Inner Mongolia University

[History] Inner Mongolia University is located in Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and a famous historical and cultural city, more than 400 kilometers away from Beijing. It is the first comprehensive university established by the Party and the State in ethnic minority areas after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The school was founded in 1957 with a high starting point. Ulanfu, then Vice Premier of the State Council and Chairman of the Autonomous Region, served as the first president (1956-1968). Yu Beichen, former Deputy Director of the Comprehensive University Department of the Ministry of Higher Education, served as Vice President. Li Jitong, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a famous biologist, a first-level professor at Peking University, and a doctor from Yale University, came to the school to teach and served as the academic vice president. The Party and the government selected a group of well-known academic leaders and academic backbones from more than a dozen famous universities in China, including Peking University, to form a high-level faculty team in the early days of the school, bringing the long-standing academic tradition and lofty university spirit of famous universities, laying a solid foundation for the school's subsequent development and a good academic style and school spirit.

The school enrolled graduate students in 1962, was identified as a national key university in 1978, obtained the right to confer doctoral degrees in 1984, was approved as a key construction university of the national "211 Project" in 1997, became a "provincial and ministerial co-construction" university of the People's Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and the Ministry of Education in 2004, was selected as a university in the national "Plan to Improve the Comprehensive Strength of Colleges and Universities in Central and Western China" in 2012 ("one province, one school"), became a first-class university construction support university in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in 2016, was selected as a national first-class discipline construction university in 2017, and became a university jointly built by the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in 2018.

【Institutions, disciplines and majors】The school consists of the main campus, the School of Transportation, and the Manchuria College, and has an independent college - the Entrepreneurship College. The main campus has 21 colleges.

The school's disciplines cover 11 major disciplines, including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, management, and art. It has two national key disciplines, Chinese ethnic minority languages ​​and literature, and zoology, and one national key cultivation discipline, ecology; there are 18 autonomous region key disciplines and 8 autonomous region key cultivation disciplines. There are 12 first-level disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees, another second-level discipline authorized to confer doctoral degrees, 23 first-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees, another two second-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees, 15 master's professional degree authorization categories, and 8 postdoctoral research mobile stations. Biology was selected as a national "double first-class" construction discipline, and biology, ecology, chemistry, ethnology, Chinese language and literature (Mongolian language and literature), and Chinese history were selected as autonomous region "double first-class" construction disciplines.

The school is a national-level college student innovation experiment program school, an innovation and entrepreneurship training program school approved by the Ministry of Education, and one of the first national demonstration universities for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform. It currently has 95 undergraduate majors, 130 undergraduate teaching laboratories, and 97 on-campus and off-campus teaching practice and training bases. There are 4 national-level basic science research and teaching talent training bases, 1 national college student cultural quality education base, 1 national western excellent grassroots legal talent training base, 1 national comprehensive professional reform pilot, 2 national talent training model innovation experimental areas, 8 national-level characteristic majors, 16 national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 2 national-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, 2 national college student off-campus practice education bases, 6 national-level boutique courses, 3 national-level boutique resource sharing courses, 7 national-level boutique video open courses, 2 national-level bilingual teaching demonstration courses, 1 English-taught brand course for international students in China, 1 national online first-class undergraduate course, 5 national offline first-class undergraduate courses, 1 national social practice first-class undergraduate course, and 4 national-level teaching teams. There are currently 2 national virtual simulation experimental teaching projects, 4 new engineering research and practice projects of the Ministry of Education, and 2 new agricultural research and reform practice projects of the Ministry of Education.

[Talent Training] The school has 27,300 students of all types. Among them, there are 15,834 undergraduates, 812 doctoral students, and 6,741 master's students. There are 13,744 undergraduates, 812 doctoral students, 6,491 master's students, and 450 international students in the school. Among the students, ethnic minority students such as Mongolian, Daur, Ewenki, and Oroqen account for about 30%. Since the establishment of the school, a group of outstanding alumni have emerged, including Xu Rigan and Liu Yao, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Zhang Jie and Zhao Jincai, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

