Xiangshan University Town in Ningxiang County, sponsored by Zhong Hande Foundation, will donate more than 1 billion dollars in Ningxiang, and will build a comprehensive school covering kindergartens, primary schools, junior high schools, senior high schools and universities. It is planned to introduce about 20 colleges and universities around 2020.
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University town refers to the residential town formed by higher education. Generally speaking, university towns were formed in Europe and first appeared in some countries with developed higher education, such as Britain and America.
In the process of university development, the scale of university development has expanded, and some universities have gathered together, making the surrounding areas of universities or the university campus itself become large-scale towns, such as Humboldt area in Berlin, Heidelberg and Uppsala in Sweden. People call this gathering of institutions of higher learning "University Town".
Generally, a university town has at least one large comprehensive university, or some relatively small but large number of small colleges, such as arts and sciences colleges and community colleges.
There are two main ways to form foreign university towns: one is naturally formed, such as Boston in the United States, Oxford and Cambridge in the United Kingdom, which are naturally formed after more than 100 years of history;
The other is active construction, such as Charlottesville, State College, Madison and Tsukuba University Town in Japan. They were jointly built by the state, local governments, universities and enterprises with the rapid development of higher education after World War II.
Hunan Channel-Ningxiang Planning Xiangshan University Town plans to introduce 20 universities in five years.
Zhong Hande, a Hong Kong philanthropist from New Hunan-Ningxiang, returned to China and donated 654.38 billion yuan to run a school.
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