Guo Moruo, male, Han nationality, is a famous scholar, writer and social activist in modern China. Born in1892165438+10/6, formerly known as Guo Kaizhen, from Leshan, Sichuan. After studying in Japan in his early years, he accepted the ideas of Spinoza, Tagore and Whitman, and decided to give up medicine and join literature. Together with Cheng, Yu Dafu and others, he organized the "Creation Society" and actively engaged in the new literature movement. Goddess, the representative poetry collection in this period, got rid of the shackles of China's traditional poetry, fully embodied the spirit of the May 4th Movement and created a poetic style in the history of China literature. It is the best revolutionary romantic poem in contemporary times. 1923, systematically study Marxist theory and advocate proletarian literature. 1926 participated in the northern expedition and served as deputy director of the political department of the national revolutionary army. 1927 After Chiang Kai-shek cleared the Party, he participated in the Nanchang Uprising led by China's * * * production party. 1February, 928, wanted by the Kuomintang government, he went into exile in Japan, devoted himself to studying the ancient society of China, and wrote important academic works such as Studies on Ancient Society in China and Studies on Oracle Bone Inscriptions. 1937 After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he returned to China as the director of the Third Hall of the Political Department of the Military Commission, and later as the director of the Cultural Work Committee, uniting progressive cultural circles to engage in the anti-Japanese national salvation movement. After 1946, it stood at the forefront of the democratic movement and became the revolutionary banner of the cultural circles in the Kuomintang-ruled areas. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), he was elected as the chairman of the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, successively served as Vice Premier of the State Council and Director of the Cultural and Educational Committee, President of the China Academy of Sciences and Vice Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, and was elected as a member of the 9th, 10th and 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Production Party. Editor-in-chief of China's Historical Manuscripts and Oracle Bone Inscriptions's Collected Works, all works are compiled into 38 volumes of Guo Moruo's Complete Works.
Guo Moruo is one of the main founders of the University of Science and Technology of China. 1958 In May, in order to realize the modernization of science and technology and speed up the training of professionals urgently needed for national defense construction and cutting-edge science and technology, Guo Moruo, then president of China Academy of Sciences, joined some famous scientists to propose to the CPC Central Committee that China Academy of Sciences establish a new university. This proposal was supported by party and state leaders, and Nie, and was approved by the meeting of the Central Secretariat. In September of the same year, China University of Science and Technology was formally established in Beijing, and the State Council appointed Guo Moruo as the president. Since then, Guo Moruo has served as the president of the Chinese University of Science and Technology for 20 years, showing profound knowledge and profound educational thoughts. Under his leadership, the Academy of Sciences carried out the policy of "running a school in the whole hospital and combining departments with departments", and implemented the policy of combining scientific research with education, giving full play to the advantages of strong teachers and excellent scientific research equipment in various research institutes of the Academy of Sciences, and fully supporting the construction of HKUST; It has established the principle of combining teaching with scientific research, combining science with technology and combining theory with practice, advocated the excellent school spirit of "diligent study, advancing science with specialty, blending theory with practice", established a new education system for cultivating emerging, marginal and cutting-edge scientific and technological talents, and formed a democratic academic atmosphere that is open, open and compatible with different schools. All these have shown great vitality in the future practice of running a school of Chinese University of Science and Technology, and laid a solid foundation for the long-term development of the school. On the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese University of Science and Technology, a bronze statue of Guo Moruo was erected in the East Campus.