Since 2006 the leading PhD-producers have been Qinghua University and Beijing University, surpassing all U.S. universities.
The manager rang up the sale, and I chatted with two buyers who were students at the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Adjacent to it is Beijing University, the premier liberal arts university.
Foreign firms should establish long-term interaction with leading Chinese faculty at Chinese universities, from top-rated Beijing University to Tsinghua to Fudan (in Shanghai) to other colleges in Tianjin, Dalian, Nanjing, Wuhan, Xiamen and Guangdong.
"There are loads of ideas floating around, and they're serious about implementing them, " said UK space scientist John Zarnecki, who is a visiting professor at Beihang University, the new name for the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
The University Network will include in its initial phase eight universities: Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), University of the West Indies (Jamaica), Cairo University (Egypt), University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), Temple University (USA), Beijing Tsinghua University (China), Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University (Morocco) and Queensland University of Technology (Australia).
These include Luis Crouch of the Global Partnership for Education, Koji Miyamoto from the OECD, Kai-ming Cheng of the University of Hong Kong, David Istance of the OECD, Zhou Nanzhao of Beijing Normal University, and Daniel Wagner of the University of Pennsylvania.
"I think we have a goal, " said 23-year-old Christina Zhang, an undergraduate in linguistics at Beijing Normal University.
"I think the bullet train system is not stable and may break down in extreme weather conditions, " said Professor Zhao Jian, a transportation expert with Beijing Jiaotong University.
In a 2010 study of 120 children ages 7, 9 and 11, researchers at Beijing Normal University in China found kids increasingly told altruistic lies to avoid hurting others' feelings.
After attaining a PhD from Beijing Normal University, Liu became a visiting scholar at Columbia University in the United States, the University of Oslo in Norway and the University of Hawaii.
"In less than a decade, we constructed more high-speed rail lines than what it took Japan and Europe 40 years to build, " said Zhao Jian, an economics professor at Beijing Jiaotong University and one of the country's leading experts on rail transportation.
The university consortia include the Al Akhawayn University of Morocco, the Beijing Foreign Studies University and Peking University of China, the Tecnologico de Monterrey University of Mexico, the University of Ghana and the Macquarie University of Australia.
She holds a bachelor's and a master's degree from Stanford University, and studied advanced Mandarin Chinese at Beijing's Tsinghua University.
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"Studying language is a gradual thing, " advises Chen Shu, a professor of English at the Beijing Foreign Studies University.
In the fall of 2009, I was invited to Beijing by Tsinghua University to present a keynote address at the first China Consumer Finance Forum.
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But Zheng Siqi of Beijing's Tsinghua University worries whether the building boom is sustainable.
"The possibility is remote, " says Li Xiguang, a prominent academic at Beijing's Tsinghua University.
During a recent workshop at Beijing's Qinghua University, the crowd was loud in its approval.
Students are also looking further afield than long-popular Europe, heading instead to places like Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Beijing's Tsinghua University and the local government are developing the site, located in a desert area in north-western China, Xinhua says.
As a student at Beijing's Qinghua University in the late 1930s, Liu fell under the spell of several American and U.S.-educated teachers.
And ICBC's board got a new member: John Thornton, who retired as Goldman's co-president in 2003 to teach at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
With great fanfare, Schwarzman announced this week that he was creating a new scholarship program at Tsinghua University in Beijing, which would bear his name.
Selected students will spend a year at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
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Consider a young man, called Liu, who graduated from university in Beijing in 1990 with a maths degree and hopes of a career in accounting.
At Beijing Language and Culture University this week, it's the best.
"The price surge of daily life items has caused mental pressure on those wage earners who are sensitive to prices, " said Wang Shuixiong, a sociologist with Renmin University in Beijing.
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