Harvard University will build a school in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, according to an agreement recently signed between the Harvard University Foundation and the Shaanxi International Trade College.
   
Harvard University will provide teaching materials and equipment and will send teachers. The two universities will also begin a student exchange, said David Fulo Jen, Vice Board Chairman of Harvard University Foundation.
  
The school will cover 66 hectares in the Chang'an University Town in Xi'an and cost 100 million US dollars to build.
   
The Shaanxi International Trade College, set up in 1985, has 37specialties with 20,000 students.

(Xinhua News Agency April 11, 2005)