Soros not afraid of Fudan either

While the left is attacking the Chinese Fudan University, the world’s most renowned political and financial leaders, scholars, and businessmen take the educational institution quite seriously. George Soros and the former Managing Director of the IMF held lectures there, and even Barack Obama, while president of the United States, answered student questions in a forum at the Shanghai university.

Christine Lagarde 2015 márciusában mondott beszédet a kínai egyetemen Fotó: Law Forrás: IMF

It is no coincidence that Fudan University is taken so seriously throughout the world: established in 1905, it covers over 2.5 million square meters including laboratories and hospitals along with a library stocked with 5.5 million volumes and countless digital resources. The school also has over 4 thousand foreign students from many different countries among its ranks. Their public events feature presentations by industry and finance leaders, Chinese and foreign professors, as well as Nobel Prize winning scientists.

The institution has established exchanges with more than two hundred universities and research institutes in some 30 countries and regions, including Harvard, Yale, and Columbia. Fudan is also a member of the Universitas 21 association of the world’s leading universities.

The Chinese college students are welcomed in many parts of the world. It is telling that between 2000 and 2018, the number of Chinese students at US universities increased from 60 thousand to 360 thousand. This enriches the higher education of the overseas country by billions of dollars.