Hebei North University

Hebei North University is located in Zhangjiakou, one of the venues for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics. It has the essence of the Great Wall and grasslands and the essence of Zhangyuan culture. It has a long history of running schools and profound cultural heritage. It is a comprehensive provincial undergraduate college with the right to confer master's degrees in the northwest of Hebei Province.

The school was approved by the Ministry of Education of China and was established in September 2003 by the merger of three provincial universities: Zhangjiakou Medical College, Zhangjiakou Teachers College and Zhangjiakou Agricultural College. The predecessor of Zhangjiakou Medical College was the Jin-Cha-Ji Bethune Health School established in 1945. In December 1982, it was upgraded to an undergraduate college approved by the Ministry of Education and named Zhangjiakou Medical College; Zhangjiakou Teachers College was founded in 1956; Zhangjiakou Agricultural College was founded in 1923. In the nearly 100 years of school-running history, the school has accumulated rich experience in school-running, has a high level of teaching and scientific research, and has made important contributions to local economic construction and social development.

The school currently has four campuses: West Campus, East Campus, South Campus and North Campus. The campus covers an area of ​​1.0453 million square meters and a building area of ​​476,000 square meters. It has complete modern teaching facilities, advanced campus network, experimental center, provincial experimental teaching demonstration center and basic laboratories of various disciplines. The library has a paper collection of more than 2.05 million books. There are 2 affiliated hospitals, 13 non-affiliated affiliated hospitals, and 273 other internship hospitals, farms, ranches, veterinary hospitals and educational internship bases. Among them, the First Affiliated Hospital is located at the intersection of Hebei, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia. It is the largest, most comprehensive, most advanced and most advanced hospital with high diagnosis and treatment level. It is a Class A tertiary hospital and a national baby-friendly hospital integrating medical treatment, teaching, scientific research, prevention and rehabilitation.

The school currently has 4,757 faculty and staff (including two directly affiliated hospitals). Among them, there are 1,464 staff members in the school headquarters, 192 teachers with senior professional titles, 397 teachers with associate senior professional titles; 1,093 teachers with doctoral and master's degrees; 839 master's tutors inside and outside the school. Among the teachers in service, there are experts who enjoy special government allowances from the State Council, national famous teachers, national outstanding teachers, national model workers, national "March 8" red flag bearers, national "women" meritorious model workers, post experts (experimental station directors) of the national modern agricultural industry technology system innovation team, Hebei provincial experts, young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions in Hebei Province, candidates for the "New Century 333 Talent Project" of Hebei Province, young science and technology model workers in Hebei Province, post experts (experimental station directors) of the Hebei modern agricultural industry technology system innovation team, executive directors, directors, members of national professional associations and provincial outstanding (model) teachers.

The school currently has more than 25,000 full-time students, including more than 1,400 master's students and 190 international students. It has a medical school, 18 secondary colleges and 1 teaching department, namely the School of Basic Medicine, School of Medical Laboratory Science, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Science, School of Law and Politics (School of Teacher Education), School of Marxism, School of Literature, School of Foreign Languages, School of Economics and Management, School of Information Science and Engineering, School of Arts (School of Performing Arts), School of Agriculture and Forestry Science and Technology, School of Animal Science and Technology, School of International Education, School of Clinical Medicine, School of Graduate Studies, School of Continuing Education, School of Pharmacy and Department of Public Sports.

The school has a complete range of disciplines, covering 11 disciplines including science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, literature, management, law, economics, art, history and education, forming a development pattern with medicine and agriculture as the advantages, and other disciplines intersecting, integrating and promoting each other. There are 4 first-level master's degree authorization points in clinical medicine, pharmacy, basic medicine and food science and engineering, and 5 master's professional degree authorization categories in clinical medicine, agriculture, traditional Chinese medicine, education and veterinary medicine. Pharmacology, medical informatics, pathology and pathophysiology are three key disciplines in Hebei Province; crop cultivation and farming, agricultural economic management, animal nutrition and feed science, human anatomy and histology are four key development disciplines in Hebei Province; orthopedics is one key medical discipline in Hebei Province; respiratory and critical care is one provincial key medical development discipline; orthopedics, gynecology, otolaryngology and head and neck surgery, neurology, dermatology, thoracic surgery, pediatric surgery are seven provincial clinical key specialties; stomatology, geriatrics, anesthesiology, general surgery, medical imaging are five provincial clinical key cultivation specialties.

