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12.04 2025
November 24 marked the first anniversary of the passing ofProf. Yeh Chiaying, an eminent scholar of classical Chinese poetry. On that day, the International Symposium on Yeh Chiaying and Chinese Poetry Teaching, co-hosted by Nankai University(NKU)and the International Confucian Association(ICA), was held at the Lecture Hallof Shiing-Shen Building onBalitai Campus. The event was attended by over 120 experts and scholars from eight countries and regions. The symposiumwas attended and addressed by
12.03 2025
On November 28th, President Irene Tracey of the University of Oxford led a delegation to visit Nankai University. President Chen Yulu of Nankai University met with the guests at the Haibing Center on Balitai Campus. Attendees included Cao Xuetao, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and former President of Nankai University; Chen Jun, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Executive Vice President of Nankai University; Zhang Wenzhong, Lifetime Trustee of Nankai Universit
11.28 2025
On November 21, the 2025 lists of new academiciansforthe Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering werereleased. Chen Yongsheng, Chair Professor at Nankai University, was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In addition, Pierre Agostini, an honorary professor at Nankai University, who was nominatedby Nankai University, was elected as a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.Academician of the Chinese Academy of SciencesChen Yongsh
11.27 2025
Recently, President Xi Jinping sent signed reply lettersto 61 young sinologists from 51 countries, encouraging them to continue their sinology research, introduce a real, multidimensional, and comprehensive China to the world, and serve as envoysconnecting Chinese and foreign civilizations. Batbaatar Tserenpuntsag, a Mongolian doctoral student at Nankai University, was among the representatives who wrote to the President and was honored to receive this meaningful reply.Tserenpuntsag excitedly re
11.18 2025
On November 8, the Eighth General Meetingof the Nankai Alumni Association was held onBalitai Campus. Nearly 400 participants attended the event, including heads ofNankai family of schools; representatives of local, industry-based, and academic alumni associations; representatives of year-group council members; alumni from China and abroad; as well as facultyand students from Nankai’s departments and schools.Yang Qingshan,Chairman of the Seventh Council of the Nankai Alumni Associationand Secreta
10.29 2025
Nankai University (NKU) and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. jointly inaugurated the “Intelligent Base” Industry-Academia Integration Collaborative Education Base and held the Technology Symposium on October 20. The event was attended by Yang Qingshan, Secretary of CPC Nankai University Committee; Zha Jun, Huawei Board Member and President of the 2012 Laboratories; Chen Jun, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and NKU Vice President; Fang Yongchun, NKU Vice President; Jiang Xiangzhong, Direc
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