LEAD2 Project Contributes to the Annual 2020 International Forum on Higher Education

The 2020 International Forum on Higher Education, co-hosted by the China Association of Higher Education and Zhengzhou University, was held in Zhengzhou from November 21 to 22 with the theme “Accelerating the Modernization of University Governance Systems and Capacity Building”. Zhong Denghua,

Vice Minister of Education and member of the MOE’s Party Leading Group, and Jiang Ling, member of the Standing Committee and secretary of the Higher Education Work Committee under the Henan Provincial CPC Committee, attended and spoke at the opening ceremony. Huo Jinhua, Vice Governor of Henan Province also took part, while Du Yubo, member of the NPC Standing Committee, deputy director of the NPC Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee and president of the China Association of Higher Education delivered a thematic report at the forum.

This forum was divided into three sub-forums, namely, “University Presidents Forum”, “Scholars Forum” and “Doctoral Candidates Forum”, combining physical presence with online participation of 114 guests from 27 countries and regions such as the US, the UK, Russia and Belgium, as well as over 1200 participants including heads of academic administration and management from Tsinghua University, Peking University, Tianjin University and other higher education institutions in China.

LEAD2 Project contributed online and presented the topic on "Chinese and European University Governance: Diversity and Unity" based on the LEAD2 research.