Recently the Hunan Charity Federation (HNCF) announced that the 2019 Student Aid Charity Activity officially launched on July 20. If you are a candidate for China's national college entrance examination this year, have been admitted to a higher education institution, and are concerned about tuition, you may apply for financial aid from HNCF.
 
The event was jointly hosted by HNCF, Zoomlion, Hunan Xiangjiao Alcohol Industry Co. Ltd., the Hunan Economic TV Station, and the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald.
 
This year the funding is available to new admittees to higher education including those granted early admission and those on the admission lists of the first and second batch of universities. They are from urban or rural identified poor families, households receiving subsistence allowances, or households having major-illness patients. They will receive a one-time financial aid of 3,000 -5,000 CNY. Tuition-free college students do not qualify for assistance.
 
Begun in 2003, this charity activity has been held 16 times. HNCF alone has raised more than 91 million CNY for 23,000 lower-income students. The Hunan charity system has raised nearly 240 million CNY to help more than 48,000 lower-income students pay for college education expenses.

  In the morning of July 13 th, 2018, the city educational informatization work and the first basic education network master studio licensing conference was held in the Municipal Education Bureau. In the meeting, Hengjiaofa [2018] the 13rd document was read out that "Decisions on granting Wang Quji and other 10 comrades as the basic education network teachers in Hengyang and on permitting their studio for the first time " and their studio was licensed. The meeting conveyed the spirit of the 2018 Provincial Education Informatization Conference, and scheduled the 2018 Education Informatization work in our city. Luo Shengli, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and deputy director of the Municipal Bureau of Education, attended the meeting and made a speech. The meeting was presided over by Luo Jianzhi, deputy department cadre of the Municipal Bureau of Education. Many cadres attended the meeting, such as the deputy director in charge of the informatization work in the education bureau of the county (city) district, the head of the informationization function unit, the equipment station director, the vice principal of the informatization work in the bureau's public school, The city's first basic education network master studio chief teacher, information center, equipment station responsible comrades.
  In his speech, Luo Shengli affirmed the achievements made in our city's education informatization work last year, analyzed the new situation and new tasks faced by educational informatization 2.0 in the new era, and put forward clear requirements for the next stage of work: first, to recognize the situation and to seek for Self-pressure. We should learn to think and make good judgments, accurately grasp Hengyang education information work situation, and enhance the sense of urgency. Second, to clarify the train of thought and seek development. The basic idea of Hengyang's education informatization work is to pay off the historical debt of the construction of "three links and two platforms" in the 12th Five-Year Plan of Education Informatization, to solve the urgent need of the current reform of the new college entrance examination, and to keep up with the new trend of the development of educational informatization 2.0 "three all, two high and one large".Third, to take the initiative and act daring. Funds should be used to promote the balanced development of education in the process of promoting educational informatization. Today's ten licensed elementary education network teachers and their studios should play a full role in this process, and relevant departments should provide funding, venues, learning, exchange and other aspects of support to help them carry out their work.

  On June 29 , Wang Junliang, deputy director of the Department of Teacher Work and Normal Education of the Provincial Education Department, and his entourage came to Hengyang to organize a special seminar on the conditions for evaluating the professional titles of secondary-school teachers. The seminar was chaired by Wang Junliang and Tan Xiaohua, Deputy Director and a member of the party committee of the Municipal Bureau of Education, made a speech. The principals of secondary vocational schools from urban areas and seven counties and cities, the vice-principals in charge of vocational reform, the representatives of first-tier teachers, and the heads of relevant departments of the municipal education bureau attended the discussion.
At the meeting, experts from the Provincial Education Department introduced and explained the drafting and main contents. The comrades attending the meeting expressed their own views enthusiastically, and they fully affirmed the structure and content of the document and put forward their own opinions and suggestions on the revision and improvement of the document from various angles in the light of the actuality.
  After listening carefully to the speeches of comrades present at the meeting, Wang Junliang pointed out with pleasure, “today, we have put forward quite a number of suggestions of horizon, thought, and insight, and we will collect and classify them and concentrate our study on them. It is an important basis for revising and perfecting The Evaluation conditions on Deputy High and Intermediate Professional Technical titles in Hunan Provincial Secondary Professional School Teachers Series and Experimental Technical Series (trial).”Wang Junliang required that all schools at all levels should give full play to their supervision power of grass-roots organizations and educational administrative departments should make good use of the policy-making power. The school must strictly check and verify, avoid common-sense mistakes in the assessment materials of teachers, and make false materials, false data, false grades, false papers, false achievements, false certificates of awards or forged academic qualifications. Years of service and other circumstances to be screened clearance one by one. In order to ensure the standardization, fairness and justice of the evaluation work of the secondary vocational titles, the educational administrative departments of the cities and states must grasp the guidance and be clear in the policy documents when carrying out the evaluation work of the professional titles of the secondary vocational schools.
  In recent years, under the correct leadership of the provincial education department, the municipal party committee and the municipal government, the evaluation of the professional titles of the teachers series in Hengyang has made certain achievements and won the unanimous affirmation of the people from all walks of life. First, disclosing quantitative evaluation standard and reducing the randomness in the review process; second, strictly supervising grass-root recommendation procedures and the school to give the right to speak; third,  standardizing the evaluation procedure of the evaluation committee. (human society, the discipline inspection participating in the whole course of supervision); fourth, adhering to the correct policy orientation to insist on the morality first, to highlight the achievements of education and teaching and inclined to the rural and arduous remote areas. Diversifying the evaluation methods of professional titles, carrying out the work of evaluating and recruiting teachers in primary and secondary schools with different professional titles in an all-round way, and further strengthening supervision and management, establishing disciplinary mechanism of professional title review and discredit, and further improving the expert selection mechanism of evaluation committee.

