 In 2003, this idea received further support from NTU president Su Guaning, during an interview with the Chinese-language paper "Lianhe Zaobao".One reason offered for the renaming was that, by the mid-2000s, NTU no longer had a narrow focus on technical subjects, but had become a full university including studies in the humanities.However, the NTU administration's renaming plans soon encountered significant push-back.