Date: May 20, 2020
Source: Xinhuanet
JNU Party Secretary Lin Rupeng was interviewed by Xinhuanet on May 20 about JNUers’challenges and innovations in the fight against coronavirus.
Whether supporting China or helping other countries, JNUers have never been absent from the battle of epidemic prevention and control. JNU board members and their companies have donated a total of more than 1.85 billion yuan during the outbreak. While focusing on epidemic prevention, JNU has not slackened its online education and has taken measures to ensure jobs for its graduates.
 

(JNU Party Secretary Lin Rupeng)
With 11,902 overseas Chinese, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and international students from 112 different countries and regions, JNU has more overseas students than any other college in China. It has 132 alumni associations and more than 300,000 alumni around the world.
The JNU Foundation is the first school foundation to launch anti-epidemic fund-raising in Guangdong, Lin said. JNU alumni actively responded to the call. By early May, the foundation had received donations of over 10 million yuan for epidemic prevention.
As the epidemic situation continues to improve at home but worsen in other countries, 19 domestic JNU alumni urgently prepared epidemic prevention material for overseas alumni one to one, hoping to overcome the difficulties together.
More than 300 JNU students have volunteered in China and abroad, with total service time of nearly 2,000 hours.
In response to the Ministry of Education's appeal to 'ensure learning is undisrupted when classes are disrupted' and 'ensure undisrupted teaching when classes are disrupted,' JNU adjusted its teaching plan accordingly and started the new semester on March 2, Lin said. Currently, over 2,000 courses and more than 4,200 JNU classes have begun. In the online open curriculum alliance of universities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, JNU also takes the lead in offering the public excellent free online courses, including 60 MOOCs and 9 virtual simulation experimental teaching projects.”
JNU welcomed the first doctoral students back to school on May 11. Following the principle of priority for on-campus accommodations, doctoral students and graduating classes, about 9,100 students will return to school in eight groups.
Because of this year's harsh employment situation, influenced by the epidemic, JNU has taken many measures to secure employment for graduates. They include contacting cooperative enterprises, increasing the intensity of job recruitment, providing one-on-one employment guidance, and appealing to alumni and teachers to help students. By early May, JNU had launched nine large and medium-sized online job fairs.