The University of Nankin (南京大学, 南京大學, Pinyin: Nánjīng Dàxué; familiarly 南大, Pinyin: Nándà) is one of the oldest institutions of higher education of the world and became the first modern Chinese university with the beginning of the year 1920. It is the cradle of modern sciences in China and it is a prestigious university with strong traditions.

International exchanges

• Several honorary doctors of University of Nankin

• François Mitterrand, former president of the French Republic
• George Herbert Walker Bush, former president of the United States (who also contributed to the establishment of Center for the Studies of Chinese and American - managed jointly by the University Johns Hopkins and the University of Nankin)
• Bob Hawke, former Prime Minister of Australia
• Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former general secretary of the United Nations
• Johannes Rau, former president of the Federal Republic of Germany (which also contributed to the development of the German-Chinese Institute for the economic right - managed jointly by the University of Göttingen and the University of Nankin)

See too

• List of the Chinese universities
• normal University of Nankin

External bonds

• the University of Nankin
• Lilybbs, the students of UNankin subsidized the forum of Internet and the display board
• the institute for the International Students, the University of Nankin
• the School of University of Nankin d' Etudes Foreign
Chinese
• CSSCI of Index of Quotation of Social sciences