Two Tsinghua scholars were nominated as vice presidents of the University of Hong Kong, news revealed that Tsinghua.com suddenly deleted the title of one-person party committee

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Written by: Hu Jiaxin, Deng Yinglin, Deng Jiaqi

2020-10-23 13:10

Last update date: 2020-10-23 17:32

The management of the University of Hong Kong has further personnel changes. "Hong Kong 01" learned that the University of Hong Kong will hire two mainland scholars from Beijing’s Tsinghua University to join the University’s governance team. Among them, Shen Zuojun, Dean of the Department of Industrial Engineering of Tsinghua University, will serve as the Vice President (Research ); Gong Peng, head of the Department of Earth System Sciences at Tsinghua University, will take over as the Vice President (Academic Development) of the University of Hong Kong.

According to the news, if the university committee of the University of Hong Kong approves the appointment next Tuesday, the two will take office as soon as January next year, with a term of five years.

According to the information on the "Party and Government Organizations" on the webpages of the relevant departments of Tsinghua University, Shen Zuojun is not only the dean of the Department of Industrial Engineering, but also a member of the Party Committee of the "Department Party Committee" of the department, meaning that he has the status of a CCP member.

Once successfully appointed, it is expected that for the first time, a mainland scholar with the status of a member of the Chinese Communist Party will serve as the management of the University of Hong Kong.

However, after the news came to light, Shen Zuojun's name was removed from the column of the "Department Party Committee" team list. The web page currently only shows Shen as the dean of the department.

"Hong Kong 01" once called Shen Zuojun's office in Tsinghua for inquiries, but was unable to get in touch.

The reporter is also checking with the University of Hong Kong.

The President of the University of Hong Kong, Zhang Xiang, took office in mid-July 2018. During his tenure for about two years, four of the seven vice-principal positions have resigned. Currently, there are three vice-president positions temporarily held by professors and one position. Hang in the air.

Relevant information was removed after Shen Zuojun was a member of the "Department Party Committee"

"Hong Kong 01" learned that the University of Hong Kong will hire two mainland scholars who teach at Tsinghua University to join the management.

Among them, Shen Zuojun, Dean of the Department of Industrial Engineering of Tsinghua University, will be appointed as the Vice President (Research) of the University of Hong Kong; Gong Peng, Dean of the Department of Earth System Sciences of Tsinghua University, will have the opportunity to succeed the Vice President (Academic Development) of the University of Hong Kong.

According to the information on the webpages of relevant departments of Tsinghua University, in the list of members of the "Party and Government Organizations", Shen Zuojun is both the dean of the department and the party committee member of the "Department Party Committee," meaning that he has the status of a CCP member.

However, after the news was exposed, the webpage was updated at noon today (23rd). Shen Zuojun's name was removed from the column of the "Department Party Committee" team list. The webpage now only displays the identity of the Dean of the Department.

The two newly recommended associate candidates have similar teaching and research backgrounds to Zhang Xiang, and both have teaching and research experience at the University of California, Berkeley.

Shen Zuojun is a logistics and supply chain management scholar and has won the CAREER Award from the Natural Science Foundation of the United States.

It is said that he graduated from Shandong University with a bachelor's degree in the 1990s and completed his doctorate at Northwestern University in the United States.

In addition, according to the website of the University of California, Berkeley, he is also the Chair Professor of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and the professor of "Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen College".

As for Gong Peng as a geographer, his main research areas include lidar data processing and remote sensing data.

He obtained a bachelor's and master's degree in Geography from Nanjing University in the 1980s, and then went to the University of Waterloo in Canada to study for a PhD in 1990.

He also served as a faculty member in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley for 20 years.

It is understood that the selection and selection committees responsible for selecting the "picking" for the two deputy schools are all led by Zhang Xiang.

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The post of Vice President (Research) of the University of Hong Kong was originally held by He Zisen, a Hong Kong-born scholar who has been teaching at the National University of Singapore for about 30 years. However, after about four years of his tenure, he suddenly resigned to the university for "personal reasons" in the middle of last year. After leaving Hong Kong University for half a year, it was reported that he was looking for a new job and returned to Singapore to concentrate on research.

Gong Peng is expected to be in charge of academic-related personnel policies on the University of Hong Kong

As for the post of Vice President (Academic Development) of the University of Hong Kong to be held by Gong Peng, looking up the information, there is no such title in the current management structure of the University of Hong Kong.

Some sources estimate that the position of the deputy school is not a new position. The management area is believed to be similar to the current position of "Vice President (Academic Human Resources)", which means that Gong Peng has the opportunity to be responsible for various academic-related human resource policies in the university. And procedures.

As for the position of Vice President (Academic Human Resources) of the University of Hong Kong, the selection controversy broke out five years ago.

The University Committee of the University of Hong Kong delayed the appointment of the former Dean of the Faculty of Law, Chen Wenmin, to the position of vice-principal on the grounds of "waiting for the deputy", and finally questioned Chen's lack of academic qualifications and lack of a "doctorate degree" and other reasons. Start the search for candidates.

The post was taken over by Ou Jiefang, the chair professor of the Department of Psychology at the time, but his term will expire at the end of this year.

According to the news, the University Council of Hong Kong University will hold a meeting next Tuesday. If the appointment is approved, the two will take office as soon as January 2021 for a term of five years.

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The deputy convenor of the HKU Alumni Concern Group, Mai Dong-wing, said that he has not yet received confirmation from the University of Hong Kong, and none of the HKU stakeholders he knows has heard the news.

He bluntly said that if the appointment is true, he believes that he will be the first person to publicly have the identity of the Communist Party of China to join the University of Hong Kong as a high-level person, which may affect the future research and development of the University.

He described the situation as worrisome and even questionable that the two entered the University of Hong Kong for the purpose of carrying out "political tasks" that the current management does not want or intend to carry out. He is worried that the University of Hong Kong may have greater restraint.

At present, the two candidates for associate school have taught at the University of California, Berkeley, like Zhang Xiang.

Mai Dongrong also criticized that global recruitment may find the old colleagues of two principals, or give people a feeling of nepotism: "Global recruitment, very few will find old colleagues who have a relationship with the principal, and they are two (some similar Background), it may give people the question of nepotism.”

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