INTRODUCTION OF HEBEI UNIVERSITY

Hebei University (HBU) is located in Baoding City, Hebei Province, a famous historical and cultural city in NE China. It is a university jointly founded by the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Hebei Province, it is a national first-class university supported by Hebei Province.

Hebei University was originally founded as Tianjin Industrial and Commercial University in 1921, located in Machang Road, Tianjin City. Since then, the school has gone through different changes; from Tianjin Industrial and Commercial College, Private Jingu University, National Jingu University, Tianjin Normal College, and Tianjin Normal University. In 1960, it was named Hebei University by the Hebei Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government. In 1970, it was relocated to Baoding City, Hebei Province. Over the past 100 years, generations of scholars have devoted themselves to teaching and research, and generations of students have worked hard to learn and serve the country. HBU embraces 12 major specialisms including philosophy, economics, law, pedagogy, literature, history, science, engineering, agronomy, medicine, management and art. It has 86 undergraduate programmes, 18 first-level disciplines authorized to offer doctors’ degree, 44 first-level disciplines authorized to offer master’s degrees, 38 professional master's degree programmes, 13 post-doctoral research mobile stations, 1 post-doctoral scientific research workstation. Eight disciplines, including Chemistry, Materials Science, Engineering, Clinical Medicine, Plant and Animal Science, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Agricultural Science, and Environmental Science and Ecology, are in the top 1 per cent of the ESI world rankings.

Currently there are more than 28,000 registered undergraduate students, 12,400 doctoral candidates and postgraduates. HBU has 41 national first-class undergraduate programmes, 21 national first-class undergraduate courses, 3 national ideological and political demonstration courses, 4 national "new engineering", 5 "new liberal arts" programmes, 14 national "Quality Programme" programmes, 12 national "undergraduate teaching programmes". HBU has made great efforts to promote the cultural tourism industry, pharmaceutical industry and modern green industry in Hebei Province, to construct the Yanzhao cultural discipline group, the life science and green development discipline group, and has made significant progress in the protection and development of the Yanzhao culture, the ecological management of the Baiyangdian River Basin and other fields.

With an open mind, HBU has established cooperative ties with over 100 high-level universities across the world and built a complete education system offering bachelor’s, master's and doctoral programmes. HBU has the first non-independent legal entity to host a Sino-foreign cooperative education programme, and has successively hosted 3 Confucius institutes in South America, Asia and Africa.

HBU will insist on the guidance by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, implement the fundamental task of building morality and cultivating people, adhere to the ideal of "running the school with quality, talents, services and law", and accelerate HBU’s "double first-class" construction, continuously improve our competencies in talent training, scientific research, social services, cultural inheritance and innovation, and international exchange and cooperation, strive to build an internationally renowned high-level comprehensive university with distinctive characteristics as soon as possible.

INTRODUCTION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LANCASHIRE

The University of Lancashire was established in 1828. It is located in the city of Preston, an important northern city in Lancashire, England.

The University of Lancashire is a well-known comprehensive university in the UK. The university has more than 35,000 students, offers about 500 undergraduate courses/programmes and more than 200 postgraduate courses, and has first-class facilities and services. In 2010, it won the "Times Best Student Experience Award" and ranked in the top 3.7% of all universities in the world in 2018 - 2019. The University of Lancashire has always been at the forefront of development in the fields of media, creativity, fashion and other disciplines, with a long history and high reputation. The university is committed to providing students with the most cutting-edge resources and equipment in industry and professional sectors. The School of Arts & Media has more than 50 different types of media courses for students to choose from. The 15 million media factory has high-quality, advanced professional facilities, providing students with opportunities to develop their skills and abilities on professional, industry standard equipment.

The University of Lancashire has partnerships with universities in 125 countries and regions, and runs more than 100 student exchange programmes. Students from more than 120 countries and regions study at the university. Since the University of Lancashire first launched educational cooperation with Chinese universities in the 1980s, it has always adhered to the concept of innovation, integration and diversity, and is committed to building a platform between China and the UK in the fields of humanities, education and art with the Chinese educational community, and has achieved great success.