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Chinese prestigious universities RUC and BIT become Tunghai’s 55th and 56th sister universities
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- Date : 2016-09-23
On September 14, following the lead of Tunghai President Mao-Jiun Wang, Dean Hong-Wei Yen of the Office of International Education & Programs and Professor Duu-Chiang Wang of Department of Social Work visited Renmin University of China and Beijing Institute of Technology, with which Tunghai respectively contracted to become sister universities. Now, Tunghai is in cooperation with 56 sister universities in China, including 23 universities of Project 985.
Remin University of China (RUC) is founded in 1950 as a multidisciplinary research-based university with a focus on humanities and social science. As it is regarded as China’s “pioneer in higher education of humanities and social science,” many educators and experts graduated from RUC. RUC is a prominent information center, data center, and publishing center for humanities and social science in China. It also serves as an important publishing basecamp for higher educational textbooks and academic works in the field of humanities and social science.
Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) is founded in 1940 as the very first university of technology in China. It aims to meet crucial military strategic needs and to promote the development of world technology and education, establishing outstanding achievements on the scientific and technological researches of Chinese national defense. It has written histories of many “firsts” in China-such as the first television transmitting and receiving device, the first class-two solid sounding rocket, and the first light-weighted tank. Now, it is China’s major incubator of talents in the national defense technology industry and the basecamp of national defense weapons and equipment research and development. BIT has been named one of the top 100 universities in Asia and one of the top 500 worldwide since 2012.