To arouse the enthusiasm for the innovation of the students, enhance students‘ sense of social responsibility, October 19, ZJUI specially invited Mr. PAN Jianqing, chairman of TDG group, to conduct the theme lecture concerning enterprise's innovation and the responsibility in the class of Engineering Orientation. More than two hundred students attended and listened to Mr. Pan’ experience and comprehension.
Based on his own entrepreneurial experience and the establishment and development of TDG, Mr. Pan talked about the significance of innovation and technology when China is experiencing profound shifts unseen in a century, and encouraged students to seize the opportunity to make a difference in new era.
Mr. Pan described his experience of starting his own business from scratch. In the early stage of his business, the conditions were difficult and he was poor. Following his father, his original aspiration was to solve the problem of food and clothing. After 30 years of development, TDG has become a leader in many fields. He stressed that the ability to endure hardship and determination are the key factors in establishing a business. He also encouraged students to cultivate the quality of being unafraid of difficulties and challenges, which is needed in any time.
With the importance of innovation gene to technology and enterprise development underlined, Mr. Pan pointed out that TDG always adhered to technological innovation, attached great significance to technological development and kept pace with the time since its establishment. TDG is the National Enterprise Technology Center, provincial key laboratory of New Information Materials Technology research, and Zhejiang provincial research center of New Magneto-electric and Photoelectric Information Materials. In 2001, it became the first listed company controlled by natural person in China. In the past 23 years, it has been continuously awarded top 100 electronic component enterprises and top 50 electronic material enterprises. What’s more, TDG group established Tiantong Research Institute to cultivate innovation team and expert team, insisted on innovation in the expansion of industrial fields, and finally formed today's brilliant achievements. “Today's environment is more suitable for starting a business than in the 1990s. The era gives us chances and development opportunities, and anyone can make a difference somewhere in the era's big stage.” Mr. Pan said. In his opinion, this is an age of speed when we should compete with speed, and the factor forming speed is technological innovation, which determines whether enterprises will survive for a long time. At the same time, he advised students to be grateful for this era and this powerful country.
Mr. Pan concluded that the development of enterprises needs technological innovation, technological innovation needs experts, and the cultivation of experts needs education, which is the essence of a university. His lecture, full of experience and passion, deepened students' understanding of the significance of learning engineering knowledge, stimulated students' enthusiasm for innovation and business, and triggered students' thinking about future career development.
In ZJUI, Engineering Orientation is a course specially designed for freshmen. Senior scholars and industry elites from home and abroad bring wonderful seminars in the field of engineering to students and lead them to conduct interdisciplinary team design projects. Before, many experts and scholars, such as Chen Liming, chairman of IBM Greater China, Prof. Luke P. Lee, vice president of The National University of Singapore, Dr. Tan Don, IEEE fellow and former chairman of IEEE Power Electronics Branch, have all brought rich and thought-provoking lectures to ZJUI students. By these fantastic seminars, Engineering Orientation broadens students' horizon, inspires their thinking, cultivates their interdisciplinary thinking and ability, and enables them to understand and master the future requirements of engineering discipline.
