Wenzhou University

Wenzhou University is the only comprehensive university in the southern Zhejiang, northern Fujian and eastern Jiangxi region, a key university in Zhejiang Province, and a doctoral degree-granting institution. It is located in Wenzhou, a famous historical and cultural city in China, known as "the best landscape in the southeast". The school was formed by the merger of Wenzhou Normal College and the former Wenzhou University in 2004. It has a history of 89 years. Academician Gu Chaohao, winner of the National Highest Science and Technology Award, was the president. During his work in Zhejiang, General Secretary Xi Jinping once pointed out earnestly: "We must attach great importance to education and talent work, especially to run Wenzhou University and other colleges and universities well" (excerpted from "Working in the Real Places and Walking in the Forefront", published by the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China).

Wenzhou University has now formed a multi-level and multi-form education pattern, including undergraduate education, postgraduate education, continuing education, education for international students, and international cooperation education. The disciplines cover 11 major categories, including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, management, art, and interdisciplinary disciplines, and there are 20 colleges.

The school currently has two campuses, Chashan and Xueyuan Road. The school property covers an area of ​​1,973.43 acres, the school building area is 1,060,600 square meters, the total value of teaching and scientific research equipment is 961 million yuan, the library has 2.4902 million paper books, 1.8843 million electronic books, and 97 Chinese and foreign electronic journals and data databases.

The school currently has 20,895 full-time students and 2,135 faculty and staff, including 1,353 full-time teachers (880 doctors, accounting for 65.04%; 744 senior titles, accounting for 54.99%). There are 32 national talents including full-time academicians, Yangtze River Scholars, National Outstanding Young Scholars, young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions, national candidates for the National "Million Talents Project", National Outstanding Young Scholars, cultural celebrities of the Central Propaganda Department and "Four Ones" talents, and 159 high-level talents above the provincial level.

The school has 1 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization point, 18 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, and 17 master's professional degree authorization points. It has established the Ruian Graduate School of Wenzhou University and the Zhejiang Provincial Postdoctoral Work Station, and jointly trains doctoral and postdoctoral fellows with 24 well-known universities and research institutions at home and abroad. Ecology is a "provincial and municipal co-construction" advantageous and characteristic discipline in Zhejiang Province. Chemistry, Chinese language and literature, electrical engineering, law, Marxist theory, applied economics, mechanical engineering, ecology, civil engineering and other 9 disciplines are first-class disciplines in Zhejiang Province, and chemistry, materials science, engineering, and computer science are among the top 1% of ESI in the world.

The school implements the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, and strives to cultivate high-quality talents who "emphasize practice, strengthen innovation, can start a business, are good at management, and dare to take responsibility." The school was rated as "excellent" in the undergraduate teaching work evaluation of the Ministry of Education in 2008, and was among the first to pass the undergraduate teaching review and evaluation of the Ministry of Education in 2015. It has 15 national first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 15 provincial first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 18 national courses, 4 engineering education professional certifications and 6 teacher training professional certifications from the Ministry of Education. It has won 1 first prize and 1 second prize in the national teaching achievement awards for higher education, and 11 provincial first prizes for teaching achievements. The school has been established as a national entrepreneurial talent training Wenzhou model innovation experimental zone, the first batch of national demonstration universities for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, and a Zhejiang Provincial Teacher Education Base. In the past five years, students have won 49 international awards and 1,285 national awards. In 2019, the school ranked 16th in the country in the "Challenge Cup" competition, won the "Champion Cup" and won the sponsorship unit again; won 6 first prizes in the most recent national "Great Art Exhibition", the number of first prizes ranked first in the country, and the total number of awards ranked first among Zhejiang universities; in 2021, in the China International "Internet +" College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, won 2 gold and 2 silver.

The school adheres to the "top-to-bottom" principle, realizes the coordinated development of basic research and applied research, and promotes the research of humanities and social sciences, natural sciences and engineering technology simultaneously. The school has been established as a national intellectual property pilot university, with 3 national scientific research platforms and 35 provincial and ministerial scientific research platforms, 4 Zhejiang Provincial Key Innovation Teams, and 4 Zhejiang Provincial University High-level Innovation Teams. It has presided over 10 major national projects such as the National Science and Technology Major Project, 2 National Outstanding Youth Science Funds, 2 National Excellent Youth Science Funds, 36 national natural science and social science key projects, and 730 other national projects. Published 368 books of various types. The school has won 164 national and provincial awards, including the second prize of the National Technological Invention Award as the first completion unit, the first prize of the Ministry of Education's Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award for Higher Education Institutions (Humanities and Social Sciences), and the China Patent Gold Award, and the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award as the main completion unit.

