Institute of Medical Technology at Peking University Successfully Concludes 2021 Student Orientation Activities

Date of Publication: September 4, 2021

Coinciding with the centennial anniversary of the Communist Party of China, Peking University welcomed its third cohort of graduate students and celebrated a milestone in the undergraduate admissions for the medical technology discipline. A total of 42 graduate students and 46 undergraduate students of the Class of 2021 entered the campus of Peking University Health Science Center with the morning sun.

Executive Vice Dean Prof. Hongbin Han, Associate Dean Prof. Song Gao, Party Secretary Prof. Hui Li, faculty members Ms. Yinghui Liu and Mr. Yibao Zhang from the Teaching Office, graduate advisor Mr. Fangxiao Cheng, undergraduate advisor Ms. Nannan Zhang, and undergraduate counselor Mr. Anpu Yang warmly welcomed the incoming students. Under the coordination of the Teaching Office, staff members Fei Hao, Yang Wang, and Liu Yang, along with undergraduate student Bin Long, volunteered to assist with the orientation activities.

The team was well-prepared and attentive to detail—guiding students through registration materials with care, handling each step of the registration process with patience, and providing warm, thoughtful service to ensure every new student felt the hospitality and support of the Institute. In the evening, institute leaders visited student dormitories to greet the new arrivals, offering encouraging words urging them to seize their youth, live up to their era, pursue dreams at Peking University, and contribute to the vision of a Healthy China.

In the coming days, the Institute will organize orientation ceremonies, introductory academic sessions, class meetings, and student leadership elections. The team will also assist with university-level events including health checkups, the university-wide opening ceremony, the first lecture of the semester, and guided tours of the university history museum and campus.

Graduate Orientation Scene

Undergraduate Orientation Scene

Senior university leaders including Executive Vice President of Peking University, Director of the Health Science Center, and President of Peking University Third Hospital Prof. Jie Qiao; Executive Deputy Secretary of the CPC Committee at Peking University and Secretary of the Health Science Center Party Committee Prof. Yucun Liu; Executive Deputy Secretary Prof. Shandong Xu; and Associate Directors Prof. Liping Duan, Prof. Hairong Bao, Prof. Weimin Wang, Prof. Yuan Xiao, and Prof. Ning Zhang visited the orientation venues. They inspected the organization of the event and spoke warmly with the incoming Class of 2021 students.

The independent innovation and development of the high-end medical equipment industry has been listed as a key task in China's 14th Five-Year Plan. As one of the four pillar disciplines underpinning the modernization of China’s hospital system, medical technology plays a crucial role in supporting the medical equipment industrial chain and bears the historic responsibility of driving independent innovation in high-end medical technology.

Since the 2000 merger of Peking University and Beijing Medical University, fertile ground has been laid for interdisciplinary development in medical technology. Initiated by Prof. Hongbin Han and supported by faculty from engineering and information sciences at the main campus, the discipline has undergone ten years of incubation and development under the leadership of the Health Science Center. In 2017, it was formally approved as one of the first first-level doctoral disciplines in medical technology in China.

The leadership of Peking University Health Science Center has consistently placed high importance on the planning and development of this discipline. Based on strengths in traditional areas such as medical imaging technology, clinical laboratory science, optometry, and radiation therapy physics, the program has integrated frontier fields including artificial intelligence, omics, and big data. This has led to the formation of a forward-looking "8+1" disciplinary structure. With moral education at its core, the program aims to cultivate future successors for the socialist modernization cause—individuals who are patriotic, politically committed, and capable of leading the international development of medical technology.