Yunnan University of Nationalities (YUN) is a comprehensive institution of higher learning for all Chinese ethnic nationalities including the majority Hans. Founded on August 1, 1951 in Kunming, a beautiful city known for its mild spring weather all year round, YUN is a key provincial university established jointly by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the People’s Government of Yunnan Province, and among China’s earliest universities of ethnic nationalities as well as an academic institution under the state’s planning for accession to PhD programs.
The leaders of the Communist Party China (CPC) and the Chinese government have been showing their solicitude for the construction and growth of YUN. including Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Zhu De, Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin, who once met faculty and student representatives at YUN; Zhou Enlai, Peng Dehuai, Chen Yi, Panchen Erdeni Chosgyi Gyantsen, Li Lanqing, Li Tieying and some other central government leaders, who inspected YUN and were concerned about the life of the ethnic students and teachers as well as the development of thi..
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