Commencement ceremony at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Ding Zhongli, center in gold and red robe, president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, poses for a group photo with graduates at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, July 13, 2016. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/China Daily]

Beijing's University of Chinese Academy of Sciences awarded 10,288 students their master or PhD degrees at a ceremony on Wednesday. The university's forerunner was the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, founded in 1978. It was the first graduate school in China approved by the State Council.