Jiang Zemin's son named head of new ShanghaiTech University
The People's Daily reported yesterday that Jiang Mianheng, who turns 62 this year, will head the small-scale research institution, which opened its doors in Shanghai in September.
The son of former president Jiang Zemin has been named the head of the new ShanghaiTech University.
The People's Daily reported yesterday that Jiang Mianheng, who turns 62 this year, will head the small-scale research institution, which opened its doors in Shanghai in September.
The university was established jointly by the Shanghai municipal government and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in which Jiang served as vice-president from 1999 to 2011.
ShanghaiTech opened applications for 200 undergraduate places on Thursday, and plans to enrol 2,000 undergraduate students and 4,000 graduate students in the short term.
It promises a 1:10 to 1:12 teacher-to-student ratio, with as many as 1,000 faculty members, 500 of which will be recruited internationally. Nobel Prize laureate and chemist Kurt Wüthrich was appointed professor last March.
Jiang has supported the university since its inception. In October 2011, he visited the construction site of research laboratories under the CAS Shanghai Pudong Science and Technology Park, where ShanghaiTech is now located.