Townsmen's Friendship

Brief Introduction to FAO

Foreign Experts
Townsmen’s Friendship
    As an institution of ?higher learning of No.1 overseas Chinese hometown, WYU has been given warm-hearted concern and full support from the overseas Chinese all over the world. WYU also wins the trust and gains their continuous support by our achievements made through arduous strive, thrift and and hard work in managing the school to expand WYU by leaps and bounds. Meanwhile WYU and overseas Chinese have wide connections and maintain close ties in trying to serve for Overseas Chinese, people from Hong Kong& Macao. We are in complete harmony and have mutual affinity.
 

 Since 1998, WYU has continuous support from the overseas Chinese: for 4 years, they have donated 36,230,000 HK$.
  1998    765 HK$
  1999    830 HK$
  2000    963 HK$
  2001    1065 HK$

 Since 1998, 8 more buildings have been constructed with the contribution (about 22,100,000HK$) from overseas Chinese.

WYU continues to receive books collected or donated by overseas Chinese, and has built a fully-quipped modern Information Library.

Loan Funds set up by the overseas Chinese to WYU has reached 4,000,000 HK$. And all kinds of scholarship to outstanding students and awards to faculty members are up to 2,360,000 HK$.

Ever since the founding of WYU, the University has established relations with 128 overseas Chinese communities from 17 countries and has hosted over 30,000 overseas Chinese.

For four years since 1998, the university has organized and accorded a cordial reception to 110 overseas Chinese youth in 5 groups for summer or winter overseas camps from Indonesia, Philippine, Australia and New Zealand.

The university attaches much importance to the study of Overseas Chinese History and Native Hometown of Overseas Chinese. Now WYU has obtained 3 lengthwise research projects and 4 cross-wise research projects at provincial level. And has scored great success: 3 monographs published and over 20 academic theses published in provincial magazines. WYU has done a lot in making preparations for setting up of WUYI overseas Chinese Museum and applying for the world cultural legacy for Fortresses( or Watchtowers) in Kaiping City.

In the study of Hong Kong literature and Macao Literature, WYU professors have published several monographs in over 1,600,000 words, which does credit to the valuable historical materials of Hong Kong &Macao Literature.

WYU also helps overseas Chinese born abroad to find their roots in China or helps them solve problems?in publishing their books with hearted-felt service.

World-famous Chinese scholars from abroad, Hong Kong and Macao have delivered over 30 courses of lectures in WYU.
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