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About the School
Situated in the historical and picturesque city of Suzhou, a metropolis well reputed in the world for its classic gardens, Soochow University is a key university of “Project 211”, one of the first-batch universities of the “2011 Plan”, a member of "the Double First-Class" Initiative and a provincial key comprehensive university of Jiangsu Province jointly sponsored by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and Jiangsu Provincial People’s Government.
For more than a century, generations of the Soochow University community have remain committed to the university motto of “Unto a full grown man”, inspired by which they have been steadfastly putting academic inquiries first, applying what they have learned into practice, promoting freedom, openness, tolerance, inclusiveness, and the unyielding pursuit of excellence, and adhering to erudition and earnest practice towards perfection. Furthermore, they have been committed to the output of model citizens with “free spirit, excellent ability, independent personality and the sense of social responsibility”.
Soochow University has produced over 500,000 people who have significantly contributed to our nation in all professions and trades, standing out of whom is the galaxy of backbone elites and social personages such as Xu Deheng, Zhou Gucheng, Fei Hsiao-Tung, Lei Jieqiong, Sun Qimeng, Zhao Puchu, Qian Weichang, Dong Yinchu, Tsung-Dao Lee, Judson Nyi, Zheng Pijiang, Ti-liang Yang, Louis Cha (Jin Yong) and the various academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, including Tan Jiazhen, Chen Ziyuan, Yu Mingfang, Song Daxiang and Qimin Zhan, to name just a few.