The discipline of environmental engineering at Tsinghua University has a long history, which can be traced back to the Department of Municipal Engineering established in 1928 under the former National Tsinghua University. Under the leadership of TAO Paokai, with the unremitting effort from one generation to another, the discipline of environmental engineering at Tsinghua University has developed gradually. In 1977, the first undergraduate program of Environmental Engineering in China was established at Tsinghua University. In 1984, the Department of Environmental Engineering was approved by Tsinghua University to be an independent department, and it evolved into the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering in 1997. In 2011, it finally developed into the School of Environment.
While maintaining its domestic leading edge, SOE's international influence continues to rise. It has been continuously rated as a National Key Disciplines of Environmental engineering, and has maintained a leading level in the discipline evaluation of the Ministry of Education. For five consecutive years, SOE has ranked among the top ten in the QS World University Rankings by the Subject of Environmental Sciences. It has become an important high-level talent training base for environmental protection and a high-level scientific research center.
Over the past 90 years, we has closely integrated our vision with the national strategic goal of ecological environment protection. We have established a comprehensive and interdisciplinary discipline system including Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Management, Environmental Health, and Environmental Sustainability. Led by CAE Member Qian Yi, CAE Member Hao Jiming, CAE Member Qu Jiuhui and CAE Member He Kebin, our prominent faculty members have achieved remarkable breakthroughs and pioneering progress, forming a unique cultural ambiance, management style and academic pursuit. We have cultivated a great number of top-notch talents in the environmental sector for the world.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, stressed that the coming five years will be critical to the building of a beautiful China. He emphasized the importance of thoroughly implementing the thought on socialist ecological civilization with Chinese characteristics for a new era, adhering to the people-centered principle, upholding and acting on the idea that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, and placing the building of a beautiful China in a prominent position of building up China's strength and rejuvenating the nation. Xi added that we should make remarkable achievements in promoting the significant improvement of urban and rural living environment and building a beautiful China, support high-quality development with a high-quality ecological environment, and accelerate the advancement of modernization featuring harmony between humanity and nature.
In the future, we'll attach more importance to the leading role of talent cultivating and discipline development, prioritize the task of serving national strategies, and establish a discipline system adapting to future challenges. In addition, we'll make great efforts to cultivate talents with compound skills and innovative spirit, enhance an optimal academic ecosystem of free exploration, and promote the innovation capability featuring multi-discipline integration. Furthermore, we strive to constantly generate new knowledge, new technologies, and new methodologies with significant global influence to contribute to addressing regional and global environ-mental issues. We strive to gain momentum on the journey towards global leadership in environmental discipline excellence.
The achievements of SOE cannot be separated from the strong support of teachers and students, alumni and friends from communities in society. The future development of SOE needs your continuous concern and support. We sincerely appreciate your support, and sincerely invite outstanding scholars and students at home and abroad to join us. We look forward to cooperating with friends from communities in society in various forms to create a better future.
Passion for Our Environment, Ambition for Our Cause!
We sincerely look forward to your joining, supporting, and cooperating with us.
