Xidian University, China's core base of scientific research and personnel training in the field of electronic information, held the opening ceremony on Saturday of the fifth space culture festival and the academician report meeting of "100 academic masters entering the campus" to pay tribute to China's space industry and gather spiritual strength for building China into a powerful space country.  

The festival and report meeting are held on April 17 in the university's south campus.  [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn]

Headquartered in Xi'an, Shaanxi province in Northwest China, the university is the birthplace of China's radar, information theory, cryptography, electronic countermeasures and microwave antenna, according to Yang Yintang, deputy secretary of the Party committee of Xidian University.

Yang Yintang, deputy secretary of the Party committee of Xidian University, speaks at the opening ceremony of the festival and meeting.   [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn]

Yang said that since the 90th anniversary of the founding of the University, the school's astronauts have successively devoted themselves to various fields and battlefields of China's space science and technology development, contributing to the major space missions such as manned space flight, the lunar exploration project and the fire exploration project.  

After the opening ceremony, academician Bao Weimin, director of the Science and Technology Committee of China Aerospace Technology Group, academician Li Yinghong, professor of Air Force Engineering University and academician Wu Peiheng, professor of Nanjing University, created a wonderful and diverse symposium for more than 300 teachers and students.   

Academician Bao Weimin makes a report at the meeting.   [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn]

Academician Li Yinghong also spoke at the meeting.  [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn]

Academician Wu Peiheng contributes to the meeting.   [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn]

Starting from their professional fields, the three academicians respectively introduced the development history and prospects of China's aerospace industry, the exploration and application of plasma excited aerodynamics, and the development status, innovative practice and future trends of superconducting single photon detectors and their applications.  

The systematic explanation and detailed answers of the three academicians not only made the teachers and students understand the latest cutting-edge developments of science and technology, but also feel the scientific spirit and scholarly style of the academicians and experience the real charm of academic research. They encouraged the aspiring young people to devote themselves to space and contribute their youth and wisdom to the construction of a powerful aerospace country.  

From April 17 to May 10, the fifth aerospace culture festival of the university with the theme of "aerospace serves the country, and always follows the Party", will guide all teachers and students to carry forward the aerospace spirit, spread advanced culture, stimulate the enthusiasm for innovation and exploration, help the Chinese dream with the Aerospace dream, and present a gift for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party and the 90th anniversary of the founding of the university.