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Chairman
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The chairman is the highest officer of an organized group such as a board, a committee, or a deliberative assembly. The person holding the office is elected or appointed by the members of the group. The chair presides over meetings of the group and conducts its business in an orderly fashion. When the group is not in session, the officers duties include acting as its head, its representative to the outside world. In some organizations, this position is called president, in others, where a board appoints a president. Other terms sometimes used for the office and its holder include chair, chairperson, chairwoman, presiding officer, president, moderator, facilitator, the chairman of a parliamentary chamber is often called the speaker. The term chair is used in lieu of chairman, in response to criticisms that using chairman is sexist. In his 1992 State of the Union address, then-U. S, president George H. W. Bush used chairman for men and chair for women. A1994 Canadian study found the Toronto Star newspaper referring to most presiding men as chairman, the Chronicle of Higher Education uses chairman for men and chairperson for women. An analysis of the British National Corpus found chairman used 1,142 times, chairperson 130 times, the National Association of Parliamentarians does not approve using chairperson. In World Schools Style debating, male chairs are called Mr. Chairman, the FranklinCovey Style Guide for Business and Technical Communication, as well as the American Psychological Association style guide, advocate using chair or chairperson, rather than chairman. The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style suggests that the forms are gaining ground. It advocates using chair to refer both to men and to women, the word chair can refer to the place from which the holder of the office presides, whether on a chair, at a lectern, or elsewhere. During meetings, the person presiding is said to be in the chair and is referred to as the chair. Major dictionaries state that the word derives from chair and man, some authorities, however, including Riddicks Rules of Procedure, suggest that the second part of chairman derives from the Latin manus, and thus claim gender-neutrality for the word. Vladimir Lenin, for example, officially functioned as the head of Soviet Russia not as tsar or as president, note in particular the popular standard method for referring to Mao Zedong, Chairman Mao. In the absence of the chairman and vice chairman, groups sometimes elect a chairman pro tempore to fill the role for a single meeting. In some organizations that have titles, deputy chairman ranks higher than vice chairman, as there are often multiple vice chairs
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Qingdao
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Qingdao is a city in eastern Shandong Province on the east coast of China. It is the largest city in its province, administered at the sub-provincial level, Qingdao has jurisdiction over six districts and four county-level cities. As of 2014 Qingdao had a population of 9,046,200 with a population of 6,188,100. Lying across the Shandong Peninsula and looking out to the Yellow Sea, it borders Yantai to the northeast, Weifang to the west, qīng in Chinese means cyan or greenish-blue, while dǎo means island. Qingdao is a seaport, naval base, and industrial centre. The worlds longest sea bridge, the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, links the urban area of Qingdao with Huangdao district. It is also the site of the Tsingtao Brewery, the second largest brewery in China, in 2007, Qingdao was named as among Chinas top ten cities by the Chinese Cities Brand Value Report, which was released at the 2007 Beijing Summit of China Cities Forum. In 2009, Qingdao was named Chinas most livable city by the Chinese Institute of City Competitiveness, jiāoào, former name during the Qing dynasty. Qindao, additional modern name for the area, refers according to locals to the shape of the coastline, Tsingtao, Postal romanization Tsingtau, German name during the concession period, written in German romanization of Chinese. Jiaozhou, a name which refers to the Jiaozhou Bay. Kiaochow, Kiauchau, Kiautschou, romanizations of Jiaozhou, human settlement in the area dates back 6,000 years. The Dongyi nationality, one of the important origins of the Chinese nation, lived here and created the Dawenkou, Longshan, in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the town of Jimo was established, which was then the second largest one in the Shandong region. The area in which Qingdao is located today was named Jiaoao when it was administered by the Qing Dynasty on 14 June 1891, in 1891, the Qing government decided to make coastal Tsingtao a defense base against naval attack and began to improve Qingdaos existing fortifications. German naval officials observed and reported on this Chinese activity during a survey of Jiaozhou Bay in May 1897. Subsequently, German troops seized and occupied the fortification, China conceded the area to Germany the following year, and the Kiautschou Bay concession, as it became known, existed from 1898 to 1914. With an area of 552 square kilometres, it was located in the province of Shandong on the southern coast of the Shandong Peninsula in northern China. Jiaozhou was romanized as Kiaochow, Kiauchau or Kiao-Chau in English, the so-called Marktstrasse was nothing more than the old main street of the Chinese village of Tsingtao, and the buildings lining it were the former homes of fishermen and farmers. Having sold their property, they resettled their homes and fields in the further east
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Dongying
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Dongying, a prefecture-level city, lies on the northern coast of Shandong province, Peoples Republic of China. At the 2010 census,2,035,338 people resided within its area of 7,923.26 km2 and 998,968 in the built-up area made up of Dongying district. Dongying is home to the Shengli Oilfield which after the Daqing oilfield is the second largest oilfield in China, the city was established in 1983, as a base for developing the Yellow River Delta and Chinas second largest oilfield, Shengli Field. The oilfield was discovered in 1964 near a village called Dongying. Dongying is located on the banks of the Yellow River Delta of Northern Shandong Province, the citys 350 km coastline borders Laizhou Bay and Bohai Bay to the east and north respectively. Dongying has a monsoon-influenced, four-season climate that lies in the transition between the continental and humid subtropical regimes, with hot, humid summers, and cold. The city is dry and nearly rainless in spring, hot and rainy in summer, crisp in autumn and dry and cold in winter. The average annual temperature is 13.1 °C, and the precipitation is 559 millimetres, with a strong summer maximum. January is the coldest and driest month, with a temperature of −2.6 °C and 5.5 mm of equivalent rainfall. July is the hottest and wettest month, the numbers are 26.8 °C. A large part of the economy revolves around petroleum and the nearby Shengli Oil Field. Dongying is one of the leading producers of rubber tires. It has more tire factories than any city in the world. Recently, Dongyings economy has grown significantly, reflecting the development of Chinas economy. The citys growing manufacturing sector and its proximity to oil reserves have led to increased company investments, an example is DuPont, which invested 5 billion yuan in 2005 to build a titanium dioxide factory in the area. After this projects completion, it became the largest investment outside of the US for DuPont, zibo–Dongying Railway Dongying Shengli Airport A new bus station was built between the east and west sides of the city, on Huanghe Road. Connections to Beijing, Qingdao and Jinan, among other cities are available on a daily basis. Dongying is home to one university, the China University of Petroleum, as well as several colleges
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Beijing
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Beijing is the capital of the Peoples Republic of China and the worlds third most populous city proper. It is also one of the worlds most populous capital cities, the city, located in northern China, is governed as a direct-controlled municipality under the national government with 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts. Beijing is the second largest Chinese city by population after Shanghai and is the nations political, cultural. It is home to the headquarters of most of Chinas largest state-owned companies, and is a hub for the national highway, expressway, railway. The citys history dates back three millennia, as the last of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China, Beijing has been the political centre of the country for much of the past eight centuries. Beijing was the largest city in the world by population for much of the second millennium A. D, the city is renowned for its opulent palaces, temples, parks, gardens, tombs, walls and gates. Its art treasures and universities have made it centre of culture, encyclopædia Britannica notes that few cities in the world have served for so long as the political headquarters and cultural centre of an area as immense as China. Siheyuans, the traditional housing style, and hutongs, the narrow alleys between siheyuans, are major tourist attractions and are common in urban Beijing. The city hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics and was chosen to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, many of Beijings 91 universities consistently rank among the best in China, of which Peking University and Tsinghua University are ranked in the top 60 universities in the world. Beijings Zhongguancun area is known as Chinas Silicon Valley and Chinas center of innovation. According to the 2016 InterNations Expat Insider Survey, Beijing ranked first in Asia in the subcategory Personal Finance Index, expats live primarily in urban districts such as Dongcheng and Chaoyang in the east, or in suburban districts such as Shunyi. Over the past 3,000 years, the city of Beijing has had other names. The name Beijing, which means Northern Capital, was applied to the city in 1403 during the Ming Dynasty to distinguish the city from Nanjing, the English spelling is based on the pinyin romanisation of the two characters as they are pronounced in Standard Mandarin. Those dialects preserve the Middle Chinese pronunciation of 京 as kjaeng, the single Chinese character abbreviation for Beijing is 京, which appears on automobile license plates in the city. The official Latin alphabet abbreviation for Beijing is BJ, the earliest traces of human habitation in the Beijing municipality were found in the caves of Dragon Bone Hill near the village of Zhoukoudian in Fangshan District, where Peking Man lived. Homo erectus fossils from the date to 230,000 to 250,000 years ago. Paleolithic Homo sapiens also lived more recently, about 27,000 years ago. Archaeologists have found neolithic settlements throughout the municipality, including in Wangfujing, the first walled city in Beijing was Ji, a city from the 11th to 7th century BC
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Simplified Chinese characters
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Simplified Chinese characters are standardized Chinese characters prescribed in the Table of General Standard Chinese Characters for use in mainland China. Along with traditional Chinese characters, it is one of the two character sets of the contemporary Chinese written language. The government of the Peoples Republic of China in mainland China has promoted them for use in printing since the 1950s and 1960s in an attempt to increase literacy and they are officially used in the Peoples Republic of China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese characters are used in Hong Kong, Macau. Overseas Chinese communities generally tend to use traditional characters, Simplified Chinese characters may be referred to by their official name above or colloquially. Strictly, the latter refers to simplifications of character structure or body, character forms that have existed for thousands of years alongside regular, Simplified character forms were created by decreasing the number of strokes and simplifying the forms of a sizable proportion of traditional Chinese characters. Some simplifications were based on popular cursive forms embodying graphic or phonetic simplifications of the traditional forms, some characters were simplified by applying regular rules, for example, by replacing all occurrences of a certain component with a simplified version of the component. Variant characters with the pronunciation and identical meaning were reduced to a single standardized character. Finally, many characters were left untouched by simplification, and are identical between the traditional and simplified Chinese orthographies. Some simplified characters are very dissimilar to and unpredictably different from traditional characters and this often leads opponents not well-versed in the method of simplification to conclude that the overall process of character simplification is also arbitrary. In reality, the methods and rules of simplification are few, on the other hand, proponents of simplification often flaunt a few choice simplified characters as ingenious inventions, when in fact these have existed for hundreds of years as ancient variants. However, the Chinese government never officially dropped its goal of further simplification in the future, in August 2009, the PRC began collecting public comments for a modified list of simplified characters. The new Table of General Standard Chinese Characters consisting of 8,105 characters was promulgated by the State Council of the Peoples Republic of China on June 5,2013, cursive written text almost always includes character simplification. Simplified forms used in print have always existed, they date back to as early as the Qin dynasty, One of the earliest proponents of character simplification was Lubi Kui, who proposed in 1909 that simplified characters should be used in education. In the years following the May Fourth Movement in 1919, many anti-imperialist Chinese intellectuals sought ways to modernise China, Traditional culture and values such as Confucianism were challenged. Soon, people in the Movement started to cite the traditional Chinese writing system as an obstacle in modernising China and it was suggested that the Chinese writing system should be either simplified or completely abolished. Fu Sinian, a leader of the May Fourth Movement, called Chinese characters the writing of ox-demons, lu Xun, a renowned Chinese author in the 20th century, stated that, If Chinese characters are not destroyed, then China will die. Recent commentators have claimed that Chinese characters were blamed for the problems in China during that time
