09.02.2013 Views

Archives of Peking University News - PKU English - 北京大学

Archives of Peking University News - PKU English - 北京大学

Archives of Peking University News - PKU English - 北京大学

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

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

<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>. Beijing. April 22nd, 2009: on the afternoon <strong>of</strong> April 20,<br />

Chairwoman <strong>of</strong> Transparency International Mrs. Labelle visited <strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />

Anti-Corruption Institute and held seminar with Pr<strong>of</strong>. Li Chengyan, Secretary <strong>of</strong> Party<br />

Committee <strong>of</strong> School <strong>of</strong> Government and director <strong>of</strong> the Anti-Corruption Institute,<br />

<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, and Pr<strong>of</strong>. Xu Xianglin, Vice Dean <strong>of</strong> School <strong>of</strong> Government. The<br />

seminar was also attended by scholars from Tsinghua <strong>University</strong> and Renmin<br />

<strong>University</strong>.<br />

Pr<strong>of</strong>. Li introduced Mrs. Labelle the development and achievement <strong>of</strong> the Institute.<br />

According to Pr<strong>of</strong>. Li, since its foundation 9 years ago, thanks to the abundant<br />

intellectual resources <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong>, the Institute had organized and launched<br />

many activities and trainings concerning corruption and anti-corruption, integrity and<br />

supervision.<br />

Mrs. Labelle thanked the Institute for the warm welcome and spoke highly <strong>of</strong> the<br />

academic achievement and influence on national policies. She also introduced the<br />

work <strong>of</strong> Transparency International in fields such as raising the global awareness <strong>of</strong><br />

corruption and its harm, calling for governments to reform, promoting the signing up<br />

<strong>of</strong> international treaties, and so on in the past few years.<br />

Scholars from Tsinghua <strong>University</strong> and Renmin <strong>University</strong> also introduced the<br />

development <strong>of</strong> the research on corruption in their universities respectively. The<br />

participants also held thorough and extensive discussions on the characteristics <strong>of</strong><br />

anti-corruption in China, the improvement <strong>of</strong> anti-corruption system, and international<br />

cooperation on the promotion <strong>of</strong> anti-corruption and integrity.<br />

Founded in 1993 and based in Berlin, Transparency International was a<br />

non-governmental, non-pr<strong>of</strong>it international civil organization addressing corruption.<br />

Edited By : Ding Zhilan<br />

Translated By : Lin Jingxian<br />

Source : <strong>PKU</strong> <strong>News</strong> (Chinese)<br />

Related Topic :<br />

Related <strong>News</strong> :<br />

Related Feedback:<br />

157

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!