The fourth batch of “national colleges and universities Huang Dainian-style teacher team” to create a demonstration of the shortlist was officially announced, our Dean of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Chen Xiangsheng, led by the “Coastal City Resilience Infrastructure Teacher Team” was successfully selected!

The team adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era, comprehensively implements the Party's education policy, builds a high-quality faculty with strong political commitment, high moral integrity and excellent business skills, and cultivates engineering talents with national sentiment, global vision and service ability. The Party Committee of the team has been awarded the title of “Guangdong Provincial Party Building Work Benchmark Faculty”, and the Party Branch of the team has been awarded the title of “Guangdong Provincial Party Building Work Model Branch”. The team is rooted in the main battlefield of the national major strategies and major projects, and has the courage to take on the mission of homeland security and people's happiness. Teachers have been serving in major projects such as the Sichuan-Tibet Railway and Qinghai-Tibet Highway for a long time, and carrying out scientific research in extreme environments such as high temperature and lack of oxygen. The team carries forward the educator's spirit and the noble character of Comrade Huang Dainian, explores the construction of “curriculum politics + scientific research politics + practice politics” synergistic educating mechanism, the formation of the “three full educating” pattern of the big ideological and political, demonstrating the new era of college teachers to adhere to the original heart, teaching and educating people, The new era of university teachers to adhere to the original heart, teaching and educating people, science and education to develop the country model style.

Team Building

The team leader, Chen Xiangsheng, is a renowned expert in the fields of artificial permafrost mechanics, tunneling and underground engineering, special geotechnical engineering, well construction engineering, etc. He has long been engaged in scientific and technological research and development as well as teaching and management in the fields of tunneling and underground engineering, urban rail transit engineering and mine well construction engineering. Since he became the Dean of the School of Civil and Transportation Engineering of Shenzhen University in 2019, he has been actively promoting the high-quality development of various undertakings such as discipline construction, talent cultivation, scientific research, etc., and contributing to the creation of first-class disciplines and the construction of high-level universities in Shenzhen University. Xiangsheng Chen has led his team to comprehensively practice the “Four Orientations” put forward by General Secretary Xi Jinping, and in recent years, he has advocated the reform and innovation of resilient city concept and paradigm, digital civil engineering, intelligent geotechnical engineering, and intelligent underground engineering.

In order to answer the “three questions of education” in the new era, the team has constructed a high-level talent echelon of “academicians, master teachers, leaders and young teachers”, and formed a benign training mechanism and quality development ecology centered on the principle of “Passing the buck”. The team has formed a benign cultivation mechanism and high-quality development ecology centered on “passing on and helping”. The team attaches great importance to the cultivation and leadership of young teachers, and has independently cultivated and introduced more than 20 national talents in the past five years. Chen Xiangsheng was honored as “National Advanced Worker in Education System”, team member Zhu Jianbo was honored as “National Advanced Worker”, Sui Lili was honored as “Guangdong Famous Teaching Teacher”, and Sui Lili, Lili Sui was honored as “Guangdong Provincial Teaching Master”, Lili Sui and Long Wujian were honored as “South Guangdong Outstanding Teachers”. In the past five years, relying on the continuous breakthroughs in the direction of the discipline and platform support, the team's overall strength has risen rapidly, and its ranking in the U.S. News World University Rankings has risen by 26 places to 27th in the world. The team integrates the gathering of talents from home and abroad, the output of achievements, and the leadership of educating people, and has a high level of faculty core strength.

Talent Cultivation

Members of the team have long been on the front line of talent cultivation, adhering to the concept of “cultivating people by virtue, teaching and educating people”, focusing on high-quality teaching, and devoting themselves to cultivating outstanding and innovative talents. Academicians lead the team as class teachers, set a good example, teach by example, and play the role of role model. The team promotes the construction of “four” good teachers, launches the “Mathematics and Mechanics Innovation Class”, “International Engineering Innovation Class” and other talent cultivation projects with academicians as class teachers; creates an innovative ecosystem for the cultivation of outstanding engineers, and actively promotes the cultivation of outstanding engineers. To create an innovative ecology for the cultivation of engineers, actively promote the reform of contextualized teaching, take the construction sites of national major projects as the first classroom of professional teaching, and promote the transformation of teaching from “imparting knowledge” to “posing problems and solving problems”. We have built a multi-directional integration of “engineering site - enterprise practice - science and technology competition” as the model for cultivating complex talents, and integrated the spirit of national craftsmanship and national sentiment into the classroom; we have constructed national first-class undergraduate programs, and the relevant teaching achievements have won the second prize of National Teaching Achievement Award, The related teaching achievements won the second prize of National Teaching Achievement Award, the special prize and the second prize of Provincial and Ministerial Teaching Achievement Award.

