On the occasion of the 40th Teacher's Day, Chen Xiangsheng, president of our college and academician of the CAE Member, was awarded the title of "exemplary individual of the National Education System".
Academician Chen Xiangsheng is a renowned expert in the fields of artificial frozen soil mechanics, tunnel and underground engineering, special geotechnical engineering, and well construction engineering. He has long been engaged in scientific research and teaching management in tunnel and underground engineering, urban rail transit engineering, and mining well construction engineering. Since taking office as the dean of our university in 2019, he has actively promoted the high-quality development of various undertakings such as discipline construction, talent cultivation, and scientific research, making significant contributions to the creation of first-class disciplines and the construction of a high-level university at Shenzhen University.
"This award is not for me. I accept it on behalf of all the faculty and staff of Shenzhen University since its founding 41 years ago." Academician Chen Xiangsheng said, "Shenzhen University has been entrusted with the mission of exploring the way for China's higher education reform since its founding. In the new era, how to run education well in the forefront of reform and opening up cities, so that the development of Shenzhen University resonates with the city, is an important and urgent mission for our university educators. We will bear in mind the trust, fulfill our mission, take the responsibility, and contribute our own strength to the construction of a strong education country, a strong science and technology country, and a strong talent country."
Many people have noticed a small detail, no matter where they go, Academician Chen Xiangsheng always wears a Shenzhen University emblem on his suit collar. When asked about the reason, he said, "I love Shenzhen University and hope to fulfill my mission
In 2004, Academician Chen Xiangsheng became acquainted with Shenzhen University and was appointed as a part-time professor at our institute. In 2018, he established the Shenzhen University Future Underground City Research Institute at Shenzhen University and became the new "head" of our institute in 2019.
Building a big platform, gathering big teams, undertaking big projects, producing big results, supporting the construction of Shenzhen University as a first-class university, fully implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping's "four orientations", conducting leading research, organizing scientific research, and serving the development of the national and regional economy and society are all his expectations for the development of the college.
At present, Tu Jiao Academy has 33 national level talents, of which 27 have been newly trained or introduced in the past five years to build a first-class talent team. Academician Chen Xiangsheng has his own "secret": "Building a big platform can attract talents", "We open up new battlefields for national needs, do things that others have not done before, and lead the direction of this field, representing the highest level of the country in this field. Being inclusive and inclusive is great. We attract and use talents with a broad mind, and build a research model for the new era. In this way, talents come, and the whole team is up.
He led the college to participate in the construction of three national key laboratories, obtained approval for one national engineering center, took the lead in building a high-level discipline platform, and obtained the authorization point for the doctoral degree in "Civil Engineering and Water Conservancy", allowing talents to fully exert themselves on the big stage of the Soil Transportation Institute. The introduction of talents requires the cultivation of talents. When Professor Sun Xiaohui returned from the United States in 2018 and joined Shenzhen University, he was feeling confused about his research direction. Academician Chen Xiangsheng encouraged him to focus on a future direction in civil engineering - solid waste resource utilization (environmental geotechnical engineering). He said, "You need to face the major needs of the country and solve the most urgent practical problems. You need to form a closed-loop research from multiple aspects such as mechanism, technology, process, and equipment, so that the research results can be implemented and serve engineering practice. You need to write your paper on the land of our motherland in a practical way.
孙晓辉(左六）获得国际隧道与地下空间协会（ITA)2021年度“超越工程”奖后，陈湘生和团队成员与其合影
With the support of Academician Chen Xiangsheng, Professor Sun Xiaohui focuses on solving the problem of "treating and disposing of large amounts of engineering waste mud and soil in major cities" with the concept of green and low-carbon development. His technological application achievements have won international awards, and he himself has passed the evaluation of the National Natural Science Foundation of China's Excellent Youth Fund.
"Don't be afraid of authority, learn more and think more, "said postdoctoral researcher Xia Changqing, remembering the encouragement of Academician Chen Xiangsheng. In order to help them clarify their research ideas for applying for projects, Academician Chen Xiangsheng often discusses with this group of young people until late at night, sometimes arguing until their faces turn red and their ears turn red. He gives every young person the opportunity to "take on the big picture", and the research "lever" of young teachers is a real major engineering project. He hopes to cultivate young leading talents through national major engineering and strategic engineering. At the beginning of joining Shenzhen University, Academician Chen Xiangsheng hired young engineer Fei Jianbo from the China Railway Academy of Engineering and Design, and fully supported Fei Jianbo to directly participate in the scientific and technological challenges of extreme environment and climate railway engineering construction in the Southwest Plateau.
