On January 15, the 2025 Year-end Meeting of ZJUI was held. Prof. Wu Yingcai, Executive Vice Dean of International Campus, Zhejiang University, and Dean of ZJUI, Prof. Jin Jianming, Executive Dean of ZJUI, Prof. Wang Hongwei, Vice Dean of the International Campus, Zhejiang University, and Prof. Ong Wee-Liat, Vice Dean of ZJUI, attended the meeting. More than 100 faculty members and staff gathered together to review the progress of 2025 and look forward to the future. The 2025 Year-end Meeting was chaired by Prof. Ong Wee-Liat.
At the meeting, Prof. Wu Yingcai extended highly commended all faculty and staff for their dedicated efforts and outstanding contributions throughout 2025. He pointed out that 2025 was a year intertwined with both opportunities and challenges. Amid complex circumstances and multiple uncertainties, the Institute rose to challenges and forged ahead with fortitude, maintained strategic resolve and developmental resilience, and ultimately achieved steady progress in all undertakings, securing a series of groundbreaking outcomes. Looking back on the whole year’s development, the Institute scored remarkable achievements across the board in such areas as educational reform, international exchanges and collaboration, and research innovation breakthroughs. Meanwhile, we successfully completed the 15th Five-Year Plan, drawing a grand blueprint for the Institute’s long-term development. Looking ahead to 2026, the Institute will focus its efforts on core tasks, prioritizing key initiatives including strengthening the cultivation of top-notch innovative students, expanding diversified international collaboration networks, fostering faculty recruitment and development, and promoting the development of student employment support, comprehensively enhancing the Institute’s core competitiveness in collaborative education and its international influence. In closing, he called on all colleagues to forge ahead hand in hand, embrace the new journey of 2026 in high spirits and full of enterprise, and jointly write a new chapter in the high-quality development of the Institute.
At the meeting, Prof. Wu Yingcai presented a trophy to Prof. Wang Hongwei, honoring his diligent efforts and outstanding contributions to the development of the Institute over the past several years in his role as ZJUI Vice Dean.
Additionally, the Institute specially established the Long Service Award this year to recognize faculty and staff for their dedication, commitment and selfless contributions to the Institute's development through long-term perseverance in their positions. During the ceremony, Prof. Jin Jianming presented the award to Lu Qiang, Chen Ying and Zhang Xisha, acknowledging their sustained efforts and significant contributions to the Institute’ development and advancement.
The 2025 Year-end Meeting commended advanced teams and individuals who have received honors at the university, campus, and institute levels. ZJUI leaders awarded the prizes to and took group photos with the commended individuals.
During the meeting, the attendees engaged in discussions and vibrant idea exchanges regarding education and the development of the Institute. This interaction fostered a lively and exceptional atmosphere.
The 2025 Year-End Meeting systematically reviewed ZJUI's 2025 progress and outcomes, and key perspective for 2026. Looking ahead, ZJUI will seize this pivotal opportunity to foster more interdisciplinary innovative leaders with pioneering spirit and exceptional professional expertise, and steadily progress toward building a world-class outstanding engineering education provider.
