Two UIC students participated in the 2021 Provincial Round of the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press (FLTRP) Cup English Public Speaking Contest on 6 November at Shaoguan University. Second-year Accounting student Li Xiang (Olive) performed well and won the third prize.A total of 147 contestants from top-flight universities in Guangdong entered the provincial showdown. The two UIC par...
On Wednesday, November 3rd, ELC and the UIC Board Games Club partnered to host an English-language Game Night. By the time I arrived, several games, including Codenames, were already underway, but I was able to join in a new game of Settlers of Catan. Having never played it before, I got a bit dazed by myriad of rules, then decided just to have fun. Everyone was quite welcoming and patient, an...
On 2nd November 2021 Prof. Hui Liu, a famous tenor and music educator, delivered a lecture on “Centennial History of the Communist Party in Red Patriotic Songs” at UIC. The lecture was co-organized by the Whole Person Education Office and the Party Committee Office. Prof. Tao Tang, President of UIC, hosted the lecture and expressed his very warm welcome to Prof. Liu. In his lecture Prof. Liu ...
On 27th October 2021 the launching ceremony of the Zhuhai Ecological Civilization University Action Alliance (ZECUAA) was held at Beijing Normal University Zhuhai. Ms. Fanghua Li from WPEO attended the ceremony on behalf of UIC, along with representatives from 9 other universities and colleges. Commemorative plaques of the Alliance were issued to all 10 members of the ZECUAA during the ceremony...
On 30th September 2021 the WPEO Arts and Culture Development Center and the Zhuhai Boundless Art Center co-organized a workshop on Creativity and Innovation of Picture Books, which invited Mr. Ye Feng, the illustrator of the “The Messenger with the Lantern”, to share his creative work. During the workshop Mr. Feng introduced various picture books and the stories behind them, explaining that t...
On 24th September 2021 Dr. Yanjun WENG, Director of Jingdezhen Royal Kiln Museum and Director of Jingdezhen Ceramic Archaeology Institute, delivered a lecture on "Early Globalisation from the Perspective of Ceramic Archaeology" at UIC. Dr. WENG summarized the history of porcelain’s development and the trade routes of antique porcelain. He introduced the different features of ancient celadon, g...
Off-campus Programmes have returned summer 2021.This summer WPEO arranged a wide range of off-campus programmes for UIC students to participate, which covered Outdoor challenges, Voluntary services and Cultural sports. WPEO Off-campus summer programmes focused on providing chance of experiential learning to UIC students, in order to enhance their capability in many aspects to become a whole per...
The English Enhancement Programme (EEP) is UIC’s way to start the forthcoming semester for new students. This five-day intensive programme ran from 30 August until 3 September to help new students adapt to the English learning environment at UIC. The EEP is an all-English programme run by the English Language Centre (ELC) that aims to improve studen...
