Twenty-eight years ago today, on June 2, 1997 (April 27, 1997, the Center for Advanced Studies of Tsinghua University was established. On the morning of June 2, 1997, the inaugural meeting of the Tsinghua University Center for Advanced Research and the 21st Century Basic Science Outlook Seminar were held in Tsinghua University. Vice Premier Li Lanqing of the State Council attended the meeting to congratulate and deliver a speech. Li Lanqing said in his speech that my country has put forward the strategic policy of "rejuvenating the country through science and education", and economic construction must shift to the track of relying on scientific and technological progress and improving workers. Basic research is an important source of knowledge, and its breakthrough progress will have a revolutionary impact on the formation of new technologies. The talents and achievements of basic research are one of the important indicators of the country's comprehensive strength and the progress of social civilization. Only by having and maintaining a high level of basic research can we have the lasting strength to participate in international economic and technological competition. Li Lanqing emphasized that we must pay full attention to the huge impact of basic research on future economic and social development and strengthen support and guidance for basic research. It is necessary to concentrate superior forces and ensure key points; It is necessary to give full play to the role of scientists and mobilize the enthusiasm of old, middle and young scientific and technological talents; strengthen the construction of research bases and create advanced research conditions and a relaxed academic environment; vigorously carry out national exchanges and cooperation to cultivate and create high-level talents in the international environment of scientific research. Li Lanqing praised Tsinghua University's establishment of an advanced research center as "very meaningful and far-sighted." Exchanges and cooperation to cultivate and produce high-level talents in an international environment for scientific research. Li Lanqing praised Tsinghua University's establishment of an advanced research center as "very meaningful and far-sighted." State Councilor Song Jian, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Zhu Guangya, President of the China Academy of Sciences Zhou Guangzhao, etc., together with three Nobel Prize winners from the United States and Japan, nearly 50 academicians of the China Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering, and more than 400 people attended the conference. Wang Dazhong, president of Tsinghua University and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said at the meeting that this higher research center should strive to develop into a basic science base of international level, and at the same time actively promote the intersection and penetration of basic science and other related disciplines to promote the overall academic level of Tsinghua University. improvement. At the inaugural meeting, Professor Yang Zhenning, a famous physicist and Nobel Prize winner, and Professor Nie Huatong, a physicist, received the appointment letters of honorary director and director of the research center from Wang Dazhong respectively. At the subsequent "Outlook Seminar on Basic Science in the 21st Century", Yang Zhenning and two members of the National Academy of Sciences, Steven Chu, professor of physics at Stanford University, and Shen Yuanrang, professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, gave wonderful academic reports.