of School of Law), Yuyuan Building (the sixth teaching building), Tsinghua-Foxconn Nanometer Scientific Research Center and IT Building, etc. and set up various scholarships, grants, fellowships, and research funds. Benefiting from extensive domestic and foreign exchange and cooperation and care and support of social circles, Tsinghua University gradually creates open-schooling environment. Conditions for running a school is continuously improved and teachers and management team keep pace with development of world science and technology and higher education, resulting in widened sight, improvement in teaching and learning and shortening the gap with the international level.
Facing with the 21st century, objective of Tsinghua University is to develop into a world first-class university by the 100th university celebration in 2011. Under the schooling mode of combination, research and openness, the university will keep playing its advantages of engineering courses and accelerate development of science courses, economy, management, liberal arts and art courses and strive to make breakthrough in the field of life sciences and medicine. The university tries to approach and reach the level of the world first-class universities in terms of talent cultivation quality, development of teacher team, scientific results, academic level and schooling conditions, etc.
Despite of basic conditions for development in the new century, Tsinghua University is still insufficient in the schooling strength. We will actively raise funds and centralize necessary human resources, materials resources and financial resources to realize objectives outlined in the First-class University Plan, depending on efforts of all the students and teachers in the university and concern and support of all the social circles.
Tsinghua University, creating more than 90 years of resplendence, benefits from painstaking efforts of generations of Tsinghua People and far-sighted personages of all the circles. Marching towards the new century, all the teachers, students and staff of Tsinghua University will shoulder the historic mission to make greater contribution to building Tsinghua University into a world first-class university and to great rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation!