The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is an international public research-oriented comprehensive university and an academic center in the fields of humanities, mathematics, computer science, economy and finance, medicine, law, media and geography.
It is also the only university in Hong Kong that has won the Nobel Prize, Fields Prize, Turing Prize and Shannon Prize. The school takes "the combination of tradition and modernity, the integration of Chinese and Western" as its mission, and features flexible credit system, academy system, equal emphasis on Chinese and English, and multiculturalism. He is a member of Pacific Rim University Alliance, World University Alliance, Song Alliance and China University Presidents Association.
The first AACSB certified member in Asia, the seat of Hong Kong Internet Exchange Center. 1963 The Chinese University of Hong Kong was formed by the merger of Chung Chi College, New Asia College and United College. 1966, the first graduate school in Hong Kong was established; 1976, the department integration of different colleges is under the unified responsibility of the school.
1986, comprehensively review the curriculum structure, transfer to the credit system, and strengthen general education; 1998, the admission rate of mainland undergraduates ranks first in Hong Kong; 20 14 The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) was established. As the leading institution of higher learning in Hong Kong and even Asia and the main position of contemporary neo-Confucianism.
CUHK has successively gathered a group of experts and scholars such as Qian Mu, Lin Yutang, Gao Kun, Tsung i Jao, Yang Zhenning, Yu Guangzhong, Morris, Yao Qizhi, Mundell, Lu Yuming and Weihao Yang, and trained outstanding talents from all walks of life such as mathematician Qiu Chengtong, historian Yu Yingshi, geneticist Xu Lizhi, banker Zheng Haiquan and fifteen Rhodes scholars.
The establishment of the Chinese University of Hong Kong broke the iron law that only one university was allowed in the British Empire colony, and at the same time set off the Chinese movement in Hong Kong, successfully ending the situation that English monopolized the official language status. It is not only a watershed in British colonial history, but also one of the symbols of Asian decolonization in the 20th century, which has certain significance in the times.