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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

Population Study. Since 2000, top scientists involved in ―China‘s Born Disfigurement<br />

Interference Project‖ had been working here; two years later, those who worked for<br />

―China‘s Born Disfigurement Heredity and Environment Controllability Research<br />

Center‖ came to reside here and, in 2003, <strong>PKU</strong> Gerontics Research Center was<br />

established.<br />

Griffith <strong>University</strong> was a relatively new multiversity, founded in 1971, one <strong>of</strong> the most<br />

famous universities in Australia. They are making great progress in the construction<br />

<strong>of</strong> cross-discipline courses as well as in the rising advanced domain. The university<br />

has its Asian Studies Institute, the first university in Australia who has Asian Studies<br />

courses available for undergraduate students.<br />

People had made progress in the research in population and environment, and they<br />

had recognized the importance <strong>of</strong> population health and improvement in<br />

environmental quality, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Lin Jianhua, <strong>PKU</strong> vice president thus said in his<br />

welcome speech. He hoped that the establishment <strong>of</strong> the Center could make<br />

contribution to China‘s population health and strengthen the academic cooperation<br />

between the two countries.<br />

Ian O‘Conner said population health and environment protection had become crucial<br />

for both <strong>of</strong> the two countries and required more academic support. Since Griffith had<br />

carried out many similar researches in Asia, he was looking forward to progress in<br />

teaching and research in the domain through bilateral cooperation.<br />

Edited By : He Jibo<br />

Translated By : Zhang Huishu<br />

Source : Beidanews(in Chinese)<br />

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