Bulletin No. 1, 2009

58   Chinese University Bulletin No. 1, 2009 Intellectual Cross-currents Heads of Chinese Universities Aim for Greater Excellence T he heads of 10 prestigious universities from the mainland and Hong Kong came to CUHK on 16 December 2008 for the 2008 Association of University Presidents of China (AUPC) Meeting and Presidents’ Forum. They included university presidents of the founding members of the association: Prof. Gu Binglin (6th left), AUPC Chairman and President of Tsinghua University; Prof. Wang Shenghong (1st right), AUPC Vice-Chairman and President of Fudan University; Prof. Lawrence J. Lau (4th left), AUPC Vice- Chairman and Vice-Chancellor of CUHK; President Zhang Jie (2nd left) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University; President Chen Jun (3rd left) of Nanjing University; President Zhou Qifeng (5th left) of Peking University; President Zheng Nanning (2nd right) of Xi’an Jiaotong University; Vice-Chancellor Tsui Lap-chee (3rd right) of The University of Hong Kong; President Yang Wei (4th right) of Zhejiang University; and Vice-President Wong Yuk-shan of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. A total of 45 representatives from these 10 institutions were in attendance. The theme of the forum was ’Towards Developing World-class Status for Research-intensive Universities in China’. Prof. Wu Qidi (centre), Vice Minister of Education, delivered the keynote address. The participants also discussed the future development of AUPC.