習近平給中國科學院院士、清華大學教授姚期智回信

習近平給中國科學院院士、清華大學教授姚期智回信強調

堅守初心使命發揮自身優勢

為建設教育強國科技強國作出新的貢獻

近日，中共中央總書記、國家主席、中央軍委主席習近平給中國科學院院士、清華大學教授姚期智回信，向他致以誠摯問候並提出殷切希望。

習近平在回信中説，你回國任教二十年來，將愛國之情化為報國之行，在清華大學潛心耕耘、默默奉獻，教書育人、科研創新都取得了豐碩成果，向你表示誠摯問候。

習近平強調，希望你堅守初心使命，發揮自身優勢，帶領大家繼續探索創新人才自主培養模式，推動學科交叉與前沿創新，打造高水準的人才培養和科技創新基地，為實現高水準科技自立自強、建設教育強國科技強國作出新的貢獻。

姚期智曾長期在美國高校任教，2004年全職回國任教于清華大學，現為清華大學人工智慧學院院長、交叉資訊研究院院長。近日，姚期智給習近平總書記寫信，彙報回國任教20年來培養人才、科研創新等情況，表達科技報國、為實現中華民族偉大復興貢獻力量的決心。

Xi replies to Tsinghua professor, urging more contributions to education, science

Chinese President Xi Jinping has encouraged Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, a professor of Tsinghua University, to further contribute to the nation's talent development and sci-tech innovation.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks in a reply letter recently sent to Yao, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences who returned to China and commenced his teaching career at Tsinghua 20 years ago.

In the reply letter, Xi conveyed greetings to Yao, acknowledging his unwavering dedication and remarkable achievements in the realms of teaching and scientific innovation over the past two decades, during which Yao channeled his love for the nation into a commitment to serve it.

Xi expressed the hope that Yao could adhere to his original aspiration and leverage his strengths to further explore approaches to the cultivation of innovative talent, and foster interdisciplinary integration and frontier innovation, in order to make more contributions to achieving high-level self-reliance and strength in science and technology and the building of a strong nation in both education and science and technology.

Yao, who taught at U.S. universities for a long time, returned to China in 2004 to join the faculty at Tsinghua. In a recent letter addressed to Xi, he detailed his work in talent cultivation and scientific innovation during his two-decade tenure, and expressed his determination to contribute to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Yao, 78, is dean of College of AI and also dean of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences under Tsinghua University.