The China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) recently announced the list of the 2025 "High-Starting Point New Journal Projects" under the second phase of China's Excellence Action Plan for Science and Technology Journals. The scientific journal CAR (English version), initiated by Hunan University, has been shortlisted.As an English-version engineering and technology journal, CAR jour....

Australian scholar Jordan Martin (right), fellow scholar Tian Xiaodan (left) and Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism expert Hoyt Tillman (middle), in front of the Chongsheng Hall at Yuelu Academy in Hunan province. CHINA DAILYOn a mid-autumn night, Australian scholar Jordan Martin — also known by his Chinese name Ma Zhaoren — walked through the moonlit courtyards of Yuelu Academy, Hunan province. In t....

The Kazakh version of the revised edition of Traditional Chinese Architecture and Its Cultural Conditions, written by Liu Su, professor of HNU School of Architecture and Planning, was recently published by the Oriental Literature Publishing House of Russia.This monograph by Prof. Liu Su was first published by the Tsinghua University Press in 2014. In 2021, it was included in the "Silk Road Book....

At Yuelu Academy, Hunan University, every faculty member and student is familiar with the Yuelu Academy Academic Rules. The full text consists of 18 articles totaling 108 characters. Among them, Article 13 — "Understand current affairs and the principles of things" — left the deepest impression on Jordan B. Martin, an Australian scholar and an assistant professor at the academy.When Martin wa....

In October 2026, Hunan University will greet the 1050th anniversary of the founding of Yuelu Academy and the 100th anniversary of its official naming. At the same time, the new Kechuanggang campus will open, welcoming students to pursue their youthful dreams. We hereby extend our sincere gratitude and high respect to all faculty and staff, students and alumni from home and abroad, and all the f....

Long Bing, a professor at Hunan University's School of Marxism, talks about the university's wartime history with students on Thursday in front of the Red Building of Hunan University in Changsha, Hunan province. [Photo by Li Muyun/chinadaily.com.cn]Hunan University in Changsha, Hunan province, marked a somber anniversary last week by revisiting the role its campus played in the Chinese People'....

The China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) recently announced the list of the 2025 "High-Starting Point New Journal Projects" under the second phase of China's Excellence Action Plan for Science and Technology Journals. The scientific journal CAR (English version), initiated by Hunan University, has been shortlisted.As an English-version engineering and technology journal, CAR jour...

The Kazakh version of the revised edition of Traditional Chinese Architecture and Its Cultural Conditions, written by Liu Su, professor of HNU School of Architecture and Planning, was recently published by the Oriental Literature Publishing House of Russia.This monograph by Prof. Liu Su was first published by the Tsinghua University Press in 2014. In 2021, it was included in the "Silk Road Book...

The "Digital Space Station in Changsha Intelligent Valley," led and designed by Prof. Wei Chunyu from the HNU School of Architecture and Planning, was awarded the gold medal of ARCASIA Awards for Architecture in Category C (Industrial Buildings) at the annual ARCASIA Forum, which was held in Incheon, South Korea on September 10, 2025.This marks the second time that Prof. Wei has received this p...

The signing ceremony of cooperation agreement between Hunan University (HNU) and the China-Africa Institute (CAI) was held at HNU Office Building on June 15, 2025.Deng Wei, secretary of the CPC HNU Committee, and Ye Hailin, CAI president and deputy Party secretary, witnessed the signing ceremony. Xu Helian, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC HNU Committee, HNU president assistant, and ...

The Fourth China-Africa Economic and Trade Cooperation Yuelu Forum and the Second Forum on African Regional Economy and China-Africa Economic Cooperation were held at Hunan University on June 14th.The forums were attended by an array of professionals, including African ambassadors to China, experts, scholars, and representatives from the business community. They gathered to explore new opportun...

Recently, Associate Professor Cao Ran from the HNU College of Civil Engineering was honored with the "State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award" by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for his outstanding contributions in the field of structural crashworthiness design through his paper titled "Concrete Bridge Barriers: State-of-the-Art and Design Implementation". This paper was publ...

The 31st International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences (ICCES 2025) was held in Changsha from May 25 to 29. It attracted more than 2,300 scholars from 30 countries and regions, including the United States, Singapore, Australia, and the United Kingdom, to discuss and exchange ideas in frontier and interdisciplinary areas such as mechanics, new materials, advan...

The IEEE 8th International Conference on Electrical and Energy (CIEEC 2025) was held in Changsha from May 16 to 18, 2025. Over 800 experts and scholars from more than 120 universities, enterprises, and institutions worldwide attended, including Tsinghua University, Nanyang Technological University, and Imperial College London.Han Yi, secretary-general of the China Electrotechnical Society, Zhou...