Milestone
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1980 |
May |
Approved by the Guangdong Province Committee; established the Preparatory Committee of STU directed by Wu Nansheng; commenced preparatory work. |
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Nov |
Mr. Li Ka Shing
came to Shantou to survey the proposed location of the university accompanied by Wu Nansheng, Zhuang Shiping, and Lin Chuan. |
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1981 |
Aug 26 |
The State Council granted permission to establish STU. |
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Nov |
The Central Government approved Xu Dixin, Vice-president of the Chinese Social Scientific Institution, for a dual role as President of STU. |
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Dec |
Chairman of the Standing Committee of the NPC, Ye Jianying, inscribed the name of STU. The Guangdong Provincial Government placed STU on the list of construction projects in the special economic zone. |
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1983 |
Sep |
STU enrolled 103 students for the university's first 4-year undergraduate class. |
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Sep 28 |
The Ministry of Education approved Shantou Hospital to be renamed Shantou University Medical College. |
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1984 |
Jan 1 |
Foundation laying ceremony |
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1985 |
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Began to enroll overseas students and students from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. |
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1986 |
Jun 20 |
"Shantou University should be opened up gradually to become a key national university," Deng Xiaoping said when he met Mr. Li Ka Shing
in Beijing. |
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Jun 28 |
The State Education Commission held a conference in Guangzhou to call on eight key national colleges to provide support to the teaching staff of STU, implementing Deng Xiaoping's directive that a group of capable teachers must be transferred to STU so as to speed up the development of the STU teaching staff. |
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1987 |
Feb 8 |
The STU Board of Trustees was established with the approval of the Guangdong Provincial government. Meanwhile, the STU Arrangement Committee was abolished. |
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1987 |
Mar 1 |
Began construction of the First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College which spans over 59 Chinese acres, with a floor space of more than 30,000 square meters. |
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1990 |
Feb 8 |
The Shantou University inauguration ceremony was held. |
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Feb 9 |
The First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College held its inauguration ceremony. |
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Sep 30 |
With the approval of the State Education Commission, the Department of Pathophysiology began to enroll students for the university's first master's degree program. |
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1991 |
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STU was listed among the earliest universities to admit students from outside the Guangdong Province. |
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1993 |
Feb 28 |
The establishment of the Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Shantou University Medical College was approved by the Organization Formation Committee of Guangdong Province. |
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Apr |
The Shantou Branch of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Scientific Institute was set up. STU was granted permission to conduct three graduate programs, and to accept postgraduate students in association with other universities. |
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1995 |
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The number of STU's graduate programs increased from three to eight. |
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Dec 31 |
The Shantou Branch of Molecular Tumor National Key Laboratory passed the assessment. |
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1996 |
Dec 18 |
STU was short-listed as a candidate for the "211 Project", which aims to develop 100 key national universities in the 21st century. |
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1997 |
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STU passed the projects argumentation of "211 Project". |
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1998 |
Jun |
The Ministry of Education granted the department of pathology and physiopathology to conduct a doctoral degree program; the number of graduate programs increased to 16. |
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Jul 15 |
The Medical College was upgraded to a national archives charge of the First-degree Scientific and Technological Institute after passing the assessment and evaluation performed by a panel from the institute. |
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Sep 15 |
Under the motto "Helping the Poor Through Medical Aid", the Office of the Shantou University Medical College was established. |
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Nov 20 |
The Second Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College was opened; foundation of the Shantou University/The Chinese University of Hong Kong Joint Shantou International Eye Center was laid. |
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Nov 24 |
A Hospice was established in the First Affiliated Hospital to care for terminally ill patients. |
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2000 |
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Master's degree programs increased to 26. |
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2001 |
Feb |
Hospice service was extended to 16 key hospitals in China. |
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Apr |
"Pathology and Pathophysiology" Center for post-doctoral studies was formed. |
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May 7 |
Shantou International Medical Educational Symposium organized by Shantou University Medical College and the Stanford University School of Medicine was held in Shantou. |
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Sep 7 |
Dr. He Shaoheng was named as the Medical College's first specially appointed professor of the "Cheung Kong Scholars Award". |
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2002 |
Feb |
Ministry of Education approved STU's Pathology and Pathophysiology program as a national key disciplinary unit of the institution of higher learning (second-degree discipline). |
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Feb |
With the approval of the Ministry of Education, the Medical College expanded the Clinical Medicine program to a 7-year system. |
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"Intellectual Power Makes Technology" Laboratory was named a key lab of the Ministry of Education. |
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