59-year-old new president of China Institute of Engineering： He has been in charge of colleges and universities for a long time to marry Wu Da students.

　　CCTV News:On June 1st, the 14th Academician Conference of China Academy of Engineering closed in Beijing. The conference announced the list of the new leadership of China Academy of Engineering. Academician Li Xiaohong, 59, was elected as the new president after the election of the Academician Conference.

　　Li Xiaohong, Dean of China Academy of Engineering (data map)

　　As the fifth president of China Academy of Engineering after Zhu Guangya, Song Jian, Xu Kuangdi and Zhou Ji,Li Xiaohong, who is under 60, has also become the youngest dean of China Academy of Engineering.

　　At the closing ceremony of the Academician Conference, Li Xiaohong said that he felt a great responsibility. He had to do his utmost to be a grounded, service-oriented and qualified president of China Academy of Engineering with the spirit of "I don’t have to succeed" and the responsibility of "I must succeed".

　　According to media reports, Li Xiaohong has been committed to the research on water jet technology and its application in coal mine safety engineering for a long time, and has made many important research achievements in coalbed methane mining and gas disaster prevention in complex coal mines.

　　As the chief scientist of the "973 Project", Li Xiaohong is now working on the research of enhancing shale gas exploitation with supercritical carbon dioxide.

　　It is not difficult to find out from Li Xiaohong’s resume that Li Xiaohong worked in colleges and universities for a long time and served as president twice: in February 2003, Li Xiaohong served as president of Chongqing University; In December 2010, Li Xiaohong served as President of Wuhan University, and until November 2016, he served as Vice Minister of Education.

　　Among them, during Li Xiaohong’s six years as principal,The world ranking of Wuhan University has risen by nearly 100 places, and the school has entered one of the best development periods in history.

　　When Li Xiaohong was the president of Wuhan University, he said: "We should promote the construction of world-class universities and first-class disciplines, build universities with outstanding spirit and build the most beautiful universities in China."

　　In order to achieve this goal, Wuhan University vigorously promoted the introduction of talents. In the first year of Li Xiaohong’s appointment as president, Wuhan University introduced 68 high-level talents; In December 2011, China Academy of Engineering and China Academy of Sciences successively announced the list of co-opted academicians in that year, and Wu Da added five academicians.

　　Not only that, Wuhan University has successively produced a number of "national name" platforms, such as the State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, the national high-end think tank of international law, and the national key Marxist Institute.

　　According to Changjiang Daily, when Li Xiaohong was interviewed by Sons of China magazine in 2013, Wu Da ranked around 400 universities in the world. Li Xiaohong said at that time that he hoped to be in the top 300 in 2015, and then in the top 200 in 2020, so as to be firmly in the first phalanx of China University.

　　In 2015, Wuhan University also entered the top 400 of the three world university rankings (USNews ranked 301st, QS ranked 335th, Times Higher Education ranked 352nd), ranking among the "G9 Group" of China University in the world.　

　　In 2016, Wuhan University ranked among the top 50 Asian universities in QS.

　　In addition to attaching importance to talent introduction and discipline construction,Li Xiaohong is also the male god "Brother Xiaohong" in the eyes of Wu Da students.

　　On the first day of school in September 2013, Li Xiaohong inspected the classroom (Source: official WeChat of Wuhan University)

　　The official WeChat of Wuhan University has published the original article "Principal’s Seal | Luo Xiao Lai Different Red". According to the article, since January 1, 2011, Xiao Hongge has often posted in the school forum to discuss the credit system tuition fees, how to hold graduation ceremonies and hold distinctive school celebrations with his classmates; Xiao Hongge sang songs with his classmates many times at school celebrations and New Year’s Eve parties. Please also invite the dragon boat team that lost the race to have a meal to cheer everyone up: "We will definitely win back next year!" ; On October 15th, 2016, the first collective wedding of Wuhan University alumni was held, and 123 pairs of Wuhan University alumni returned to their alma mater. Li Xiaohong married 123 couples, and the school also issued commemorative marriage certificates for the new couples.

　　In June 2016, Li Xiaohong took a group photo with the graduates (Source: official WeChat of Wuhan University)

　　At the opening ceremony and graduation ceremony, Brother Xiaohong was also witty. At the opening ceremony of the freshmen of Wuhan University in 2016, Li Xiaohong said to his classmates, "Students, I thought,Being CEO, marrying Bai Fumei, marrying Gao Fushuai and being a winner in life should never be the ultimate goal of life.I hope that you will learn to refuse ‘ Exquisite egoism ’ And ‘ Indifferent egoism ’ To become a person with lofty aspirations and noble conduct, as required by the talent training goal of Wuhan University, the students trained by Wuhan University "should strive to become national backbones and leaders with firm national spirit, broad international vision, strong sense of social responsibility and mission, sound personality, generous knowledge and comprehensive ability, and can lead the future social progress and civilized development! "(Text/Chen Xin)