President Yang Fujia passed away in Shanghai on 17 July 2022 due to illness at the age of 86. Since then, UNNC staff, students, alumni, and many others have joined together to express their condolences and honour his memory.

On 24 September, a memorial service was held at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China’s (UNNC) Siyuan Auditorium for President Yang Fujia. In addition to being the President of UNNC, Professor Yang Fujia was also a renowned nuclear physicist, educator, member of the China Central Institute for Culture and History, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, former president of Fudan University and former Chancellor of the University of Nottingham in the UK.