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Unveiling of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Magistrate Yang: A Major Force in Promoting Hsinchu as a Smart Technology City
  • PostDate:2021-02-01
  • Modified Date:2021-05-18

Unveiling of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Magistrate Yang: A Major Force in Promoting Hsinchu as a Smart Technology City

With the approval of the Ministry of Education, National Yang Ming University and National Chiao Tung University have official merged to become the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU). The appointment of the first President of NYCU, Chi-Hung Lin, was officially announced in the morning at the Ministry of Education, and the unveiling ceremonies were held separately at the Taipei Yangming campus and the Hsinchu Guangfu campus. Today (1st), County Magistrate Yang Wen-ke attended the unveiling ceremony of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University on the Hsinchu Guangfu campus together with Hsinchu City Mayor Lin Chih-chien, the former President of National Chiao Tung University Chen Sin-Horng, alumnus and Chairman and CEO of YFY Biotech Management Company Chang Hong-Jen, the founder of Acer Microelectronic Company Stan Shih, and other political and business figures.
Hsinchu County Magistrate Yang Wen-ke said that the inauguration of the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University is not only a grand event in the history of higher education in Taiwan. It is also an integration of the science and technology information strengths of Chiao Tung University and the medical strengths of Yang Ming University. The merger will fully realize the application of artificial intelligence in medical treatment, and is a move towards an important milestone in cooperation. He hopes that Yang Ming Chiao Tung University will be successful in both research and academics, and can integrate research results with local construction and development so that the people of the greater Hsinchu area can also enjoy the outcome of the Yang Ming Chiao Tung University merger.

County Magistrate Yang emphasized that the International AI Smart Park being vigorously promoted by Hsinchu County is also collaborating with Chiao Tung University to jointly establish the Hsinchu County Taiwan Knowledge-based Economy Flagship Park and the International AI Smart Park so that the county can become an AI smart technology city. Tendering for investors was completed at the end of last year, and plant constructions will begin this year. The smart park is expected to be fully operational in 2023, and the merger of Yang Ming University and Chiao Tung University will be a huge boost to the policy promotion.
The first President of NYCU, Chi-Hung Lin, said that the development of NYCU will mainly focus on departmental and inter-college research centers. It will adhere to the philosophy of being "people-centered, science-based, technology-based, and industry-based." The university is committed to becoming a great university. In this initial stage of the merger, the most urgent task is to integrate the identities of the two schools to gain recognition and ownership of new school. Therefore, the school is launching the “Strategic Plan” for consensus. All teachers, students and overseas and domestic alumni are invited to brainstorm together on topics ranging from innovative teaching, technological trends and university social responsibility to school anthem, school emblem and campus aesthetics. The consensus-based plan for the combined school will be presented within 100 days, and it will form a three-year blueprint with a ten-year outlook for the university. In addition, an industry-university cooperation campus will be established. For example, in the Tainan campus, a pilot government, industry, academia and institute alliance platform that is based on the added values of co-creation could be built to achieve a mechanism for industry-academia co-creation.
NYCU President Chi-Hung Lin especially thanked President Steve Kuo of Yang Ming University and President Sin-Horng Chen of Chiao Tung University for their meritorious leadership and perseverance to successfully complete the pilot tasks of merging the schools. As a result of their efforts, the two top universities that have made outstanding contributions to Taiwan’s medicine, health, electrical engineering and information can complete the merger in a bottom-up, peer-to-peer participation and campus democracy approach, thus setting a new benchmark and new model for higher education in Taiwan.