The celebration ceremony of Hainan University's 60th birthday [Photo by Hong Jianpeng/chinanews.cn]
Representatives of universities, research institutes, government agencies and alumni from home and abroad gathered in Haikou on Dec 16 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Hainan University.
Liu Cigui, secretary of the CPC Hainan Provincial Committee, delivers a speech at the celebration ceremony. [Photo by Hong Jianpeng/chinanews.cn]
Liu Cigui, secretary of the CPC Hainan Provincial Committee, attended the ceremony, giving his recommendations to the university in a speech. Liu expressed his hopes that Hainan University will continue to give full play to its advantages and construct a characteristic discipline system that can serve national strategies and support local leading industrial development. He added that the university should expand its enrollment of students from countries and regions along the Belt and Road and enhance the quality of personnel training among overseas students to develop itself into a world-class international talent cultivation and scientific research base.
Luo Qingming, president of Hainan University, addresses the ceremony. [Photo by Hong Jianpeng/chinanews.cn]
Having merged with the South China University of Tropical Agriculture in August 2007, the present Hainan University is a key comprehensive university at provincial-level and is jointly sponsored by the Hainan Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Education. It is one of the "211 Project" key universities.
Hainan University has four characteristic qualities: its tropical location, its proximity to the ocean, its role in a special economic zone and the area's tourism. It offers nine categories of disciplines for studying - philosophy, economics, law, literature, natural sciences, agriculture, engineering and management - and has four major academic schools, including 21 colleges, as well as being the host of two national level key disciplines, and 16 provincial and ministerial level key disciplines. There are 74 undergraduate programs, 21 postgraduate programs of first-level disciplines and five doctorate programs.
Hainan University has established interschool cooperation relationships with over 80 well-known universities in over 20 countries. It has invited hundreds of famous scholars and professors for teaching and academic communication, like Zhores I. Alferov, the Nobel laureate in physics. Teachers and managerial staff are also sent to overseas universities for learning and development.
Two alumnae take a photo as a souvenir at the ceremony celebrating Hainan University's 60th anniversary on Dec 16. [Photo by Zhou Dayan/Hainan Daily APP]
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