University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China

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The University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China (UNNC) is a campus of the University of Nottingham, England situated in the coastal city of Ningbo in Zhejiang province, near Shanghai.

The university admitted its first students in 2004, for Arts and Social Science subjects. The university's 70 acre (280,000 m²) campus, was launched on 6 September 2005 by British Prime Minister Tony Blair from Beijing in a broadcast for China Central Television. It was officially opened on 23 February 2005 by British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, in the presence of Chinese education minister Zhou Ji and State Counsellor Chen Zhili.

The UNNC President is Fujia Yang and the Vice President is Professor Ian Gow, former Director of Nottingham University Business School.

The venture is a joint partnership with the Wanli Education Group.

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