On the 13th June 2011, Chinese well-known economist Prof. YiNing LI was invited by Stellenbosch University, after travelling a long way to lecture in the library of Stellenbosch University with the title"The status of and trends in China's economy". Despite the fact that it was not the optimal timing due to students were writing examinations, organized by Confucius Institute, several staff members and students still attended early looking forward to the lecture. Some business people and farm managers from the surrounding area also gathered and were keen to listen.

Prof. Li started with the structure of China's GDP, illustrated the features of changes and trends from various aspects regarding the present China economical development structural adjustment, like solving the problem of inflation, increasing the employment rate as well as increasing independent innovation abilities. His lecture was giving the essentials in accessible language, to the point, and he struck a responsive chord with the audience. Subsequently, the audience raised questions from their own interest on issues like how to solve local farm development; what policy can make the international exchange rate steady; how to deal with the contradictory issue between increase technology and employment and so forth. Prof. Li listed out China economical development successful examples and responded to the questions one by one with great patience. He presented himself as a great master with extensive and profound scholarship and showed his unrelenting zeal for teaching.

After the lecture, Prof. Li in the best of spirits visited the Confucius Institute and had an informal discussion with the Chinese teachers, listened to their report and also presented his newly published book with his signature as a gift to the teachers.