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Joint Research Centers, Institutes and Foundations
In the university, there are around 30 research centers in the 22 schools
and conducting joint research projects with various foreign academic entities.
* Zhejiang-California NanoSystems Institute, co-supported
by Zhejiang Provincial Government, Zhejiang Universityand California NanoSystems
Institute.
* James D. Watson Institute of Genome Sciences, Zhejiang University, established
with the support of James D. Watson, president of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,
USA
* Joint Centers of Clean Enery and Photonics in collaboration with KTH
( the Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden
* German Hanns-Seidel-Foundation supported Management Training Center
* Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital established with the support of Loma Linda
University Medical Center, USA
* China-Canada Rural Development Research and Training Center supported
by Canada International Development Agency
Membership of International Organizations
* Member of Association of Pacific Rim University (APRU)
* Founding Member of World Wide University Network
* Secretariat of Global University Network of Innovation, Asian-Pacific
* Presidency of Global Consortium of Higher Education and Research for
Agriculture
Overseas Visitors 
Every year, several hundreds of scholars and experts from many parts of
the world are invited to Zhejiang University to give lectures or to do
joint research. In 1999, Ferid Murad, winner of 1998 Nobel Prize for medicine
and Samuel C. C. Ting, winner of 1976 Nobel Prize for physics, visited
Zhejiang University, and renowned overseas scholars such as Raj Reddy,
Dean of School of Computer Science from Carnage Mellon University and
J. Carl Hsu, President of Bell Labs in Asia and Pacific, were awarded
by the university such titles as honorary, guest or advisory professors.
Apart from that, a number of long-term language experts and teachers from
different countries are employed each year to help improve the university's
teaching of foreign languages.
International Conference
Owing to its beautiful location, good reputation in academic circles both
at home and abroad and its modern conference facilities, Zhejiang University
hosts every year a number of international conferences. In 1999, quite
a few influential conferences were held on in the university, among them
are the Conference on Value Engineering and Technology Innovation of Enterprises
and the 2nd Asia-Pacific EPR/ESR Symposium, which have not only promoted
the international exchange and cooperation of the university, but also
won favorable comments from national and international participants and
enhanced considerably the university's renown in the world.
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