The newly unveiled School of Space Exploration at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences aims to cultivate and pool comprehensive talents in deep-space exploration as part of the country's goal in advancing its strength in aerospace.
The school, officially launched on Tuesday, has designed an interdisciplinary curriculum for students to have them prepared for the next frontier in space exploration.
"I think this is a very promising direction. It requires interdisciplinary knowledge, with excellent foundation in multiple disciplines including mathematics, mechanics and fluid mechanics. I hope I can first solidify my multidisciplinary foundation and develop scientific thinking in this process," said Zhuang Hengdong, a student with the School of Space Exploration.
"It feels like our perspective has shifted from how high we can fly to how far we can go. In the past, we focused more on Earth-moon exploration and related engineering. In the future, we'll be exploring more of the unknown universe, possibly extending to the entire solar system and even longer-range deep-space explorations," said Cheng Lei, another student at the school.
Zhu Junqiang, dean of the new school, and also, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, noted that the School of Space Exploration will cultivate talents who are curious about the unknown world with innovative spirits.
"Space exploration is itself a name full of imagination. There are still many unknowns in space that will encourage people to explore. We hope to cultivate comprehensive and cross-disciplinary talents who can meet the needs of dealing with changes in the world situation and who can not only understand engineering and design advanced launch vehicles and space stations, but also possess strong scientific literacy, study key scientific problems in space, and dare to explore the unknown world with a strong sense of innovation and innovative spirit," said Zhu.
China's new space exploration school aims to train next-generation deep-space talents
The Republic of Korea (ROK) will implement the tariff agreement with the United States and calmly respond to U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff hike announcement, the presidential office said Tuesday.
Presidential spokesperson Kang Yu-jung told a press briefing that a meeting on trade issues with the United States was held at the presidential office, or the Blue House, to assess the situation over Trump's tariff hike announcement and discuss countermeasures.
Trump said on his social media on Monday that he would increase ROK tariffs on autos, lumber, pharma, and all other reciprocal tariffs from 15 percent to 25 percent, accusing the ROK's legislature of not having enacted a bilateral trade agreement with the United States.
Kang said Seoul planned to convey its commitment to implementing the ROK-U.S. trade agreement to the U.S. side while taking a calm response, as the tariff increases only take effect following administrative procedures in the United States.
It indicated that the ROK would take a measured approach by closely analyzing Trump's true intentions and the background behind his remarks, as his social media posts do not immediately lead to tariff hikes.
The Blue House meeting was also attended via phone by Minister of Trade, Industry and Resources Kim Jung-kwan who is currently in Canada as part of Seoul's special mission for strategic economic cooperation.
Kim will visit the United States after his schedule in Canada to discuss the tariff issues with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, according to the presidential office.
Yonhap News Agency reported that under a joint fact sheet released after a ROK-U.S. summit held in Gyeongju last October, the United States agreed to lower tariffs on ROK products, including automobiles, in exchange for the ROK making 350 billion U.S. dollars in investments in the United States.
The two sides later signed a joint memorandum on Nov. 14, stipulating that tariff cuts would be applied retroactively from the first day of the month in which relevant legislation was submitted to the ROK parliament to implement the agreement.
The ROK's ruling Democratic Party submitted a special bill on U.S. investment to the National Assembly on Nov. 26, and the United States subsequently retroactively lowered tariffs on ROK automobiles to 15 percent on Dec. 4.
ROK to implement tariff agreement with U.S., calmly respond to Trump's tariff hike announcement