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Traditional Chinese characters
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Traditional Chinese characters are Chinese characters in any character set that does not contain newly created characters or character substitutions performed after 1946. They are most commonly the characters in the character sets of Taiwan, of Hong Kong. Currently, a number of overseas Chinese online newspapers allow users to switch between both sets. In contrast, simplified Chinese characters are used in mainland China, Singapore, the debate on traditional and simplified Chinese characters has been a long-running issue among Chinese communities. Although simplified characters are taught and endorsed by the government of Mainland China, Traditional characters are used informally in regions in China primarily in handwriting and also used for inscriptions and religious text. They are often retained in logos or graphics to evoke yesteryear, nonetheless, the vast majority of media and communications in China is dominated by simplified characters. Taiwan has never adopted Simplified Chinese characters since it is ruled by the Republic of China, the use of simplified characters in official documents is even prohibited by the government in Taiwan. Simplified characters are not well understood in general, although some stroke simplifications that have incorporated into Simplified Chinese are in common use in handwriting. For example, while the name of Taiwan is written as 臺灣, similarly, in Hong Kong and Macau, Traditional Chinese has been the legal written form since colonial times. In recent years, because of the influx of mainland Chinese tourists, today, even government websites use simplified Chinese, as they answer to the Beijing government. This has led to concerns by residents to protect their local heritage. In Southeast Asia, the Chinese Filipino community continues to be one of the most conservative regarding simplification, while major public universities are teaching simplified characters, many well-established Chinese schools still use traditional characters. Publications like the Chinese Commercial News, World News, and United Daily News still use traditional characters, on the other hand, the Philippine Chinese Daily uses simplified. Aside from local newspapers, magazines from Hong Kong, such as the Yazhou Zhoukan, are found in some bookstores. In case of film or television subtitles on DVD, the Chinese dub that is used in Philippines is the same as the one used in Taiwan and this is because the DVDs belongs to DVD Region Code 3. Hence, most of the subtitles are in Traditional Characters, overseas Chinese in the United States have long used traditional characters. A major influx of Chinese immigrants to the United States occurred during the half of the 19th century. Therefore, the majority of Chinese language signage in the United States, including street signs, Traditional Chinese characters are called several different names within the Chinese-speaking world
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Pinyin
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Pinyin, or Hànyǔ Pīnyīn, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese in mainland China, Malaysia, Singapore, and Taiwan. It is often used to teach Standard Chinese, which is written using Chinese characters. The system includes four diacritics denoting tones, Pinyin without tone marks is used to spell Chinese names and words in languages written with the Latin alphabet, and also in certain computer input methods to enter Chinese characters. The pinyin system was developed in the 1950s by many linguists, including Zhou Youguang and it was published by the Chinese government in 1958 and revised several times. The International Organization for Standardization adopted pinyin as a standard in 1982. The system was adopted as the standard in Taiwan in 2009. The word Hànyǔ means the language of the Han people. In 1605, the Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci published Xizi Qiji in Beijing and this was the first book to use the Roman alphabet to write the Chinese language. Twenty years later, another Jesuit in China, Nicolas Trigault, neither book had much immediate impact on the way in which Chinese thought about their writing system, and the romanizations they described were intended more for Westerners than for the Chinese. One of the earliest Chinese thinkers to relate Western alphabets to Chinese was late Ming to early Qing Dynasty scholar-official, the first late Qing reformer to propose that China adopt a system of spelling was Song Shu. A student of the great scholars Yu Yue and Zhang Taiyan, Song had been to Japan and observed the effect of the kana syllabaries. This galvanized him into activity on a number of fronts, one of the most important being reform of the script, while Song did not himself actually create a system for spelling Sinitic languages, his discussion proved fertile and led to a proliferation of schemes for phonetic scripts. The Wade–Giles system was produced by Thomas Wade in 1859, and it was popular and used in English-language publications outside China until 1979. This Sin Wenz or New Writing was much more sophisticated than earlier alphabets. In 1940, several members attended a Border Region Sin Wenz Society convention. Mao Zedong and Zhu De, head of the army, both contributed their calligraphy for the masthead of the Sin Wenz Societys new journal. Outside the CCP, other prominent supporters included Sun Yat-sens son, Sun Fo, Cai Yuanpei, the countrys most prestigious educator, Tao Xingzhi, an educational reformer. Over thirty journals soon appeared written in Sin Wenz, plus large numbers of translations, biographies, some contemporary Chinese literature, and a spectrum of textbooks
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China
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China, officially the Peoples Republic of China, is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia and the worlds most populous country, with a population of over 1.381 billion. The state is governed by the Communist Party of China and its capital is Beijing, the countrys major urban areas include Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Tianjin and Hong Kong. China is a power and a major regional power within Asia. Chinas landscape is vast and diverse, ranging from forest steppes, the Himalaya, Karakoram, Pamir and Tian Shan mountain ranges separate China from much of South and Central Asia. The Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, the third and sixth longest in the world, respectively, Chinas coastline along the Pacific Ocean is 14,500 kilometers long and is bounded by the Bohai, Yellow, East China and South China seas. China emerged as one of the worlds earliest civilizations in the basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. For millennia, Chinas political system was based on hereditary monarchies known as dynasties, in 1912, the Republic of China replaced the last dynasty and ruled the Chinese mainland until 1949, when it was defeated by the communist Peoples Liberation Army in the Chinese Civil War. The Communist Party established the Peoples Republic of China in Beijing on 1 October 1949, both the ROC and PRC continue to claim to be the legitimate government of all China, though the latter has more recognition in the world and controls more territory. China had the largest economy in the world for much of the last two years, during which it has seen cycles of prosperity and decline. Since the introduction of reforms in 1978, China has become one of the worlds fastest-growing major economies. As of 2016, it is the worlds second-largest economy by nominal GDP, China is also the worlds largest exporter and second-largest importer of goods. China is a nuclear weapons state and has the worlds largest standing army. The PRC is a member of the United Nations, as it replaced the ROC as a permanent member of the U. N. Security Council in 1971. China is also a member of numerous formal and informal multilateral organizations, including the WTO, APEC, BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the BCIM, the English name China is first attested in Richard Edens 1555 translation of the 1516 journal of the Portuguese explorer Duarte Barbosa. The demonym, that is, the name for the people, Portuguese China is thought to derive from Persian Chīn, and perhaps ultimately from Sanskrit Cīna. Cīna was first used in early Hindu scripture, including the Mahābhārata, there are, however, other suggestions for the derivation of China. The official name of the state is the Peoples Republic of China. The shorter form is China Zhōngguó, from zhōng and guó and it was then applied to the area around Luoyi during the Eastern Zhou and then to Chinas Central Plain before being used as an occasional synonym for the state under the Qing
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China University of Petroleum
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The China University of Petroleum is a university system in China. It consists of two universities, China University of Petroleum, located in Qingdao and Dongying, and China University of Petroleum, both are regarded as the best universities in the field of petroleum related subjects in China. They are placed under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education, the university, founded in 1953, was known then as Beijing Petroleum Institute. In 1988, it was renamed The University of Petroleum consisting of one part in Dongying as the college, each gradually developed into universities with both undergraduate and graduate students. In January 2005, its changed to China University of Petroleum. In 2004, China University of Petroleum began to move to Qingdao, Dongying campus currently serves as the base for continuing education, remote education, research laboratories, and industry collaboration. China University of Petroleum specializes in upstream, midstream and downstream petroleum science and engineering, China University of Petroleum - East China is located in Qingdao. It also manages its old campus in Dongying, the alumni of CUP include the top officials of China, CEOs of major oil companies, members of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and members of Chinese Academy of Engineering, etc
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Tsinghua University
