Han Ximin

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SHENZHEN has been selected as home to one of the country’s national centers for applied mathematics, according to a release by Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) on Sunday, which was commissioned for the task.

The list released by the Ministry of Science and Technology showed other such centers will also be built in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Chongqing, four municipalities directly under the Central Government, and other provinces that include Shandong, Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangsu, Hubei, Jilin, Shaanxi and Sichuan.

The establishment of the center will be headed by SUSTech and jointly carried out by Shenzhen University, the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technologies under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and China Electronics Technology Group Corporation.

This will be the first State-level research platform ever approved for construction by SUSTech. The center will be chaired by Fang Fuquan, chair professor at the Mathematics Department of SUSTech and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The center will have three modeling and computing research institutes respectively for internet information systems, precise medication application and life sciences.

It will target bottlenecks to industrial innovation in the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, aim to make breakthroughs in key applied mathematics technologies, and become a center of applied technologies integrating talent cultivation, science research and industrial services.