Fei Jianbo (second from left) and Chen Xiangsheng (fifth from right) took a photo in front of the Joint Laboratory of Prefabricated Underground Structures at Shenzhen University, China Railway Science and Technology Corporation, and Hong Kong University. The platform aims to promote scientific research and technological applications of prefabricated technology in the field of underground structures
Teacher Fei Jianbo has fulfilled his mission and lived up to the times, breaking through technological challenges such as improving the resilience of mountain tunnel engineering and the mechanism and prevention of slope disasters. This year, he passed the National Natural Science Foundation's Outstanding Youth Funding Evaluation.
Academician Chen Xiangsheng vigorously promotes the construction of interdisciplinary fields and builds distinctive disciplinary clusters. The talent team of the college can be described as "diversified". Teachers' professional directions range from rock and soil, tunnels, and underground, to roads, oceans, bridges, perception, and artificial intelligence. A hundred flowers bloom. The collision of different sparks of thought will generate new ideas, theories, and technologies.
In the past five years, the development of Tujiao Institute has been very impressive: the institute has received a total of 191 National Natural Science Foundation projects, undertaken more than ten national key research and development programs, major projects of National Natural Science Foundation, and joint fund integration projects, and won the "First Prize of Science and Technology Progress of the Ministry of Education," "First Prize of Science and Technology Progress of Guangdong Province," and "First Prize of Technology Invention of Guangdong Province. The ranking of the civil engineering discipline at Shenzhen University has also increased from the top 20% to the top 6% in universities nationwide. Cultivating new civil engineers is a great responsibility and a glorious mission. Academician Chen Xiangsheng believes that the ultimate goal of the college in building a large platform and forming a large team is to cultivate outstanding talents for the country.
In total, Academician Chen Xiangsheng, who is 68 years old, has been a "university teacher" for less than 6 years. He has been conducting technical research at the Coal Science Research Institute for 19 years and working as an engineer at the Shenzhen Metro for 19 years. His past work experience has made him realize the problem of the disconnect between social needs and education: "What kind of people do we need to cultivate; Can I do some exploration at Shenzhen University, which has the genes of reform and innovation.
This is also an important reason why Academician Chen Xiangsheng chose Shenzhen University. The teacher has a three foot podium with students sitting below. This is the traditional educational paradigm of the past. But in the era of knowledge explosion, the way students acquire knowledge is changing, and our teaching paradigm also needs to change.
Academician Chen Xiangsheng led a team to participate in the 14th National Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
Academician Chen Xiangsheng leads a team to participate in the 2024 World Tunnel Congress
Academician Chen Xiangsheng led a team to participate in the first Innovation Technology Exchange Conference on the Integration of Building Structures and Geotechnical Engineering
Academician Chen Xiangsheng leads a team to participate in the 2024 Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area Metro Industry Conference
Academician Chen Xiangsheng presented awards to the winners and teams of the "2023 SF-X Smart Supply Chain Elite Challenge for Universities"
Academician Chen Xiangsheng understands that education is a form of mutual growth. Teachers should lead students to analyze the mechanisms behind problems and help them find ways to solve them. Education is interactive, and teachers should ignite the spark of students' deep desire for knowledge. Academician Chen Xiangsheng vigorously promotes education and teaching reform, actively explores "engineering philosophy", integrates virtual and real teaching paradigms, and creates a new digital teaching model. Under this concept, the process of civil engineering construction has been transformed into a visual teaching scenario. With the empowerment of digitization, multimedia, and artificial intelligence, traditional textbooks, formula deduction, and abstract principles can be "put into motion" and "come to life". It is very difficult to promote the reform of the education model, and corresponding reforms of textbooks are needed, but we must keep up with the times. After the reform, 'immersive' and situational teaching can not only stimulate students' interest in learning, but also greatly shorten the teaching time of professional courses. So what is the 'free up' time for? Go out, go to the construction site. Teachers take students to the northern metropolitan area of Hong Kong, the Shenzhen Central Link, the Shenzhen Jiang Railway, the Shenzhen Shantou Railway, the Sichuan Tibet Railway.
