Grand Forum  - Touching on Higher Education:The Modern Chinese Higher Education

Introduction to the speaker:
Ji Baocheng, born November 1944 in Jiangsu Province, is a famous professor and doctoral tutor. Calling Yangzhou, Jiangsu his hometown, he attended the Beijing Institute of Business‎ from 1962 to 1966. After ten years as a worker in Hubei province, he returned to Renmin University of China in 1978 as graduate student, teacher, and dean. He moved to the Ministry of Commerce in 1991 and to the Higher Education Division of the State Education Committee in 1996. He was named President of Renmin University of China in 2000. Professor Ji has been mainly engaged in teaching and research in various fields, such as commercial economics, marketing and so on. He has published Commercial Activities and Higher Education at the Turn of the Century - Planning, System and Development among other books. He has published more than 200 articles in "The People's Daily" as well as 30 other papers, with a total of over 400 million words.