Chinese people believe that letters are as valuable as gold. For thousands of years, letters, across mountains and oceans, have been delivering the writers’ sentiments and conveying friendship and expectations.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese president, has managed to find time to reply to some letters from different sectors of the society and different parts of the world despite his busy work schedule.
Through his letters, Xi has corresponded with people from all walks of life on numerous occasions, part of a series of excellent stories of China in the new era.
Therefore, the Global Times traced and contacted some of the recipients of Xi’s letters to hear the inspiring stories behind the letters and their communications with the Chinese president.
In this installment, Chinese Turing Award winner Andrew Chi-Chih Yao shared with the Global Times his 20 years of dedicated work to promote talent cultivation and innovation for the development of computer science and artificial intelligence (AI) industries in China at the Tsinghua University.
“The affirmation and encouragement from President Xi Jinping have made me feel the weight of responsibility on my shoulders even heavier,” a Chinese computer scientist from the Tsinghua University Andrew Chi-Chih Yao told the Global Times after receiving a reply letter from President Xi on June 11.
In the letter, Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, encouraged Yao, who is also a Turing Award winner and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to further contribute to the nation’s talent development and sci-tech innovation.
Source : Global Times
