Chu Hai College of Higher Education (traditional Chinese: 珠海學院) is a private degree-granting institute in Hong Kong. The college is best known for its journalism and Chinese history programmes.The college plans to acquire university status in Hong Kong in or before 2012. The college was traced back to Chu Hai University (私立珠海大學) in Guangzhou of China in 1947. The private university was a group of prominent educators, financiers, and legislators of the Republic of China including Chen Jitan, Huang Lunshu, Li Yangjin, Wen Fangpu, and Kong Mou Sum. After Guangzhou was taken over by the Communist Party of China in 1949, the college was moved to Hong Kong. As Hong Kong Government only recognised the degree awarded by the University of Hong Kong, it thus renamed to Chu Hai College (珠海書院) due to restrictions on tertiary education in Hong Kong. For years, it maintained a very close relationship to the Republic of China courtesy of the many of the college's founders and subsequent senior staff being former officials or legislators in the pre-1949 mainland Republic of China.