Nantong University

Nantong University, referred to as "Tongda", is located in Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, a coastal open city known as the "Pearl of the Yangtze River and the Sea" and "China's First Modern City". The school is a comprehensive university jointly built by the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Transport. It is a member of the 15 key universities in Jiangsu Province and a pilot university for the "Excellent Doctor Education and Training Program" and "Excellent Teacher Training Program" of the Ministry of Education.

Nantong University (Nantong University) was founded in 1912 and originated from the private Nantong Medical College and Nantong Textile College founded by Mr. Zhang Jian, a famous modern industrialist and educator. In 2004, the former Nantong Medical College, Nantong Institute of Technology, and Nantong Normal College merged to form the new Nantong University. The school is a comprehensive university jointly built by the People's Government of Jiangsu Province and the Ministry of Transport, and is a university under the Jiangsu High-level University Construction Peak Plan. It ranks 106th in the "2022 China University Evaluation" of the China Academy of Management Science, 114th in the ESI China University Comprehensive Ranking, and 33rd in the 2020 China University Ranking of Outstanding Medical Alumni by Soft Science.

For more than a century, the school has been adhering to the school motto of "Praying for the integration of Chinese and Western cultures and striving for excellence", the school philosophy of "Learning must be used, and use must be suitable for the local", and the value pursuit of "beautiful morality and pure academic", and has been forging ahead and forging ahead. It has now become a local comprehensive university with a reasonable scale and structure, a complete range of disciplines, excellent teaching quality, and obvious school benefits. Since the resumption of the college entrance examination in 1977, a total of 3 undergraduate graduates have been selected as academicians of the two academies, ranking 35th among universities nationwide.

The university has 20 colleges, 1 independent college (Xinglin College), 1 directly affiliated large-scale comprehensive tertiary-level A hospital (Nantong University Affiliated Hospital), International Education College, and Continuing Education College. It has 3 postdoctoral mobile stations in basic medicine, clinical medicine, and information and communication engineering, 5 first-level doctoral programs in basic medicine, clinical medicine, information and communication engineering, public health and preventive medicine, and special medicine, 23 first-level master's programs, and 19 master's professional degree programs. Seven disciplines, including clinical medicine, neuroscience and behavior, engineering, pharmacology and toxicology, biology and biochemistry, chemistry, and materials science, are among the top 1% of ESI disciplines in the world. It has 2 advantageous disciplines in Jiangsu universities, 8 key disciplines in Jiangsu Province, and 30 key specialties in clinical medicine in Jiangsu Province.

The university currently has 3,315 faculty and staff (including Xinglin College), including 1,740 with senior professional titles or above, and more than 1,860 doctoral and master's supervisors. There are nearly 100 outstanding talents, including academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, distinguished professors of the "Changjiang Scholars Program" of the Ministry of Education, Class B leading talents of the National Major Talent Program, national candidates of the "Million Talents Project", winners of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, winners of the National Excellent Youth Science Fund, selected candidates of the "Hundred Talents Program" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, chief scientists of national key R&D projects, chief experts of major projects of the National Social Science Fund, Olympic champions, selected candidates of the "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program" of the Ministry of Education, innovative talents of universities in Jiangsu "Double Innovation Plan", distinguished professors of Jiangsu, and high-level talents of Jiangsu Province's "333 Project".

The school has 104 undergraduate majors (77 majors for enrollment in 2021), covering 10 disciplines including literature, science, engineering, medicine, art, economics, law, education, history, and management. There are more than 40,000 full-time undergraduate students (including Xinglin College), 4,363 full-time graduate students, and 1,008 international students. In 2007, the school passed the evaluation of undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education with excellent results, and in 2017, it passed the evaluation of undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education with high quality. In recent years, the school has won three first and second prizes of national teaching achievements, and has formed a group of high-quality teaching resources represented by national first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, national first-class undergraduate courses, national characteristic majors, national teaching teams, national quality courses, national quality resource sharing courses, national quality textbooks, national experimental teaching demonstration centers, national virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, Jiangsu Province first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, Jiangsu Province brand majors, etc. The school is an advanced collective for employment of graduates of ordinary colleges and universities nationwide, an advanced unit for research and practice of entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities nationwide, the first batch of innovative and entrepreneurial demonstration colleges and universities in Jiangsu Province, and the first batch of advanced teaching colleges and universities in Jiangsu Province. The average annual total employment rate of students remains above 98%.

