Tianjin Institute of Physical Education

Tianjin Institute of Physical Education was established in August 1958. At that time, in accordance with the CPC Hebei Provincial Committee's "10-15 years of universal higher education policy and to meet the needs of the development of education and sports", and in preparation for the first National Games of the People's Republic of China held in Beijing in September 1959, the Hebei Provincial People's Committee decided to merge the former Tianjin Sports School and the Sports Department of Shijiazhuang Normal University in Tianjin, the capital of Hebei Province, and at the same time select outstanding athletes from the province to establish Tianjin Institute of Physical Education. The mission of the college is to train athletes, coaches, some high school and university physical education teachers and higher-level sports professionals. Li Gengtao, then vice governor of Hebei Province, secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee, and mayor, concurrently served as the first dean. In January 1967, Tianjin was restored as a centrally administered municipality; in October 1969, Tianjin Institute of Physical Education was transferred from Hebei Province to Tianjin.

In the early days of the school, the school brought together a group of outstanding coaches and athletes with a high level of competitive sports. The results of wrestling, women's diving, swimming, men's basketball, baseball and other sports have been among the best in the country. At the first National Games, he won the championships in three wrestling events: classical, freestyle and Chinese. At the same time, a group of well-known experts and scholars taught in the school, such as Chen Jiaqi, Ma Yu, Niu Xinghua, Chai Wenxiu, Liu Shifan, Zheng Bi Da, Yao Zhizhen, Zhang Chunpei, Ren Fuxing, etc.

The Tuanbo Campus of the school is located in the Health Industry Park in the West District of Tuanbo New Town, Jinghai District, covering an area of ​​1,115.7 acres. The total area of ​​various school buildings is about 396,000 square meters. It was put into use in November 2017. The total value of teaching and scientific research equipment is more than 180 million yuan. The new building of the school library has a construction area of ​​nearly 15,000 square meters. It currently has a total of 432,000 paper documents, 851 paper journals, 78 databases, and a total of more than 4 million electronic books.

The school has trained more than 30,000 applied talents welcomed by the society for the national sports and education front, and has produced national advanced workers, national outstanding physical education teachers, provincial and municipal labor models, national team coaches and gold medal athletes. The school has made pioneering work in the fields of mass sports and national fitness, physical fitness survey and evaluation of young people, sports energy metabolism, Chinese bone age development standards, sports intelligence, sports legal system construction, etc.

The school currently has 18 undergraduate majors, involving 6 disciplines: education, management, literature, art, science, and medicine. It began to recruit master's students in 1979, obtained the right to confer master's degrees in 1986, and passed the acceptance of the project construction doctoral degree authorization unit in 2013. It was officially approved as a "doctoral degree awarding unit" by the State Council Degree Committee, and the first-level discipline of sports was approved as a "doctoral degree authorization discipline." The school currently has more than 6,200 full-time students, including 4,910 undergraduates, 54 doctoral students, and 1,050 master's students.

The school currently has 562 faculty members, 52 of whom have senior professional titles and 94 have associate senior professional titles; 86 of whom have doctoral degrees and 175 have master's degrees. One national excellent teaching team, 13 Tianjin excellent teaching teams, and 3 Tianjin "12th Five-Year Plan" teaching innovation teams were selected. There are 5 experts who enjoy special government allowances from the State Council, 1 national teaching master, 6 Tianjin teaching masters, and 14 other provincial and ministerial talent titles. The school currently has 40 doctoral supervisors and 196 master supervisors.

