For thousands of years, whether it is Tuoling strung deep Erde, or Zheng He's seven voyages sailing feat, in recounting the story of the "Silk Road" to the people.

Thousands of years later, holding high the banner of peaceful development, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed the "One Belt, One Road " initiative, opening a new path of exchanges and cooperation between the economies, politics and culture of all countries in the world.

The silk industry has once again renewed its vitality.

On the banks of the Qiantang River, the Silk House. Hangzhou, a century-old school with a strong cultural background - Zhejiang University of Technology. For more than a century, the development of the school has been closely linked to silk.

Centuries of inheritance

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that not forgetting history can open up the future, and being good at inheritance can be good at innovation. As the cradle of the earliest silk cultivation of talents, Zhejiang University of Technology has always had a sense of responsibility and mission outstanding cultural heritage of.

In 1897, when the provincial governor Lin Qi was at the Jinsha Port of Xizi Lake, he founded the first official silk school in China, the Silkworm Museum. This is one of the earliest new education institutions in China, and it has also opened the curtain of modern textile education and agricultural education in China.

Lin Qibing's idea of ​​"revitalizing Zhejiang industry, taking the silk industry as the most important" and starting a new school not only saved the silk crisis in Zhejiang at that time, but also laid a solid foundation for the development of China's silk industry.

Born in the late Qing Dynasty, the "Sericulture Museum", although moved to the school site, has been insisting on running a school.

In the middle of the 20th century, the “Zhejiang Silk Institute of Technology”, which stretched out from the Silkworm Museum, began to make a name for itself in Zhejiang and even the whole country. In 2004, the school changed its name to Zhejiang University of Science and Technology to adapt to the development of the new era.

On October 27 this year, the 120th anniversary of the running of Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, the first university silk museum in the country will be open here. Here, we will show the development of science and technology in schools and even sericulture silk in Zhejiang. Here, people can see the world’s first silk brocade scroll, “The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival”, the modern silk loom from the 1930s, the brocade portrait series presented by the national leaders to foreign heads of state, and the G20 summit last year. Exhibits such as "The Head of the Church" and "Ladies' Ceremony" prepared by the guests from all over the world.

In 2016, the workers were celebrated in the Silk magazine for the 60th anniversary of the publication. "Silk" was founded by the school's old principal, famous silk expert, and silk educator Zhu Xinyu. Guo Moruo and Li Xiannian all wrote inscriptions. As the authoritative core journal of the domestic silk industry, Silk Magazine has launched the full-text database of the 60th anniversary of Silk, covering the fields of silkworm mulberry cultivation, spinning and silk making, weaving, fabric development, etc. It is an encyclopedia of the silk industry.

In 2016, the school established the only “Silk Academy” in the national colleges and universities, and in 2017 re-established the “Silk Design and Engineering” major, which is an important measure for the school to respond to the national “Belt and Road” initiative.

Not long ago, the school launched the International Training Course of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education, “The Brocade Memory Inheritance and Creative Design Workshop” and the “Modern Silk Product Processing and Innovative Design Technology”. The seminar members not only have intangible cultural heritage inheritors from Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Sichuan and other places, but also technical experts and researchers from Poland, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia and other countries. For the silk industry, inheritance must not only face the school, but also go to the society and go abroad.

"Silk is the treasure of the Chinese nation. Today we still need to re-understand and promote the silk culture, let the excellent national culture and national spirit carry forward through the carrier of silk." Wu Fengmin, secretary of the Party Committee of Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, said.

Innovation and development

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that innovation has always been an important force for the development of a country and a nation, and it has always been an important force in promoting the progress of human society.

Zhejiang Silk sales accounted for a quarter of the country, exports account for nearly forty percent. In the field of silk technology and creative innovation, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology has been providing continuous intellectual support.

As a native of Zhejiang, Chen Wenxing, the principal of the school, was admitted to the school of silkmaking at the age of 15 and has never left school since then. With deep feelings and hard research on silk, Chen Wenxing has won the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award and the second prize of technical invention, and was selected into the national “Million Plan”.

