The 2025 National College Student Seal Engraving Exhibition kicked off at the Shanghai Library on the afternoon of December 19th. With the theme of "Tracing the Origin of Characters, Preserving Cultural Heritage Through Art", this exhibition aims to guide young students to explore the origin of Chinese characters and embrace the Chinese cultural context through the art of seal engraving.The exh...

The rising scale and capacity of China's leading cities have cemented the country's position as a major global innovation powerhouse, according to a recent report.Twenty Chinese cities have landed spots on the world's top 100 most innovative cities list this year, according to a report released by East China Normal University (ECNU) on Sunday — marking the fourth year in a row the university h...

The 2025-2026 Shanghai Student Sports Championships concluded successfully at East China Normal University last weekend!  Over two thrilling days, the East Track & Field Stadium on ECNU's Minhang Campus morphed into Shanghai's most electrifying youth sports hub.With 42 universities in attendance and over 1,500 participants competing fiercely, this championship truly set the winter ablaze with...

An exhibition that display more than 100 pieces of nianhua, or New Year paintings, from both China and Vietnam has opened at East China Normal University in Shanghai, showcasing the charm of Chinese intangible cultural heritage as well as the close cultural ties between the two nations.The majority of the pieces are New Year woodprint pictures, an artform that was listed among China's first bat...

Against the backdrop of the accelerated development of the global scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, artificial intelligence (AI) is profoundly reshaping the educational ecosystem and also promoting STEM education to become a strategic priority for countries around the world in cultivating innovative talents. How should China build the "roadmap" for AI + STEM...

On November 20th, the Calligraphy and Seal Carving Exhibition by faculty of East China Normal University, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai Dianji University, Shanghai Jianqiao University opened at the Dishui Lake Culture and Art Center in the Lingang New Area. This exhibition is not only the first in-depth practice of cultu...

November 9 marked a historic day as the 15th National Games of the People's Republic of China officially kicked off with a spectacular opening ceremony in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province. Thirteen days later, today (November 21) sees the curtain fall on this landmark sports gala, with the much-anticipated closing ceremony set to take place.▲ The opening ceremony of the 15th Nation...

When Vietnamese student Doan Bao Tran stepped onto the campus of East China Normal University in Shanghai, she walked a path her mother had traced two decades earlier."ECNU isn't just my school, it's my second home," said Vu Thanh Xuan, Tran's mother, who completed both her master's and doctoral studies at the university. In 2003, Xuan made the decision to leave her 17-month-old daughter in Vie...

Recently, a Sino-Brazilian joint research team consisting of scholars from East China Normal University, Shanghai Ocean University, and the University of São Paulo (Brazil) launched a nearly 10-day joint field expedition focusing on the Yangtze River Basin. The initiative aims to unravel the changing patterns of sediment transport processes in the world's major rivers and their impacts on the c...