Youth travels to mountains and seas, youth embraces starlight. On August 8th, the list of winners of the 2026 Five School Tongzhou New Student Scholarship was officially announced at the themed dinner of the Five School Tongzhou Beijing Overseas Innovation Talent Forum.

As a long-term strategic partner of the Five Schools Boat Club, Huaneng Trust continues to cultivate top overseas young talents and promote exchanges between China and foreign countries. Together with Keqing Education, we have established the first Five Schools Boat New Student Scholarship, which specifically recognizes the outstanding comprehensive literacy of the 2026 freshmen from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Four young students who possess both hardcore academic strength, rich practical responsibilities, and a broad global perspective have won the honor of this scholarship. The banquet brought together industry leaders, academic experts, and overseas students from five universities to witness the shining moment of the new generation of young role models.

Five Schools Together - Linking Top Chinese Students from Around the World

2026 Five School Boat Club Innovation Talent Forum

The Five Schools Boat Club was founded in 2013 as a high-end talent alliance spontaneously formed by Chinese undergraduate students from five of the world's top universities, Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Stanford University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The organization takes "sailing through thick and thin" as its spiritual core, adhering to the five concepts of "gathering words, gathering news, gathering art, gathering virtue, and gathering ways". For more than ten years, it has continuously built a deep dialogue bridge between young people, industry enterprises, and academic institutions at home and abroad. It holds annual innovation talent forums in major cities in China all year round, carrying out multi-level exchanges around technology, humanities, international relations, innovation and entrepreneurship, gathering outstanding overseas Chinese youth in various disciplines of arts, sciences, business and industry, helping talents connect with domestic industrial development, and building a cultural communication link between China and foreign countries. It is a highly influential platform for overseas student exchange in China.

Five Schools Same Boat New Student Scholarship - Empowering Growth and Setting a Benchmark for Top Students to Strive for Progress

2026 Five School Freshman Scholarship Awards Ceremony

The Five Schools Same Boat New Student Scholarship is a special honor scholarship established for the 2026 freshmen of the Five Schools Same Boat Association, jointly established by Huaneng Trust and Keqing Education.

The core intention of establishing scholarships is:

Commending outstanding young students from five schools who have outstanding academic achievements, rich social practices, and possess both patriotism and global perspectives;

Encourage top overseas students to deepen their professional research, engage in international exchanges and public welfare practices, and give back to society with what they have learned;

Establish a long-term connection channel between enterprises and overseas talents, and reserve high-quality youth strength for returning home development and Sino foreign exchanges;

Inheriting the spirit of advancing together in the same boat, setting an example for young people, and inspiring more overseas students to pursue academic excellence and fulfill social responsibilities.

The scholarship selection covers five dimensions: academic research, international competitions, social practice, humanities and public welfare, and innovation and entrepreneurship. After multiple rounds of material review and comprehensive evaluation, four outstanding representatives with comprehensive abilities were finally selected and awarded on-site at the forum's exclusive dinner.

Huaneng Trust&Keqing Education Joint Establishment - Industry and Education Work Together to Cultivate Talents, Join Hands with Youth to Build Dreams

This scholarship is jointly established by Huaneng Trust and Keqing Education, aiming to help top overseas youth grow and succeed through the integration of industry and education.

Huaneng Guicheng Trust Co., LtdHuaneng Trust is a national non bank financial institution under the state-owned enterprise China Huaneng Group, with comprehensive strength consistently ranking among the top in the trust industry. The enterprise has a strong background in the energy industry and professional financial service capabilities. It adheres to the essence of financial service entities, deeply cultivates in the fields of capital markets, asset management, wealth management, and industry finance collaboration, actively practices social responsibility in the long run, and continues to pay attention to the development of young talents at home and abroad in talent support and youth innovation. The establishment of scholarships through this investment is an important measure taken by Huaneng Trust to fulfill its corporate social responsibility, empower top overseas youth, and facilitate talent exchange between China and foreign countries. Relying on its own industrial and financial resources, it provides long-term support for the future career development, innovation, and entrepreneurship of young students.

Guest EducationKeqing Education is a professional consulting agency that specializes in high-end international education. The brand name is derived from Keqing's advisors who provided advice during the Warring States period, symbolizing empowering young people's growth with professional strength. Our institutional business covers the full cycle application planning, academic research guidance, youth growth companionship, and career development guidance for top universities around the world. We have created a unique full cycle international education companionship system and continue to cultivate a large number of outstanding students who have been admitted to world-renowned universities such as Harvard, Yale, Oxford, and Stanford. Keqing Education always pays attention to the academic exploration and humanistic practice of young people. This joint scholarship aims to discover and recognize top young people with comprehensive qualities, and build a bridge for international education, overseas students, and domestic industries to communicate.

