On November 10th, at the Zhuhai campus of Sun Yat sen University, the cave ultra quiet laboratory in the tunnel was undergoing equipment debugging. This laboratory is one of the important ground facilities of the Tianqin Project, providing a research and testing platform for high-precision detection instruments and equipment. Entering the "national treasure" China Spallation Neutron Source, the inelastic neutron scattering spectrometer jointly built by Sun Yat sen University and Spallation Neutron Source Science Center is in place, further revealing the mechanism and microscopic secrets of high-temperature superconducting materials. On November 12th, Sun Yat sen University will celebrate its 100th anniversary. Sun Yat sen University is a university with a glorious revolutionary tradition, bright red genes, and pursuit of outstanding character. Nowadays, Sun Yat sen University is committed to building a world-class university with Chinese characteristics, with the aim of strengthening originality and leading scientific and technological research, serving national strategies, and scaling new heights in science and technology. In the laboratory, Professor Wang Meng's team from Sun Yat sen University showed reporters a black material rod - a single crystal sample of high-temperature superconducting new material. This new material has great potential. There is no mature theoretical guidance for high-temperature superconductivity research, and there is significant uncertainty. No one knows where the endpoint is, if they do, we can design a path to reach it, but basic research is about unlocking the unknown, and the unknown is full of uncertainty, "said Wang Meng. Faced with uncertainty, Professor Wang Meng's team went against the current and gradually explored the growth conditions of high-quality single crystal samples, and discovered their high-temperature superconductivity. In July 2023, the scientific achievements led by Professor Wang Meng's team were published in the journal Nature. This is a brand new high-temperature superconducting system discovered by Chinese scientists worldwide, and the second unconventional superconducting material discovered by humans in the liquid nitrogen temperature range. It is a breakthrough in the field of basic research from 0 to 1. At Sun Yat sen University, "from 0 to 1" is not uncommon. Professor Zhang Hongbo's research group has published the first single-cell spatiotemporal map of human limb development in the journal Nature. Professor Shi Mang's team collaborated with the Alibaba Cloud team to successfully conduct the largest RNA virus research to date, exploring new paths in virology research. Professor Zheng Zhikun's team has successfully prepared woven grain boundary polymer porous membrane, which is expected to expand the application of crystal membrane in separation, optoelectronics, flexible devices and other fields... "Sun Yat sen University has long attached importance to basic research work, strengthened the connection and interaction of education, science and technology, and talent reform, and gathered a strong force to strengthen basic research. Basic and original research achievements continue to emerge." Gao Song, academician of the CAS Member and president of Sun Yat sen University, said. Professor Cheng Xiao, Dean of the Institute of Science and Technology at Sun Yat sen University, introduced that the university has received funding for over a thousand projects for four consecutive years during the National Natural Science Foundation of China's centralized reception period. In 2024, the first centralized reception period approved funding of over 600 million yuan. Two basic science center projects were approved for the first time in 2024, achieving significant breakthroughs in this project. Xiangda, the weapon of forging the country, pursues dreams. Deep Blue is a microcosm of Sun Yat sen University's strategy of serving the country. Sun Yat sen University aims to strengthen itself by building three large ships, namely the "Sun Yat sen University", "Sun Yat sen University Polar", and "Zhuhai Cloud", and constructing a high-performance computing cluster called "Hai Lu Tong", contributing to the strategy of building a maritime power. Among them, the "Sun Yat sen University Polar" is the third icebreaker in China with polar exploration capabilities. After completing its Arctic scientific expedition mission, it is currently resting at its home port in Nansha, Guangzhou. In recent years, the school has continuously expanded scientific research towards the macro level, delved deeper into the micro level, advanced towards extreme conditions, and made comprehensive efforts to create a batch of "national treasures" and better serve national strategies. Among them, the Tianqin Center is promoting China's independent space gravitational wave detection program, the Tianqin Project. Academician Luo Jun, the director of the center, introduced that the "Tianqin Plan" is expected to launch and deploy three identical satellites around 2035, build a space gravitational wave observatory, and carry out research on space gravitational wave detection. The new generation of domestically produced supercomputing system project has been basically completed and upgraded to a new generation of application capability based supercomputing system. Its service performance has doubled compared to Tianhe-2, and it can effectively support the integration of multi domain super intelligence applications Lu Yutong, director of the National Supercomputing Guangzhou Center, said. It is reported that since the 14th Five Year Plan, Sun Yat sen University has significantly improved its ability to serve national strategic needs, leading the approval of 61 routine projects under the National Key R&D Program and 4 projects under the Science and Technology Innovation 2030 Program. Zhu Kongjun, secretary of the Party Committee of Sun Yat sen University, said that Sun Yat sen University will take the new century as a starting point, adhere to the fundamental task of building morality and cultivating people, actively serve the country's major strategic needs, strengthen the support of strategic scientific and technological forces, and make greater contributions to building a strong educational country and Chinese path to modernization. (New Society)