
On the February 20, a police station at Jinnan District, Tianjin, received a 500-yuan donation and a note from a foreigner who left in a hurry.The note reads: I’m from Yemen and currently studying at Tianjin University for my doctoral degree. Now China is suffering (from the COVID-19 outbreak), but I firmly believe that China will make through it. I love China and its people. The country is my...

On February 26, 2020, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China announced that The Tianjin Center for Applied Mathematics (TCAM), led by Tianjin University was to be established. TCAM became one of the 13 first national applied mathematics centers in the country.In 2014 the Tianjin Municipal People's Government agreed to establish the Tianjin Center for Applied Mathematics, relying on the...

I have been living in Tianjin, for almost 4 years. The city has always been dynamic and busy and never sleeps. However, since the epidemic outbreak, Tianjin has turned to be empty and quiet.At first, we were all not aware how to cope with the hard situation. Then, I realized that we are not fighting this virus alone, we are fighting together with all the Chinese people. I realized that we are l...

Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus within the country, Tianjin University took measures to care and protect international students living on and off campus.Provide timely information and advicesAuthoritative information about the disease and prevention tips related to the disease were released timely to the students in different languages. The School of International Education provided...

Leading universities and research organs have developed faster detection kits for the 2019-nCov nucleic acid for the ongoing campaign to fight against novel coronavirus in China.On Sunday, Tianjin University announced that a detection kit has been successfully developed by the university and the GenMag Biotechnology Co Ltd, which can detect suspected novel coronavirus cases in its earlier inc...

Editor’s note: Now China is fighting against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) nationwide. Many foreign friends have either fought side by side with the Chinese people or showed great concern to the efforts the country is taking to curb the virus outbreak. Hira Khalid from Pakistan is currently a PhD student studying at Tianjin University. He published an article on the South China Morn...