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1. Where is HQU? 

          Huaqiao University （Quanzhou）is located in Quanzhou, southeast China’s Fujian Province. Quanzhou is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Fujian province. It borders all other prefecture-level cities in Fujian but two (Ningde and Nanping) and faces the Taiwan Strait. In older English works, its name may appear as Chinchew or Chinchu. In medieval Western accounts it is known as Zaytun or Zaitun, from the Arabic transcription.

      Quanzhou was established in 718 during the Chinese Tang Dynasty (618-907). In those days, Guangzhou was China's greatest seaport, but this status would be surpassed later by Quanzhou. During the Song Dynasty (960-1279) and Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), Quanzhou was one of the world's largest seaports, hosting a large community of foreign-born inhabitants from across the Eurasian world. Due to its reputation, Quanzhou has been called the starting point of the Silk Road via the sea.

      Quanzhou is one of the twenty-four famous historic cultural cities first approved by the Chinese Government.

       Huqiao Uinversity (Xiamen) is Located in Xiamen, southeast China’s Fujian Province. Xiamen is a coastal sub-provincial city in southeastern Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It looks out to the Taiwan Strait and borders the cities of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou to the north and south respectively.

      Xiamen and the surrounding countryside are famous for being an ancestral home to overseas Chinese and one of China's earliest Special Economic Zones in the 1980s. It covers an area of 1 565 km² with a local population of 5 million. It is one of  China's 2nd most livable city.

        During the early Jin Dynasty, the place was made Tong'an District in 282, a sub-entity of Jin'an Prefecture . During the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD), the city was known as a sustainable international seaport, and the Chinese scientist and statesman Shen Kuo (1031-1095) spent some of his youth there while his father was a local bureaucrat on the government staff. In 1387, the Ming Dynasty used the place as base against pirates, and was part of Quanzhou. Koxinga, stationed here in 1650, named it Siming Island, or "Remembering the Ming", but the city was renamed by the Manchus in 1680 to Xiamen Subprefecture. The name "Siming" was changed back after the 1912 Xinhai Revolution and the settlement was made a county. Later it reverted to the name Xiamen City. In 1949, Xiamen became a provincial city, then was upgraded to a vice-province-class city, or a municipality. It was made a Special Economic Zone in 1980.

2. What is HQU’s mailing address?     

Quanzhou Campus: No. 269 Chenghuabei Rd., Quanzhou, Fujian Province, 362021 P. R. China

Xiamen Campus: No. 668 Jiemei Ave. Jimei District, Xiamen, Fujian Province, 361021 P. R. China

College of Chinese Language and Culture: No. 8 Jiageng Rd. Jimei District, Xiamen, Fujian Province, 361021 P. R. China

3. How can I get to HQU?      

      Airports: Quanzhou Jijiang Airport, 30 minutes bus or taxi ride to Quanzhou Campus

       Xiamen International Airport, 20 minutes bus or taxi ride to Xiamen Campus, 1 hour and 20 minutes to Quanzhou Campus

4. Where can I find HQU statistics online?

Established

      1960

Faculty

About 1129 faculty members, including 457 professors and associate professors.

 Students

About 28,000, including more than 2,500 graduate students. 3,600 are overseas students are from foreign countries and China’s Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Real estate holdings

More than 560 acres

Library collection

      Nearly 1.34 million volumes and 0.8 million electrical books

Colleges and institutes

      Huaqiao University is made up of 20 colleges and 62 research institutes. The 20 colleges oversee departments and divisions that offer courses and award academic degrees.

Huaqiao University President

      Qiu Jin