[Faculty] The school has 1,955 faculty and staff. Among them, there are 1,286 teaching and research personnel, including 276 professors and 462 associate professors; the main campus has 1,125 teaching and research personnel, of which 75.73% have doctoral degrees, including 262 professors and 396 associate professors. There are 3 people selected for the National Teaching Master Award, 1 person for National Outstanding Professional and Technical Talent, 1 person for Distinguished Professor and 1 person for Visiting Professor of the "Changjiang Scholars Program" of the Ministry of Education, 1 person for the National Outstanding Young Scientist Fund Project, 2 people for the "Ten Thousand Talents Program" Philosophy and Social Science Leading Talents, 1 person for the Science and Technology Innovation Leading Talents, 2 people for the Young Top Talents Support Program, 9 people for the National "Million Talents Project", 11 people for the Ministry of Education's New Century Excellent Talents Support Program, 13 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions to the country, 62 experts enjoying special government allowances from the State Council, 9 people for the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Outstanding Talent Award, 42 experts with outstanding contributions to the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, 2 Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Outstanding Teachers, 2 Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Outstanding Ideological and Political Theory Teachers in Colleges and Universities, 144 people for the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region "Grassland Talents" Project, and 88 people for the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region "New Century 321 Talent Project". One innovation team in key areas of the Ministry of Science and Technology's Innovation Talent Promotion Plan, two research teams of the Ministry of Education's "Yangtze River Scholars and Innovation Team Development Plan", one national advanced collective team of professional and technical talents, 14 science and technology innovation teams and 26 teaching teams of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and 22 innovation teams of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region's "Grassland Talents" project. There are 2 members of the State Council's discipline evaluation group, 3 members of the Ministry of Education's Science and Technology Committee, 12 members of the Ministry of Education's Higher Education Teaching Steering Committee, and 1 member of the National Higher Education Health Education Teaching Steering Committee.

【Scientific Research】The university currently has one National Key Laboratory for Reproductive Regulation and Breeding of Grassland Livestock jointly built by the province and the ministry, one National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Mongolian Intelligent Information Processing Technology, and 13 ministerial key research platforms (10 in science and engineering, 3 in humanities and social sciences) such as the Ministry of Education Key Research Base for Humanities and Social Sciences, the Ministry of Education Key Laboratory, and the Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center in the fields of Mongolian Studies, Ethnology, Biology, Ecology, and Chemistry; there are 42 key laboratories, engineering technology research centers, and key research bases for humanities and social sciences in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (32 in science and engineering, 10 in humanities and social sciences). Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a total of 546 national and ministerial scientific research projects in science and engineering have been completed, 606 new projects have been approved, and 68 major national natural science projects such as the National Key R&D Program, the National Science and Technology Major Project, and the National Science and Technology Support Program have been presided over or undertaken. 805 scientific research projects in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region have been completed and 867 new projects have been approved. Won 1 second prize of the National Technological Invention Award, 35 Natural Science Awards and Science and Technology Progress Awards of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region; a total of 1,222 humanities and social science projects were approved, including 17 major projects and 14 key projects of the National Social Science Fund, 3 major research projects of the Ministry of Education in the humanities and social sciences, and 1 major commissioned project. Won 5 awards for outstanding scientific research achievements of higher education institutions (humanities and social sciences) of the Ministry of Education (including 3 second prizes and 2 third prizes), 286 government awards for outstanding achievements in philosophy and social sciences of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (including 17 first prizes), 1 third prize for innovative achievements in the national united front theory and policy research, 1 third prize for outstanding achievements in the fourth national ethnic studies, and 2 second prizes for national civil policy theory research. The school's chemistry, engineering, and environment/ecology disciplines are among the top 1% of ESI worldwide. Based on WOS statistics, the international influence of the school's academic achievements in 2020 has increased to 8.57 times that of 2012.

[Social Services] The school's ability to serve local development has been significantly improved. It has achieved a number of results in the fields of modern agriculture and animal husbandry, ecological environment construction, innovation and breeding of grassland livestock germplasm resources, energy and new materials, mineral resource utilization, biomedicine, food safety, new generation information technology, integrated development of cultural and tourism industries, strategic decision-making and consulting, and has produced important economic, social and ecological benefits. We will build a "grassland livestock germplasm innovation and breeding base" to comprehensively promote the research and development of innovative seed production technologies for cattle and sheep, and improve the autonomous region's grassland livestock germplasm resource protection, innovative utilization and breeding capabilities; we will achieve the improvement and industrial application of the cattle and sheep breeding biotechnology system and the smart pastoral cloud service technology system, establish a new model of ecological breeding for cattle, sheep and camels, carry out research and pilot promotion and demonstration of the beef cattle industry model combined with the meat and dairy industry, and cooperate with local advantageous enterprises to carry out beef cattle purification and rejuvenation and dairy sheep breed breeding; we will complete a census and distribution map of 900 million mu of natural grassland soil minerals and sheep nutrition, innovate grassland nutrition big data, and explore the establishment of a "healthy pasture" technology certification system; we will integrate grassland adaptive grazing utilization technology, degraded grassland comprehensive improvement technology and mowed grassland sustainable utilization technology, and carry out the construction of a modern family ranch ecological animal husbandry comprehensive demonstration zone; we will solidly promote the comprehensive management of the water ecology of "one lake and two seas" in Inner Mongolia, and propose plans and countermeasures for the restoration of water ecology, water resources regulation and multifunctional maintenance of ecosystems in degraded rivers and lakes in northern China; relying on the National Science and Technology Support Program projects, Research and solve common key technologies existing in the potato industry; develop innovative Mongolian medicine based on traditional Mongolian medicine using modern pharmaceutical technology; develop a series of patented technologies for deep processing of bentonite to address key technical issues in purifying and separating impurity minerals from raw ores; develop key catalysts and core technical processes for producing isobutanol from synthesis gas to achieve clean utilization of coal resources; leverage disciplinary advantages to provide important technical support for the autonomous region to develop strategic emerging photovoltaic industries and build a demonstration base for the integration of photovoltaic towns and modern agriculture and animal husbandry; develop the country's first Mongolian speech recognition and speech synthesis system, AI Mongolian intelligent platform, Mongolian OCR system that supports multiple fonts, Mongolian-Chinese machine translation system, Mongolian and Cyrillic Mongolian conversion system, Mongolian handwriting recognition system, etc.; leverage the advantages of humanities such as ethnology to strengthen the construction of scientific research platforms such as the Center for the Study of the Chinese National Community, and provide theoretical support for forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation and doing a good job in ethnic work in the new era; participate in the customization of standards for the autonomous region's cultural and tourism industries, and provide intellectual support for the development of the autonomous region's cultural and tourism industries. In recent years, the university has focused on serving the "Belt and Road" initiative and the construction of the "China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor", established the "Mongolia Research Center" and the "China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Research Institute", and co-built the "Inner Mongolia University Think Tank" with the General Office of the Autonomous Region Party Committee. In 2017, the university was selected as a member of the "Belt and Road" Think Tank Cooperation Alliance, and the Mongolian Studies Research Center and the Mongolian Studies Research Center were successively selected as source think tanks of the China Think Tank Index (CTTI).