The school has 75 undergraduate majors, among which clinical medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, and medical laboratory technology are traditional advantageous undergraduate majors with a history of more than 30 years of undergraduate education; medical laboratory testing and information management and information systems (medical direction) are the first and characteristic majors opened by colleges and universities in North China; medical laboratory technology and pharmacy majors are the first batch of national first-class undergraduate major construction points, and 22 majors such as clinical medicine and traditional Chinese medicine are the first batch of first-class undergraduate major construction points in Hebei Province; the pathology teaching team is an excellent teaching team in Hebei Province; five courses including pathophysiology, experimental diagnosis, clinical microbiology and testing, surgery and animal physiology are provincial-level quality courses, middle school Chinese teaching design is a provincial-level quality resource sharing course, intelligent terminal software development, pathology and treatise on febrile diseases are provincial-level quality online open courses, histology and embryology and clinical biochemistry and testing are recommended as national first-class undergraduate construction courses, C programming and mathematical analysis are provincial-level first-class undergraduate construction courses. There are 6 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, including Medical Laboratory Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, Pathophysiology Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, Clinical Skills Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, Information Technology Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, Medical Morphology Experimental Teaching Center, and Traditional Chinese Medicine Experimental Teaching Center.

The school currently has 10 provincial R&D platforms, 1 popular science base, and 1 Star Creation Space, namely: Hebei Provincial Key Laboratory of Neuropharmacology, Hebei Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Product and Food Quality and Safety Analysis and Testing, Hebei Provincial Population Health Informatization Engineering Technology Research Center, Hebei Province's Second Batch of "2011 Collaborative Innovation Centers" - Potato Industry, Hebei University Medical Informatics Application Technology R&D Center, Hebei University Potato Application Technology R&D Center, Hebei Provincial Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences - Ecological Construction and Industrial Development Research Center, Hebei Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Base, Hebei Photovoltaic Conductive Film Engineering Research Center, Hebei Oleander Cultivation Technology Innovation Center, Hebei Traditional Chinese Medicine Popular Science Base, and Hebei Ecological Agriculture Star Creation Space. There are 8 municipal platforms, namely: Zhangjiakou Key Laboratory of Quality and Safety of Characteristic Agricultural Products, Zhangjiakou Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials, Zhangjiakou Key Laboratory of Organic Photofunctional Materials, Zhangjiakou Oleracea Cultivation Technology Innovation Center, Zhangjiakou Data Security Intelligent Monitoring and Operation Technology Innovation Center, Zhangjiakou Key Laboratory of Applied Chemistry, Zhangjiakou Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Prevention and Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases, and Zhangjiakou Key Laboratory of Precision Diagnosis and Treatment of Thyroid Cancer.

The school's international exchanges are becoming more and more active, and international cooperation in education is constantly strengthening. It has established long-term and stable cooperative relations with universities and research institutes in countries and regions such as Russia, the United Kingdom, Finland, Germany, the United States, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Australia, Ukraine, and New Zealand, and has hired well-known scholars at home and abroad as part-time or visiting professors of our school. The school has established good exchanges and cooperation with foreign universities for international students. At present, the school has students from 22 countries including Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, South Africa, Nigeria, and Ghana studying medicine at school. In 2010, the school joined the 121 dual degree program of the "China-US Talent Training Program" and launched the "1+2+1 China-US Talent Training Program", establishing substantive cooperative relations with 41 state universities in the United States in terms of student training, teacher exchanges, and discipline construction. In recent years, the school has successively launched international exchange programs such as the "China-Finland Talent Training Program" and the "China-Russia Government Scholarship Program", and has continuously selected outstanding teachers and students to study and study abroad.

The school hosts and publicly publishes the "Journal of Hebei North University" (Social Science Edition, Natural Science Edition), "Journal of Neuropharmacology" and "Journal of Hebei North University".

Since its establishment, the school has trained more than 200,000 graduates for the society. They carry forward the fine traditions of their alma mater, take root in the grassroots, endure hardships, love their jobs, and are willing to make contributions. They have made outstanding contributions in their respective jobs and have become the new force for the economic and social development of Hebei Province and surrounding areas. At the same time, a large number of advanced models and outstanding representatives have emerged. Some have become experts with outstanding contributions to the country, province and city, and some have become well-known professors at domestic and foreign universities or outstanding scientists in a certain field. They have been widely praised by the society and won honor for the school.

Inheriting the torch to build a great cause, carrying forward the past and opening up a new chapter. At the new historical starting point, all teachers and students of the school will seize opportunities, meet challenges, deepen reforms, accelerate development, and strive to build a modern, open, distinctive, high-level applied university!

(Revised and reviewed by the Publicity and United Front Department on April 12, 2022)