 | President Hu Jintao, shown here with Professor Deborah David of Yale, visited the PKU-Yale program in part because of the University's long association with China. |
T H I S
China's President meets with
participants in Peking-Yale program
China’s President Hu Jintao met with Yale students and faculty involved
in the Peking University-Yale University Joint Undergraduate Program on May
3.
The Chinese leader’s visit was in honor of the 110th anniversary of Peking
University (PKU). It was his first visit there since becoming the nation’s
president. He was accompanied by PKU President Xu Zhihong and other national,
municipal and university leaders.
Hu visited the PKU-Yale Joint Undergraduate Program in honor both of his visit
to Yale in 2006 and of China’s long-standing connections with Yale.
His first stop was dorm room number 106, which Yale student Austin Miller ’10
shares with Zhang Yin ’10, a philosophy student in Yuanpei, PKU’s
honor college. (As part of the joint PKU-Yale initiative, students from the
two insitutions live
and study together during the course of the year).
Hu then spoke to an assembly that included other student participants in the
PKU-Yale program, as well as Yale professors Deborah David and Michael Friedmann,
who are teaching there this semester, and Ningping Yu, the program’s
resident director. Also on hand for Hu’s address were 10 other international
students at PKU, a number of whom are volunteering for the Olympics.
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