2013 New Year’s Party Held for Overseas Teachers

As the New Year is approaching, a New Year’s Party was held on December 14th, for all experts and scholars working at Tsinghua University.

More than 100 of Tsinghua’s overseas experts and their families gathered to celebrate the coming New Year, with foreign affairs staff and staff from other schools and departments. Tsinghua University Vice President Yuan Si attended the celebration.

In 2012, Tsinghua hosted more than 272 long-term overseas experts and about 5,000 short-term visiting overseas scholars from over 70 countries and regions, including the United States, Britain, Russia, Germany, France, Australia, Japan and Korea. The overseas experts play a significant role in teaching and research at Tsinghua.