The school has a number of high-end scientific research platforms, including the National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center, the Ministry of Education Key Laboratory, Sinopec Key Laboratory, China National Textile and Apparel Council Key Laboratory, provincial key laboratories and engineering centers, provincial military-civilian integration innovation platform, provincial key high-end think tank, Jiangsu University Collaborative Innovation Center, National Drug Administration Key Laboratory, and Provincial University Philosophy and Social Science Key Research Base. It has innovation and entrepreneurship service platforms such as the National University Science and Technology Park, the National Mass Innovation Space, the National Technology Transfer Demonstration Institution, the Provincial Double Innovation Demonstration Base, the Provincial Internet Mass Innovation Park, and the Provincial Intellectual Property Operation Center. In the past five years, it has undertaken nearly 600 national key R&D plan projects, National Natural Science Foundation projects (474 ​​projects) and National Social Science Foundation projects (90 projects), and has obtained more than 2,000 patent authorizations. It has won a number of high-level awards including the National Technological Invention Award, the National Innovation Award, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Progress Award, the Ministry of Education Higher Education Scientific Research Outstanding Achievement Award (Science and Technology), the Provincial Science and Technology Award, the National Industry Association Science and Technology Award, and the Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award. It has been rated as an advanced university in science and technology work in Jiangsu Province for many consecutive years.

The school has carried out extensive overseas exchanges and cooperation, and has established friendly cooperative relations with 127 universities and research institutes in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Australia, Japan, South Korea and other countries and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and carried out cooperation and exchange projects such as cooperative education, cooperative research, teacher-student exchanges, and teacher training. It has jointly organized a number of Sino-foreign cooperative education projects with universities such as the University of Adelaide and Macquarie University in Australia and the "R. Franzi" Conservatory of Music in Siena, Italy.

The school currently has 4 campuses, covering an area of ​​more than 3,700 acres and a building area of ​​nearly 1 million square meters. The library is an ancient book protection unit in Jiangsu Province, with a total collection of about 2.96 million paper documents and 60 electronic databases. There are 5 academic journals, among which "Journal of Nantong University" (Social Science Edition) is a CSSCI source journal and a national university social science boutique journal.

The school is an advanced unit of national spiritual civilization construction, the birthplace of the typical "Mo Wensui" spirit of national spiritual civilization construction, an excellent unit of ideological and political work in Jiangsu Province, a model of civilized units in Jiangsu Province, a civilized campus in Jiangsu Province, and a demonstration point of the theoretical learning center group of the county-level party committee (party group) in Jiangsu Province in 2018-2019.

The Third Party Congress of Nantong University of the Communist Party of China determined the goal of "8050", that is, by 2023, after five years of hard work, the school's comprehensive strength and core competitiveness will rank among the top 80 in the country, and it will become a high-level university with distinctive characteristics; by 2032, when it is the 120th anniversary of its founding, the comprehensive strength and core competitiveness will rank among the top 50 in the country, and it will become a first-class domestic university with distinctive characteristics. At present, the school is guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, focusing on the established goals, adhering to the fundamental principle of cultivating morality and talents, and taking reform and innovation as the driving force, vigorously implementing the four major strategies of "talent gathering, characteristic peak building, innovation-driven, and cultural leadership", focusing on promoting the "eight projects", comprehensively improving comprehensive strength and core competitiveness, and striving to build a high-level university with distinctive characteristics!

(Data as of March 2022)