Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation (FYTEF) has recently announced the assessment results for the 15th Awards and Research Grants for Early Career Academics. According to a joint meeting of expert review and the Council on Foundations & Advisory Board, 101 young teachers were entitled the award, and another 110 research projects secured the funding for Basic Research Project. Of these, Dr Yunsen Chen, from the school of accountancy at Central University of Finance and Economics, won the first prize of the awards for early career academics. Dr Chengliang Yan, from the school of economics, has been awarded with the grants for basic research projects. His project title is The Research of the Transition of Industrial Structure and the Transformation of China’s Economics. These awards and research grants secured by CUFE staff members indicate that our university’s young academics have sustainable career development and progression. This also contributes largely to our university’s talent policies.

The Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation aims to encourage early career academics in Chinese universities to stand out in the workplace and to attract young researchers returning from overseas study to teach and research in their home countries’ universities. The foundation also sets up awards and provides funding and support for young academics who have made great contributions in teaching and research. During the last 30 years, the Fok Ying Tung Awards and Research Grants for early career academics have become one of the most attentive and admirable prizes in Chinese Higher Education. A great number of promising young researchers stood out and took leading roles in various subjects thereafter. The Fok Ying Tung funded research projects also generated excellence and quality research outputs in recent years, which contributed to the sustainable development in teaching and research in the higher education sector in China.

Translated by Hu Wan