Deputy CPC Publicity Head Becomes Adjunct Professor of Beijing University

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Deputy CPC Publicity Head Becomes Adjunct Professor of Beijing University

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Xu Guangchun, deputy head of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and three other senior officials have been invited to serve as adjunct journalism and communications professors of Beijing University.

The three others are Wang Chen, president of People's Daily, an official newspaper of the CPC Central Committee, Nan Zhenzhong, editor-in-chief of Xinhua News Agency, the largest official news agency in China, and Long Xinmin, deputy secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee.

Min Weifang, Party secretary of Beijing University, or "Beida",and Xu Zhihong, president of the university, awarded them certificates Monday at celebrations for the second anniversary of the School of Journalism and Communication which was founded on May 28, 2001.

Xu Guangchun, also director of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, started his journalistic career in 1972. He once was the head of the Beijing and Shanghai branches of Xinhua News Agency and deputy editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief of Guangming Daily. He was appointed deputy head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee in 1995.

Wang Chen worked as a reporter and editor of Guangming Daily in 1974. He served as editor-in-chief of Guangming Daily from 1995-2000. He was appointed deputy head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee in June 2000, and editor-in-chief of People's Daily in August 2001. He was awarded the "Source of Roma"International Prize in 1996.

Nan Zhenzhong became a Xinhua correspondent in 1964. He once served as deputy head and head of Shandong branch, and deputy editor-in-chief of Xinhua. Nan was appointed editor-in-chief of Xinhua in 1986 and its vice-president in 1993. He is also the vice-president of the All-China Journalists Association.

Long Xinmin became a reporter in 1972 at the Beijing People's Broadcasting Station. He has served as deputy director of the radio station, deputy director and director of Beijing Television Station, head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee and head of the information office of Beijing Municipality.

Beida boasts itself as "the cradle of China's journalism education". It offered the first course of journalism among China's higher learning institutions in 1917. A journalism research institute, the first of its kind in the Chinese history, was founded in Beida the following year.

The School of Journalism and Communication focuses on training professionals with an international perspective. It has cooperated with some world-renowned universities, such as Oxford, Stanford, the University of Missouri, and Moscow University.

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