The Spotlight falls on Liaoning University in North Eastern China
After more than half a century, Liaoning University in north easten China has become a comprehensive university offering a number of disciplines, including literature, history, philosophy, economics, law, foreign languages, the arts, sciences, engineering and management. It is one of the key universities of China's national "211 Project".
The university is located in Shenyang, the largest city in Northeast China, which is the political, economic, and cultural center of Liaoning Province. It is also an important base for industry.
Liaoning University has 25 academies, 62 undergraduate majors, entitled to confer 160 master's degrees and 62 doctoral degrees. Since the beginning of 1965 when it started to receive foreign students, Liaoning University has taken more than 8000 long-term foreign students and 3000 short-term students from countries like the United States, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Italy, the UK, France and many other countries. There are nearly 700 students studying in the university at one time or another.
The city of Shenyang is located in the central part of Liaoning Province. Its climate is relatively dry most of the year with spikes in precipitation during the summer months due to the influence of monsoons. Temperatures vary as much as 10 degrees Celsius from daytime to night, and in winter they can drop below 0 degrees Celsius.
Shenyang is also a celebrated old city with more than 2,000 years of history which can be traced back to Warring States Period (476 BC - 221 BC). It is the birthplace of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), and has many cultural sites which symbolize the prosperity and subsequent decline of China's last feudal dynasty... The most famous of these is the Shenyang Imperial Palace , which is of great historical and cultural significance and second only to the famed Forbidden City in Beijing. Two other famous imperial structures worth seeing includes The Fuling Tomb and the Zhaoling Tomb which were built during the Qing Dynasty.
For more information about Lioaning University visit this website: http://en.lnu.edu.cn/