[International Exchange and Cooperation] The university has established exchange and cooperation relations with 106 universities and research institutions at home and abroad, and the international cooperation and exchanges between teachers and students are expanding and deepening. In cooperation with Arizona State University in the United States, the Sino-US Ecological, Energy and Sustainability Science Inner Mongolia Research Center was established, in cooperation with Aichi University in Japan, the Sino-Japanese Joint GIS Application and Regional Economic Industry Research Center was established, and in cooperation with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, the Sino-British Enterprise Digital Laboratory was established. The university has a Mongolian Research Center, a Russian Language and Culture Center, a Canadian Research Center, a Japanese Studies Research Center, an Australian Research Center, an American Research Center, a Sino-Japanese Exchange Window in Hohhot, and a Confucius Institute in cooperation with Kalmyk State University in Russia. The school is the first batch of national demonstration bases for studying in China approved by the Ministry of Education, the Chinese preparatory education base for Mongolian students in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and the test site for the new Chinese proficiency online test for international students in China by Hanban. It is a university that accepts Chinese government scholarships, international Chinese teacher scholarships, and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region government scholarships. The school has an International Education College, which annually accepts nearly 700 international students from 26 countries in Asia, Europe, America, and Africa, including Mongolia, Russia, South Korea, Japan, Laos, Thailand, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, India, Pakistan, Ukraine, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, Spain, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Togo.

[School conditions] The school covers an area of ​​4058.18 acres, with a building area of ​​884,200 square meters, and a total value of teaching and scientific research equipment of 1.216 billion yuan. Among them, the school headquarters covers an area of ​​2108.18 acres, with a building area of ​​738,900 square meters, and a total value of teaching and scientific research equipment of 1.156 billion yuan. The library is the Document Information Center of the Ministry of Education's Ethnology and Mongolian Studies, the Ministry of Education's Science and Technology Information Station, the National Patent Document Service Network, and the CALIS (China Higher Education Document Assurance System) Joint Catalog Project B-level member library, provincial central library, and one of the 16 initiators of the China University Institutional Repository Alliance (CHAIR). The school has 3.5266 million printed documents (3.1072 million in the school headquarters), 109 Chinese and foreign databases, 747,800 electronic books, and 76,100 full-text electronic journals. The campus network covers the entire school's teaching, scientific research, office and life service areas. The campus network center is the main node of the China Education and Research Computer Network (CERNET) and the Next Generation Internet (CNGI-CERNET2) in Inner Mongolia.

[School Goals] The school adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, conscientiously implements the important instructions and instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on Inner Mongolia and the spirit of his important speech during his inspection of Inner Mongolia University, comprehensively implements the Party’s education policy, implements the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, upholds the school motto of “seeking truth and being pragmatic”, and promotes the Inner Mongolia University spirit of “advocating true knowledge and pursuing excellence”. Rooted in the frontier, facing the whole country, looking at the world, we will accelerate the promotion of “Double First-Class” construction and “Ministry-Region Joint Construction” work, run a first-class university with distinctive characteristics, and make greater contributions to promoting high-quality economic and social development at the national and local levels!