Since 2006 the leading PhD-producers have been Qinghua University and Beijing University, surpassing all U.S. universities.
Pan Wei, of Beijing University, says that even in stodgy state enterprises, the party is losing its grip.
Beijing University economist Xiao Zuoji blames China's inflation on past controls that kept prices artificially low and discouraged production.
" Beijing University economist Xiao Zhuoji believes: "If the renminbi remains stable then China's trade will be in serious difficulty next year.
The manager rang up the sale, and I chatted with two buyers who were students at the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
And maybe it's this bluntness that got him into trouble with Beijing University--which he accused of inflating the value of its research--and the New Yorker.
Feng Lu, a scholar with the China Centre for Economic Research at Beijing University, has criticised the tendency of policymakers to equate food with grain.
Adjacent to it is Beijing University, the premier liberal arts university.
One was with Beijing University, which he accused of corruption.
" Yang Dacheng, professor of telecommunications engineering at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, is more succinct: "The more domestic players tout their repair network, the more people stay away.
Wang Lian, a Central Asia expert at Beijing University, notes that superpowers have historically been involved in Afghanistan because it is an Asian crossroads and China would be no exception.
Steven Calcotte, a technology consultant in Beijing, observes that the most recent graduates from Beijing University the first to have had access to e-mail and the Internet have a markedly different outlook from their predecessors.
Foreign firms should establish long-term interaction with leading Chinese faculty at Chinese universities, from top-rated Beijing University to Tsinghua to Fudan (in Shanghai) to other colleges in Tianjin, Dalian, Nanjing, Wuhan, Xiamen and Guangdong.
"There are loads of ideas floating around, and they're serious about implementing them, " said UK space scientist John Zarnecki, who is a visiting professor at Beihang University, the new name for the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Jia Qingguo, a professor of international relations at Beijing University, believes the danger now is that there is no middle ground between a massive and overwhelming display of force by China, possibly in the form of a missile attack (since an invasion would court disaster), or doing nothing at all.
The University Network will include in its initial phase eight universities: Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), University of the West Indies (Jamaica), Cairo University (Egypt), University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), Temple University (USA), Beijing Tsinghua University (China), Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University (Morocco) and Queensland University of Technology (Australia).
These include Luis Crouch of the Global Partnership for Education, Koji Miyamoto from the OECD, Kai-ming Cheng of the University of Hong Kong, David Istance of the OECD, Zhou Nanzhao of Beijing Normal University, and Daniel Wagner of the University of Pennsylvania.
"I think we have a goal, " said 23-year-old Christina Zhang, an undergraduate in linguistics at Beijing Normal University.
"Their skin is very thick, " Zhang Ming, an expert on elite politics at Beijing's Renmin University in Beijing, said of the new left.
When professor Zhao Jian, of Beijing Transportation University, publicly objected to the pace of high-speed-rail construction, Liu summoned him and advised him to keep quiet.
"I think the bullet train system is not stable and may break down in extreme weather conditions, " said Professor Zhao Jian, a transportation expert with Beijing Jiaotong University.
In a 2010 study of 120 children ages 7, 9 and 11, researchers at Beijing Normal University in China found kids increasingly told altruistic lies to avoid hurting others' feelings.
After attaining a PhD from Beijing Normal University, Liu became a visiting scholar at Columbia University in the United States, the University of Oslo in Norway and the University of Hawaii.
"In less than a decade, we constructed more high-speed rail lines than what it took Japan and Europe 40 years to build, " said Zhao Jian, an economics professor at Beijing Jiaotong University and one of the country's leading experts on rail transportation.
The university consortia include the Al Akhawayn University of Morocco, the Beijing Foreign Studies University and Peking University of China, the Tecnologico de Monterrey University of Mexico, the University of Ghana and the Macquarie University of Australia.
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