The school has continuously strengthened the central position of teaching work, implemented a series of plans and measures to deepen teaching reforms and improve teaching quality, and achieved a number of landmark results. In 2007, three majors of our school, namely physical education, social sports and dance, were selected as "characteristic professional construction points" by the Ministry of Education in batches; in 2011, eight majors, namely physical education, social sports, dance, sports rehabilitation and health, educational technology, journalism, applied psychology and marketing, were approved as brand professional construction projects of Tianjin's higher education institutions in the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" comprehensive investment planning, and two majors, namely sports training and traditional ethnic sports, were approved as strategic emerging industry-related professional construction projects; in 2013, the major of sports human science was approved as the first batch of undergraduate professional comprehensive reform pilot projects of local colleges and universities in the "Undergraduate Teaching Project" of the Ministry of Education, and the major of special education was approved as a municipal professional comprehensive reform pilot; in 2017, five majors, namely physical education, sports training, social sports guidance and management, sports human science and applied psychology, were approved as Tianjin's advantageous and characteristic professional construction projects, and seven majors, namely martial arts and traditional ethnic sports, dance, educational technology, journalism, marketing, special education and sports rehabilitation, were approved as Tianjin's applied professional construction projects. Our school's four majors of physical education, sports training, social sports guidance and management, and sports rehabilitation have been approved as national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, and dance, special education, and journalism have been approved as Tianjin's first-class undergraduate major construction sites. We have built 2 national-level high-quality resource sharing courses, 1 national high-quality video open course, 4 national high-quality courses, 8 Tianjin high-quality courses, and 15 Tianjin first-class undergraduate construction courses. 4 experimental teaching centers have been awarded the title of "Tianjin General Higher Education Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center", and 1 experimental teaching center has been approved as Tianjin Municipal Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching Center. 6 virtual simulation experimental teaching projects have been identified as "Tianjin Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching Construction Projects". Our school's teaching achievement "Enhancing the Comprehensive Practical Ability of Sports Major Students by Building a Sports Psychology Practice Teaching Platform" won the first prize of the 6th National Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award, and 9 other achievements won the first, second, and third prizes of Tianjin and the State Sports General Administration of Teaching Achievements. From 2013 to the present, our school has won 113 national-level college student innovation and entrepreneurship training program project approvals.

The school has significant disciplinary advantages. In the fourth round of national disciplinary evaluation in 2017, the first-level discipline of physical education in our school was awarded an A- grade. Sports human science and sports humanities and sociology are traditional advantageous disciplines of our school and the first batch of key disciplines in Tianjin. Sports science was selected into the list of first-class disciplines in Tianjin, and special education and sports health were selected into the list of characteristic disciplines (groups) in Tianjin. The school currently has a number of provincial and ministerial key laboratories and scientific research units, including the "Psychology and Physiological Regulation of Competitive Sports" Key Laboratory of the General Administration of Sport of China, the "Sports Physiology and Sports Medicine" Tianjin Key Laboratory, the "Key Research Base of Sports Social Sciences of the General Administration of Sport of China", the "Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of General Colleges and Universities in Tianjin", the "Sports Culture Research Base" of the General Administration of Sport of China, and the Sports Teaching Research Center of the Ministry of Education. Three teams of the school, including "Psychology and Sports Behavior Promotion", "Basics and Applications of Mitochondrial Biology of Sports" and "Sports Rehabilitation and Prevention of Several Major Chronic Diseases", were selected into the Tianjin University Innovation and Technology Team Training Program. The "Student Physical Fitness and Physical and Mental Health Promotion Research Center" was rated as a think tank of Tianjin universities and won the title of "Tianjin Excellent University Think Tank Construction Project in 2018-2019". The school's physical fitness testing center was approved as the "Tianjin Social Science Popularization Demonstration Base". The school cooperated with Tianjin University to build the country's first "Intelligent Sports Collaborative Innovation Center", and signed a contract with the Chongli Campus of Peking University Third Hospital, the People's Government of Chongli District, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, and the Management Committee of Tianjin Health Industry International Cooperation Demonstration Zone to jointly build the Chongli Graduate School.

The school's scientific research strength continues to increase. In recent years, it has undertaken a total of 403 national, provincial, ministerial and bureau-level scientific research projects. Among them, there is 1 project of the Science and Technology Support Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, 1 project of the National Key R&D Program, 1 major international cooperative research project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 23 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2 key projects of the National Social Science Foundation of China, 1 post-funding project, and 25 general and youth projects, 13 projects of the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Fund of the Ministry of Education, 2 post-funding projects of the Philosophy and Social Sciences Research of the Ministry of Education, 2 national education science "12th Five-Year Plan" projects, 1 "13th Five-Year Plan" project, 1 "13th Five-Year Plan" Youth Special Project of the Ministry of Education, 31 "12th Five-Year Plan" projects and 28 "13th Five-Year Plan" projects of Tianjin Education Science, 137 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects such as Tianjin Major Scientific and Technological Research, Tianjin Technology Platform Special, Tianjin Applied Basic Key and General Projects, State Sports General Administration of Sports Sports Social Science Fund and Olympic Science and Technology Research Projects, Tianjin Philosophy and Social Science Fund Projects, and 26 Tianjin Undergraduate Teaching Quality and Teaching Reform Research Projects. The scientific research results have won 30 provincial and ministerial awards, 172 books, compilations, textbooks and reference books have been published, and 2,325 academic papers have been published.

