Honorary President of Jianghan University-LI Jincai (李进才)  

Li Jincai, Honorary President and professor of Jianghan University, is born in Yiyang, Hunan Province. He graduated from the Chinese Department of Wuhan University in 1962. He has successively held positions including Deputy Director of the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education (MOE), Vice President and professor at Wuhan University, President of Jianghan University, Deputy Director of the MOE Guidance Committee on Teaching Chinese Language, Deputy Director of the National College Teaching Evaluation Expert Committee, Deputy Director of the University Program Setting Evaluation Committee, Deputy Director of the Guidance Committee on University Students’ Cultural Quality Education, Member of the University Setting Evaluation Committee, and Member of the Higher Education Group of the Educational Science Planning Leadership Group. As an influential expert in higher education, he has presided over and participated in national teaching assessments, university and program setting assessments, and disciplinary planning work multiple times.

He is Vice President of the Hubei Poetry Society and President of the Wuhan Poetry and Couplet Society, aiming to promote Chinese poetry culture, and has received the “Changchun Cup” Poetry Education Award of the Hubei Jingchu Poetry Circle. He has authored and edited 18 academic works including Perspectives on Higher Education in the Century, Direction, Goal, Strategy—Outline of the School Running Direction of Higher Education Institutions in the New Era, and Utilizing the Capital Market to Promote Higher Education, and has published two poetry collections: Chunxiaozhai Poetry Collection and Lingboxuan Chant Draft. He has also published over 100 academic papers. He has won one second prize of national teaching achievement award, one second prize of national educational science research achievement award, two first prizes of the provincial teaching achievement award, one first prize and three second prizes of provincial educational science research achievement award and one first prize in the “China Education Newspaper” essay competition, among other awards. He has been honored with the Wuhan Labor Medal and enjoys special government allowances from the State Council.