Teachers of the team systematically organize students to actively participate in discipline competitions and innovation and entrepreneurship activities, and deeply integrate classroom knowledge with real-world competitions, guiding students to win laurels in national competitions, such as the China International Student Innovation Competition, the National Structural Design Competition for University Students, and the National University Students' Competition of Advanced Drawing Technology and BIM Innovation, etc. In the past five years, the students were awarded more than 200 prizes for discipline competitions at the international and national levels, which fully demonstrates the excellent innovation and engineering practice ability. This fully reflects the excellent innovation and engineering practice ability.

Outstanding students of the College in Hong Kong bravely rescued people in the water, won the Hong Kong “Good Citizen Award” and the Shenzhen City, recognized for bravery and courage, a vivid illustration of the new era of the SAR students of the national sentiment and responsibility.

Platform construction

Academician Chen Xiangsheng leads the team to build a high-level innovation team based on the key laboratories, and gives full play to the advantages of attracting and gathering talents on the national scientific research platforms, and generates a high-level innovation team group by mission-driven and task-oriented. In recent years, the team has been deeply involved in the reorganization of the National Key Laboratory of “Intelligent Construction and Healthy Operation and Maintenance of Deep Earth Engineering” and “Intelligent Construction and Maintenance of Geotechnical and Tunneling Engineering in Extreme Environments”, and led the construction and management of the National Engineering Research Center for Mining and Deep Shaft Construction Technology, which has contributed to the development of the National Engineering Research Center. He has also taken the lead in the construction and management of “National Engineering Research Center for Deep Mine Shaft Construction Technology”, making outstanding contributions to the construction of the national high-end infrastructure technology system.

Scientific research and innovation

The team has been rooted in the main battlefield of national major infrastructure construction for a long time, focusing on intelligent and green infrastructure and the strategic development of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area. In the past five years, the team has presided over more than 200 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the National Key Research and Development Program (NKRDP), and carried out systematic researches in the fields of geotechnical mechanics, safety of underground engineering, structural toughness and intelligent construction and maintenance, and so on. The research achievements of the team have won more than 20 national and provincial scientific and technological awards, such as the first prize of National Technological Invention, the first prize of Ministry of Education's Natural Science Award, the first prize of Ministry of Education's Scientific and Technological Progress Award, etc. The team has published 1,893 high-level papers, and has been honored with 15 scientific and technological awards at the provincial and ministerial levels, and the founding periodical Energy Reviews has been selected as one of the Chinese Science and Technology Periodical Excellence Action Plans, and has been indexed by Scopus and ESCI. Three members of the team have been selected for the Stanford Lifetime Scientific Impact Ranking, and 12 members have been selected for the 2023 Global Scientific Impact Ranking, which has had a wide academic impact.

Social security

The team takes the responsibility of serving the national major strategies, serves the national major projects with “four orientations”, especially in the Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area major engineering projects, has achieved remarkable results, and the scientific and technological achievements have promoted the technological development of highways, railways and other fields, and has established long-term and stable cooperation between the university and enterprises with China Construction International, China Construction Engineering Corporation, etc., and has set up the first Chinese Academy of Engineering workstation in Hong Kong. The first academician workstation of Chinese Academy of Engineering in Hong Kong.

Teachers of the team have broken through many scientific and technological problems in many major projects, such as the Sichuan-Tibet Railway, Qianhai Free Trade Zone, Hengqin Free Trade Zone, Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor, Shenzhen Metro, Shenzhen North Railway Station, National Swimming Center, and National Speed Skating Pavilion. Among them, the team used a number of plateau railroad tunnel construction technology, to cope with the resolution of cross-fault, large deformation, high ground stress and other extreme conditions challenges, to solve the Sichuan-Tibet Railway and other ultra-long deeply buried mountain tunnel engineering problems; near-operating subway tunnel underground space development technology will be 50 meters on both sides of the tunnel security area scientifically reduced to 3 meters, only in Shenzhen Qianhai Free Trade Zone released the economic benefits of the land area of nearly 8 billion yuan, and achieved a It has achieved good economic and social benefits; overcome the problems of metro transportation hub projects in Shenzhen and many other cities, and helped the construction of “dual-zone”; applied the tunnel structure seismic resistance and transportation and super-soft soil shield tunnel construction technology to Zhuhai Cross Gate and Toll Collection Tunnels to solve the “necklace” problem of the connection between Zhuhai City and the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone. "The team promoted the new system of wave-truss PC combined bridge structure, which significantly improved the performance of the combined structure bridge and was applied to Shenzhen Bay Inland Sea Bridge.

In order to thoroughly implement the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on the advanced deeds of Comrade Huang Dainian and the important reply to the representatives of the Huang Dainian-style teacher team in national universities, and to promote the construction of the first-class teacher team in colleges and universities, the Ministry of Education 2025 organizes and carries out the third batch of the “Huang Dainian-style Teacher Team in National Colleges and Universities” and the fourth batch of the “Huang Dainian-style Teacher Team in National Universities”. The Ministry of Education 2025 organizes the identification of the third batch of “Huang Dainian-style teacher teams in national universities” and the creation of the fourth batch of "Huang Dainian-style teacher teams in national universities.

Congratulations to the Marina City Resilience Infrastructure Teachers Team for their success!