清华，让梦想照进现实

Every year, thousands of international students come to China in pursuit of knowledge and experience. Several years later, they return with all they have learned, ready and eager to contribute to their home countries.

Before heading to China, Dina Elhady was a member of faculty at Suez Canal University. Now she is a Ph.D. candidate at Tsinghua University's School of Life Sciences.

“When I go back to Egypt, I will teach everything I learned at Tsinghua to my own students,” she says.

During her seven years in China, what has in fl uenced Dina most is her life at Tsinghua. Life in a laboratory can be hard but meaningful; as Dina found, with increased time in the laboratory, she came to enjoy research work.

“Doing research here is really great. Many scient ifi c research projects are supported by both government and universities, which will bene fi t society and solve many problems in the future. We should learn from the way China educates its students,” she says.

Like many of her bright and cheerful Chinese friends, she feels “at home” at Tsinghua. And aside from her academic studies, in her spare time Dina contributes to helping more people learn about Egypt. She volunteered to help the Egyptian Embassy as well as organizations in Beijing to improve communicationsbetween China and Egypt.

After his time as a mid fi eld attacker for the national soccer team, Ethiopian student Kebede Ambaye devoted himself to public health services for some years before studying at Tsinghua.

Kebede came to China as a way of improving Ethiopia's health system. In Ethiopia, the country's Ministry of Health previously had no center for disease control. Recently China has helped to establish an African Center for Disease Control in Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa to solve the local problem through their health system.

“Before I came to China, I did not expect Tsinghua University to be 'heaven on earth', like I found it to be,” said Kebede.

“Regarding my academic pro fi ciency, Tsinghua has given me a great experience. The lecturers educated me as to how to do research, how to write policies, and how to design projects, all magn ifi cent opportunities for me to help solve my country's health problems.”

Here at Tsinghua, Kebede continues to exercise regularly and plays soccer twice a week with FC ALINES 2016, a soccer club at Tsinghua for international students. Just as the Tsinghua campus is becoming more international, the club is made up of players from all corners of the world.

每年，数万名国际学生来到中国追求知识和经验。数年后，他们将学成归国，贡献自己的力量。

“我回到埃及后，我将把在这里学到的一切教给我的学生们。”

来自埃及苏伊士运河大学的教师迪娜，现在正在清华大学生命学院攻读博士学位。七年在中国的生活，对迪娜影响最大的就是在清华的这一年多时光。尽管每天学习很累，但她爱上了做科研的日子。

在迪娜看来，“在这里做实验真的很棒！很多项目都可以真正解决实际问题。我们应该学习这种教育方式。”

闲暇时间里，迪娜还积极在埃及大使馆等国际组织机构中做志愿服务，传播埃及文化，“在这里，我感觉就像回家了一样”。

年轻时的艾伯依曾经是埃塞俄比亚国家足球队的中场球员，如今他选择投身公共卫生事业，目前在清华大学医学院学习。

“对我来说，在踏上这片土地之前我从未想到的是，清华大学就像天堂一样”。艾伯依来中国学习是为了提高埃塞俄比亚医疗体系的整体水平。

“学术方面，清华让我获益匪浅。在这里，学术大师教会了我如何做研究、如何制定策略和设计项目，这些都对我很有帮助。”之前，埃塞俄比亚尚未建成自己的疾病控制中心，如今在中国政府的帮助下，埃塞俄比亚首都亚的斯亚贝巴正在积极建设非洲疾病控制中心。

DREAMS INTO REALITY AT TSINGHUA

Text by Irene Photos by Zhao Zhenhao & Wang Zhirui