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Tsinghua University is a research university located in Beijing, China, established in 1911. With strong research and training, Tsinghua University is consistently ranked as one of the top institutions in China. In the aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion, American Secretary of State John Hay suggested that the US $30 million plus Boxer indemnity paid by China to the United States was excessive. The faculty members for sciences were recruited by the YMCA from the United States, in 1925, the school established its College Department and started its research institute on Chinese studies. In 1928, Tsinghua changed its name to National Tsing Hua University, after the war, Tsinghua moved back to Beijing and resumed its operations. When the Cultural Revolution began in 1966, many university students walked out of the classrooms and it was not until 1978, after the Cultural Revolution had ended, that the university began to take in students again. Even so, Tsinghua University remained in the top tier of schools in China, since the 1980s, the university has incorporated a multidisciplinary system. As a result, several schools were re-incorporated, in 1996, Tsinghua School of Economics and Management established partnership with the Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One year later, Tsinghua and MIT founded the MBA program Tsinghua-MIT Global MBA, most national and international university rankings place Tsinghua amongst the best universities in Mainland China. Admission to Tsinghua is extremely competitive, admission to Tsinghuas graduate schools is also very competitive, with, for example, only about 16% of MBA applicants admitted each year. With its motto of Self-Discipline and Social Commitment, Tsinghua University describes itself as being dedicated to academic excellence, the well-being of Chinese society and to global development. The motto goes back to a speech with the title Gentleman given by Liang Qichao in 1914, as of 2003, Tsinghua University has 12 colleges and 48 departments,41 research institutes,35 research centers, and 167 laboratories, including 15 national key laboratories. The university offers 51 bachelors degree programs,139 masters degree programs and 107 PhD programs, recently, Tsinghua has become the first Chinese university to offer a Master of Laws program in American law, through a cooperative venture with the Temple University Beasley School of Law. The university is a member of LAOTSE, a network of leading universities in Europe. Each year, the University celebrates the Intellectual Property Summer Institute in cooperation with Franklin Pierce Law Center of Concord and it has its own editorial, Tsinghua University Press. These scholars will live on the university campus at Schwarzman College, as of 2014, Tsinghua University has 19 schools and 55 departments covering a broad range of subjects, including science, engineering, arts and literature, social sciences, medicine. Department of Mathematical Sciences was established in 1927, as one of the premier Departments of Mathematical Sciences in China, DMS has produced many famous Chinese mathematicians such as Shiing-Shen Chern and Luogeng Hua. In 1952, Tsinghua DMS was merged with the Peking University Department of Mathematical Sciences, then in 1979 it was renamed Department of Applied Mathematics, and renamed again in 1999 to its current title
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Tianjin University
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Tianjin University is the first modern higher education institution in China, and now a national university under the direct administration of the Ministry of Education of China. It was established in 1895 as Tientsin University/Imperial Tientsin University and later Peiyang University, in 1951, after restructuring, it was renamed Tianjin University, and became one of the largest multidisciplinary engineering universities in China. The university was one of the first 16 universities accredited by the nation in 1959 and it is also among the first group of institutions of higher learning in the national “211-Project” to which priority is given in construction. In 1895, Sheng Xuanhuai submitted his memorial to the Guangxu Emperor to request for approval to set up a higher education institution in Tianjin. After approval on October 2,1895, Peiyang Western Study College was founded by him and American educator Charles Daniel Tenney and it was the first university providing four year degree modern higher education in China. The university modeled itself on the famous American Universities and aimed to rejuvenate China by training qualified personnel with new scientific, after the PR Chinas foundation and university restructures, Peiyang University was renamed Tianjin University in 1951. Peiyang University / Tianjin University contributes greatly to the Chinese society, in its early days, undergraduates had the permission to directly pursue graduate study at Harvard and Yale without any entrance exams. Its Law School, which is the first Law School in China, was merged into Peking University, peiyangs Department of Aeronautics was separated and developed into Beihang University. And The Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Tsinghua University,1895 Peiyang University founded 1899 The first modern diploma in China granted 1907 Developed into a comprehensive university integrating Engineering with Liberal Arts, Law and Education. The total student population is 25,000 with 9500 doctoral students and students for masters degree, over 100,000 students have graduated from Tianjin University. The university occupies an area of 1.37 km2, and has an area of 800,000 m2. More than 100 provincial, municipal, autonomous regional or ministerial leaders were graduated from Tianjin University since the founding of the People’s Republic of China. A discipline layout, with stress on engineering, incorporating science, engineering, economics, management, humanities, education, law, the university now has 6 national key disciplines and 17 municipal key disciplines. The university also confers masters degrees in business administration and public administration, the university consists of 12 schools. Forty-three majors are available for undergraduates, in addition, the university has a Graduate School, Continuing Education School, Professional Education School, Network Education School, and International Education School. The Administrators’ Training Center of Higher Engineering Education of the Ministry of Education is also located at this university, in the undergraduate teaching evaluation organized by the Ministry of Education in 1999, the university was appraised as “Excellent”. The university boasts a team of professional and concurrent researchers. There are over 80 laboratories,110 research institutes,15 experimental research, since the policy of reform and opening up to the outside world, hundreds of scientific and technological achievements of the university have won prizes
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Peking University
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Peking University, is a major Chinese research university located in Beijing and a member of the C9 League. It is the first modern national university established in China, founded as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 as a replacement of the ancient Taixue or Guozijian and it also served as the highest administration for education in China at the beginning of its founding. By 1920, it had become a center for progressive thought, Peking University is consistently ranked as the top higher learning institution in mainland China. In addition to academics, Peking University is especially renowned for its campus grounds, and the beauty of its traditional Chinese architecture. Throughout its history, the university has educated and hosted many prominent modern Chinese thinkers, including such as, Mao Zedong, Lu Xun, Gu Hongming, Mao Dun, Li Dazhao. Peking University was influential in the birth of Chinas New Culture Movement, May Fourth Movement, when it was established on July 3,1898, the school was known as the Imperial University of Peking. It was established to replace Taixue or Guozijian, or Imperial Academy, in 1912, following the Xinhai Revolution, the Imperial University was renamed National Peking University. Cai, inspired by the German model of freedom, recruited an intellectually diverse faculty that included Hu Shih, Chen Duxiu. In 1919, students of Peking University formed the bulk of the protesters of the May Fourth Movement, efforts by the Beiyang government to end the protests by sealing off the Peking University campus led to Cais resignation. In 1920, Peking University became the first Chinese university to accept female students, after the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, Peking University moved to Changsha and formed the Changsha Temporary University along with Tsinghua University and Nankai University. In 1938, the three schools moved again, this time to Kunming, and formed the National Southwestern Associated University, in 1946, after World War II, Peking University moved back to Beijing. At that time, the university comprised six schools, and an institute for humanities. The total student enrollment grew up to 3,000, in 1949, after the Peoples Republic of China was established, Peking University lost its national appellation to reflect the fact that all universities under the new socialist state would be public. In 1952, Mao Zedongs government re-grouped the countrys higher education institutions with individual institutions tending to specialize in a field of study. As a result, some arts and science faculties of Tsinghua University, at the same time, however, the university lost its Law, Medicine, Engineering and Agriculture schools. These schools and faculties were merged into other universities or to found new colleges. During the re-grouping, Yenching University was closed up, Peking University moved from downtown Beijing to the former Yenching campus. The first disturbances of the Cultural Revolution began at Peking University in 1966, in 2000, Beijing Medical University was merged back into Peking University and became the Peking University Health Science Campus
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Dalian University of Technology
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Dalian University of Technology, colloquially known in Chinese as Dàgōng, is a public research university located in Dalian and Panjin in Liaoning, China. DUT, previously renowned as one of the Big Four Institutes of Technology, is among Chinas top universities for engineering and it is also one of the national key universities administered directly under the Ministry of Education of China. Dalian University of Technology is located in Dalian, Liaoning, founded in 1949, DUT is one of the top national universities in China, which is a highly focused science and engineering research and education institution. It is the first formal university established for the need of economic, the university offers the countrys top-ranked engineering programs, producing the best engineers in China. The Chinese calligraphy on the latest logo of the university was written by former President Jiang Zemin, previously known as Dalian University, DUT was founded in 1949. In July 1950, the School of Engineering separated from Dalian University, meanwhile, scholars from other universities came to enlarge the departments of Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering. The university started to expand right after the rearrangement, attracting more scholars, to ensure future growth, the then-headmaster, Bochuan Qu, strategically moved the universitys main campus to the bay area of suburban Dalian. In October 1960, DIT became one of the 26 key national universities directly under the State Ministry of Education, graduate School of DIT was established in April 1986. In March 1988, DIT changed its name into current Dalian University of Technology, DUT was a pioneer in Chinas MBA education. Vice Premier Deng Xiaopings 1979 visit to the United States initiated hundreds of joint research projects and cooperative programs under the Agreement on Cooperation in Science, among them, one is important in terms of influencing the development of Chinas MBA education. In 2007, Dalian Institute of Semiconductor Technology was jointly set up by Intel, Dalians municipal government, and Dalian University of Technology, Intel donated an 8-inch chip producing assembly line to DUT, with a total value of 36-million-US-dollar. The establishment of the Institute made DUT the most advanced base in China in terms of training integrated circuit talents and it also owns one National-level Technical Transfer Center. D. Due to the young age compared to other top-tier universities in China. The total area of the university is 4,550 acres, the campus is beautiful and maintains a mixture of classical and new buildings. Many are equipped with teaching and researching facilities and laboratories. The main campus includes sport sites, a hospital, and an international hotel, the former Chinese President, Jiang Zemin, once visited DUT and said that this was a great place for studying and doing research. The Liu Changchun sports stadium and gym held the international female volleyball tournament in 2004, in 2010, three new buildings were appended to the west of the existing campus, including a state-of-the-art library, named after the former DUT president and academician, Qián Lìngxī. Pánjǐn campus was established at Panjin, Liaoning
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Northwestern Polytechnical University
