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UCAS holds 2026 New Year’s Ceremony
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) welcomed the year 2026 with a New Year’s Eve Ceremony on the night of December 31 at its Yanqi Lake Campus, located at the foot of the Great Wall.
The event, titled "Ringing in the New Year, Embarking on a New Journey", marked the seventh year UCAS has held this ceremony, which has grown into a distinctive cultural tradition for the university, drawing enthusiastic participation from a wide range of students and faculty.
A series of activities were held throughout the evening, including the final round of the UCAS singing competition, a ski themed party, and several cultural performances before New Year countdown event. The events attracted participants from the university and the public on-site, the live broadcast reached a large online audience.
As midnight approached, a group of representatives—including faculty and students from the School of Advanced Interdisciplinary Sciences, the School of Cryptology and the School of Space Exploration, alongside an undergraduate student majoring in Cyber Security and a German student from Sino-Danish College (SDC)—ascended the campus clock tower to ring the New Year’s bell. As the bell sounded, electronic fireworks lit up the night sky. Attendees exchanged New Year greetings, joyfully welcoming the arrival of 2026.
A highlight of the ceremony was the unsealing of a "Future Mailbox," where students deposited postcards addressed to their future selves, expressing hopes and aspirations for the years ahead.
At the end of the event, attendees joined together in singing songs, stepping into the new year in a warm and vibrant atmosphere.
Author: GAO Yuan, WANG Hanqu
Editor: GAO Yuan
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Research News
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Chinese scientists develop breakthrough method for aromatic amine applications
BEIJING, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese research team has developed an advanced method to overcome long-standing challenges in the application of aromatic amines, promising a safer and more efficient alternative to an old industrial process, according to a study recently published in the journal Nature.
The research, led by Zhang Xiaheng from the Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, introduces a novel strategy that efficiently converts inert aromatic carbon-nitrogen bonds into various crucial chemical bonds.
Aromatic amines are fundamental structural components widely found in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and natural products. However, their potential as versatile building blocks in synthesis has remained underdeveloped.
For over a century, industrial practices have relied on converting aromatic amines into diazonium salts -- intermediates known for their high explosiveness and instability. This conventional approach suffers from significant drawbacks, including safety hazards, excessive copper reagent consumption, and limited substrate compatibility.
To address these challenges, the research team spent three years dedicated to exploring direct activation pathways for aromatic amines. Ultimately, they successfully developed a novel direct deaminative functionalization technology using common and inexpensive laboratory reagents.
The new method offers significant advantages for poly-nitrogen heterocyclic systems commonly used in drug synthesis. With simple and readily available laboratory reagents, it exhibits excellent versatility -- applicable to almost all types of medicinal heteroaromatic amines and aniline derivatives with diverse electronic properties and structures, regardless of amino group position. Moreover, it enables kilogram-scale production through straightforward operations.
This research opens up a new pathway for rapidly constructing complex molecules from readily available starting materials, offering significant potential for advancing research and development in medicinal chemistry, Zhang said.
Source: Xinhua
Editor: GAO Yuan
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