Couple donate one billion yuan to Fudan University

With Fudan University about to celebrate its 120th anniversary, Li Ping and Liao Mei, an alumni couple, have made a one-time donation of 1 billion yuan ($137.2 million) to their alma mater in support of the construction of the university's Xue Min Institute of Advanced Studies, which has started recruiting talent from around the world, regardless of disciplines and nationalities.

The institute, which aims to become one of the world's top institutions for high-level basic research and interdisciplinary research of natural sciences, is opening its doors to the globe's best young scientists within five years after graduation from their doctoral programs. It expects to bring in about 100 top young scientists within the first decade, with special focus on the post-90s and post-95s, according to the university.

Abundant resources and steady long-term support will be provided to the recruits to help them carry out research with original breakthroughs, technological revolutions and far-reaching influences, striving for research results that can push forward the development of society by leaps and bounds without having to worry about short-term problems.