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80 Part 2•General Information financial aid schemes and awards are available to encourage students to excel in their academicpursuits as well as to participate in college educational activities. In 2001–2 Chung Chi College had a student population of 2,277, of whom 912 were male and 1,365 werefemale. While mostof the students were born in Hong Kong, a few of them were overseas Chinese. Aboutone-third of thestudents were Chr istians. New Asia College New Asia College was fo unded in 1949 by its former president, the late Dr. Ch’ien Mu,and a small group of scholars from mainland China. Their aim was to preserve traditionalChinese culture and to balance it with Western lear n in g so th at studentsmight understand their cu ltu ral h eritage and at the same time be capable of coping with th e challen g es o f th e modernworld. Thecollege had a humble begin ning but soon attr acted support both locally and from ov erseas. Since 19 54, it h as h ad th e co op er atio n an d sup po rt of th e Yale-Ch in a Association which has been a ct i v e i n e d u ca t i o n a l development in China for many years. It has also received support from other educationalinstitutions and foundations, notably the Harvard-Yenching Institute, theAsia Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, theBritish Council, the Mencius Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Ming Yu Cultural Foundation. As a grant college from 1 959 to 1963, and a constituent colleg e of the University thereafter, it has received generousfinancial support from the government. Scholarly visits and other cultural activities are arranged thro ughout the year under different programmes such as the Ch’ien Mu Lecture in History and Cu ltur e Pr ogramme, the New Asia Ming Yu Fo undation Visitin g Scholars Programme, the New Asia S.Y. Chung Visiting Fellows Programme, the New Asia David Lam Economist Exchange Programme, and the Y.S.Hui Exchange Programme in Fine Arts. Extracu rricular activities, which form an important