On Dec. 1st, President Wan Gang attended the ceremony hosted by attaché Mr. Qu Xinggong in Embassy of the People’s Republic of China of France on which academician Cheng Baoyi was awarded an “Honored Professor” of Tong Ji University. President Wan issued the certificate and gave a congratulatory speech. There are more than 40 persons attending the ceremony, including Embassy Education minister Bai Zhangde, the President of Public School of Transportation, the President of Paris Norm College, the Vice-president of Sorbonne, the President of USTL, the representatives from international companies, and Mr. Peng Yuwen, the Secretary of Fu Dan University.

President Wan praised highly the achievements in French literature made by Prof. Cheng. He expressed the hope that Prof. Cheng could impart “knowledge, thoughts, spirit, belief” to the students in Tong Ji and encourage them to struggle for peace and development of China and France, even the whole world.

Impressed by the friendship with Chinese youth, Prof. Cheng will continue to devote himself into culture exchange and development of China and France. “The exchange and talk between China and France is deep and thorough instead of superficial and one sided. Only in this way, one culture can absorb the merits from other cultures to achieve creativity in real sense.”