The school insists on combining "going out" with "inviting in" to vigorously serve economic and social development. The school and local governments have jointly built 10 local research institutes, of which 4 are responsible for operating provincial industrial innovation service complexes. The school's research in the fields of ecological environmental protection, laser optoelectronic technology, low-voltage electrical appliances, etc. has vigorously promoted the transformation and upgrading of regional industries, and actively cultivated innovation advantages around strategic emerging industries such as intelligent equipment, digital economy, and new materials. The national science and technology major project "decentralized sewage treatment technology" has established national demonstration projects in 8 places across the country; relying on the international key project of the national key R&D plan, China's first blue algae bloom physical jet treatment ship has been developed to contribute to overcoming the difficulties in blue algae bloom management; the China Patent Gold Award "Island Special Power Supply System" has promoted the rapid development of national islands, port construction and shipbuilding; Zhejiang Province Low Voltage Electrical Appliance Technology Innovation Service Platform provides talent and technical support for the 100 billion-level electrical appliance industry cluster. Strengthening political consultation and advice, it has achieved remarkable results in regional characteristic research such as comprehensive financial reform, social governance, and public policy. It has successively founded 2 independent colleges, of which Wenzhou University City College was successfully converted to Wenzhou Business School in 2016, and Wenzhou University Oujiang College was successfully converted to Wenzhou Institute of Technology in 2021. Give full play to the advantages of teacher education resources, run 11 affiliated schools, and effectively serve the development of local basic education.

The school adheres to the guidance of the core socialist values ​​and actively promotes the comprehensive prosperity of cultural construction. We continue to strengthen the publicity of traditional culture and the education of school history and school conditions, build a reasonable and orderly new media publicity matrix, and have won the "Zhejiang Province Education New Media Innovation Award" for three consecutive years. We promote the patriotic spirit of Zeng Liansong, the designer of the national flag of the People's Republic of China and alumnus, create the opera "Five-Star Red Flag", build the first national flag education theme square in domestic universities, and form "three-dimensional education" brands such as the "National Flag Cultural Project". We have built the Wenzhou Mathematicians' Long Gallery and the Su Buqinggu Chaohao Memorial Hall to vigorously promote the culture of mathematicians. We continue to deepen the research on Nanxi Opera, overseas Chinese literature, basic literary issues, Wenzhou Studies, etc. "General Theory of the History of Ancient Chinese Opera Theory" is the first general history of ancient Chinese opera theory, which promotes the inheritance and innovation of China's excellent traditional culture.

The school adheres to "internal and external connectivity" and continuously improves the level of open education. The school is one of the first "Zhejiang Province International Characteristic Universities" construction units. So far, it has established exchanges and cooperation relations with 131 colleges and universities in 27 countries and regions, opened a Confucius Institute at the Eastern University of Thailand, and opened the Wenzhou University Italy Branch in Italy. Wenzhou-Kean University is co-organized with Kean University in the United States. The "International Water Ecological Environment Research Center" and "International Water Resources and Water Ecology Research Center" were jointly established with the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University in Japan. The school is one of the first Chinese language education bases of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, the Chinese Overseas Chinese Research (Wenzhou University) Base, and the Chinese Overseas Chinese International Cultural Exchange Base. It hosts the "Zhejiang Overseas Chinese Network College" with significant characteristics of overseas Chinese education, and strives to build it into a spiritual home for Wenzhou people all over the world.

The school adheres to the overall leadership of the Party and continuously strengthens Party building. Innovating ideological and political education, teacher representatives were invited to participate in the National School Ideological and Political Teachers Symposium hosted by General Secretary Xi Jinping. The comprehensive reform of Internet + ideological and political "one transformation and six systems" was selected into the "Selective Promotion Plan for the Reform of Ideological and Political Courses in Colleges and Universities" of the Ministry of Education, and built the Marxist Theory Education Base of Wenzhou University. Strengthen the construction of ideological positions, keep the bottom line of campus safety and stability, and have been rated as an excellent unit in the ideological work assessment of the Wenzhou Municipal Party Committee for two consecutive years. To consolidate the construction of grassroots organizations, the school party committee has won the title of Zhejiang Province's advanced grassroots party organization for three consecutive times and was selected as a model school for party building work in Zhejiang Province's colleges and universities in 2021. One college party committee was selected as a benchmark college for party building work in colleges and universities across the country, and three party branches were selected as model branches for party building work in colleges and universities across the country. 9 grassroots party organizations were selected as "double innovation" construction units for party building work in colleges and universities in Zhejiang Province. The school's Youth League Committee was rated as the National May Fourth Red Flag Youth League Committee. It was the first in the country's colleges and universities to issue the "Four Responsibility Lists" for comprehensive and strict party governance, forming a new situation of strict party governance with "four responsibilities coordinated and implemented as one", and won the 2020 Wenzhou City Excellent Unit for the Implementation of the Main Responsibility for Comprehensive and Strict Party Governance.

The school adheres to the school-running tradition of "cultivating moral foundation, deepening wisdom, glorifying the nation, and benefiting the people", promotes the school motto of "seeking knowledge and truth, and daring to be the first", takes root in Wenzhou, serves Zhejiang, radiates across the country, and faces the world. It implements the eight major strategies of quality-based school, talent-driven school, discipline-driven school, scientific research-driven school, university-city linkage, international development, rule of law, and party building-led. It strives to enter the ranks of high-level universities in Zhejiang Province and first-class universities in the country during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, and strives to build a high-level teaching and research university with distinctive characteristics.