Yunnan University

Since its foundation, Yunnan University has always attached great importance to internationalization of itself. In 1920s, when its precursor Private Donglu University was founded, the founder Mr. Tsang Jiyao pointed out that “Donglu University should be a university of East Asia, not a university of Yunnan Province.” During Mr. Xiong Qinglai’s presidency, he focused on cultivating and introducing talents of international vision and attached great importance to international academic cooperation and exchange. This way, the University finally walked out of the Borderland into the world arena. In 1946, Yunnan University was listed by Concise Encyclopedia Britannica as one of the 15 world’s famous universities in China. Since the reform and opening-up, Yunnan University has always considered the strategy of internationalization as one of the most important development strategies of the University. Since it was listed among the first universities to win the membership of “Project 211” in 1996, Yunnan University has followed the development trend of higher education in the world and has aimed at becoming a regional first-class university. It has sped up the internationalization of itself to implement the national policy guidelines and serve the economic and social development of Yunnan Province. In April 2012, Yunnan University issued a document about the internationalization of the University which formally designated internationalization to be an important development strategy. After 90 years of development, the idea of internationalization has been rooted in Yunnan University and has become the engine and stage of our development and the tradition of the University. Now Yunnan Province ist actively involving itself in the national strategy, developing in a frog-leaping way to become a model province of national and ethnic solidarity, a pioneer of ecological conservation and the hub of South Asia and Southeast Asia.