习近平给中国科学院院士、清华大学教授姚期智回信

习近平给中国科学院院士、清华大学教授姚期智回信强调

坚守初心使命发挥自身优势

为建设教育强国科技强国作出新的贡献

近日，中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席习近平给中国科学院院士、清华大学教授姚期智回信，向他致以诚挚问候并提出殷切希望。

习近平在回信中说，你回国任教二十年来，将爱国之情化为报国之行，在清华大学潜心耕耘、默默奉献，教书育人、科研创新都取得了丰硕成果，向你表示诚挚问候。

习近平强调，希望你坚守初心使命，发挥自身优势，带领大家继续探索创新人才自主培养模式，推动学科交叉与前沿创新，打造高水平的人才培养和科技创新基地，为实现高水平科技自立自强、建设教育强国科技强国作出新的贡献。

姚期智曾长期在美国高校任教，2004年全职回国任教于清华大学，现为清华大学人工智能学院院长、交叉信息研究院院长。近日，姚期智给习近平总书记写信，汇报回国任教20年来培养人才、科研创新等情况，表达科技报国、为实现中华民族伟大复兴贡献力量的决心。

Xi replies to Tsinghua professor, urging more contributions to education, science

Chinese President Xi Jinping has encouraged Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, a professor of Tsinghua University, to further contribute to the nation's talent development and sci-tech innovation.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks in a reply letter recently sent to Yao, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences who returned to China and commenced his teaching career at Tsinghua 20 years ago.

In the reply letter, Xi conveyed greetings to Yao, acknowledging his unwavering dedication and remarkable achievements in the realms of teaching and scientific innovation over the past two decades, during which Yao channeled his love for the nation into a commitment to serve it.

Xi expressed the hope that Yao could adhere to his original aspiration and leverage his strengths to further explore approaches to the cultivation of innovative talent, and foster interdisciplinary integration and frontier innovation, in order to make more contributions to achieving high-level self-reliance and strength in science and technology and the building of a strong nation in both education and science and technology.

Yao, who taught at U.S. universities for a long time, returned to China in 2004 to join the faculty at Tsinghua. In a recent letter addressed to Xi, he detailed his work in talent cultivation and scientific innovation during his two-decade tenure, and expressed his determination to contribute to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Yao, 78, is dean of College of AI and also dean of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences under Tsinghua University.