  On the morning of May 27th, the tax administration moot court, co-hosted by Publicity Ministry of Hengyang Municipal committee, Hengyang Local Taxation Bureau and University of South China, was demonstrated successfully in the Law School of University of South China. Lv Zhengping, who is the Deputy Secretary-General of the Municipal Committee and Vice Minister of the Publicity Ministry of Hengyang Municipal Committee, gave some instructions and comments on the spot. Besides, Chen Yunli, who is the Secretary of Party Leadership Group and Director in Hengyang Local Taxation Bureau, attended the activity and made a speech.
  The moot court is an important part of the tax publicity this year with the theme of "Honesty to the Tax Revenue, Civilization to the Wild Goose City". During the simulate trial, a real case about paying an overdue income tax for individuals was selected among the numerous cases that investigated by the Tax Inspection Office of Zhengxiang District Local Taxation Bureau. The chief judge, judge, people's assessor, engrossment clerk, plaintiff, defendant, entrusted agent and bailiffs were served by the students from the Law School of University of South China.
  On the court, both prosecution and defense were strictly in accordance with the trial procedure for the statement and defense, the proof and the evidence. A heated free debate was launched around issues of whether the procedure of tax administrative punishment is legal, whether the fact evidence is conclusive and qualitative and whether the amount of penalty is appropriate. And then the collegiate bench closed the court to discuss them. The whole process of trial was carried out in strict accordance with the legal procedure, in which the case was stated and the law was given to allow the audiences to feel the dignity of the court at a zero distance.
  Chen Yunli pointed out in her speech that the activity would be a grand meeting of ideological confrontation, which could build a bridge for the communication between the campus and tax authorities so that everyone might collide with the spark of thought. Besides, it could be a good opportunity for the understanding and application of tax law, which would further enhance the working concept of tax officers -- "advocating the rule of law", and set up a new brand of tax law. It also could be a platform for mutual promotion of integrity. Through the mutual participation of universities and tax authorities, we should initiate a prevailing custom of advocating tax law, complying with tax law, staying integrity and winning together.
  Lv Zhengping instructed and commented about the moot court. He pointed out that it was a vivid and effective publicity class of tax law, in which students were trained and tax workers were educated. He stressed that it was the duty of every citizen to pay taxes honestly in accordance with law, and it was the best choice to deal with the tax disputes according to law. When tax workers perform their duties, they should strictly enforce the tax laws and regulations, standardize the law enforcement procedures, avoid defects in law enforcement and create a fair and just environment for the rule of tax law.
  On the spot, Hengyang Local Taxation Bureau awarded the appointment letters of compulsory tax revenue publicity counselors and the appointment letters of compulsory tax revenue publicity agents to 2 teachers and 11 students respectively.

1. What’s the purpose of recruiting and training international students to study for a graduate degree in China? Which kinds of units have the right to recruit international students to study for a graduate degree in China?

Recruiting and training international graduates in China is one of the vital avenues of operating external educational communication and cooperation to cultivate high level talents for friendly nations.

Colleges and universities approved by the State Education Commission to accept international graduate students, which contain disciplines or subjects with the right to grant master degree or doctor degree, can recruit and train foreign graduates in China.

