On October 9, 2025, the Shanghai Xuhui Zhichun Innovation Center, a collaborative endeavor between Zhang Yiming, the visionary founder of ByteDance, and Professor Yu Yong, the esteemed founder of the ACM Class at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, was officially inaugurated. The following day, on October 10, Zhang Yiming made a rare public appearance at the center, marking his first in several years. As a private, non-profit entity, the Zhichun Innovation Center is set to recruit talented young individuals passionate about pan-computer science and artificial intelligence, offering them positions as associate researchers to begin their journey.