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Northwestern Polytechnical University is a National Key University, directed by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the Peoples Republic of China, located in Xian, Shaanxi, China. The university emphasizes on the education and research in aeronautical, astronautical, as of 2012, NPU has 13,736 graduate students and 14,395 undergraduate students. The University is a member of Project 985, the current NPU enjoys the legacy from its three major predecessors. In 1938, due to the Japanese invasion in the northwestern China, after the World War II, the National Northwestern Engineering Institute, which is one of the three predecessors of the later NPU, was moved out of the mountains into the city of Xianyang in 1946. After the Peoples Republic of China founded, the National Northwestern Engineering Institute was renamed as the Northwestern Engineering Institute in 1950 and this institute was relocated to Xian and renamed as the Xian Aeronautics Institute, which is the second predecessor of the later NPU, in 1956. In 1970, due to the relation with former USSR, the Peoples Liberation Army Military Engineering Institute. Many of its departments were relocated from the city near China-Soviet border, among which, its Department of Aeronautical Engineering is moved to Xian and merged into the NPU. The Youyi Campus, often referred as the old campus, is divided into three parts, the South, the West and the North by the West Youyi Road and the South Laodong Road. The campus hosts education facilities, apartments of teachers and students, stadiums, logistics facilities, a kindergarten, the Changan Campus, often referred as the new campus, is divided into two parts, the East and the West by the Dongxiang Road. This campus hosts many newly built buildings, school buildings, experiments facilities, sports facilities. It serves as the base for undergraduate education of NPU. NPU is building or going to more facilities in both of these two campuses. Supported by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the former Commission for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, NPU has a strong research capacity in engineering. It was confirmed as one of the National Key Universities by the State Council in 1960, in the 7th and 8th Five-year plan, NPU was listed as one of the 15 National Key Developing Universities. In the 9th Five-year plan, NPU joined the Project 211, and, in the 10th Five-year plan, NPU joined the Project 985. Since its establishment, NPU has educated more than 150,000 high level technicians and researchers for Chinas defense industry, the first PhD from 6 disciplines in China was graduated from NPU. And, among NPUs alumni, there are more than 30 fellows of the CAS, the universitys research funding has been continually rising every year. It reached 1.67 billion RMB in 2010, ranking 5th among all universities in China with funding per faculty member ranked 1st, and, in 2011, it reached 1.91 billion RMB
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Shandong
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Shandong is a coastal province of the Peoples Republic of China, and is part of the East China region. Shandongs Mount Tai is the most revered mountain of Taoism and one of the sites with the longest history of continuous religious worship. The Buddhist temples in the mountains to the south of the capital of Jinan were once among the foremost Buddhist sites in China. The city of Qufu is the birthplace of Confucius, and was established as the center of Confucianism. Individually, the two Chinese characters in the name Shandong mean mountain and east, Shandong could hence be translated literally as east of the mountains and refers to the provinces location to the east of the Taihang Mountains. A common nickname for Shandong is Qílǔ, after the States of Qi and Lu that existed in the area during the Spring and Autumn period. Whereas the State of Qi was a power of its era. Lu, however, became renowned for being the home of Confucius, the cultural dominance of the State of Lu heritage is reflected in the official abbreviation for Shandong which is 鲁. English speakers in the 19th century called the province Shan-tung, the province is on the eastern edge of the North China Plain and in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and extends out to sea as the Shandong Peninsula. The earliest dynasties exerted varying degrees of control over western Shandong, over subsequent centuries, the Dongyi were eventually sinicized. During the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, at this time, Shandong was home to two major states, the state of Qi at Linzi and the state of Lu at Qufu. Lu is noted for being the home of Confucius, the state was, however, comparatively small, and eventually succumbed to the larger state of Chu from the south. The state of Qi was, on the hand, was a major power throughout the period. Cities it ruled included Linzi, Jimo and Ju, the Qin dynasty conquered Qi and founded the first centralized Chinese state in 221 BCE. The Han dynasty that followed created a number of commanderies supervised by two regions in what is now modern Shandong, Qingzhou in the north and Yanzhou in the south, during the division of the Three Kingdoms, Shandong belonged to the Cao Wei, which ruled over northern China. After the Three Kingdoms period, a period of unity under the Western Jin dynasty gave way to invasions by nomadic peoples from the north. Northern China, including Shandong, was overrun, Shandong stayed with the Northern Dynasties for the rest of this period. The Sui dynasty reestablished unity in 589, and the Tang dynasty presided over the golden age of China
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Changping District
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Changping District, formerly Changping County, is a district situated in the suburbs of northwest Beijing. Changping District, covering an area of 1,430 square kilometres, about 34 km from the city center, Changping is renowned for its numerous scenic spots and tourist facilities, like Datangshan museum. It is rich in resources, mineral products, and rural products. The urban area of Changping has an area of 16 km2, other major urban areas are Nankou and Yangfang. Public schools, Changping District No.1 High School Changping District No.2 High School Private schools, the Korean International School in Beijing was previously located in Changping District. Changping Railway Station Index, Districts of Beijing List of administrative divisions of Beijing Changping District
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Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China
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The Vice Premier of the State Council of the Peoples Republic of China is a high-ranking executive assistant to the Premier. Generally, the title is held by individuals at one time. The highest-ranked office holder is called the First-ranked Vice Premier. The 1st-ranked VP takes over duties of the Premier at the time of the latters incapacity, current Vice Premiers, in order of rank, are Zhang Gaoli, Liu Yandong, Wang Yang and Ma Kai. The most prominent case of this is Deng Xiaoping between 1978 and 1980
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Zhou Yongkang
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Zhou Yongkang is a retired senior leader of the Communist Party of China. He was a member of the 17th Politburo Standing Committee, Chinas highest decision-making body, Zhou rose through the ranks of the Communist Party through his involvement in the oil and gas industry, starting as a technician on the Daqing oil field during the Cultural Revolution. Zhou was a State Councilor of the State Council from 2003 to 2008 and he served as the Minister of Public Security from 2002–07, before being promoted to the PSC. Zhou retired at the 18th Party Congress in 2012, in late 2013, Zhou was placed under investigation for alleged abuse of power and corruption, a decision state media announced in July 2014. Following his investigation, Zhou was expelled from the Communist Party of China, on June 11,2015, Zhou was convicted of bribery, abuse of power and the intentional disclosure of state secrets by the Intermediate Court in Tianjin. Zhou and his members were said to have taken 129 million yuan in bribes. He was sentenced to life in prison, born Zhou Yuangen in December 1942, Zhou is a native of Xiqiantou Village, Wuxi County, in Jiangsu province. Xiqiantou is located 18 kilometers outside Wuxi city proper, the majority of Xiqiantou residents were surnamed Zhou. Zhou took on the surname of his mother because his father, upon joining the Zhou household when he married, Zhou Yongkangs father took on his wifes surname and became known as Zhou Yisheng. Zhou was the eldest of three sons, Zhous family was poor, his family made a living farming and fishing the Asian swamp eel. Zhou was sent to school with the assistance of his family friends. In 1954, Zhou was enrolled at one of the two top schools in the eastern Wuxi area. It was during this period that Zhou changed his name to Yongkang on the advice of his teacher, Zhou excelled at school, and was eventually accepted to enroll at the prestigious Suzhou High School, one of the most prominent secondary schools in the Jiangnan region. Zhou had good grades and was involved in activities, including the schools political ideology group as well as the events promoting literacy. In 1961, after obtaining stellar results on his Gaokao exams, he was admitted to the Beijing Institute of Petroleum soon after and he majored in geophysical survey and exploration. In November 1964 Zhou became a member of the Communist Party of China. In 1966, the Cultural Revolution ensnared Beijings higher education institutions, Zhou was told by the authorities to wait for an assignment while the political struggles wreaked havoc on Chinas universities. He joined geological survey work in north-east China in 1967, assigned to become a technician at factory No.673 at the Daqing oil field
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Beijing Foreign Studies University
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Beijing Foreign Studies University, formerly known as the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute, is a university located in Beijing, China. It is Chinas pre-eminent foreign language teaching university according to recent collegiate rankings, the universitys campus occupies 304,553 square meters, with a student dormitory area of 40,000 m² and a library of 9997 m², and is divided in two by Beijings Third Ring Road. Other facilities on campus include a center, a gymnasium, dining halls. The university is known as Běiwài in Mandarin and BFSU in English. The wide-ranging studies at BFSU are provided by over 600 faculty members, in addition to approximately 120 international experts, BFSU qualified for the first round of the competition in its efforts to enter Project 211, a university development programme launched by the Ministry of Education in 1996. The team was renamed as Yan’an Foreign Languages School. In the Chinese Civil War, the school moved several times, till it settled down in Beijing in 1949, the current name was used since 1994. It was the first institution in the country to specialize in foreign language studies and they have compiled a number of influential corpora, such as Chinese English learners corpora, and parallel corpora of Chinese-English translation. They also have a great many corpora on the CQPweb, the report also said the facilities are modern and the teaching staff is dedicated
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Beijing Institute of Technology
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Beijing Institute of Technology, is a co-educational public university, located in Beijing, China, established in 1940, Yanan. It is a research university under the supervision of the Ministry of Industry. The major mission of the Academy was to assist the development in Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Boarder Region. As the first science and engineering university founded by Chinese Communist Party, li Fuchun, the secretary of the CPC Committee for Shaan-Gan-Ning Border Region was appointed as the first president, and was succeeded by educationist Xu Teli. During the founding period, Yanan Academy of Natural Sciences received great support from organizations and individuals. In March 1943, Yanan Academy of Natural Sciences was merged into the newly founded University of Yanan, According to the situation of the war, University of Yanan prepared to move the north and northeast of China by the end of 1945. In January 1946, the School of Natural Sciences moved to Zhangjiakou, one year later, Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region Institute moved to Jingxing County, renamed as Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region Bureau of Industry College of Technology. In August 1948, it was merged with Institute of Technology, Northern University to form Institute of Technology. It was administrated by Ministry of Industry, and became the first university specialized in heavy industry related subjects since the foundation of the new China, on 1 January 1952, Institute of Technology, North China University was officially renamed as Beijing Institute of Technology. In 1959, Beijing Institute of Technology was singled out as one of 16 “national key universities” that were authorized to graduate degrees. During the Cultural Revolution, most research at Beijing Institute of Technology came to a halt, in 1988, the institution changed its Chinese name from Institute to University, while the English name remained unchanged. In 1991, BIT was chosen as one of the 14 national key universities to receive special supports from the Chinese government during the Eighth Five-Year Plan, in December 1995, BIT was ratified by the Chinese government as one of the 15 first-tier Project 211 universities. In 1996, BIT became one of the first 32 Chinese universities to officially run graduate schools, in the same year, BIT was designated as one of the 27 national key universities during the Ninth Five-Year Plan. In 1999, BITs undergraduate education was evaluated as Excellent in the assessment organized by the Chinese Ministry of Education, in the same year, BIT was also designated as one of the top 22 universities in the 21st Century Education Promotion plan during the Tenth Five-Year Plan. BIT used to be administered by the Commission of Science, Technology, since 2008, it is administered by the newly founded Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. In November 2010, along with 8 other Project 985 universities, BIT officially formed Excellence League, zhongguangcun campus has an area of 920,700 square meters, including a floor space of 724,000 square meters. It is the oldest and the used to be the campus of BIT. Since the opening of Liangxiang campus in 2007, Zhongguancun campus is used to host higher year undergraduate students
