BEIJING -- Chinese President Xi Jinping Tuesday extended congratulations and greetings to faculty, students and alumni of Renmin University of China (RUC) as the university marks its 80th anniversary. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remarks in a congratulatory letter conveyed at an event celebrating the anniversary in Beijing. "The Party and the country are at a crucial stage at present," Xi said. "Never before have we had such a pressing need for higher education, and never before have we so required scientific knowledge and talent," Xi said. The president encouraged the RUC to use its 80th anniversary as a new starting point in becoming a world-class university with world-class disciplines. As the first accredited university set up by the CPC, the RUC has always adhered to the leadership of the Party, the guiding status of Marxism, and the mission to serve the Party and the people, Xi said. Xi spoke highly of the university's achievements in humanities and social sciences and appreciated its efforts to train talent for the country's revolution, construction and reform. He asked the university to carry on these fine traditions and make new contributions to the development of higher education, China's two centenary goals and achieving the Chinese dream of national rejuvenation. Vice Premier Liu Yandong read Xi's congratulatory letter at Tuesday's celebration, and asked the university to deepen reform, improve its education quality, and train more talent for the country's development and national rejuvenation. As one of China's premiere institutions of higher learning, the RUC is a research-oriented comprehensive university focusing on humanities and social sciences. The university can be traced back to Shaanbei Public School, founded in 1937 in a CPC revolutionary base in Shaanxi, northwest China. It later became the North China United University, and then North China University. On Oct 3, 1950, it was restructured and renamed RUC. festival wristbandssilicone rubber bandscustom wrist sweatbandsrubber wristbands in bulkmake your own rubber braceletwristband keychain
Members of the medical staff honor an organ donor in an operating room at the Beijing You'an Hospital. [Photo provided to China Daily] GENEVA - The ongoing 71st World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva on Thursday shows high appreciation for the value of China's model and experience in organ transplantation. The WHA meetings focused on the universal coverage of organ transplantation, with delegates from China, Spain, Russia, Uruguay and Qatar sharing their experience and ideas on the topic. Huang Jiefu, head of China's National Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee and chairman of China Organ Transplantation Development Foundation, gave a keynote speech titled The Chinese Organ Transplantation Undertaking in Achieving One Belt & One Road Initiative. He said that China's model of organ donation and transplantation features strong government support for legal, administrative and health sectors, and the progress of capacity building in organ transplantation clinical service and technical development. China is now implementing a national anti-organ trafficking surveillance system with joint effort of health, legal and law enforcement authorities, which, based on available data, may serve as an example of an operational mechanism to combat organ trafficking for the rest of the world, Huang added. According to Huang, the final Declaration of the Ethics in Action Meeting held in Vatican in March this year endorsed China as a model for regulating organ transplantation and also as a reference on the issue for other member states of the United Nations. Huang said that China is willing to share its experience with the rest of world under the Belt and Road Initiative, while at the same time working to improve the organ donation and transplantation system in China by benefiting from the highly valued experience of other countries. As an official appreciation for China's support to the World Health Organization (WHO) in promoting universal coverage of organ transplantation, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said thank you China to Huang in Chinese after the meeting. The 71st annual WHA, held in Geneva from Monday to Saturday, is a gathering of nearly 4,000 delegates from the WHO's 194 member states and partner organizations. The assembly is the WHO's highest decision-making body and determines policy for the organization.
