Tsinghua University · Full chronicle and history

Tsinghua University professor Nie Huihua previously proposed taxing robots and AI, on the grounds that companies hiring real people must pay wages and social security contributions, while switching to robots can save on labor costs; this view has recently drawn renewed attention.

Mike Rogers, Chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee (should be @RepMoolenaar, as the original tweet reads), sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Defense asking that it be added to the Section 1286 list, on the grounds that the university and other well-known Chinese universities are engaged in activities that harm U.S. national security. The letter details the situation at several Chinese laboratories and schools.

In late July 2024, Lao Dongyan, a professor at Tsinghua University's Law School, published an article openly questioning the network number and network certificate system that the Ministry of Public Security and the Cyberspace Administration of China plan to introduce, arguing that it is essentially the normalization of Health Kit surveillance. The article was swiftly wiped out across the entire internet.

On March 16, 2005, the Tsinghua Network Center blocked access from off-campus, and the Shuimu Tsinghua BBS was converted into an on-campus-only system, leaving 82.3% of its former off-campus users unable to log in; on April 14 the servers were taken over by the university, and on April 19 the station affairs committee resigned en masse.

During the Cultural Revolution, the two rival Red Guard factions at Tsinghua University fought a hundred-day armed clash, using improvised cannons, land mines, grenades, semi-automatic rifles, and even homemade tanks, leaving 18 dead, more than 1,100 wounded, and over 30 permanently disabled.

In 1959, Hu Jintao was admitted to Tsinghua University with excellent grades. He had originally intended to apply for the Department of Automatic Control, but due to his family background, he was reassigned to the Department of Hydraulic Engineering.

In 1947, Zhu Rongji was admitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering of National Tsinghua University, where he majored in electrical machine manufacturing. While at the university, he was elected class monitor and president of the Tsinghua University Student Union.