College redefines learning mission

Editor's Note: China Daily is publishing a series of reports on universities jointly established by education institutions from China and overseas. As the colleges get busy with recruitment, our reporters visited them to talk with principals, teachers and students.

What makes reform extraordinary is the opportunity it gives to some individuals - so long as they keep experimenting and thinking hard.

That is the message of Xi Youmin, executive president of Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, one of the few Chinese-foreign joint-venture universities, which is beginning to be recognized around the world.