As Asia grows its wealth, more people want to give back to society but in a strategic way.
As a member of the Chinese delegation that introduced the Test of English as a Foreign Language to the Chinese mainland, Yang Xuewei still has a fresh memory of the negotiations with the Educational Testing Service as well as the first test in Beijing.
On Dec 11, 1981, the first TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) test was available to Chinese mainland students in three major cities: Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Hundreds of Chinese students took the test and knocked on the door to enter overseas universities and colleges.
Recalling his freshman year at university, Guo Li said he kind of wasted it.
Shen Hua is always following her heart. One day in 2008, a voice in her head told her to go to New York. So she figured out a way to send herself and enroll with Columbia University, even though she already had a good job at China Central Television.
A Level courses and exams provided by the British organization Cambridge International Examinations are becoming increasingly popular in China, according to CEO Michael O'Sullivan.
More advanced information technologies are scrambling to keep up with the growing number of Chinese language learners worldwide.
Wuhan University, located in the capital of Hubei province, is stressing its strategies of internationalization to extend its prestige across the world.
From the son of a farmer to a scientist working on hybrid rice, Zhu Yingguo said his original intention of attending Wuhan University and studying biology after he graduated from high school in 1959, was to reduce starvation.
When Shi Liangsheng became a professor and doctoral supervisor of hydraulics at Wuhan University in 2012, he was only 30 years old - younger than many doctoral students.
A group of buildings at Wuhan University, dating to the 1930s, have contributed to the beauty of the campus, which is said to be one of the most beautiful campuses in China.
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