Nankai  News Network (reporter: Nie Jici) It is learned recently that the list  of the National Social Science Foundation Program 2015 has been  officially released. There are 167 projects gained approval and five of  them are from Nankai University. With 9 approved projects, Nankai  University ranks the third highest school in China.

In the second official results, our school have 5 projects on the list with a total number of 3.8 million research funds: A  Study of the Exchange between Hebrew Literary Classics and the  Literature and Culture of Ancient Mediterranean Cultural Circle, The  Hellenistic Civilization and the Silk Road, Research on the New Development, Frontier Theory and Application of Modern Inductive Logic, The Construction and Application of Bilingual Terminological Knowledge Database, Study on Structural Heterogeneity of China's Urban Community and Grassroots Governance based on Large Survey Data, respectively  undertaken by Professor Wang Lixin (College of Literature), Professor  Yang Juping (College of History), Professor Ren Xiaoming (College of  Philosophy), Professor Miao Ju (College of Foreign Languages) and  Professor Sun Tao (Zhou Enlai School of Government). Additionally, the  project Study and Translation on Russian’s Experience in Qing Dynasty, China  undertaken by Professor Yan Guodong (College of Foreign Languages) has  been approved as major project by the National Social Science Foundation Program, with 350000 research funds.

It  is known that the approved establishment of National Social Science  Foundation Program was passed by the leading group of National Planning  Office of Philosophy and Social Science in 2004. This program is of the  highest level, the most heavily funded and highly authoritative in the  field of the social sciences, which was classified into three  categories: application and countermeasures, basic theory, and  inter-disciplinary courses. Projects in session two include basic theory  and inter-disciplinary courses.