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Beijing Jiaotong University
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Beijing Jiaotong University, formerly Northern Jiaotong University, is one of the oldest universities in mainland China. The main campus is located near Xizhimen in central Beijing, the universitys name is often abbreviated by locals to JiaoDa. JiaoDa is a participant in the Ministry of Educations Project 211, the university was a component of Jiaotong University. In September 1909, the Postal Department of the Qing government founded the Railway Management Institute in Beijing, the Beijing campus was named National Jiaotong University, Beijing. In 1949, the Beijing campus was renamed Northern Jiaotong University, in September,2003, it was once again renamed Beijing Jiaotong University to make its favorable locality explicit. The Shanghai campus has since separated into two universities which are now Shanghai Jiaotong University and Xian Jiaotong University, with a sister branch in Nanchang. The university library has over a million books,3000 Chinese and foreign journals, as well as documents on microfiche. The Transportation, Engineering, Law and ICT Faculties are particularly well-regarded, the students at Beijing Jiaotong University are active in a societies that enrich their campus life in addition to their normal academic activities. Volunteers Societies which include the Red Cross Society, Journalist Society, the table is made with reference to “The Catalog of Undergraduate Programs of Regular Higher Education Institutions of China, 2012”. Length of Schooling, Urban and Rural Planning-5 years, Architecture-5 years, the programs marked with * are accredited by Washington Accord. Beijing Jiaotong University is one of the earliest universities which authorized by the Chinese government to enroll overseas students. Ever since BJTU has received over 3,000 foreign students and visiting scholars from as many as 71 countries and regions of Asia, Africa, Europe and North America, etc. Jiaotong has agreements with universities in the United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Singapore, Japan, Australia, U. S. President Barack Obama saw JiaoDa on a state visit to Beijing. Entering China is a students exchange program which is organized by Beijing Jiaotong University. The projects objective is to international education and cultural exchanges, promote Chinese culture and promote exchanges. The program is organized by Beijing Jiaotong University and the China Women and Children Development Center in order to provide comprehensive education services for international students. In 2007, Beijing Jiaotong University appointed Studypath as a technology partner to co-ordinate and liaise with students. The online service is a technological study-path available worldwide that supports the exchange program, Beijing Jiaoda still cooperates on some level with its sister, Shanghai Jiaotong University, with business and economics students being able to switch campus
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Beijing Normal University
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Beijing Normal University, colloquially known as 北师大 or Beishida, is a public research university located in Beijing, China, with strong emphasis on basic disciplines of humanities and sciences. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in China, the term reflects BNUs heritage as a former unit of the Imperial University of Peking dedicated to training schoolteachers. Professor Qi Dong, a scholar in Developmental Psychology was appointed as the President since July,2012. After the Republic of China was established, the Imperial Capital School of Supreme Teacher Training was renamed Peking Normal College in 1912, the college had its first graduate programs in 1920 and began to recruit female students in 1921. In 1923 it was renamed again as Peking Normal University, the Peking Women’s College of Education merged into Peking Normal University in 1931. When the communists established the Peoples Republic of China in 1949, the capital of Peking was renamed Beijing, during a national initiative of university rearrangement in 1952, Fu Jen Catholic University merged with Beijing Normal University. In 1954, it moved from Hepingmen campus to the established campus at Beitaipingzhuang. The New York Times once described it as one of the most progressive institutions in China, the university was chosen as a Project 211 institution in 1996. During its centennial celebration in 2002, an asteroid discovered in 1996 was named after the university as 8050 Beishida, the university also lays distinct emphasis on educational equality. So far the university has altogether 55 undergraduate degree programs,162 master programs, furthermore, the university has an institute for Proteomics which is the only one established in universities by Ministry of Education. Besides, the university has established a Science Park which covers an area of 6 hectares, the university has an annual research funding in sciences of over RMB100 Million. In 2010,150 projects were funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, the research funding in humanities and social sciences has increased rapidly in the recent five years with RMB150 Million in total, which tops the third place nationally. Since 2002 the annual increase has been over RMB30 Million, as a university strong in basic theory and research, it is fairly fruitful in fund raising for humanities and social sciences. Beijing Normal University is also among the earliest institutions to recruit international students, a most prestigious program is Princeton in Beijing. Regarding international co-operation, the Beijing Normal University is part of a university consortium that offers a Erasmus+ Joint masters degree, the current campus was built in 1954. It is located in northwest downtown Beijing in Haidian district, between the second and third ring roads, and is the closest among all Haidian universities to Tiananmen Square, the campus hosted the U. S. Olympic Team during 2008 Beijing Olympics. S. He was a student studying Mandarin in 1982 as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College. Weidong Li, professor of astronomy, the first Chinese astronomer to discover a supernovae since 1054 A. D. Kirsten Gillibrand, attended as an undergraduate in Dartmouth Colleges FSP program
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Beihang University
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Beihang University, previously known as Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics is a major public research university located in Beijing, China. It is a member of Chinas Project 211 and Project 985 group of key universities, with a heavy focus on high level technological. BUAA was founded on October 25,1952 with an area of over 100 hectares, the meeting announcing the founding of the Beijing Institute of Aeronautics was held in the auditorium of Beijing Institute of Technology on October 25,1952. Construction of campus buildings started on June 1,1953, more than 60, 000m2 of buildings were completed within six months. By October 1953, all students and some of the faculty had moved to the new campus and started their daily work, BUAA was among Chinas first 16 key universities in the 1950s, and was among the top 15 for priority development during Chinas 7th Five-Year Plan period. Since 1952, this university was named the Beijing Institute of Aeronautics, since May 1988, it has been known as the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, with the abbreviation BUAA. In 2002, the university decided to change the English name of the university to Beihang University. The university has 59 undergraduate programs,38 masters degree authorization first-level disciplines programs,21 doctor degree authorization first-level disciplines, at present, the university has 27 schools covering 10 major disciplines. The total number of faculty and staff is 3,759, including 20 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences or Chinese Academy of Engineering, and 1,668 full or associate professors. BUAA is the home of 27,811 undergrad and graduate students, the university is equipped with all ancillary facilities. Its library, with an area of over 24,000 m2, has a collection of over 1.2 million. In 2005, the French leading Grande École of engineering, École Centrale and this programs intake consisted of the very best Chinese students graduating the National College Entrance Examination. BUAA also has facilities including modern gymnasiums and sports grounds. October 25 is the anniversary and the weekend is homecoming weekend. The official school colors are blue and white, which symbolize the sky, Beihang University is one of the ten highest ranking engineering universities in China. It is a member of the prestigious Project 211 and Project 985 group of most elite Chinese public universities, together with Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Beijing Institute of Technology, it is widely considered to be one of the top four engineering and research universities in Beijing. BUAA has had more than 40 projects that were ranked first in China, since its founding BUAA has been one of the key universities given priority for development. In the new century and millennium, BUAA was officially listed in Chinas Action Plan for the Revitalization of Education in the 21st Century, BUAA has 42 research institutes or interdisciplinary research centers,11 key disciplines of the national level, and 89 laboratories
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Beijing University of Chemical Technology
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Beijing University of Chemical Technology, abbreviated as BUCT, colloquially known in Chinese as Beihua or Huada, is a technological university in mainland China. BUCT was founded in 1958 and is affiliated with the Ministry of Education, as a member university of the Project 211, BUCT has developed from an institution of scientific specialties to a more comprehensive university, with a curriculum including liberal arts. The university, covering an area of 64.4 hectares, is composed of three campuses, East campus, located on the section of the North Third Ring Road. West campus, On the central section of the West Third Ring Road, North campus, locates in Changping, near Lake Shisanling. Most of the North campus had been sold to China University of Petroleum while the remaining will be the dormitory for the staff, since the new North campus, nankou campus, is a little bit more far from the East campus and requires additional dorm for staff. Nankou campus, locates in Changping, about 1km from the Changping Xishankou Station of Beijing Subway Line, near the Institute of Nuclear Energy Technology, Tsinghua University. Currently, the undergraduates in BUCT spend their first 2 years in the north campus, some of the postgraduates in BUCT spend their first year in the north campus, too. The east campus is designated for all postgraduate students, there are around 1800 staff members are working on campus, and around 12000 students. BUCT has built 15 research institutes and eight research centers across China, the university has published three different academic journals, distributed both at home and abroad. In recent years, BUCT has undertaken research projects for science and technology. Zhou Xiaochuan - Governor of the Peoples Bank of China, in charge of the policy of the Peoples Republic of China. He Guoqiang - Member of Politburo of the Communist Party of China Official Website
