Shanghai Daily news

1905 Based upon western church-controlled Aurora University, Ma Xiangbo (1840-1939) established the university, which was initially named Fudan Public School.

1917 Fudan Public School opened undergraduate program with its name changed to Fudan University.

1918 President Li Denghui raised 150,000 yuan to buy a land in Jiangwan, where Fudan is now located.

1937 Shanghai was occupied by the Japanese, forcing Fudan to move its faculty and students to Chongqing City.

1946 Fudan officially moved back to resume at its Jiangwan campus.

1949 Fudan was taken over by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Shanghai Military Control Committee, marking a brand-new start of the university.

1952 College adjustment in the whole country. Fudan joined with more than 10 universities in East China in Arts and Science departments.

1977 Fudan professor Su Buqing (1902-2003), together with other scholars, persuaded the country to resume the college recruitment system destroyed by the “cultural revolution (1966-76).”

1993  Fudan was listed as one of the key universities in the “211 project”, which means that the country try to build up 100 key domestic universities in the 21st century.

2000  Fudan merged with the Shanghai Medical University.

2005  Fudan celebrated its 100th anniversary. More than 3,000 freshmen, including 300 foreign students, started their study at the newly established Fudan College, which is the only college for freshmen’s general education unbounded by majors.