It means that the reason why a university becomes a university is not how many buildings it has, but how many masters it has.

The "building" here refers to the material conditions for running a university, and the "master" refers to a teacher with extensive knowledge, top academic position, perfect morality and noble personality. When President Mei Yiqi said, "it doesn't mean that there is a building", he only emphasized that the key condition for setting up a university does not depend on material things, and it is more important to have a high-quality faculty. This shows President Mei's people-oriented philosophy of running a school.

in the first half of the 2th century, who can meet the five harsh conditions put forward by all Tsinghua students: independent, knowledgeable, noble personality, truly able to develop Tsinghua, and renowned? Who can undertake this great task? Mei Yiqi, the high foot of the famous educator Mr. Zhang Boling, was ordered at the critical moment and accepted the transfer order. In 1931, he became the president of the National Tsinghua University. From that year on, he was connected with the lifeblood of Tsinghua, and he became the lifelong principal of Tsinghua.

Up to now, there is still a famous saying in the education field-"A great scholar is not a building, but a master."

This is a passage that Mr. Mei said to all teachers and students in Tsinghua after he took office. Mr. Mei, who has always been taciturn, is eloquent and forceful. He has raised the faculty of a university to an unprecedented height. He himself invited countless masters to this university, and trained eight founding fathers with two bombs and one star for China, 172 academicians of China Academy of Sciences and China Academy of Engineering, and two Nobel Prize winners. This is Mei Yiqi, the forever shining superstar in the history of Tsinghua University.