By Prof Richard Li-Hua Preface and Context The vision for an ELITE Innovation University represents a decade-long, strategically orchestrated response to the evolving imperatives of global higher education in the era of artificial intelligence. Its genesis in 2016 was not merely an idea but a foresight into the impending necessity for a fundamental paradigm shift. This foresight was crystallized and formally inaugurated at a pivotal moment: my keynote at the China Association of Higher...