According to relevant information, Jinan University has 17 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Fund. Professor Guo Ying from the Institute of Environment, Professor Zhang Ning from the Institute of Economics and Researcher Wang Leyan from the Institute of Medicine were supported by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.
Jinan University, referred to as Jida for short, is the first overseas Chinese institution of higher learning founded by the state in China, directly under the leadership of the Central United Front Work Department, and jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the Central United Front Work Department and Guangdong Province. It is a national world-class discipline construction university and a key construction university under the national 2 1 1 engineering and 985 platform.