Tsinghua University and Beijing University recruit

Tsinghua University and Beijing University recruit about 8,000 students out of more than 13 million high school seniors every year. Six out of 10,000 students.

These universities select gifted students again from six out of 10,000 students and educate them on their own. They are Yao Bahn from Tsinghua University and Turing Bahn from Peking University. We must compete with these geniuses.

It is also impressive to see the pragmatic idea that (the achievements made) can be put on the shelf or on the bookshelf.
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China's Genius Education Act Leads AI Era [China Difference]

Tsinghua University and Beijing University are located side by side in Haidian District in Beijing City, China. About 8,000 of China's more than 13 million high school seniors enter two universities every year. It is only six out of 10,000 students.

The two universities, which picked the best six students out of 10,000 students, select gifted students again to educate them. They are Yao Bahn from Tsinghua University and Turing Bahn from Peking University. Every year, Yao Bahn chooses 50 students and Turing Bahn 40 students from Tinghua University.

Tsinghua University Yao Bahn, who has emerged as the vanguard of artificial intelligence (AI), shows how China conducts genius education. Yaoban is famous for having a lot of gifted children, as it is said that half of all gifted children in China gather in Tsinghua University and half of Tsinghua University's gifted children gather in Yaoban.

Not long ago, Pony AI, an autonomous driving company listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, and Megvii, the founder of the famous face recognition, are from Yaoban, and "Kimi K2 Thinking," a large language model (LLM) that recently released results ahead of ChatGPT 5.0, was also created by a Tsinghua University graduate.

1. Qianxian question: "Why can't Chinese universities produce outstanding talent?"

Chen Xue-sun (1911-2009), the father of Chinese rocket technology, talked about the problems of Chinese university education to Premier Wen Jiabao during his visit to China in 2005. Chen Xue-sun graduated from Shanghai Transportation University and went to the U.S. to receive a doctorate at California Institute of Technology and work as an aerospace scientist, before returning to China in 1955 to develop ballistic missiles and rockets.

He said, "The main reason why China has failed to develop is because there are no universities or independent institutions that can develop scientific and technological advancements, and we are not producing outstanding talent. This is a big problem."

In 2009, the Chinese Ministry of Education launched a pilot program to nurture outstanding students in basic science. A part of the program is the "强 Foundation" in which 39 prestigious universities, including Beijing University, Tsinghua University, and Zhejiang University, will evaluate and select students based on their basic science skills starting in 2020 to foster elite talent. Those who are good at math, physics, and chemistry can enter a university.

In particular, in China, the Chinese University of Science and Technology has created a "boys' class" since 1978 to provide gifted education, and the number of gifted classes has been on the rise recently (Chantens, who started a Chinese AI chip company, Cambricon, and has a wealth of 33 trillion won, is from the boys' class). In particular, Yao Ban of Tsinghua University has recently started to solve some of the problems pointed out by Chen Xue-sun as he has made remarkable results.

Yao Bahn is the only Chinese professor who has been leading Korea by more than 10 years. Yao Qizhi (79), the only one who received the Turing Award, a Nobel Prize in computer science, came to Tsinghua University in 2004 after giving up his tenured position as a professor of computer engineering at Princeton University. Its official name is "Tsinghua Institute's Computer Science Experiment Team," which is called Yao Bahn after Yao's last name.

Tsinghua University picks up nearly 4,000 freshmen every year, but Yao Bahn picks only 50. Most of them have won gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad and the International Physical Olympiad, or rank within the top three in Cao Cao in each province. Almost all admission is through recommended admission and occasional admission.

Looking at the students who entered the Yao class in 2018, 44 students were recruited from time to time and 6 were recruited from time to time. Among them, 13 participants in the International Mathematics Olympiad (three national representatives), 26 participants in the International Information Olympiad (three national representatives), and two top-ranked provincial science.

There are so many outstanding students that some students are shocked after entering the school. The anecdote that Dr. Wuyi, who was appointed as a Yaoban professor in August 2020 after working at OpenAI, is interesting. He completed his undergraduate program at Yaoban from 2010 to 2014 and then completed his doctorate at UC Berkeley from 2014 to 2019.

In August last year, Dr. Wu told a Chinese podcast that when he just entered school, he participated in a competition and thought he was good at it. "I was doing a project by an American professor later, and it was very difficult. I tried to solve it all day in the dorm, but I couldn't. So I asked a friend for help. He was playing a game, and he kindly stopped playing and helped me out. Then, without stopping the shooting game "Counter Strike," he picked up a pen, wrote down a few lines and solved the problem!"

Dr. Woo said at that time, I thought, "The difference in intelligence between a person and an ordinary person may be greater than the difference in intelligence between a person and an animal." He added that students who enter Yao class are more likely to feel this frustration, so they are considerate to adapt well psychologically.

2. Put it on the shelf or on the bookshelf

In Chinese gifted education, the phrase "put it on the display or on the bookshelf" is emphasized. Recognizing the achievements made as academic achievements and making them products are equal.

Yaoban produced 663 undergraduate graduates through 17 phases as of June 2024. Some founders have jumped into high-tech fields such as facial recognition, autonomous driving, and blockchain, as well as academic giants who are engaged in theoretical research while serving as professors at prestigious universities worldwide such as Tsinghua University, Stanford University, and Duke University.

Megby, considered the first AI startup company, was co-founded in 2011 by Inch and Tang Won-bin, who were from Yaoban, and even joined Yangmu, who is a year younger. The facial recognition system developed by Megby has been adopted by Alibaba's Alipay and Huawei.

Loutencheng, who founded Pony AI, a self-driving robotaxi, is also famous. Loutencheng, one of Professor Yao's students, said Google Code Jam, a coding competition