Introduction
Wuhan
University is a key university directly under the administration of
the Education Ministry of the People's Republic of China. It is
located in Hubei Province's capital Wuhan known as "The thoroughfare
leading to nine provinces". The university has rolling physical
features with the scenic Luojia Hill in it and the beautiful East
Lake by its side, seeming in picturesque disorder. Its campus is
wooded and green, and has fragrant flowers everywhere all the year
round, the buildings are in special architectural styles,
magnificent and mansion-looking. For the above reasons, Wuhan
University is widely known as one of the most beautiful universities
in the world.
The university dates back to Ziqiang Institute,
which was founded in 1893 by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and
Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty after his memorial to the
throne was approved by the Qing Government. Later, it changed its
name several times before it was named National Wuhan University in
July 1928. During the War of Resistance against Japan, Wuhan
University moved to Leshan, Sichuan Province and returned to Luojia
Hill after the victory of the war. By the end of 1946, the
university had six colleges, i.e., the colleges of liberal arts,
law, sciences, engineering, agriculture and medicine.
Wuhan
University boasts a campus which covers an area of 5508 mu and it
has a floorage of 2.42 million square metres. There are large
modernized teaching buildings, laboratory buildings, gymnasiums,
sports grounds, swimming pools, archive buildings, and a specimen
building with more then 200,000 pieces of valuable animal and plant
specimens. The university's libraries have a collection of
approximately 5.2 million volumes, subscribe to more then 10,000
kinds of Chinese and foreign periodicals, are the central-China
canter officially decided for the "211 Project" documents--ensuring
system of the Chinese universities and colleges.
It now has two key State-level laboratories,
three State-level discipline laboratories, two State-level research
centers in engineering, six national research bases for humanities
and social sciences, and seven national bases for fostering basic
science personnel. Over twenty academic periodicals, Wuhan
University Journal included, are published by the university, which
has its own presses including an audiovisual material publishing
house, colleges of foreign students¡¯ education and adult education,
East Lake branch school, and three attached hospitals which are all
of first-class according to the official standard.
During the
last ten years the university sent abroad thousands of members of
different kinds under various programs, invited 300 hundred famous
foreign scholars and political personages to be its part-time
professors, honorary professors or guest professors, and established
relations of academic cooperation and exchanges with 200-odd
universities, colleges and scientific research institutions in more
then 60 countries and regions.
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