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Founded in 1895 as Peiyang University, Tianjin University is the oldest institute of higher education in China, and pioneered the development of modern Chinese education.
Admissions
Tianjin University adheres to the mission of training high caliber talents with innovative abilities, and has had considerable success in the training of high-level specialists in various fields.
Academics
Tianjin University constantly refines and optimizes the structure of academic disciplines, and has set up 61 undergraduate programs, 35 master degree programs, and 27 doctoral degree programs.
Research
- Reserch News
Campus Life
A rich campus life awaits all those who come to Tianjin University. An integral part of our mission to train talented graduates is providing a fertile environment for students to develope their social, cultural, sporting and artistic lives.
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Professor Lai Lian

Lai Lian, also known as Lai Jinghu, was born in 1900 in Yong Ding, Fujian Province. He graduated from Yali Junior College in 1919 and went to Illinois University in the United States for further study in Mechanical Engineering in the same year. In 1925, he went back to America and entered the Graduate School of Cornell University and achieved the Master’s Degree.
Since 1932, he served as officials in Nanjing and Lianyungang, being the Secretary-general of Nanjing Government, Director of Financial Bureau, Mayor of Lianyungang, Vice-minister of the Education Ministry and Deputy Director of the Oversea Department of the National Government. When he was in US, he founded the newspapers “Sino-American News Agency” and “Sino-US Daily Newspaper”. He was admitted into the United Nations Secretariat as the Head of the Chinese-language Team in 1953.
He served as Dean of the Northwest Institute of Technology from 1939 to 1944.