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Huaqiao University, established in 1960 under Premier Zhou Enlai’s kind concern, is a national comprehensive university catering for students from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan as well as overseas Chinese students. The University is located in the golden delta of South Fujian with campuses in Quanzhou and Xiamen. Under the direct leadership of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office under the State Council, it is a university given priority in construction by the Chinese government and one of universities rated “excellence” in the Assessment of Undergraduate Education Level conducted by the Chinese Ministry of Education. It is also a major base for China to develop the overseas education of the Chinese language and culture.

The University has a board of trustees with the president shouldering overall responsibility. Mr. Liao Chengzhi, the late Vice Chairman of NPC Standing Committee served as the first president. The current president is Prof. Wu Chengye, member of CPPCC and advisor for PhD candidates. The board of trustees is made up of overseas Chinese, Hong Kong and Macao compatriots, returned overseas Chinese, celebrities from all walks and government leaders at all levels. Based on the school policy of “orienting to overseas, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and the economic zones in the west bank of the Straits”, the original purpose of founding the University is “serving the overseas Chinese and spreading the Chinese culture”, and the idea of “Cultivating students who thoroughly understand China and the world, and are with both lofty virtue and high-level professional competence”. With a unique feature of “one school with two types of students, who are educated according to their aptitude”, Huaqiao University has a campus culture of “one dominating traditional culture mixed with others", and a campus spirit of “Toleration is the best policy. Be affable but not adulatory”.

Since the founding of the university 45 years ago, the University has graduated more than 76,000 students, among them over 36,000 are from overseas. The University has now 24,000 full-time on-campus students, including 3,000 overseas students from 29 countries and regions such as Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Japan, America, Argentina, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Quality-oriented education of the students has proved a great success. In the recent three national “Challenge Cup” college student contests of extracurricular academic, scientific and technological works, the University has won 10 prizes, and the group scores were in the 13th, 16th, and 10th places respectively, which ranked the first among the universities and colleges in Fujian province. The men’s basketball team of the University won the national championship in the 2nd, 5th and 7th and runner-up in the 4th CUBA (China University Basketball Association) tournaments.

Huaqiao University is outward-looking and has devoted much attention to interuniversity cooperation. The University has already established friendly ties with more than 30 universities and colleges in the United States, Japan, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and the regions of Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. Some internationally famous scholars such as Chen Ning Yang, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Daniel McFadden, Nobel Laureate in Economics, have been conferred honorary professorship by the University. 

With the central tasks of developing Chinese language and culture, constructing Xiamen campus, and building a harmonious teaching-research-oriented university, Huaqiao University is now striving to build itself into an advanced comprehensive institution of higher learning for overseas Chinese, having an advantage in engineering disciplines and making a feature of Chinese language and culture education, and to enjoy high prestige of a first-rate overseas Chinese university both at home and abroad.

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