On June 23, 1978, ** delivered a speech at Tsinghua University on expanding the dispatch of international students, which made a significant contribution in the history of study abroad education. The reason why it is called the expansion of dispatch is because sending international students to study abroad is a policy that has been adhered to since the founding of the People's Republic of China. From 1950 to 1965, during the Cold War, 10,698 students were sent to 29 countries, including the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, North Korea, and Cuba, with an average of 10,698 students per year.
Six or seven hundred. Even in 1972, the dispatch of foreign students was resumed, and by 1978 a total of 1,977 students had been dispatched. More than 200 students are sent every year, and most of them are students learning Chinese foreign languages.
In March 1978, the Ministry of Education, the State Science and Technology Commission, and ** reported that the plan was to send 200 science and technology students every year from 1978 to 1979. It was after reading this report that I thought the scale was not enough.
The advocacy of the first is transformed into the decision-making and action of China's first class. On August 4, 1978, the Ministry of Education issued the Notice on the Co-optation of Overseas Students. It was proposed that "in 1978, the number of students studying abroad (including college students, advanced students, and graduate students) will be increased to more than 3,000. Mainly study science and engineering (including agriculture and medicine) related majors. "The selection conditions for advanced scholars are: high professional level, a certain level of foreign language proficiency, and an age of about 40. At that time, the duration of the trip was two years. The latter few were extended by transferring degrees.
Through the joint efforts of education, science and technology, and the first department, in just a few months, the selection, training, inter-state agreements, and implementation of foreign study units have been completed, which can be called efficient.
According to the situation of the agreement, the semester of the country, and the implementation of the receiving unit, the three groups of scholars who went abroad before the first half of 1979, that is, within one year of the speech, were: the first batch of scholars went to the United States in December 1978, the first batch of scholars went to Germany in February 1979, and the first batch of scholars went to Japan in April 1979. This is the first batch of scholars from other countries to go abroad.
Of these, 23 are female scholars.
Among them, 6 went to the United States. They are:
Dai Zongduo from the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Li Zhuxia from the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wu Ning from the Capital Hospital (** at the time), Wang Zhimei from the Department of Biology of Peking University, Shen Luping from the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, and Wang Xukun from the Department of Chemistry of Nankai University.
5 people went to Germany. They are:
Wei Yu of Nanjing Institute of Technology (then known as Southeast University), Jin Guiyu of Nankai University, Yang Qinfei of Beijing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Wang Jibao of Wuhan Medical College.
Huazhong Institute of Technology (predecessor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology) Zhu Liumei.
There were 12 people who went to Japan. They are:
Zhang Qinli, Nanjing Forestry College (now Nanjing Forestry University).
Zuo Pingping, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
Shen Jingzhu, Tsinghua University
Cheng Ming, Beijing Institute of Biological Products
Qu Lurong, Third Affiliated Hospital, China Medical University,
Chen Xinyu, Tianjin First Hospital,
Jin Xianshu, Tianjin Institute of Materia Medica,
Hebei Institute of Technology (predecessor of Hebei University of Technology) Shang Zheng Song, Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Li Jie, Northern Jiaotong University Yang Yiming, Sichuan University Cheng Jianlin, Fudan University Qiu Yin'e.
Their characteristics are:
Ages vary. The age difference is 20 years from the early 30s to the early 50s. For example, Dr. Wu Ning, a scholar who went to the United States at the Capital Hospital, was born in 1931, and Zuo Pingping, who went to Japan, was born in 50. Qualifications vary. Some are graduate students, and some have been working for many years. Some people have studied abroad, such as Jin Guiyu who went to Germany, Wang Xukun of the Department of Chemistry of Nankai University who went to the United States, etc.