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Symposium Held to Commemorate 30
Years of Restoring of China‘s Graduate
Students Recruiting
PKU NEWS 2008--12--23
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Peking University, Dec. 23, 2008: A memorial symposium was held to commemorate
30 years of China‘s Restoring of Graduate Students Recruiting at the Overseas
Exchange Center of Peking University. 30 years have passed since the reform and
opening up policy, China‘s Recruiting of Graduate Students has also been restored
for 30 years. Around 20 guests were present to conclude the past 30 years of
master‘s education, analyzing the challenges and opportunities faced in this
enterprise, and to forecast the future of China‘s education.
This meeting was held by the Association of Chinese Graduate Schools (ACGS).
Among others, present at this forum were Ministry of Education vice-minister Zhao
Qinping,Director of Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council Academician
Yang Yuliang, President of Peking University Academician Zhou Qifeng, President of
Tsinghua University Academician Gu Binglin.
The meeting was hosted by Xiamen University Vice-President Academician Sun
Shigang. Sun summarized improvements made in the past 30 years of China‘s
Graduate Education. He stated that in the 30 years after China‘s reform, the scale of
Chinese Graduate Education has expanded greatly; this led our country to becoming
one of the main Graduate Student Educating countries. With the Country and the
Graduate Student Training Organizations active development towards international
exchange, the increase in graduate supervisors, China has educated and trained
many of the world‘s elite, who have made and will make great contributions to the
development of China‘s social economy and culture.
Ministry of Education vice-minister Zhao Qinping said, on the 30th year after the
reform and opening-up policy, this forum will be directed mainly towards the progress
made in the Chinese Graduate Education in the past 30 years to provide methods of
improvement for the graduate education in the future.
President of Peking University Academician Zhou Qifeng spoke on China‘s Graduate
Education‘s increasing speed of growth. He emphasized that under the guidance of
our country‘s scientific development concept, the country has set higher standards
for our graduate education system. He went on to say that the various Universities
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