Introduction
Renmin University of China
(RUC, also known as the People's University of China) is a key
university in China. The RUC's strengths emphasize the humanities
and social sciences, however, the university also embraces
disciplines in the area of natural sciences. The RUC is a
comprehensive research-orientated university. The RUC was
established in 1937, during the resistance war against Japanese
aggression. The University acquired its present name on October 3,
1950, which made it the first university to be established by the
newly founded People's Republic of China.
Since its
establishment, RUC students and teachers have always endeavored to
carry out its redoubtable injunction to "unceasingly strive to be
always in the vanguard". The RUC shares a common fate with the Party
and the nation. Through prudence, dedicated effort, active and
practical exploration, the RUC has become an important teaching and
research base in the areas of the humanities, social sciences, and
management science in China. Owing to its efforts in spreading and
popularizing Marxism in China, for its achievements in developing
philosophy and the social sciences in China, and on account of its
indispensable contributions to the cause of socialist construction
and reform, the RUC is regarded as "A Standard in the Humanities and
Social Sciences in China¡¯s Higher Education Sector".
With undergraduate education as the base and an
emphasis on postgraduate education, supplemented by adult education
courses and online learning, the RUC has formed a multi-dimensional
structure and multilevel system in education and research. The RUC
has a Graduate School which is responsible for the administration of
postgraduate students, and RUC now comprises twenty-one schools of
different disciplines (a Chemistry Department has been established
for the near future creation of a School of Natural Sciences). The
RUC also has a substantial number of research centers, fourteen
transitional centers for post-doctoral fellows, and also a School of
Continuing Education, a School of Education and Training, and the
Shenzhen Research Institute. The RUC ranks first in three areas
among all universities in China: there are six national research
bases in fundamental disciplines in the literary arts; thirteen key
national research bases in the humanities and social sciences; and
twenty-five essential domestic disciplines are taught on campus,
which places the RUC first in the social sciences and humanities
nationwide.
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