Watching the construction of 'great national treasures', watching the workers working in harsh environments, observing the concept of green, low-carbon and sustainable development in construction, and observing the humanistic care in engineering design, allowing students to find their own employment direction in engineering practice, such' touching scenes and emotions' are also a 'ideological and political lesson'.
陈湘生院士做客央视《开讲啦》揭晓地铁地下工程建设的奥秘
Academician Chen Xiangsheng was a guest on CCTV's "Open Lecture" program, revealing the secrets of underground subway construction.
"Please come in "and invite management and technical experts from the enterprise unit to give a lecture.
我院与中建科工集团签约校外思政教育基地“铁骨·筑诚”青年志愿者服务项目揭牌仪式
Our hospital has signed a contract with China Construction Science and Technology Group for the unveiling ceremony of the "Iron Bone · Building Sincerity" Youth Volunteer Service Project for the off campus ideological and political education base.
陈湘生院士做客深大附中：“数智土木工程——年轻人的使命”
We are ushering in a new era of digital civil engineering, and the college will focus on cultivating 'new earth and wood people'. They will be engineering and technical talents who are proficient in practical operations, engineering science talents who can solve complex problems, and engineering leading talents who can lead industrial transformation. The responsibility is great, and the mission is glorious!
Whether it is the development of disciplines, talent cultivation, or scientific research, Academician Chen Xiangsheng always emphasizes the need to "center on the needs of the country" and always fight at the forefront of "the needs of the motherland".
Chen Xiangsheng during the Shaanxi educated youth period
Academician Chen Xiangsheng was one of the first group of college entrance examination students after the resumption of the college entrance examination. At the age of 26, he entered Huainan Mining Institute to study well construction engineering and was eager for knowledge. He spent all his time studying. After graduation, Academician Chen Xiangsheng was assigned to the Beijing Well Construction Research Institute of the Coal Science Research Institute to work on the physics and mechanics of artificial frozen soil, which went unnoticed.
Academician Chen Xiangsheng, who first started working
Academician Chen Xiangsheng during his time as a visiting scholar in the UK
A study abroad from his unit shocked him. In 1986, Academician Chen Xiangsheng was sent to Berlin to study tunnel engineering technology. As soon as he got off the plane, he was "confused". At that time, he was greatly surprised by the leading level of infrastructure in Western Europe: "Is China unable to keep up?" The urgent and sad emotions intertwined, making him sleepless on his first night in a foreign country.
Academician Chen Xiangsheng, who served as the director of the Well Construction Institute of the General Institute of Coal Science and Technology
Academician Chen Xiangsheng compiled "Stratum Freezing Method"
Academician Chen Xiangsheng is determined to serve the country with science and technology. He devotes himself to scientific research. The character of Hunan people makes him "just hard and overbearing". He led the team to concentrate on the research, initially established the basic framework of China's artificial frozen soil mechanics, established the design theory and formula for the limit state of deep frozen wall, and solved the worldwide problem of preventing and controlling the fracture and flooding of freezing pipes in 1000 meter deep frozen wells. Among them, the key theory of artificial frozen soil mechanics and the algorithm for the design formula of deep frozen wells are still in use today.
Oral History of Shenzhen | Chen Xiangsheng: Reshaping the City and Building the World's Best Underground Space
In 2001, Academician Chen Xiangsheng devoted himself to the construction of the Shenzhen Metro, witnessing the 20-year journey from its opening to entering the "500 kilometer era". Academician Chen Xiangsheng focused on obtaining "land" underground to provide new space for urban development.
Academician Chen Xiangsheng guides the construction of Shenzhen Metro
"The connecting area per kilometer of underground space and the development volume of underground space in Shenzhen Metro rank first in the country. Together with the engineering team, he applied the "comprehensive construction technology for underground space in cross subway operation tunnels" to the Qianhai Free Trade Zone, directly releasing 240000 square meters of land area with a market value of over 10 billion yuan.
Zhou Ji, then President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, awarded Academician Chen Xiangsheng a certificate of CAE Member
Research direction of the Future Underground City Research Institute (UPA) led by Academician Chen Xiangsheng
Academician Chen Xiangsheng won the 2020 Mao Yisheng Science and Technology Award
He led the team to focus on solving major scientific problems and "choke" technical problems in the construction of national major infrastructure, deeply integrate advanced technologies such as Internet plus, big data, and mining advanced sensing elements with traditional geotechnical mechanics, underground structure engineering, etc., create modern engineering for resilient urban construction, and lead the theory and method of urban comprehensive multi compliance planning.
