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The Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the PRC in HKSAR shares his ideas on the risks and challenges of China, in a talk entitled “Current International Situation and China’s Foreign Policy”.
Following approval from the Ministry of Science and Technology, the State Key Laboratory in Marine Pollution led by CityU was established to help address the pressing need to protect China’s marine environment and biological resources.
CityU has achieved outstanding results in the 2010-11 General Research Fund exercise, securing more than $63 million for 106 projects, an increase of 19% in funding compared to last year.
Renowned literary critic Professor Liu Zaifu gave a Distinguished Scholar Lecture at CityU on 22 April. With CityU’s Professor Cheng Pei-kai as his interlocutor, he shared some insights about how universal values are represented in Chinese literature.
CityU has been awarded a grant of more than HK$8 million from the Research Grants Council to lead a research project that assesses the reliability of electronic systems in order to prevent breakdowns that can lead to inefficiency or, in worst-case scenarios, fatal disasters.
"It is easier to generate academic achievement if individual scholars are allowed to conduct research according to their interests and impulses,” said Professor Lin Yu-sheng on the theoretical foundations of academic freedom.
CityU achieves excellent results in the latest RGC funding exercise, ranked fourth among the eight higher education institutions in total grants awarded. The amount has surged 22% from last year's result.
International and local scholars in the field of cultural and language education converge at CityU this week for a two-day conference on Chinese culture, identity and language anxiety.
More than 30 civilizations history scholars take part in the “International Conference on Teaching and Learning of World Civilizations” from April 6 to 10 to develop the curriculum of a general education course titled “A History of Civilizations”.
Mr Lam Kwong-yu, the Founding Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Starlite Holdings Ltd, visited CityU and told his success story at the CEO Forum organized by the EMBA programme of CityU's Faculty of Business on 17 August.