Beijing Women's Federation

A publicity lecture themed on "Women Following the Party, Sci-tech Development Serving the Country", which was hosted by the Beijing Women's Federation (BWF) and organized by the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), was held on September 28 in Beijing.

 

With focus on deepening the application of achievements in Party history education and giving full play to model female scientific workers, the activity also aimed to further promote the Women's Action for Scientific and Technological Innovation Beijing Actions, which was recently issued by government authorities, to encourage female students to integrate their ideals into the great cause of national development and contribute more to building an international center for sci-tech innovation.

 

Zhang Yajun, President of the BWF, Zhao Hongwei and Chen Yanping, vice-presidents of the BWF, and Bao Liying, Deputy Secretary of the BIT's Party committee, attended the event. More than 100 representatives from departments and organizations, including the Publicity Department of All-China Women's Federation (ACWF), Beijing municipal Party committee's Party History Study and Education Steering Group and Beijing Federation of Trade Unions and Capital Women Professors' Association, along with BIT teachers and students, attended the lecture.

 

Bao, first extended a warm welcome to the outstanding female scientific and technological workers in Beijing, and expressed his gratitude to the ACWF and BWF for their guidance and support for the school's development over the years. She hailed the invited speakers as role models for BIT teachers and students, and said that they are outstanding scientists who have been pioneering and persistent in their posts and always bearing the country in their mind.

 

Bao hoped that all teachers and students will learn from their patriotism, innovative spirit, dedication, team spirit and educational spirit, and become top talents and devote to national development.

 

Zhao, noted that the Women's Action for Scientific and Technological Innovation: Beijing Actions, issued by eight government authorities including BWF, has accelerated the progress of building Beijing into a powerful city of science and technology and an international sci-tech innovation center through stimulating women's strengths. She indicated that the activity is an important measure to study and implement the spirit of the important speech by General Secretary Xi Jinping at a ceremony marking the Party's centenary on July 1 and implementing the Women's Action for Scientific and Technological Innovation. It will encourage female scientific workers and students to actively participate in the Action and integrate their love of the motherland and the dedication of the country into realizing the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation, Zhao added.

 

 

Five lecturers, also female scientific and technical workers, pose for a group photo in the BIT campus. [Beijing Women's Federation]

 

Five outstanding female sci-tech talents shared their stories and talked about sticking to their original aspiration of serving the country through efforts in science and technology and shouldering their mission to help build the country into a great power of science and technology.

 

Xu Nuo, Chef Expert of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation Limited and a distinguished alumni of BIT, led a team consisting of more than 30 young scholars with doctor's degree to resolve core technical problems in the fields of space micro-power, biological micro-electro-mechanical and intelligent sensing. She expressed her hope that teachers and students can live and breathe with the motherland, rise to the challenge and create a bright future with the persistence and efforts of generations.

 

 

Xu Nuo, one of the five female leading talents in the field of science and technology, gives a lecture. [Beijing Women's Federation]

 

Wang Jing, Professor and Chief Scientist of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, led a team to research the topic of "agricultural chemical pollutant residue detection and behavior," which was committed to the food safety testing technology. She hoped BIT teachers and students would be target-oriented and never give up.

 

 

Wang Jing, Professor and Chief Scientist of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, gives a lecture at the activity. [Beijing Women's Federation]

 

Wu Tian, Vice President of Baidu and Deputy Director of the National Engineering Laboratory for Deep Learning Technology and Applications, has worked with her teammates in exploring artificial intelligence (AI) for many years and achieved a number of industry-leading results in the fields of machine learning, deep learning, data mining, natural language processing, computer vision, augmented reality and other important AI sectors. Wu encouraged young students to seize the opportunity and seize their golden days.

 

 

Wu Tian, Vice President of Baidu and Deputy Director of the National Engineering Laboratory for Deep Learning Technology and Applications, shares her story of being a sci-tech leader. [Beijing Women's Federation]

 

Zhang Haixia, Professor of the School of Integrated Circuits at the Peking University, has long been committed to promoting education on innovation and entrepreneurship and talent cultivation, and strengthening the integration of industry, study and research in such high-tech fields as the internet of things and intelligent hardware. Every year, thousands of students from several hundred universities in more than 20 countries participate in the International College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition initiated by Zhang. She said that young people should adhere to the pioneer spirit, be confident, and ignite their enthusiasm for innovation.

 

Zhang Haixia, Professor of the School of Integrated Circuits at the Peking University, speaks at the lecture. [Beijing Women's Federation]

 

Wang Shufang, Deputy Director of the Navigation Center of China Transport Telecommunications and Information Center, took active part in the transformation of China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System from innovative scientific research to practical technology, in a bid to realize the independence and civil use of China's navigation system. Highlighting the spirit of Beidou, she called upon the teachers and students to inject their youthful energy into the development of science and technology in China, not for fame and wealth and no regrets.

 

 

Wang Shufang, Deputy Director of the Navigation Center of China Transport Telecommunications and Information Center, gives a speech. [Beijing Women's Federation]

 

The five lecturers touched the hearts of every attendee with their spirit of struggle and innovation, their commitment to science, and their loyalty to the country. At the activity, students also put forward their questions: from how to choose the path of scientific research, to how to foster their interest in scientific research; from how to pay equal attention to scientific research and result transformation, to how to balance career and family. The scientists opened their minds and had a frank and sincere exchange and dialogue with them.

 

The teachers and students said that the lecture was not only a memorable ideological and political class, but also a lesson in how to serve the country with science and technology.

 

As scientific and technical workers and young students in new era, they must keep firmly in mind General Secretary Xi's important instructions, respond to the call of the Party Central Committee, and follow the example of excellent female workers in science and technology, striving to realize the great dream of Chinese people of national rejuvenation. They should integrate the pursuit of their ideals into the great cause of national development, and contribute more to the prosperity of the motherland, the rejuvenation of the nation and the happiness of the people.