The world's largest sectional combined rectangular pipe jacking machine, "Dayu Tunnel", led by Academician Chen Xiangsheng, has successfully launched at Sha San Station of Shenzhen Metro Line 12 Phase II project
He led the research and development of the world's largest sectional combined rectangular pipe jacking machine, and subsequently created a complete set of technology for the construction of double hole close fitting underground subway stations, putting Shenzhen University Station at the forefront of this field.
The unveiling ceremony of the first CAE Member workstation in Hong Kong was held in Hong Kong
He established the first CAE Member workstation in Hong Kong to serve the integrated construction of the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area and major national development strategies. In the eyes of his son, his father has always been too hardworking. "His hobbies and interests are work, immersive work, constantly working. Academician Chen Xiangsheng said, "I am working with a 'countdown' mentality. Even if I have never lived a day for myself, what I do is meaningful because it is beneficial to the development of the school, helpful to teachers and students, and contributes to society.
On site guidance of shield tunneling machine for Shengli Tunnel in Tianshan, Xinjiang
Yunnan Zhaotong Dianzhong Water Diversion Project Vertical Shaft Excavation Site
"Chen Laolao, being your student is very happy! "Those who cherish the greatness of the country often have kindness and tenderness in their hearts. 'Director Chen,' 'Academician Chen,' and 'Old Chen,' are all daily names used by students to refer to Chen Xiangsheng. Academician Chen Xiangsheng's favorite is' Old Chen '.
Academician Chen Xiangsheng guides students
Mr. Chen has his own perspective on student development: "I don't expect all students to become deans, professors, engineers, or managers. I don't require students to believe in my academic views or support my theories. I hope they all become their best selves, mentally sound, physically healthy, and compassionate.
He believes that education should focus on moral education, and educators should have a compassionate heart and great love. On his journey of learning, the words and deeds of his mentors such as Huainan Mining Institute, Berlin University of Technology, Cambridge University, Tsinghua University, etc. were his role models, and "becoming a good teacher like Huang Danian" was the goal he set for himself.
陈湘生院士写的毕业生寄语
Academician Chen Xiangsheng has a catchphrase: "Even the smallest things are big things for students." He remembers the progress of students' scientific research, cares about their difficulties, and writes graduation letters by hand. He is often too busy to just eat instant noodles, but always reminds students to eat well.
Academician Chen Xiangsheng visits and comforts students who stayed on campus during the Spring Festival
Academician Chen Xiangsheng visits student dormitories
Academician Chen Xiangsheng had a face-to-face discussion with students
Academician Chen Xiangsheng gives a lecture to the 2023 freshmen
Academician Chen Xiangsheng gave the first lecture on ideological and political education to the freshmen at the opening ceremony of the 2024 academic year
He insists on attending classes for undergraduate students, never relaxing no matter how busy he is. He has strict requirements for students' academic performance, and every Spring Festival, he prepares his own red envelopes to comfort his classmates who stay on campus. He often says, 'We cannot let economic issues become a problem for learning.' While planning the college's student financial aid system, he silently supports more than ten students personally.
Academician Chen Xiangsheng recommends excellent graduate students to enterprises at the job fair
He cares about the employment of every student and requires the college to draw a "big chart" to comprehensively grasp and follow up on the employment situation of graduating students. At job fairs, he leads students to recruit one by one, recommending excellent graduates to enterprises. Sometimes he even directly "helps" by one-on-one recommending high-quality job positions for students. This year, more than 30 students from the Land Transport Institute have been employed in Hong Kong.
Academician Chen Xiangsheng and graduates take a photo together
Academician Chen Xiangsheng recorded the graduation farewell song presented to the graduates
Academician Chen Xiangsheng participated in an immersive campus dance competition with faculty, students, and alumni from the Institute of Civil Engineering and Communications Technology
"Mr. Chen, being your student is very happy! "This is what the students most want to say to Academician Chen Xiangsheng. Conduct oneself with a humble heart, conduct oneself with reverence, and treat others with kindness. Academician Chen Xiangsheng often encourages himself with this and also practices it in the same way.
"I hope to do my best in my lifetime to answer the three questions of 'what kind of person to cultivate, how to cultivate people, and for whom to cultivate people'. I think I will be satisfied and worthy of this great era.
