(XINHUA)

Zhu Qingshi, President of South University of Science and Technology of China (SUSTC), has attracted attention of the public again as the university received approval from the Chinese Ministry of Education in April to recruit students.

Zhu, 66, former President of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), was appointed president of SUSTC in 2009.

A graduate from USTC in 1968, Zhu started research work at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1974 and was sent to study abroad in 1979. He returned to China in 1982 and became an academician of the CAS in 1991. In 1994, Zhu started teaching and researching at USTC and became its president in June 1998. After retiring from the post in September 2008, Zhu was chosen as the president of SUSTC because of his efforts and spirit in reforming higher education in China, which is in line with the spirit of the new university.

Zhu holds that universities should recruit students and issue diplomas independently, which could be a direction of the education reform in China.