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UM Rector Wei Zhao plants a tree on behalf of UM at Tsinghua University in Beijing
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(From right) UM’s Vice Rector Dr. Alex Lai presents a souvenir to President of National Tsing Hua University Prof. Lih J. Chen

2o11 marks the centenary for Tsinghua University in Beijing and National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. Both universities celebrated this milestone at the same moment on the same day. This is the first time that the two universities have celebrated their anniversary simultaneously. Rector of the University of Macau (UM) Prof. Wei Zhao was invited to the Global Summit of University Presidents organized by Tsinghua University in Beijing. At the summit Rector Wei Zhao and presidents of more than 130 universities discussed about “developing world-class universities in China”. UM’s Vice Rector Dr. Alex Lai was invited by National Tsing Hua Univesity in Taiwan to attend its centenary celebration.

For more details about this news, please refer to the Chinese press release.