2. What are the Principles of recruiting and training foreign graduate student in China? What is the regulations of applying, examination and recruiting?

To recruit international graduates in China need to stick to the standards, assure the quality and consider the actual situation of the sending country and international students to loosen the requirements at the same time.

For fresh graduates to apply for a master's degree in their own undergraduate school, they need to take a national examination forgraduate students in China or examinations organized by the university itself. For those students who excel in study and behavior, school authorities can recruit by recommendation without testing.

Foreign university graduates in China who apply for master's degrees in their original school need to submit their undergraduate diploma, learning courses and transcripts in university, two recommendations written by professional teachers above associate professors. School authorities will recruit by examinations in Chinese or foreign language after examining applicants’ qualification. But major of Chinese language and literature and history should be tested in Chinese.

Applicants for PhD Degree Programs should obtain Master’s degree or the degree qualify to the master degree in China and submit the diploma, research project plan, two professors’ recommendations. School authorities will recruit by examinations in Chinese or foreign language after examining applicants’ qualification. But major of Chinese language and literature and history should be tested in Chinese.

International graduates are excused from an examination of Marx's Theory Course and foreign language. There will be two to three subject tests in entrance examinations. At present, the topics and instructions are only provided in English .

3．Regulations of Study and Conferring of Degrees for international graduate students in China during their study

International graduates who graduate in China or foreign applicants majoring in Chinese language, literature and history, will be taught or instructed in Chinese after enrollment and write or defend their thesis in Chinese.

Master's degree students required to complete the curriculum between 2-3 years. The length of schooling of doctor’s degree students is 3 years. Courses will be justified according to the actual situation and the school is responsible for the formulation of the specific teaching plan.

International graduates who pass the master degree examinations and thesis defense will be granted with master degree once they are qualified for the requirement of the 5th Article of the “Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Academic Degrees”.

International graduates studying for PhD who pass PhD course examinations and thesis defense will be granted with PhDs once they have reachedthe requirements of the 6th Article of the “Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Academic Degrees”. If they are not qualified ,a master degree will be granted based on their grades and thesis. 　　

University of South China (hereafter USC or the University), is a comprehensive public university with a history of about 60 years, co-funded by Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, China National Nuclear Corporation, China Nuclear Engineering Group Corporation, and the People’s Government of Hunan Province.

The University was merged in 2000 by Hengyang Medical College, founded in 1958 and administrated by Hunan Province, Central South Institute of Technology, in 1959, and the 6th Nuclear Institute, in 1962, both administrated by the former Ministry of Nuclear Industry.

 One of the yiben, or first tier universities on the Mainland, China, USC enrolls students from the Mainland, Hongkong, Macao, Taiwan and other parts of the world. 

The University is home to over 2,500 faculty members, and over 37,000 full-time students, of whom 33,000 are undergraduates and 4000, master or doctor degree candidates.

Situated in Hengyang, a historical and cultural city in central Hunan, China, with a total area of 200 hectares, USC comprises 26 colleges and schools, 4 affiliated hospitals and 21 teaching hospitals.

USC is a chartered training base for Reserve Naval Officers of the People’s Liberation Army. 

Motto:    morals, knowledge, truth, and ambition

Vision: To become an education and research oriented institution with distinctive features--top-notch in the province, high-ranked in the country and well-known in the world.

Hengyang Normal University is a public university under the administration of People’s Government of Hunan Province, which is approved by Chinese Ministry of Education. It is located in Hengyang, the second biggest university of Hunan Province, which is also the hometown of the great thinker, Wang Chuanshan and the inventor of paper, Cailun. The location of the university is superior, to the north of which is the majestic Hengshan Mountain, and to the south of which is the torrential Xiangjiang River. The university is surrounded by Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, Beijing-Guangzhou Highspeed Railway, Beijing-Zhuhai Expresswasy, Hengyang-Xizao Mupu Expressway, and Hengyang-Shaoyang Expressway. In the urban district, the east and west campuses are just next to Hengzhou Highroad and Riverside Highroad.

Hengyang Normal University has a long history and a solid cultural accumulation. The predecessor of the university is the Hunan Public South Normal School founded in 1904, which has cultivated more than 300 thousand excellent graduates, including Yun Daiying, Zhang Qiuren, Jiang Xianyun, Huang Jingyuan, Huang Kecheng, Jiang Hua, Tao Zhu, Zhang Jingwu, Zhang Pinghua, Zhang Jichun, Zeng Xisheng, Tang Tianji, Zhou Li, Qin Guangrong, Fan Fenfang and so on. 

