Eric Knowles, BBC Antiques Roadshow china expert, said it was a "sad day, a very sad day" for the city.
Alongside his new role at the university, Mr Wood is due to begin writing a new series for the BBC exploring the history of China.
BBC: TV historian Michael Wood to join University of Manchester
Duncan Clark, chairman of consultancy BDA China, told the BBC that the deal was a win-win for both companies.
Zhou Xiaopeng, a consultant at one of China's top three dating agencies, Baihe.com, talks to the BBC about marriage, love and dating in today's China.
In 2007 the BBC visited the small hamlet of Shangba in southern China where one scientist was studying the cause and effects of pollution on the village.
BBC, though he was already known chiefly as a China specialist.
"We're well known in US and Western Europe, but our profile is not that high in growth economies like Brazil, China and India, " Mr Hamilton told the BBC.
Although G8 summits are renowned for fine communiques, the group increasingly suffers from a credibility problem - some of the world's largest economies like China, India and Brazil are not members, says BBC world affairs correspondent Emily Buchanan.
China is planning to develop a version of the Eden Project, the BBC has learned.
He has anchored BBC News 24 since 1997 and reported for news and documentary programmes across Europe, Russia, China and North and South America.
Try to enroll in Mandarin classes before you go (Mandarin Chinese is the default language in almost every part of China), or try to teach yourself some of the basics -- the BBC website has a decent introduction to learning Chinese.
Last month the BBC reported on the race to secure patents on graphene and how, despite the UK's early lead, China was now leading the field with the South Korean electronics giant Samsung holding nearly ten times more patents than Britain as a whole.
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