A group of academics fro m the People's Republic of China plan to recommend grant of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese President Xi Jinping and Taiwan's Ma Ying jeou.  The plan has been initiated by Peng Peigen, a former architectural professor at Beijing’s Tsinghua University, who announced it on December 27, 2015. Peng Peigen and other qualified nominators for the Nobel prize intend to file their nominations to the Norwegian Nobel Committee separately. The eight man group includes a former Tsinghua President and president of the China World Peace Foundation. In November, Professor Wang Yigui from Reiming University wrote a separate letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, nominating Xi Jinping for the Nobel Peace Prize for his One Belt, One Road initiative, disarmament of troops, and the historic meeting with Ma.