During the new time, HNU has caught the important strategic opportunity of the Big Reformation, Big Development and Big Growth and has entered the fast lane of development. In 1999, HNU has successfully transformed from an vocational institute to a public university. In 2006, HNU has successfully passed the teaching evaluation of the Chinese Ministry of Education. The coverage of the university has expanded from 491 mou to 2166 mou, where a new and modern parklike campus has been building which is really majestic. HNU is the unit which carry out the State-level Key Teachers Training Programme, is the State-level Advanced Unit of College Students’ Practice and State-level Modeling Worker`s Activity Base.

HNU has 16 teaching departments, 1 independent college, 29 province-level and city-level scientific research bases, 47 full-time undergraduate majors including normal and non-normal majors (among which 1 is the top specialized major approved by Chinese Ministry of Education, 9 province-level key majors and province-level specialized major of public university, 2 majors has been approved by Hunan Province as the pilot program of the 12th Five-year Plan), 6 province-level key majors, and 12 province-level quality courses. HNU has province-level key laboratories, province-level basic course demonstration laboratories, and province-level Practice Demonstration Centers. HNU has multiple subject structure which has great subject specialty, featuring the harmonious development of literary, science and engineering. 

By far HNU has full-time teachers, among which more than 100 are senior specialized technical officers and doctors. And HNU has 5 province-level scientific innovative teams, 110 staff members who enjoys special allowance offered by the State Department, who are the state-level excellent teaching workers, who are the excellent talents in the new century approved by Chinese Ministry of Education, who are 121 talents in the new century, who are province-level social and scientific professors, who are province-level teaching master hands, who are province-level academic leaders, and who are young core teachers. In addition, HNU has also haired over 50 adjunct professors at home and abroad. 

HNU is realizing its prosperity through encouraging academic research and the scientific research ability has been improving. Living Environment Research Base, Chushan Ideology Research Base, “Lead and Zinc Smelter and New Material” Producing, Teaching and Researching Cooperation Modeling Base, and Optoeleetronic Information Technology Application Foundation Research Base and other province-level research bases and constructive platforms, which are quite influential at home and abroad. In the past three years, HNU has hosted 600 scientific research program among which 32 are sponsored by state-level natural science fund and social science fund, 28 are sponsored by department-level and bureau-level funds. More than 100 state-level and province-level teaching reformation programs have been approved. 3462 academic papers have been published, and 133 monographs, translations and textbooks have been put out. 15 rewards for academic excellence have been got from the nation and province and 9 successes have been achieved in teaching. Hengyang Normal University Journal has been praised as the one of the Top 100 Social Scientific Journals, one of the Top Ten Local College Journal, and RCCSE Chinese Core Academic Journal. The journal also has been praised as the Excellent Specialized Scientific Journal by Chinese Ministry of Education twice and the Excellent Journal by Hunan Province. The journal has also been elected the Director Unit of the literary journals hosted by universities all over China. The scientific research in HNU has been playing an increasingly important role in leading the development of the university, serving the local economy, and cultivating excellent graduates. 

HNU has been positively developing the international communication and cooperation in academic development. HNU has be qualified to recruit international students. During the past 10 years, HNU has developed friendly cooperation relationship with over 10 universities in countries and districts including America, British, Korea and Hongkong. Teachers have the opportunities to get further training in foreign universities, and students in HNU also have the opportunities to have social practice in America in summer vocation and to study in Korea in the 2+2 program. The excellent graduates can get the opportunity to participate in the postgraduate program. A series of international students exchange programs have been developing through which school-running space has been expanded, school-running perspective has been growing and the school-running level has been improved.

HNU sticks to developing the university through developing its teaching quality and cultivating excellent teachers to serve the basic education. The university insist on cultivating the excellent quality graduates to serve the local economy and social development. Therefore, HNU has contributed a lot to the economic development and social growth. During the past three years, in all the contests and computations hosted by universities, HNU has got more than 300 state-level awards, over 60 province-level awards. And the athletes from HNU have got five golden medals and two silver medals in the 16th Asian Sports Meeting and 11th National Sports Meeting. The one-time employment rate of the graduate from HNU has been keeping at 90%. In the past two years, HNU has been praised as the Top Units of Employment Work in Hunan Province, Advanced Unit of Employment Work among the universities in Hunan Province. 

The sunrise of Hengyang is redder than the fire. The torrential Xiangjiang River is flowing without stop as ever. The vital university, HNU, is working hard to realize objects on higher level with all its powers.