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Wuyi University (WYU), founded in 1985, is one of full-time comprehensive universities in China. It is located in Jiangmen City (a well-known hometown of the overseas Chinese) of Guangdong Province in the western part of the Pearl River Delta, which is close to Hong Kong and Macao. To the north it is 100 kilometers to Guangzhou; to the south it is also 100 kilometers to Zhuhai. Jiangmen City has jurisdiction over five cities (i.e. Xinhui, Taishan, Heshan, Kaiping and Enping), historically called Wuyi, from which Wuyi University derives its name.

WYU has a beautiful campus, neighboring attractive scenery East Lake Park, with a lucid Tiansha River going through it. It occupies land area of over a thousand mu, and the floor space amounts to 300 thousand square meters. It has a library with a collection of 400 thousand books, 16 highly equipped labs, a computer center with more than 1300 computers of different kinds, and an audio-visual center. Since January of 1996, the campus network has linked itself with CERNET and INTERNET and has covered the whole university. Now WYU electronic library alone has over 500 computers.

WYU devotes itself, in the spirit of reform, to the practice that higher education provides direct service to the local economy and tries to train qualified personnel of all fields for the economic development of overseas Chinese hometown and Guangdong Province. It has two schools (Management School and Information School) with 15 specialized departments (Chinese Language and Literature Department, Foreign Languages and Literature Department, Department of Management Science and Engineering, Department of Business Administration, Department of Applied Economics, Department of Tele-communications and Electronics Engineering, Department of Computer and Internet Network Engineering, Department of Information and Control Engineering, Mathematics and Physics Department, Chemistry and Environment Engineering Department, Mechanics and Electricity Department, Civil Engineering Department, Textile and Apparel Department, Social Science and Art Department, Physical Education Department) of 32 majors for undergraduates and associate graduates in liberal arts, science, business, teacher-training ,etc. It also has two colleges (Continuing Education College and Higher Vocational-technical College). It enrolls undergraduate students from 7 provinces and 1 municipality directly under the central government (Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangxi, Hubei, Fujian, Anhui, Sichuan and Chongqing), and postgraduate students from Hong Kong and Macao. Till now WYU has provided the society with 15,000 undergraduates and associate graduates, of whom 11,000 were full-time undergraduates and associate graduates, and 20,000 people of all kinds of training. Now WYU has over 10,000 registered students on campus, of which 7,600 are full-time undergraduates.

WYU has a competent staff of over 600 members, of which 60% are professors, associate professors or specialists with senior academic titles and 77% have Doctor’s Degree or Master’s Degree. Moreover, several foreign teachers are engaged in long-term teaching in WYU and a number of well-known scholars and celebrities from home and abroad have been conferred honorary professors or guest professors of WYU. While taking teaching as the core of all its activities, all staff members are also actively involved in scientific research and technical development, aiming towards the local economic development and social service. In recent years 2000 research paper, over 100 monographs and textbooks have been published at home and abroad.? WYU also takes on 10 projects financed by National Natural Science Fund, 33 research projects at provincial level, and over 70 cooperative research projects, which has achieved remarkable results.

WYU persists in being strict with management as well as teaching. It attaches much importance to the implementation of students’ integrated quality training and to the cultivation of their practical abilities and creative spirit. It emphasizes, “ Quality is Life.” So teaching quality has been increased and WYU students work assiduously and secure outstanding results in nation-wide or province-wide unified examinations. In National Grade-4 Test for English Majors both in 2000 and 2001, 91.5-91.8% students passed the test, the rate of which is 21-22% higher than the national average rate; in 1997’s Computer Unified Test sponsored by Guangdong Province and Hainan Province, WYU students won the first place both in passing rate and excellence rate; in 1994 and 1995 WYU students won the first place for National Experimental Designs in Physics; in 2000’s Nation-wide Competition of Mathematical Control Model, WYU students got three second prizes at national level, three first prizes at provincial level and their total score ranked the second place in Guangdong Province.

WYU has gained great support in its construction and expansion from Wuyi fellow townsmen. Since its founding Wuyi fellow countrymen have made an entire donation of 200 million Hong Kong dollars to the university for more than 50 buildings, instruments and equipment used in teaching and research work, books and magazines and also subscribe funds to?? reward the outstanding teachers and students. So WYU has not only made good use of its favorable situation as a hometown of oversea Chinese, but also built itself with the efforts from home and abroad. At moment WYU has established relations of cooperation and exchange programs with more than 20 universities and colleges in the United States, Britain, Canada, Switzerland, Russia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Macao and some other countries and regions. Every year WYU also sends over 20 excellent teachers abroad for advanced studies and researches and some topnotch students to USA for advanced learning. WYU, one of the first schools authorized to enroll international students, has recruited more than 300 long-term or short-term international students from more than 10 countries, such as the United States, Mexico, Japan and Indonesia, etc.

