The Ministry of Education has announced the winners of the second Questions and Conjectures activity of the 2.0 Program for Cultivating Top-notch Students in Basic Disciplines, in which Yihang Zhao's project Is there a super radiation effect in aggregation-induced luminescence? (Supervisors: Dong Guangjiong and Xu Min) won the Grand Prize (only two from the national top-tier bases), while Wang Xinzhu's project How to achieve active quantum regulation of blackbody radiation? (Supervisor: Dong Guangjiong) won the showcase award.

Zhao Yihang and Wang Xinzhu are both from the Elite program of Physics, Zhao Yihang is a 2019 undergraduate and Wang Xinzhu is a 2020 undergraduate.

The Ministry of Education's second Questions and Conjectures programme was launched in June 2022 and lasted for five months, with 18 outstanding projects among 101 projects in 11 subject areas including mathematics, physics and chemistry, including two Grand Prizes, five First Prizes and five Second Prizes. The first prize was awarded to 5, the second prize to 6 and the exhibition prize to 5, of which 2 were awarded to East China Normal University.

The Questions and Conjectures activity of the Basic Academic Programme 2.0 (BSP 2.0), in which students participated, aims to guide students to face the world's frontiers of science and technology, the main battlefields of the economy, the major needs of the country, and people's health, to discover and ask original questions, to answer challenging questions, and to explore the unknown with the aim is to guide students to explore the unknown world with innovative ideas, methods and theories.

This year's event was divided into an independent student exploration section and an enterprise problem challenge section, and both winning projects from East China Normal University were entered in the independent exploration section.

It is important to allow and encourage students' whimsical thinking, especially interdisciplinary thinking. Exercise students' penetrating power to see through phenomena to their essence. Looking at an issue from different perspectives may lead to some fantastic results. After the sky-rocketing thinking, it is important to be able to retrieve back to the physical principles and appreciate that everything changes. Professor Xu Min, Associate Dean of the School of Physics and Electronic Science, said this when talking about the work of cultivating top talents.