In the historic intersection of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial reform around the world and the transformation of our country’s development pattern, it is the historical mission of higher education to train leading talents of science and technology innovation with forward-looking and inter-disciplinary thinking, to seize the opportunity of future scientific and technological development. In order to fully implement the General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discussion on education, science and technology, steadily promote the construction of new engineering discipline, and strengthen the research of original, leading as well as groundbreaking future-oriented science and technology, Peking University established the College of Future Technology on September 23, 2020.

The College of Future Technology of Peking University has integrated talents from the Institute of Molecular Medicine, the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and the National Center for Biomedical Imaging Science, and set out to create a department of Big Data and Biomedical Artificial Intelligence. Since its establishment, the College has made gratifying progress in refining the discipline direction, strengthening team building, innovating teaching system, promoting the construction of national imaging facilities, as well as deepening the integration of industry and education and so on. In May 2021, it was selected into the list of the first batch of colleges of future technology constructed by the Ministry of Education.

Taking the future health and disease prevention technology as its main direction, the College of Future Technology, acting on the spiritual tradition of “inclusiveness and excellence” and adhering to the pursuit of “World class, Chinese characteristics, Peking University style”, aims at the technological development direction with significant social and economic benefits. Relying on industry-university-research innovation projects, national major engineering tasks and talent needs of emerging industries, it transforms comprehensive resources such as research bases and high-tech enterprises jointly, exploring the formation of an industry-university-research integrated technology innovation system and a new training model for engineering talents to cultivate leading talents who are “innovative, versatile and interdisciplinary”.