The post-graduate education program of WYU started quite early. Since WYU was approved by the Academic Degree Committee of the State Council as Master Degree granting unit in 1998, now it has first six Master Degree granting disciplines, namely, Signal and Message Processing, Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System, Textile Engineering, Management Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Automation, and Applied Chemistry. WYU is the only one in South China that can confer Master Degree of Textile Engineering. Now WYU has about 80 graduate students and more than 20 doctoral students.

In 1996, WYU, in view of its high quality of tertiary education, passed the undergraduate-level education qualification evaluation sponsored by the State Education Commission which makes comments on WYU: “WYU has taken a successful road for a city-run school in the center of highly-developed economic areas.” With the continuous improvement of its overall strength, its position in the list of universities on the net is moving more and more towards the top. In 1999 WYU ranked the 307th place among thousands of universities in China; in 2000, it ranked the 211th place in China; in 2001 it ranked the 167th place in China, but ranked the 10th place among 60-odd universities in Guangdong Province.?

Facing the 21st century, WYU’s new leading body has made the adjustments in running WYU:

Our guiding principle for running WYU is “Being oriented towards local areas and serving social needs.” As for “Serving social needs”, first of all it is mainly based on providing all-round service to the grassroots units as well as the local areas; second, it is mainly based on providing service to Jiangmen City as well as the whole province and even the whole country. The adjustments in this policy not only covers the original guiding principle for running WYU i.e. “Being oriented towards local areas and serving social needs” but also expands the range of service and creates the new areas for WYU’s further development.

Our goal for running WYU is “Developing WYU into a new comprehensive university of great potential for self-development, of great social influence, of characteristics of the region as hometown of overseas Chinese, and one taking the lead among universities of the same type in China.” In order to achieve this goal, WYU adheres to putting people at the core and fully mobilizing the enthusiasm of the staff so as to work in full cooperation and with unity of purpose, to exert ourselves to make the country prosperous, to be devoted to reform, and to have the courage to be creative. Therefore WYU has formed an atmosphere of “teaching diligently with love and respect, and being united, alert, earnest, lively and initiative”; WYU has become a nice place to work in and live in, in peace and contentment, a place with “beautiful environment, favorable condition, excellent service, and high pay”; WYU also has an excellent school spirit of “being eager to learn more, being eager to think more, being more realistic and being more creative.”

The overall plan of WYU is “One main body with two wings and three bases.” (Note: “One main body” means the regular higher education, of which the four-year undergraduate program is the core. It also includes the Master Degree Program, which helps push forward the development of relevant disciplines and scientific research, which represent the academic level of a university. “Two wings” refers to vocational higher education and continuing education. It is an important part of the multi-level education of the university and can promote the integration of education with local economy and society; it is the source of the development of the university. “Three bases” refers to Jiangmen Wuyi region, Guangdong Province, Hong Kong and Macao as well as the communities that overseas Chinese represent.) So in recent years we stick to the regular higher education? (i.e. one main body), actively promote vocational higher education and continuing education (i.e. the two wings), and rely on Jiangmen Wuyi region, Guangdong Province, Hong Kong and Macao as well as the communities that overseas Chinese represent (i.e. the three bases), which make the overall plan imbued with vitality and energy.?

The mode of running WYU is “Taking WYU main campus as the center, developing WYU in length and breadth, and building up a complete educational system. Now we pay much attention to its development in length. While running the undergraduate and postgraduate programs well, we still actively provide favorable conditions for setting up several colleges and school centers step by step in order to raise the level of running the university. According to the development of science and technology and the local needs, we centralize human, material and financial resources to promote key disciplines, key majors and expansion of postgraduate programs so as to make several key majors of WYU have some influence over Guangdong Province and even over the whole country. At the same time we also pay much attention to its the development in breadth. According to the economic development of local areas and the characteristics of Jiangmen Wuyi region, though in Xinhui there is already a Higher Vocational-technical College, more colleges of WYU are to be set up in other parts of Wuyi region when conditions have matured so as to form a whole set of systems with WYU major campus as the core that can provide teaching, consulting service, scientific research and other services.

Our goal for training WYU students is “Particular stress should be laid on the cultivation of students in break-new-ground spirit and practical abilities on the premise of laying solid foundations for the formation of students’ all-round quality and for life-long study.”