Winners' Style - Young Role Models, Diversified Youth Leading the Way Forward

Wang Jichen Stanford University Dual major in Computer Science and Physics

·SAT 1560, full marks in mathematics;

·Studied under the director of the Astronomy Department at the University of Pittsburgh, independently developed Bayesian time series and mixed density network algorithms, significantly improved the accuracy of black hole observation models by 47%. Published as the first author in AAS and ADASS, presented orally at the International Astronomical Congress in the United States, won the second prize in Physics Astronomy at the ISEF International Science and Technology Innovation Awards, and received the Jane Street Special Scholarship; Simultaneously developing Transformer electrocardiogram diagnostic model, achieving 97% screening accuracy and obtaining official recognition from the US CDC;

·Creating Fairplay Labs, a multi-agent roadshow evaluation platform with a monthly active audience of 10000 people; Leading the establishment of the National Public Welfare Hackathon League, landing 15 youth public welfare science and technology innovation competitions in 8 states;

·Won two physics medals at the US Science Olympiad;

·TikTok has 30000 fans, 1.6 million likes, and the Rubik's Cube quickly tops the top 100 in Pennsylvania, while also serving as a key player in the U21 Youth Football League.

Zheng Youheng, Yale University Applied Mathematics Major

·Admitted to three top universities, Yale University, California Institute of Technology, and Columbia University, and awarded the title of top Davis Scholar at Columbia University;

·Full marks for ACT, SAT Mathematics, and all 9 AP courses with a full score of 5;

·Selected for the top RISE research project at Boston University with a admission rate of only 3%, I studied under a member of the American Academy of Engineering to research the quantum classical correspondence theory, and completed an original paper on quantum mechanics as the sole author, which was uploaded to arXiv;

·Promoted to AIME five times, led the team to win the overall championship of the Physics Bowl in eleven states and the runner up of the Blue Ribbon in the American Mathematical Contest;

·Collaborate to establish a non-profit organization for mathematics in the whole state and build a platform for youth mathematics competitions;

·Independently founded a public welfare cleaning enterprise, providing affordable services for elderly people living alone and job opportunities for low-income students, and their achievements have been featured in mainstream local media.

Jacklyn Saddler Harvard University Human Biology, Behavior, and Evolution

·ACT score of 35, achieving full marks in English and reading subjects;

·Selected for the top summer research project funded by California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a research focus on antibiotic resistance;

·Collaborating with professors from the University of Iowa to study the genetic effects of gastric bypass surgery on humans using mice as experimental subjects; Conduct research projects and write academic papers to explore potential therapies for autoimmune disease ulcerative colitis using plant compounds;

·Representing Canada in the International Medical and Disease Olympiad;

·Won a gold medal in the UK Biology Olympiad and a silver medal in the US Medical and Disease Olympiad; The semifinalist of the American Biology Olympiad has the highest competition score for non US citizens;

·Received the Canadian Sanofi Biological Genius Award;

·Serving as a student council member, advocating for the rights of over 2 million students and receiving outstanding leadership awards;

·At the same time, she also ranked 7th in the rowing event in Ontario, performed at the New York Fashion Week runway, and ranked among the top five globally in international beauty pageants.

Chen Runyu, Yale University Dual major in Economics and Political Science

·I attended ICC High School affiliated to Renmin University of China in high school;

·Simultaneously obtaining undergraduate admission qualifications for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) at Yale University in the United States and Oxford University in the United Kingdom;

·Deeply cultivating the field of multi-level international cultural exchanges between China and Bosnia and Herzegovina, I went to Bosnia and Herzegovina to assist local teams in jointly creating a commemorative sculpture for the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Bosnia and Herzegovina;

·Conducted research on bilateral relations between China and the United States on a professional research platform under the Carter Center in the United States;

·The Silk Road paper has been published in an internationally authoritative academic journal;

·John Locke Academic Paper Competition, top 3% globally;

·Bronze medals in both individual and team events at the International Linguistics Olympiad;

·Persist in long-term commitment to public welfare cultural service work, continue to serve as a volunteer guide at the Shijingshan District Stone Carving Cultural Relics Museum in Beijing, and popularize knowledge related to stone carving history and traditional cultural context to the general public.

With the light of youth, gather the stars of the times; Give back to the world and travel to faraway places with what you have learned. The successful award of the Five School New Student Scholarship is not only a high recognition of the unremitting pursuit of the four outstanding young people, but also an important practice for Huaneng Trust and Keqing Education to join hands with the Five School New Student Association to help top overseas youth grow and promote cultural, scientific and technological exchanges between China and foreign countries. In the future, Huaneng Trust will adhere to its original intention of cultivating talents, collaborate with high-quality resources from various sources, continuously empower top young people at home and abroad, cultivate young pioneers with long-term strategies, and inject a continuous stream of youthful energy into Sino foreign scientific and technological innovation and cultural exchange.