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Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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BUPT comprises 17 schools, and has an international school program with Queen Mary, University of London. The university was created in 1955 under the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, the name was changed from Institute to University in 1993. It is the most famous and renowned university in the field of telecommunications in China, BUPT is one of the 73 Key National Universities under the administration of the Chinese Ministry of Education. The university was founded in 1955 as the Beijing Institute of Posts and it was the tertiary institution for teaching and research in the post and telecommunications fields. In 1993, it was a renamed to its Beijing University of Posts, the university offers a wide range of subjects including engineering, management, humanities and sciences, and most of its subjects and disciplines are related to applied science and engineering. BUPT enjoys a reputation for innovation and excellence in advanced research. It serves as one of the most important teaching and research bases for information technology, since then, BUPT has greatly improved its quality of education, scientific research, management and institutional efficiency. In order to provide favorable academic environment, BUPT has established a campus network embracing the library, staff rooms, research centers. Great efforts have also made in bringing up a number of academic leaders. In particular, the training of academic leaders has been accelerated. The Graduate School has developed complete graduate programs that cover the disciplines of engineering, science, economics, administration, law and it is also one of the earliest universities in China that has officially been authorized to offer doctoral and master programs. BUPT endeavors to foster students mentally and academically, except for their daily academic studies, students take an active part in various national and international contests. Every year BUPT students take part in the National Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest, National and International Undergraduate Math Modeling Contest and their achievements are always among the best of the successful higher learning institutions competing in China. BUPT’s graduates boast the top employment rate among Chinese universities, about 98%, among them, Communication and Information System ranked No.1. Again, in the 2002 national assessment, two BUPT first-grade subjects-Electronic Science and Technology and Information and Communication Engineering ranked second and third, and BUPT is one of eight universities that took part in the initiation construction of China Education and Research Network in 1994. It also takes part in the project of the CERNET2, a model project of the next-generation Internet. And BUPT’s library houses 970,000 books of 152,000 kinds, notably providing first-class modern data retrieval, BUPT is also engaged in business through its Telecomm Enterprises Group and BUPT Logistic Industry and Service Group. BUPT Official Website Location of BUPT BBS BeiYouRen Forum FreshSky Site about entrance exam of postgraduate Campus real three-dimensional map
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Beijing University of Technology
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Beijing University of Technology, also called Beijing Polytechnic University or Bei Gong Da, is recognized as one of the Project 211 universities. Beijing University of Technology was founded in 1960 with five engineering departments, the first group of students was transferred from Beijing Institute of Technology and Beijing Normal University. In 1981, Beijing University of Technology formed the school, in 1985. In 1993, Beijing Tech formed the Experimental College by cooperating with local business, over the decades, the social sciences played a significant role therein. The most achievements is mainly focused on the research and education. Beijing Tech is a key university under the jurisdiction of the Beijing Municipal Government, the campus covers an area of about 800,000 square metres with 4,940,000 square meters of floor space. Beijing Techs main library is a modern complex occupying an area of more than 20,000 square meters. The library houses about 700,000 printed materials,60,000 e-books, more than 40 kinds of resources, forming a documentation resource system which meets the demands of teaching. The library also cooperates with the Capital Library of Beijing and the Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Science, providing services to the student. The University upholds the principle that its purpose is to provide a stable, the premise for such education is that the supply of educated and trained personnel is fundamental to the success of Chinas future development and growth. The university believes that the quality of its teaching is the key to its success as a university and it strives to improve this quality by teaching reform, strengthened teaching development and strict management of the teaching programs. The graduate education or studies programs of the university are matched to the needs of the construction and social development programs of Beijing. It aims at improve educational quality, consistently optimize and develop the scale, quality, efficiency, the graduate studies school is the department in which both the graduate studies and scientific research programs are undertaken. As the world enters a new century, Beijing Tech follows the guidelines of â. œhumanismâ. and promote quality service, the School of Higher Professional Education, founded in July 1996, has a staff of more than 120. Of the staff,5 are professors and 29 are associate professors, the four departments are, Basic course, Information Technology, Engineering Technology, Economics & Management. The School has established laboratories and a training base for higher professional education. There are presently more than 1300 students enrolled in the School, in addition to these students, there are over 10,000 continuing education students. High School Attached to Beijing University of Technology Campus real three-dimensional map
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Central University of Finance and Economics
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Central University of Finance and Economics, colloquially known in Chinese as Zhongcai or Yangcai and formerly as the Central Institute of Finance and Economics, is a university in Beijing, China. It is a Project 211 university which receives support from the Chinese central government, Central University of Finance and Economics has been regarded as the best finance and economics universities in China. In The Report of Chinese Universities and Courses evaluation, Central University of Finance and Economics was ranked No.1 among 66 finance, Central University of Finance and Economics was founded in 1949, shortly after the founding of the Peoples Republic of China. Originally named the Central Institute of Taxation, it was the first university of finance, in 1996, the Institute was given its current name. As of 2008, there are more than 15,000 students registered at CUFE, CUFE has four campuses and operates 38 correspondence centers in 18 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across China. The university comprises more than 30 schools, departments and research centers and awards degrees in 39 academic disciplines, masters degrees in 42 disciplines. In addition, four programs are offered, MBA, MPAcc, MPA. Three post-research programs are offered in applied economics, theoretical economics, in the 1980s, the School of Accountancy took the lead in offering the course Specialized Foreign Financial Accounting. For the first time, a native English language textbook was used, in 1983, the Committee of Academic Degrees of the State Council authorized the School to grant masters degrees and in 1988 PhD degrees. In 2002, the Beijing Committee of Education elevated it to be a key subject of Beijing for universities, in 2004, the Office of Academic Degrees of the State Council granted permission for the School participate in the trial of MPAcc courses. During the past 50 years, the School of Accountancy has trained more than 20,000 graduates, the School of Accountancy has a teaching staff with a mix of senior professors, associate professors and lecturers and young teaching staff. The School is equipped with a laboratory and an independent specialist library, all teachers have access to multimedia for teaching. The School has also invited more than 20 distinguished foreign and Chinese experts as honored visiting, in the long process of teaching and scientific research, the department fostered and established a faculty and staff team with levels of proficiency in teaching and scientific research. Also, the department retains some researchers of Chinese Academy of Science as the visiting professors such as Academician Ma Zhiming, the faculty members at this department have scored results in teaching and scientific research. In the scientific research, the faculty members have published 400 high-quality academic papers in external or internal math, some of these papers have been extracted by American math comment. “Chinese Scientific Technological Library” has absorbed some as a whole, several fruits of scientific research are also awarded province-recognized or ministry-recognized prizes. Founded in August 2003, the Business School grew out of the economics, the school has four departments, Business Administration Department, Sales Administration Department, Logistics Management Department and Human Resource Department. There is also a management consultation center, an office, a faculty and research management office, a student affairs office
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China Agricultural University
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It was formed in 1905 through the merger of the Beijing Agricultural University and the Beijing Agricultural Engineering University. At present there are around 12,500 undergraduate and 7,000 graduate students in the university, the new gymnasium hosted the wrestling events during the 2008 Summer Olympics. CAU is designated as part of both Project 985, to world class universities in China, and Project 211, to raise the research standards of universities. The history of China Agricultural University can be traced back to 1905 when the College of Agriculture was founded in the former Jingshi Da Xuetang. BAU was listed by the State Council as one of the Top-Six Key National Universities as well as one of the Top-Ten Key Universities for further construction and improvement. The BAMI was listed by the State Council in October 1960 as one of the 64 Key National Universities, the university is the top institution in China for agricultural studies. China Agricultural University Library is one of the most important libraries in agricultural education, the collections include both paper documents numbering more than 1.7 million volumes and over 1.47 million electronic documents. The collections emphasize agricultural science, biology and agricultural engineering,116 library staff work in the library including 39 research librarians and associate research librarians. CAUL also functions as National Agricultural Information Center of CALIS and National Foreign Textbook Center in Agriculture, haidian District Agriculture Library is affiliated with the China Agricultural University Library. CAUL established an information service system in 1995. This now runs efficiently and successfully, user education is one of the main functions of CAUL. The library provides different kinds of training courses and workshops to students, CAUL has been actively developing international communication and cooperation. CAUL will pursue collection development, personalized information services and resources sharing, the China Agricultural University Gymnasium is an indoor arena located on the campus of the China Agricultural University in Beijing. Construction started the first half of 2005 and was completed in July 2007 and it hosted the wrestling events of the 2008 Summer Olympics. The Gymnasiums rooftop has a staggered, stair-like design and it covers an area of 23,950 square metres and has a capacity of 8,200 which will be reduced to 6000. It will also be turned into a complex for students of the China Agricultural University after the Olympic Games. China Agricultural University has played a key part in the reintroduction of rugby union into modern China, rugby re-emerged in the PRC in 1990, with a club formed at Beijing Agricultural University. A professor there, Chao Xihuang was introduced to the sport by a Japanese businessman, CAU web site China Agricultural University Library CAU Office of International Relations Campus real three-dimensional map China agricultural university libraryweb site
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China University of Geosciences