Our goal for scientific research is “ The main field in research is for application and technical development, and to support the theoretical research within our capacity.”

In recent years four features have developed in terms of training in education, scientific research that is devoted to the service of the society, external exchanges & cooperation, and internal management.

?Time: End of June to early of August????? 2. Lectures: 1 lecture a day on a wide range of topics, such as:
???? Board and Lodging: In the Cultural Exchange Centre of Wuyi University Two students share one room Program
?? I Classroom Study (for four weeks):
???? 1. Putonghua(Mandarin) (4 periods per week, for a total of 24 periods)

??????? a. Introduction to the main features of Chinese history
??????? b. General introduction to Chinese traditional philosophy
??????? c. Chinese folk customs
??????? d. Introduction to Chinese literature
??????? e. Education in China
??????? f. Economic development in China
??????? g. China's geography and places of special interest
?? II Field Trips (for a total of 6 days)
????? Visiting rural villages, schools and developing towns. Visits to places which represent aspects of modern Chinese society
?? III Tours of places of historic interest and scenic beauty:
?????? (For a total of 6 whole day trips)
?? IX Elective activities (6 hours per week)
??????? a.Chinese martial arts (4 periods per week, for a total of 24 periods)
??????? b.Swimming, table tennis, badminton, basketball
??????? c.Visits to a food market and an antique market
??????? d.An introduction to Chinese calligraphy, painting and music
??????? e.Making Jiaozi (dumplings)
???? Fee: US$ 1174 (GBP780) (10-15 persons in a group; courses for 1-3 groups can be run simultaneously)

Courses in Chinese Culture & Modern China
(Duration: 2-8 weeks)
??? To meet the needs of foreign students who wish to become acquainted with Chinese language and culture, Wuyi University offers, in addition to the Short-term summer program, a flexible program of courses on "Chinese Culture & Modern China". These courses can be organized over periods of 2-8 weeks according to the interests and wishes of groups numbering not fewer than 10. The activities will include lectures, field trips, recreational activities, etc.
The inclusive fee is US$ 32 per person per day. Languages of instruction may be: Mandarin, Cantonese or English, as students may request. Any individual or organization interested in either of these programs can contact ZHENG Changchun, Head of the Foreign Affairs Office of Wuyi University.

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l?????? Room:

2??????? Chinese Students Dormitory (4 people share one room with bedding, bathroom, telephone; electricity will be at your own expenses): 800 Yuan /one semester/one person.

2??????? Foreign Students Dormitory (one room with bedding and air-conditioner, TV, water heater; electricity will be at your own expenses): 4400 Yuan/one semester /one room.( can be shared with 2 people) ; 3600yuan /one semester/one room without air-conditioner.

l?????? Food:? About 500Yuan /month in school canteens;

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Jiangmen is seated in south-central Guangdong Province, west of Pearl River Delta. The city derives its name, which means “the gate of river", from its geographic location, as it is situated at the convergence of the Xihe River (also known as the West River) and the Peng River. It is adjacent to Zhongshan and Shunde to the east and Yangjiang to the west and faces the South China Sea to the south.

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Zhuhai and the provincial capital Guangzhou are within 1.5 hours' drive from Jiangmen by the Guangzhou-Zhuhai Highway and the Jiangmen-Zhuhai Highway. Hong Kong and Macau are located 95 nautical miles and 53 nautical miles from the city, respectively. The city is also easily accessible by air, as it takes less than 2 hours to go from Jiangmen downtown to Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport and Zhuhai Airport.

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Jiangmen has a maritime monsoon climate, with warm, humid weather all year around. The city is occasionally attacked by floods or typhoons during the period from July to September. The city is home to over 100 species of wild animals, 500 species of birds and 200 species of insects. The city also has rich freshwater resources, which account for nearly 6.7% of Guangdong's total.

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Expenses:

l?????? Tuition: 6500 RMB Yuan / one semester; (13000Yuan /one academic year)

(For those from our sister schools: 1000Yuan /one academic year waived)

l?????? Room:

2??????? Chinese Students Dormitory (4 people share one room with bedding, bathroom, telephone; electricity will be at your own expenses): 800 Yuan /one semester/one person.

2??????? Foreign Students Dormitory (one room with bedding and air-conditioner, TV, water heater; electricity will be at your own expenses): 4400 Yuan/one semester /one room.( can be shared with 2 people) ; 3600yuan /one semester/one room without air-conditioner.

l?????? Food:? About 500Yuan /month in school canteens;

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