The Journal of Tianjin Institute of Physical Education, sponsored by the school, is a source journal of the Chinese Social Science Citation Index, a core journal of sports in the "Overview of Chinese Core Journals", a source journal of the Science Citation Database, and selected as a core journal of Chinese science and technology in 2020; it was selected into the first batch of "China Journal Square", and was awarded the first prize of the Ministry of Education's National Excellent Science and Technology Journals of Colleges and Universities, the Ministry of Education's National Excellent Natural Science Journals of Colleges and Universities, Tianjin Excellent Journals and First-level Journals, and China's Northern Excellent Journals. It has been included as a source journal by more than 10 well-known retrieval institutions at home and abroad. In 2020, the journal successively won the honorary titles of "The Most Popular Journal of Sports Discipline" awarded by the National Philosophy and Social Sciences Documentation Center, and "2020 China's Excellent Science and Technology Journals of Colleges and Universities" awarded by the China University Science and Technology Journal Research Association.

The school attaches great importance to the cultivation of high-level competitive sports talents. Rowing, rugby, badminton, baseball, tennis and other sports are the traditional advantages of the School of Competitive Sports. Our teachers and students have achieved excellent results as coaches and athletes in major competitions such as the Olympics, the World Cup, the Asian Games, and the National Games, and have a great influence at home and abroad. In April 2014, our school signed a co-construction agreement with the Tianjin Sports Bureau to form the Tianjin Rowing Team, Rugby Team, Badminton Team, and Sailing Team, representing Tianjin in winning one gold, two silvers, and four bronzes in the 13th National Games. At present, the college is working hard to expand emerging sports projects, actively exploring new models and new ways to combine sports and education and cultivate high-level competitive talents under the new situation, and make greater contributions to the development of sports in Tianjin and the whole country. The school cooperated with the Chinese Volleyball Association to build the Chinese Volleyball Academy, the Chinese Judo Association to build the Chinese Judo Academy, and the Chinese Baseball Association to build the Chinese Baseball Academy. It has undertaken the work of the chairman unit of the National School Sports League (football project) and co-built the Tianjin Institute of Physical Education Water Sports College with the People's Government of Baodi District, Tianjin.

The school attaches great importance to open education and continuously strengthens foreign cooperation and exchanges. It has established inter-school friendly relations with more than 20 well-known foreign universities and sports colleges in the United States, Britain, Australia, Italy, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Poland, Germany, etc. The school insists on serving the national strategies of "One Belt, One Road" and "Chinese Culture Going Global". It took the lead in establishing the "Tianjin Foreign Students Wushu Cultural Experience Base" among Tianjin universities, and co-built the Luban Workshop with Tianjin Medical College to promote the implementation of the "going global" strategy of Chinese martial arts, and enhance the school's influence and reputation at home and abroad.

After 63 years of development, the school has gradually formed its own characteristics and advantages of sports-oriented disciplines and coordinated development of related disciplines, and has built a complete school system from undergraduate education to master's and doctoral graduate education, as well as an open school pattern covering general higher education, adult education and international student education, becoming a modern sports higher education institution with great influence at home and abroad.

Looking into the future, the school will be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, strengthen the "four consciousnesses", firm up the "four self-confidences", resolutely implement the "two safeguards", fully implement the Party's education policy, adhere to the Party's overall leadership and socialist direction of running schools, continue to deepen reforms, strive to improve the school governance system, improve the school governance capabilities, and effectively integrate moral education into the entire process of talent cultivation, continuously improve the quality, level and efficiency of running schools, and strive to build a world-class sports university and realize the strategic goals of a healthy China and a strong sports nation!