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The China University of Geosciences is a key national university directly under the administration of the Education Ministry of the Peoples Republic of China. It consists of two campuses, one is located in Haidian District in Beijing, the one is located in Wuhan. It is regarded as a top university specialized in geosciences in China and exerts considerable influence within the Chinese mining and its notable alumni include Wen Jiabao, the Premier of Chinas State Council, who attended the Beijing Campus when it was known as the Beijing Institute of Geology. The motto Being austere and simple, keeping on practice and acting for truth, the Beijing Campus, also known as CUGB, is located in the original campus of former Beijing Institute of Geology, Xueyuan Road, with a concentration of 8 famous universities and academic tradition. CUGB boasts nine members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on its staff, as a multi-disciplinary national key university, CUGB is one of China’s main centers for educating geological researchers and professionals of all sorts. At present there are 14,000 full-time students,25000 continuing education students,12000 independent college students enrolled with a teaching, CUGB is headed by Prof. Deng Jun, president of the university and Mr. Wang Hongbing, the chairman of the university council. The Wuhan Campus is located in No.388 Lumo Road, Wuhan, with a scenic view and it has a larger annual enrollment and provides more available majors other than geosciences. Its Yifu Museum is known for housing China’s top ranked displays of fossils, mineral. It was among Chinas first 16 key universities back in the 1950s, the university suspended operations from 1966-1970 due to the Cultural Revolution, and reopened in Jiangling County, Hubei Province, in 1970 as Hubei College of Geology. In 1975 the campus was moved to Wuhan, and the school was renamed Wuhan College of Geology, in 1978 BIG reopened in Beijing with the help of Deng Xiaoping. In 1986 the Chinese Government ratified the foundation of the Graduate School of WCG and it was ranked as one of the first 33 Graduate Schools nationwide. Later in 1987, WCG was renamed China University of Geosciences, in 2005, the two campuses in Wuhan and Beijing were renamed China University of Geosciences and China University of Geosciences, respectively. The Ministry of Education still considers the two campuses as a single university, CUG is among the first batch of 15 universities in project 211 for Higher Education
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China University of Mining and Technology
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The university is ranked as the best mining university in China and has a worldwide reputation in coal mining technology and research. It has two parts, the campus located in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province which is called China University of Mining and Technology. The latter used to be the Graduate School of CUMT, CUMT is a leading multi-disciplinary polytechnic university with mining features. The predecessor of CUMT was Jiaozuo School of Railroad and Mines founded in 1909, in 1950 the school was moved from Jiaozuo to Tianjin and renamed China Institute of Mining and Technology. In 1953 CIMT was moved to Beijing and became Beijing Institute of Mining and Technology, in 1970 the institute was moved to Sichuan province and renamed Sichuan Institute of Mining and Technology. In 1978 the institute was moved to the present new location in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province and restored its original name, in the same year, Beijing Graduate School of CIMT was founded and began to admit graduate students. In 1988 the institute was renamed China University of Mining and Technology, in 1997, CUMT Beijing Branch was founded based on Beijing Graduate School of CUMT and began to admit undergraduate students. CUMT was approved as one of key universities in China by the government in 1960, CUMT Home Page CUMTB Home Page A New Introduction to CUMT, Jiangsu Province CUMT Alumni Association in Canada Home Page
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China University of Political Science and Law
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CUPL is widely considered to be one of the best Chinese universities in legal studies. It is also one of the most competitive and selective universities to enter in China, CUPL has two campuses, one in Haidian, Beijing which is the original campus of the university, and the other locates in Changping, Beijing. The universitys Haidian campus now hosts postgraduate students only while undergraduates study at a larger campus in Changping, Beijing. In 2015, CUPL comprises 13 schools, with 15,833 students and 951 faculty members, CUPL maintains a broad international exchange program, with approximately 1000 foreign students from many countries. The prestigious scholar Chien Tuan-Sheng, who was educated at Harvard University, but after the outbreak of Cultural Revolution CUPL was greatly affected. CUPL had been stopped during Cultural Revolution, Chien died of illness in 1990. The Changping campus was a part of the States Seventh Five-Year-Plan in 1985, under the motto of Cherish the Moral, Understand the Law, Know the World, Serve the Public, CUPL made its contribution to the development of legal education and training in China. It was the first university to establish specialties such as Legal History, Civil and Commercial Law, Economic Law, Procedure Law and it also contributed to the education and promotion of Roman law in China. To face the challenge of globalization, CUPL developed joint programs with international partners, CUPL provided the first opportunity to study Chinese law in Beijing with an American Bar Association-approved program inaugurated in 1995 by the Duquesne University School of Law. In 2008, a program was formed with Fordham University School of Law. CUPL also offers two LLM programs and a PhD program for students in English. One of them is based in Changping and is with the China-EU University and this is an EU funded course, and its main focus is on educating Chinese students on EU law. There is another LLM program at Haidian campus, in downtown Beijing, there is also a PhD programs in English at Haidian campus. These are flexible and taught entirely in English and they include the option to study Mandarin, and gain law work experience in Beijing and other cities in China. These postgraduate programs are open as a semester program to international students from any institution around the world who would like to study at CUPL for one semester. There are Chinese language programs for international students and these are 8,000 RMB per semester, or 16,000 RMB per year. Students can also stay in accommodation on campus which is 1,000 RMB per year
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Communication University of China
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The Communication University of China is a public university in Beijing, China. Formerly known as the Beijing Broadcasting Institute it is one of the Project 211 key universities administered by the Ministry of Education of the Peoples Republic of China. The predecessor of the school was a center for technicians of the Central Broadcasting Bureau that was founded in 1954. In April 1959, the school was upgraded to the Beijing Broadcasting Institute approved by the State Council, in August 2004, the BBI was renamed into the Communication University of China. Communication University of China is one of the top universities in China. It is ranked No.1 of media education and ranked No.1 among language universities in China, CUCs history dates back to March 3,1954 when the first training class for broadcasting professionals was held by the then Central Radio Administration. This then led to the founding of Beijing Broadcasting College in 1958, on September 7,1959, CUCs precursor Beijing Broadcasting Institute was established. During the ensuing four decades, BBI remained a small college. On August 19,2004, the State Council of the Peoples Republic of China approved the renaming of the institute to the Communication University of China, CUCs 116.88 hectare main campus is located in Dingfuzhuang, eastern part of Chaoyang District, Beijing. It is just outside the Eastern 5th Ring Road, and is just along the Beijing-Tong County expressway, with increasing number of students and fast development, the university has expanded its campus to nearby areas to provide more space for student and staff accommodation and research institutions. The campus is linked by the Communication University of China Station of Beijing subway Batong Line and it is still the only university in China offers degree courses of Bengali, Tamil, Pushtu and Esperanto. And its affiliation CUC Nanguang Institution offers other languages like Arabic, Czech, Thai, according to 2012 Wushulians Chinese University Ranking, CUC ranks 1st among the Language Universities of China. Up to now, the CUC has established relations with more than 200 colleges, science research institutes. Besides, several institutions like research centers for Asian media, European media and Asian animation. The CUC is a member of CILECT, in September,2004, in cooperation with Nanjing Meiya Educational Investment Co. Ltd. CUC co-founded a private college in the city of Nanjing. The Communication University of China Nanjing is directly supervised by the board of directors, CUC also has some affiliated institutions that provide commercial training and educational service for the public. The CUC press is the publishing house in China that exclusively publishes media and journalism related books
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Minzu University of China
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Minzu University of China is a national-level university in Haidian District, Beijing, China designated for ethnic minorities in China. Minzu University is the top university in China for ethnic minorities and it aims to be one of the best universities of its kind in the world. With the strong support of Chinese government, it has developed rapidly over the years, MUC is one of the most prestigious universities in China in ethnology, anthropology, ethnic economies, regional economics, religion studies, history, dance, and fine arts. MUC was selected as one of 38 national key universities to receive funding from Project 211 and Project 985. It is commonly regarded as one of the most respected institutes for higher learning in China and it is colloquially known as Míndà in Putonghua. It was formerly known in English as the Central University for Nationalities, the Chinese name has the meaning central ethnic university, suggesting a national-level university focused on serving minority ethnic groups. The old English name translated the term as nationalities, based on the term used in German and Russian language Marxist texts. The name change of Renmin University has been cited as a precedent, the new name obscures the universitys ethnic character, although student opinion has focused more on the fact that it makes obsolete the universitys nickname, the village. The Chinese word for village has a Hanyu pinyin spelling similar to the English abbreviation CUN, in mainland Chinese culture, villages have homely connotations. The university awards degrees in 55 academic subjects, usually after four years of study. There are 64 masters and 25 doctoral programmes, in addition to traditional course offerings the school offers special majors and courses such as ethnology, ethnic languages, and minority literature. By far the strongest research areas are anthropology and ethnology, which are the mainstays of its publishing house. In 2001, the Peoples Daily described CUN as Chinas top academy for ethnic studies, other respected departments are the dance school and the minority language and literature departments. Other subjects are studied from the ethnic minorities perspective, e. g. biology courses may focus on the flora. These scholarships often pay for tuition and include provisions for monthly stipends of around 100 renminbi, Minzu University participates actively in social sciences research. In particular, its economics, management, law and history departments are growing into be dynamic research institutions with the help of Project 985, students are required to take courses on Chinese minority theories and Marxism. In English-speaking countries, Minzu Universitys main partner is the University of East London, the Communist Party of China first established a Nationalities Institute in its Civil War stronghold of Yanan, in central China, in October 1941. In 1950-1952, this was merged with other ethnolinguistic and sociological departments, including elements of Peking University, the result was the Central Institute for Nationalities, which was established in 1951 and officially opened on 11 June 1952
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North China Electric Power University
