On December 22, Adjunct Professor of UESTC Li Anshan heard from the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco that His Majesty Mohammed VI, as The Protector of the Academy, has approved his nomination as associate member.

The Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco is a public institution with legal and financial autonomy. It is multidisciplinary establishment with a diverse membership belonging to different nationalities. The Academy comprises 60 members of whom 30 are “Resident Members” of Moroccan nationality and 30 “Associate Members” of other nationalities.

LI Anshan (PhD. Toronto), Adjunct professor of UESTC and professor of School of International Studies at PKU. He is honorary Chair of Chinese Society of African Historical Studies, Vice Chair of International Scientific Committee of UNESCO General History of Africa (Vol. IX-XI), Vice Chair of Chinese Association of African Studies, member of international editorial committees of Insight on Africa in India,Legon Humanities in Ghana,Brazilian Journal of African Studies, etc. Besides publications in Chinese, he also has various publications in English, Forum on African Chinese socioeconomic history（2019），Modern History of Africa（2021），China and Africa in Global Context: Encounters, Policy, Cooperation and Migration(2022），China-Africa Cooperation（Pretoria, 2013），FOCAC 2015(Pretoria, 2015),A History of Overseas Chinese in Africa to 1911(New York, 2012) ,Chinese Medical Cooperation in Africa ( Uppsala, 2011),British Rule and Rural Protest in Southern Ghana ( New York, 2002), etc. He gave speeches on China-African relations in various countries and lectured on African history to the top leaders of Chinese Communist Party and was commissioned to visit African countries for the assessment of FOCAC follow-up action. He was invited as distinguished guest at the first FOCAC--Beijing Ministerial Conference, Sino-African Education Ministers Forum and FOCAC-Beijing Summit.