Xi: Build world-class universities

Noting that a country's higher education system requires strong support from first-class universities, Xi urged Tsinghua to take historic opportunities in the new development stage, implement the new development philosophy and serve the building of the new development paradigm.

Efforts should be made to synergize the development of science and technology, cultivate talented people and strengthen innovation in order to better serve the country's reform and opening-up as well as socialist modernization, he said.

Xi stressed that the key to building a first-class university lies in constantly improving the quality of talented people in order to meet the pressing need for national development.

He called for strengthening the cultivation of professionals in basic sciences, targeting cutting-edge technologies and key research fields, stepping up the development of urgently needed talented people, and continuing to raise creative and innovative capabilities.