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North China Electric Power University is a national Project 211 key university based in Beijing, China under the national Ministry of Education that specialises in polytechnic disciplines. The main campus is located in Beijing, and it has a campus in Baoding. There are about 3,000 full-time faculty and staff,20,000 undergraduates and 7,000 graduate students in this university, China Huaneng Group, China Datang Corporation, China Huadian Corporation, China Guodian Corporation and China Power Investment Corporation. The university was established as the Beijing Institute of Electric Power in 1958 and it was later renamed the North China Institute of Electric Power when its location was moved to Baoding, Hebei province in 1970. When the school merged with the Beijing Power Engineering and Electronics Institute in 1995, in 2006, the university relocated its main campus back to Beijing. It still operates a campus in Baoding. It is found in beautiful surroundings, there are more than 8500 students with over 600 graduate students and doctor students. The university offers one post-doctoral project program,7 doctoral programs,17 master’s degree programs and 24 bachelor’s degree programs and it has been authorised to admit overseas students. Covering a floor space of 11,000 square metres, the library has a collection of over a one million volumes, professor Yang Yihan and Song Zhiping are prominent supervisors for doctoral candidates in the field of electric power. It offers exchange opportunities to students to study at universities in countries, such as Illinois Tech, Purdue, UC Berkeley. This university is also the member of Cooperation Consortium of Beijing High Technology Universities
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Peking Union Medical College
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Peking Union Medical College was founded in 1917 and is among the most selective medical colleges in the Peoples Republic of China, located in Beijing. The school is considered to be the best medical school in China and was ranked 1st in China by CUCAS in 2015. It is an independent institution affiliated with Tsinghua University, one of the top two universities in China. Peking Union Medical College graduates receive Peking Union Medical College diploma signed by both the Peking Union Medical College and Tsinghua presidents. It is the medical school in China to be affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. The Hospital and College is located at No.9 Dongdan 3rd Alley, Dongcheng, Beijing, the Peking Union Medical College Hospital was founded in 1906. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A, the Rockefeller Foundation was established in 1913 and in 1913-1914 the newly formed Foundation created a Commission, including Dr. Franklin C. McLean, to medical education in China. One of its recommendations was that the Foundation - through a subsidiary organization - should assume responsibility for the College. On July 1,1915 the recently established China Medical Board assumed full support of the Union Medical College, in January of 1951, the new government nationalized PUMC, and the institution was accused of being an agent of American cultural imperialism. The Ministry of Health changed its name to China Union Medical College, in 1952 the Peoples Liberation Army took charge of operations and remained in charge until 1956. The curriculum was militarized and shortened to one year in order to train army medical officers, the basic orientation to Western medicine was maintained and the staff continued to do research and advanced surgeries. In 1956, autonomy was restored, but the continued to be criticized for its elitism, cosmopolitanism. During the Cultural Revolution, Peking Union Medical College was closed, in 1979, it reopened as the Capital University of Medical Sciences then returned to Peking Union Medical College in 1985. Peking Union Medical College students traditionally attend Peking University biology department for their pre-meds portion of education, since 2006, Tsinghua University has been holding a joint MD program in clinical medical science. Enrollment of the medical science at PUMC is based on individuals performance in high school. The curriculum of medical science is 8 years, accepts about 90 students each year. The college also has its independent Graduate School which recruits from other schools around country
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Renmin University of China
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Renmin University of China, RUC, colloquially Renda, is a public research university located in the Haidian District of Beijing, China. Founded by the Communist Party of China, RUC possesses academic strengths in humanities and social sciences, later it was renamed as the North China United University and North China University. Several institutions were merged to form a single Renmin University of China in 1950, wu Yuzhang, Cheng Fangwu, Guo Yingqiu, Yuan Baohua, Huang Da, Li Wenhai, Ji Baocheng, Chen Yulu had successively held the position of president. The current university president is Liu Wei, the University library has 2.5 million holdings, and is recognized as the Information Center of Arts Literatures by the Ministry of Education. The new library building opened in the half of 2011. Generally speaking Renmin University is considered as one of the best places for social science students in China and its main mission is to explore the theory and practice of rural reconstruction. It partakes in fair trade advocacy and coordinating urban and rural green energy initiatives as well as the promotion of fair education, Renmin University of China currently possesses two active campus, one campus under construction and one former campus. Renmin University main campus is located at No and it is also only less than 10 minutes away from the Old Summer Palace and Summer Palace. Most schools, departments and institute are located at the Beijing campus. The English Corner at Renmin University is very famous in Beijing, every Friday evening, people gather at the Qiushi Garden near the east gate to practice English. It is a place to meet and communicate with the students of the university. Besides, Renmin University is host to about 1,165 international students at present, there are so many South Korean students that the International Students Dining Room has a separate Korean menu aside from their traditional Chinese menu. Renmin University of China has a campus located in Suzhou Industrial Park. It is home to the RUC Sino-French Institute and its 900 Chinese, besides, a number of Chinese and sino-foreign Master-level programs from several RUC faculties are also located on the same grounds under the supervision of RUC International College. Renmin University of China is currently building its new main campus in the Tongzhou district, currently named Eastern Campus. It will be located in the town as the soon-to-be relocated Beijing municipal government facilities. Completion date is expected by the end of year 2017, the former main campus of Renmin University of China is located East to the Forbidden City, in the Dongcheng district. Although it still belongs to the university, it is no used for educational purposes
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University of Science and Technology Beijing
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The University of Science and Technology Beijing, formerly known as Beijing Steel and Iron Institute before 1988, is a national key university in Beijing, China. USTBs metallurgy and materials science programmes are highly regarded in China, the university was founded in 1952 from the combination of five former colleges. It known then as the Beijing Industrial Institute of Steel and Iron and it was renamed as Beijing Steel and Iron Institute in 1960. The University of Science and Technology Beijing name was not adopted until 1988, in 1997, USTB was selected into the first tier of universities for Chinas 211 Project. USTB consists of 16 schools, provides 48 undergraduate programs,121 master programs,73 doctoral programs and 16 postdoctoral research fields, USTB attaches great importance to the establishment and development of its academic disciplines. Have long enjoyed established fame both at home and abroad, so are Management Science and Engineering, History of Science, disciplines such as Control Theory and Control Engineering, Thermal Engineering, and Mechatronic Engineering are being developed on a solid basis. In addition, newly developed disciplines such as Computer Science, Information Technology, Environmental Engineering, USTB prides itself a strong faculty known for their meticulous scholarship and academic excellence. Among its 3,385 faculty are 452 professors,745 associate professors, including 7 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Science and 3 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Many breakthroughs have been achieved in the areas of research and major technical problems have been solved for metallurgical. From 1978 to 2002,776 research projects have been awarded prizes at state, USTB has been awarded 153 prizes of various kinds since 1998, including 13 National Invention Prize, National Prize for Natural Sciences and National Prize for Advancement in Science & Technology. Among the 84 patents granted,3 have been transferred to the American Iron & Steel Association, besides, USTB plays an important role in academic disciplines. In 2002, USTB ranked the sixteenth and twenty-third respectively among Chinese universities for the number of included in EI. The University has large departments in physics, chemistry, engineering, economics, one of the largest departments is the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. The University has about 20,000 undergraduate students and about 2,000 PhD, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering has about 500 students in the undergraduate program and about 200 students in various graduate and PhD programs. The department has about 60 professors of which many have built their career in the United States, Germany. The USTB Gymnasium for 2008 Summer Olympics is located on the east part of the campus, the USTB provides its students with newly built dormitories, completed in 2005. After the Olympic Games, the part of the gymnasium is provided as the place for indoor physical education, fitness training, athletic contests. The comprehensive gymnasium is provided as the place for swimming teaching, USTB is an institution involving the Chinese Government Scholarship Program and has been accepting the international students since 1954
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Shanghai
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Shanghai is the most populous city proper in the world, with a population of more than 24 million as of 2014. As one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of the Peoples Republic of China, it is a financial centre and transport hub. Located in the Yangtze River Delta in East China, Shanghai sits on the edge of the mouth of the Yangtze in the middle portion of the eastern Chinese coast. The municipality borders the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the north, south and west, as a major administrative, shipping and trading city, Shanghai grew in importance in the 19th century due to trade and recognition of its favourable port location and economic potential. The city was one of five treaty ports forced open to foreign trade following the British victory over China in the First Opium War, the subsequent 1842 Treaty of Nanking and 1844 Treaty of Whampoa allowed the establishment of the Shanghai International Settlement and the French Concession. The city then flourished as a center of commerce between China and other parts of the world, and became the financial hub of the Asia-Pacific region in the 1930s. However, with the Communist Party takeover of the mainland in 1949, trade was limited to other socialist countries, and the citys global influence declined. In the 1990s, the reforms introduced by Deng Xiaoping resulted in an intense re-development of the city, aiding the return of finance. The two Chinese characters in the name are 上 and 海, together meaning Upon-the-Sea. The earliest occurrence of this dates from the 11th-century Song Dynasty, at which time there was already a river confluence. There are disputes as to exactly how the name should be understood, Shanghai is officially abbreviated 沪 in Chinese, a contraction of 沪渎, a 4th- or 5th-century Jin name for the mouth of Suzhou Creek when it was the main conduit into the ocean. This character appears on all motor vehicle license plates issued in the municipality today, another alternative name for Shanghai is Shēn or Shēnchéng, from Lord Chunshen, a third-century BC nobleman and prime minister of the state of Chu, whose fief included modern Shanghai. Sports teams and newspapers in Shanghai often use Shen in their names, such as Shanghai Shenhua F. C. Huating was another early name for Shanghai. In AD751, during the dynasty, Huating County was established at modern-day Songjiang. Today, Huating appears as the name of a hotel in the city. The city also has various nicknames in English, including Pearl of the Orient, during the Spring and Autumn period, the Shanghai area belonged to the Kingdom of Wu, which was conquered by the Kingdom of Yue, which in turn was conquered by the Kingdom of Chu. During the Warring States period, Shanghai was part of the fief of Lord Chunshen of Chu and he ordered the excavation of the Huangpu River. Its former or poetic name, the Chunshen River, gave Shanghai its nickname of Shen, two important events helped promote Shanghais development in the Ming dynasty