Tsinghua University

BEIJING – November 04, 2026 -- China invested approximately 1.4 trillion yuan in health-related poverty alleviation between 2015 and 2020, according to a Lancet Commission report launched at Tsinghua University on October 29.

The Commission, led by Tsinghua University and chaired by Margaret Chan, Dean of the Vanke School of Public Health and WHO Director-General Emeritus, analyzed four years of data on China's health poverty alleviation policies and their implementation.

Out-of-pocket inpatient costs for the poor fell ten percentage points

The share of inpatient expenses paid out of pocket by people living in poverty declined from 41.0% in 2013 to 31.0% in 2018. A national monitoring system now tracks more than 80 million low-income rural residents to identify risks of health-related poverty.

SUZHOU – October 31, 2026 -- GAC won eight awards, including four first prizes, at the 2026 China-SAE Science and Technology Award ceremony in Suzhou, Jiangsu, on October 28. Two of the first prizes went to GAC-led projects and two to projects in which GAC participated. A fifth GAC-led project took second prize.

GAC's chip project works with 105 partners on domestic silicon

The GAC-led chip project built a full-chain path from vehicle definition to scale application. It has applied nearly 400 chip models and more than 1,000 domestic chips with 105 partners. The HYPTEC GT Special Edition, described as China's first intelligent connected vehicle with 100% domestically designed chips, has been launched.

Beijing – September 24, 2026 -- Wind, solar, energy storage and electric vehicles are expanding rapidly worldwide, but grid integration limits, high financing costs and market-mechanism gaps are constraining the pace of the global carbon neutrality transition, according to the 2026 Global Carbon Neutrality Annual Progress Report launched at Tsinghua University on September 22.

Report tracks 198 countries and regions across 200 indicators

The report, presented by Tsinghua University professor Wang Can, draws on more than 200 indicators to assess progress toward carbon neutrality across 198 countries and regions, identifying the drivers and constraints shaping the transition. The launch coincided with the fifth anniversary of Tsinghua's Institute for Carbon Neutrality (ICON), the sixth anniversary of China's "dual carbon" goals, and the start of China's 15th Five-Year Plan period.

Wuxi – September 20, 2026 -- Centron signed an industry-academia-research cooperation agreement with Professor Zhang Xiangyu's team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University, targeting process-consistency challenges in adhesive dispensing for manufacturing lines.

Agreement signed at Xishan Technology Transfer Conference in Wuxi

The deal was formalized on Sept. 15, 2026, during the 2026 Xishan Technology Transfer Conference, under the Xishan-Tsinghua industry-academia collaboration program. The framework operates on a model where enterprises raise production-floor questions, universities apply research-based methods, and market application tests the results.