Intensive personnel adjustments in universities, academicians assume new positions as university presidents. Zhang Liqun was appointed president (vice ministerial level) and deputy secretary of the party committee of Xi'an Jiaotong University.
Zhu Shoufei, a "post-75s generation", was appointed as the vice president of Nankai University (with a one-year probation period) Xie Xincheng, an academician of the Academy of Developing Countries, was officially appointed president of Southern Guangzhou University.