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Conference
venue
The
conference will be hosted by the Peking
University at Beijing, the capital of China.
Peking
University is a comprehensive and National key university. The campus,
known as "Yan Yuan"-- the gardens of Yan, is situated at
the northeast of the Haidian District at the western suburbs of
Beijing. It stands near the Yuan Ming Gardens and the Summer Palace.
The University consists of 30 colleges and 12 departments, with 93
specialties for undergraduates,2 specialties for the second Bachelor's
degree, 199 specialties for Master candidates and 173 specialties for
Doctoral candidates. While still laying stress on basic sciences, the
university has paid special attention to the development of applied
sciences.
At present, Peking university has 216 research institutes and
research centres, and there are 2 national engineering research centres,
81 key national disciplines, 12 national key laboratories.
The university has made an effective combination of the research on
important scientific issues with the training of personnel with
high level specialized knowledge and professional skill as demanded by
the country's socialist modernization. It strives not only for the
simultaneous improvements in teaching and research work, but also for the
promotion of interaction and mutual promotion among various
subjects.
Thus
Peking University has become a center for teaching and research and a
university of the new type, consisting of diverse branches of
learning such as pure and applied sciences, social sciences and the
humanities, and sciences of management and education. Its aim is to rank
among the world's best universities at the beginning of the next
century.
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