New Ethnic College Opens in Inner MongoliaTwo schools in Hohhot, capital of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Wednesday merged into a new college -- Inner Mongolian Ethnic College.Some 98 percent of the college's staff are Mongolians, said a local educational official. The predecessors of the two schools were the Mongolian ethnic language school and an ethnic teachers' school. Established in the early 1950s, the two schools had educated about 20,000 Mongolian professionals, who are playing important roles in social and economic development in Inner Mongolia and a number of provinces across China, including Heilongjiang, Liaoning,Hebei, Qinghai and Gansu. The new college is made up of 10 departments and 32 specialties such as economic management, politics and law, foreign languages, fine arts and computer science. It also has eight teaching and research centers on Mongolian religion and other subjects. The number of students in the college is expected to increase from 2,496 this year to 4,000 in five years. To date, the college has had exchange programs with schools and colleges in Japan and Mongolia. |
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