Subsidiaries of Tsinghua Holdings, including Tus-Holdings, Chengzhi Holdings, MOOC-EN Education, and Beijing GS Technology Co Ltd (GSAFETY), have shouldered their social responsibility and taken active and effective actions to combat the novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP), which the WHO refers to as COVID-19.

Real-time epidemic situation awareness and analysis system

Tsinghua University's Institute for Public Safety Research and Beijing GS Technology Co., Ltd. (GSAFETY) quickly set up a real-time epidemic situation awareness and analysis system to tackle the outbreak of COVID-19. The system can monitor, collect, analyze, and visualize real-time regional epidemic data, allowing governments of different levels to dispatch emergency resources, research epidemic situations, and make supported decisions.

The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and more than 20 provinces and cities including Guangdong, Wuhan, Hefei, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Foshan have used the system.

The Wuhan municipal government’s emergency command center, which was built by Tsinghua University's Institute for Public Safety Research and GSAFETY, was immediately transformed into the city’s COVID-19 prevention and control command center after the outbreak. It has supported government officials in epidemic data analysis, command and dispatching, information transmission, and situational analysis and judgment.

The university's Institute for Public Safety Research and GSAFETY have also sent a number of technical personnel to conduct 24/7 on-site responses in Wuhan city. 

Wuhan city COVID-19 prevention and control command

Real-time epidemic situation awareness and analysis system

Online platforms facilitate teaching and learning

On February 3, Qiu Yong, President of Tsinghua University, gave a live speech to all the teachers and students in the university, saying that it must take social responsibility and has decided to make more than 1,600 of its MOOC courses on Xuetangx.com open to the public free of charge. It will also recommend over 2,000 courses on the Rain Classroom platform for teachers and students in other colleges.

Xuetangx.com and the Rain Classroom APP are online learning platforms under MOOC-CN Education.

Medical workers dispatched to assist Wuhan

Medical workers of the Dandong First Hospital before departing for Wuhan on Feb 2

The Dandong First Hospital under Chengzhi Holding Co., Ltd. in Dandong city, Northeast China’s Liaoning province dispatched its second medical team consisting of three members to assist Wuhan city, on Feb 2.

On January 26, two of the hospital’s medical workers went to Wuhan and they have been working at the front line of the fight against the epidemic for nearly a month.

All the five medical workers are backbone staff at the hospital specializing in respiratory and critical care medicine.

New COVID-19 detection kit

A research team of ACC Biotech, incubated by Tsinghua Science and Technology Park, developed a new detection kit for COVID-19 testing. The new kit has a unique advantage over other methods in detecting asymptomatic or latent virus carriers.

ACC Biotech workers are busy in the testing room.