In 2004, Chen Wenxing team "sericin protein structure and improve the regulation of raw silk production, the quality of new technology" project also won the National Science and Technology Progress Award. The "pretreatment technology of silkworm cocoon high temperature steaming" invented by this subject has greatly improved the processing performance and silk quality of silkworm cocoons. This result has been applied in most of the country's silk reeling plants and has stood the test for many years.

2016, Chen Wenxing the "outer tube falling film reactor liquid thickening create and melt spinning polyester industrial yarn new technology projects" once again winning. This project successfully realized the high efficiency, energy saving, short process and flexible production of polyester industrial yarn, and cooperated with local enterprises to help the company build two production lines with an annual output of 200,000 tons and 300,000 tons, becoming the world's largest. Polyester industrial yarn producer.

At the beginning of 2017, the “Silk Culture Heritage and Product Design Digital Technology” laboratory of Zhejiang University of Science and Technology was selected into the second batch of 12 key laboratories of the Ministry of Culture.

Under the leadership of Zou Fengyuan, Dean of the School of Fashion, Zhejiang University of Technology, the laboratory uses digital technology to transform, reproduce, and restore the patterns of traditional silk products into a shareable, reproducible digital form. The innovative silk products needed, and through the virtual fitting platform, enable the corporate customers to see their own three-dimensional imaging with a mouse, satisfying the personalized and creative needs of customers.

start again

Silk, with thousands of years of history, originated in China and is known throughout the world. It spread to the rest of the world along with the ancient Silk Road. Nowadays, under the “Belt and Road Initiative” initiative, “Zhe Liren” has re-started.

Zheng Shanhong, a school 1981 silk professional alumnus, is the general manager of Dehong Zhengxin Industrial Co., Ltd. A few years ago, he took more than 100 technicians to "explore" in Myanmar. The promotion of large-scale cultivation of mulberry sericulture in Myanmar's gum veins, wax mites, eyebrows, and generous places not only led to poverty alleviation in the border areas, but also changed the fate of local people. It also completely changed the habit of local farmers to grow poppies for generations. As of 2016, Dehong is believed that the mulberry trees in Myanmar have spread over 357 natural villages, benefiting 23,900 local farmers.

Many alumni of Zhejiang Science and Technology have not forgotten their original intentions and adhere to the traditional silk industry. At the "2016 China Silk Congress", five alumni including the director of the China Silk Museum, Zhao Feng, won the "National Silk Industry Lifetime Achievement Award", which is the highest honor of China's silk industry. Only since the founding of New China Twice.

The older generation of silk people have deep feelings for silk, and the new silk people have more passion and creativity. Zhu Jianlong, a graduate student of the school in 2017, has become the designer of the Volunteer Apparel of the World Internet Conference with his skillful design experience and accurate grasp of “Oriental Beauty”. From "blue-and-white porcelain" to "hangbaiju", when the volunteers dressed in Chinese satin cheongsam appeared on the scene of the Internet conference, they stunned the world.

In fact, as one of the earliest institutions in China to offer fashion design, Zhejiang University of Technology has trained nearly 100,000 talents for the textile and apparel industry. The CEOs or chief designers of nearly 70% of garment enterprises in Hangzhou are all alumni of Zhejiang University.

In 2019, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology will also establish a fashion academy in Hangzhou to cooperate with the world's first-class fashion colleges to help the development of the “fashion” industry in Zhejiang.

The efforts of a generation of agent workers have made the flower of silk, a beautiful national industry, more colorful on the world stage.

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The three disciplines of materials science, chemistry and engineering entered the top 1% of ESI worldwide. In recent years, he has won 13 national awards, including 7 technical invention awards, 6 scientific and technological progress awards, Lu Xun Literature Award, He Liang He Li Fund Science and Technology Innovation Award, and so on.

In 2016, the top 50 universities authorized to invent inventions in the country ranked 40th. Softcore 2017 "China's best university" ranked 97th. Ranked 61st in the “China University Cultural Influence Ranking” in 2017. Zhejiang University of Technology ranked 81st among the “Top 100 Most Innovative Universities in China”.