Prof. WANG Chunhui and Prof. CHENG Le were appointed Qixin Scholars (Chair Professorship) during the ceremony held on December 7th. Presided over by WANG Gaohe, head of Human Resources Office, the event was attended by HUANG Guangjie, Secretary of Discipline Inspection Commission of the Communist Party Committee of NingboTech University, as well as teacher and student representatives of the School of Media and Law.
WU Fei, Dean of the School, gave a brief account to two professors' academic attainments and the results achieved by the Research Base for Cyberspace Governance and Rule of Law in Digital Economy under their guidance, and extended a warm welcome to them.
Addressing the ceremony, Prof. WANG Chunhui noted that Qixin Scholars shoulder the responsibility for blazing new trails, and thus need to fully embrace new technologies such as big data, keep in alignment with national strategies such as building a law-based country, and delve deeper into frontier cross-disciplinary fields. In addition, efforts should be made to build the base into a source of scientific innovation. Prof. CHENG mentioned that China is at a new stage in cyber security and digital transformation, and thus has a lot of potential, and that he would spare no effort in supporting the base and the university.
HUANG Guangjie extended a warm welcome to two professors and briefly introduced the university's two recent strategic moves: becoming a public undergraduate-level university and setting up the School of Media and Law. Pointing out the achievements made by the Research Base for Cyberspace Governance and Rule of Law in Digital Economy since its launch, he hoped that the two professors will continue their leading role in basic research, strategic planning, cross-disciplinary integration, international exchanges, rule of law in science and technology and media integration, and that faculty and students of the School could make joint contributions towards turning NingboTech into a university that is "first-class in the province and top 100 in the country".
After the ceremony, Prof. CHENG gave a lecture on how to publish papers in international journals, during which he elaborated on the importance of publishing papers in international journals in building a first-class discipline, the language ecology of international journals, the creativity and originality in the writing of papers, and the distribution of SSCI-indexed English-written law journals. His informative lecture provided authoritative guidance for teachers and students present.
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Dr. WANG Chunhui, professor and doctoral supervisor at Zhejiang University, is a well-known expert in information communication and digital economy strategy and law in China. He serves as Director and chief expert of the Research Base for Cyberspace Governance and Rule of Law in Digital Economy, head of the Institute of Digital Economics of the UN World Silk Road Forum, legal expert of the Chinese Advisory Panel for China Council for the Promotion of International Trade as the Non-State Observer of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, expert of the Chinese working group for the International Telecommunication Regulations of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Deputy Director of the Academic Committee of China Behavior-Law Association, member of the expert committee of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, etc.
Dr. CHENG Le, professor at Guanghua Law School, Zhejiang University, has been named Highly Cited Chinese Researcher by Elsevier. He serves as Deputy Director of the Research Base for Cyberspace Governance and Rule of Law in Digital Economy, Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of State System Research, and chief expert of the major project supported by the National Social Science Fund of China. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Social Semiotics (SSCI, A&HCI) and International Journal of Legal Discourse (Scopus, ESCI), member of the Advisory Board of Pragmatics and Society (SSCI, A&HCI), member of the Editorial Committee of Semiotica (SSCI, A&HCI). He also serves as President of the World Association of Legal Interpreting and Translation, Vice President of International Academy of Linguistic Law, etc.
