Fudan University, referred to as Fudan for short, is located in Shanghai, China, directly under the Ministry of Education and the Central Government of People's Republic of China (PRC). It is a national "double first-class" (Class A), "985 Project" and "2 1 1 Project" to build universities, nine major alliances and the Pacific Rim University Alliance.
Fudan University was founded in 1905 as Fudan College, and was named Fudan University in 19 17. It is the first institution of higher learning independently established by the people of China. The predecessor of Shanghai Medical University was the National Fourth Sun Yat-sen University Medical College founded in 1927. In 2000, Fudan University merged with Shanghai Medical University to form a new Fudan University.
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1905, Yu Youren and other former students of Sinian College left Sinian and supported Ma to establish Fudan College in Wusong. The original intention of the word "Fudan" in the name of the school is to pursue light, which means running a school independently and reviving China. Ma, and Yan Fu successively served as principals. 19 13 years, Lee Teng-hui became the principal until 1936.
During his 23 years as president, Fudan University has developed into a well-known and distinctive private university, cultivating applied talents in business, economy, journalism, education and civil engineering, and forming a complete school-running system from middle school to graduate school.
1937 after the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, some teachers and students of Fudan University moved to Beibei, Chongqing under the leadership of President Wu Nanxuan. Agricultural college added in 194 1.
With the approval of the Executive Yuan of the National Government, Fudan was changed from private to national on New Year's Day in 1942, and it was also called National Fudan University, with Wu Nanxuan and Zhang Yi as the presidents successively. 1in the summer of 946, Chongqing school moved back to the original site of Jiangwan in Shanghai and merged with Shanghai school, further expanding its scale.
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