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http://www.ur.umich.edu/update/archives/100601/china
Chinese delegation, U-M officials lay groundwork for future
partnerships
By Joe Serwach
News Service
U-M officials have completed two weeks of high-level exchanges with
33 counterparts from top Chinese universities.
More than 130 years after U-M President James Angell visited China to
forge two major treaties between the two nations, President Mary Sue
Coleman, Provost Teresa Sullivan and U-M administrators hosted Chinese
education officials from 27 universities May 15-29.
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Joan Keiser (right), managing director of the
North Campus Research Complex, talks to Chinese officials who toured the
faacility recently. (Photo by Joe Serwach, News Service) |
The meetings offered a rare opportunity to lay the groundwork for
future partnerships. While U-M and Michigan State University (which also
was visited during the trip) regularly work to accelerate research and
technology transfer efforts, China has a concerted plan to expand higher
education to energize its economy, more than quadrupling the number of
college graduates during the past decade.
The Chinese officials shared valuable insights based on this
unprecedented reformation of higher education occurring in China. The
number of college students earning degrees leapt from about 1 million in
1999 to an estimated 6.3 million this year while overall enrollments
grew from 12.3 million in 2000 to 23 million in 2005. At the same time,
the number of Chinese citizens enrolling in U.S. universities continues
to grow, rising 21 percent between 2007-08 and 2008-09 to 98,235
students.
Last fall, U-M had 1,168 students from China, more than from any
other nation outside the United States, while MSU enrolled 1,940
students from China.
Jianguo Hou, president of the University of Science and Technology of
China, described to a campuswide, standing-room-only audience in the
Michigan Union how China plans to increase education spending from 3.48
percent of its GDP (the current Chinese GDP is about $5 trillion) to 4
percent of GDP over the next two years.
A National Bureau of Economic Research Report found China is the
fourth-largest producer of scientific output as measured by a world
total of peer-reviewed scientific articles, trailing the United States,
European Union and Japan. While the United States produced 32.8 percent
of those articles compared to 6 percent for China, China’s output
doubled in less than 10 years while the other top three declined
During the Michigan-China Leadership Forum, U-M officials discussed
ways they can work together to advance trade, innovation and economic
growth and other exchanges for faculty and students.
The 33 members of the Chinese delegation, including university
presidents, university council chairs, and officials of the Ministry of
Education and National Academy of Education Administration, visited
U-M’s Ann Arbor and Dearborn campuses, and spent a day at MSU and the
state Capitol.
“The forum has built bridges that will help our state benefit from
access to the vast Chinese higher education system,” says Constance
Cook, associate vice provost for academic affairs who organized the 2010
exchange and similar forums in 2008 and 2006. “These exchanges help us
build our connections with the fastest growing economy in the world.”
