Zhejiang Ocean University

Zhejiang Ocean University is a university jointly established by the Ministry of Natural Resources and the People's Government of Zhejiang Province, and is one of the key universities in Zhejiang Province. The school was founded in 1958 and was originally named Zhoushan Fisheries College. In 1975, it was renamed Zhejiang Fisheries College. In 1998, it merged with Zhoushan Normal College to form Zhejiang Ocean College. After 2000, Zhoushan Health School, Zhejiang Fisheries School, Zhejiang Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Zhoushan Petrochemical School and Zhoushan Commercial School and other schools (institutions) were successively merged (entered), and it was renamed in 2016. The construction and development of the school has always received the cordial care and strong support of the leaders of the Party and the country. General Secretary Xi Jinping visited the school twice during his tenure in Zhejiang to inspect and guide the work. He fully affirmed the school's insistence on running schools on islands and asked the school to continue to take the road of hard struggle, focus on local economic construction, strive to create characteristics, and contribute to the development of the province's marine economy.

The school currently has two campuses in Xincheng and Dinghai. The campus environment is beautiful and the scenery is pleasant. It is an ideal place to study. The school covers a total area of ​​2,608 acres (including 720 acres of sea area), with a building area of ​​534,000 square meters, 2.01 million paper books, and teaching and scientific research equipment assets of more than 490 million yuan. There are 10 colleges and scientific research institutions such as the Zhejiang Marine Fisheries Research Institute. It carries out postgraduate education, general undergraduate education, continuing education and international student education, and jointly trains doctoral students with foreign universities. It has disciplines such as science, agriculture, engineering, management, economics, literature, history, and education. It currently has 2 provincial first-class A-level disciplines and 7 B-level disciplines. Among them, the marine science discipline ranks 5th in the fourth round of discipline evaluation of the Ministry of Education, the aquatic discipline ranks 8th, and the two disciplines of plant and animal science and agricultural science are among the top 1% in the world of ESI. It has 9 first-level master's degree programs in marine science, aquatic products, ship and marine engineering, petroleum and natural gas engineering, food science and engineering, agricultural and forestry economic management, mechanical engineering, mathematics, and water conservancy engineering, and 8 professional master's degree programs in transportation, agriculture, education, tourism management, pharmacy, resources and environment, civil engineering and water conservancy, biology and medicine. It also has the right to confer master's degrees of equivalent academic qualifications. It has 48 undergraduate majors, including 5 national first-class undergraduate majors, 2 national characteristic majors, 14 provincial first-class undergraduate majors, 9 provincial key majors, 7 provincial advantageous majors, and 8 provincial characteristic majors. There are 14,094 full-time students of various types; 1,409 faculty members, including 998 full-time teachers. Among the full-time teachers, 518 have doctoral degrees, 494 have senior professional and technical positions, including 192 senior technical positions. There are 10 dual-appointed academicians, more than 50 national talents; more than 90 provincial talents; 10 provincial teaching and scientific and technological innovation teams.

The school adheres to the social demand-oriented approach and is committed to cultivating comprehensive and compound talents. The teaching achievements have won 1 national second prize. In the past five years, it has won 6 provincial first prizes and 3 second prizes for teaching achievements. The school is a pilot university for the Ministry of Education's new engineering research and practice project, the Ministry of Education's new agricultural research and reform practice project, and the National Excellent Agricultural and Forestry Talent Education and Training Program Reform Project. It has built a national experimental teaching demonstration center, a national college student off-campus practice education base, a National Natural Science Foundation of China field internship base (co-construction), and the first island field survival teaching experimental base in China. It is the only national innovative talent training demonstration base (co-construction) among marine universities. In the past five years, students have won more than 170 national awards and more than 3,350 provincial and ministerial awards in various subject competitions. The school has been rated as an advanced unit for research and practice of entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities across the country, a typical university with typical experience in deepening the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education across the country, and has been listed as a national university implementing the innovation and entrepreneurship training program for college students.

The school focuses on the major strategic needs of the country and the needs of local economic and social development, continuously improves the scientific research and innovation system, and strives to improve the level of scientific research and innovation capabilities. The scientific research results have won the first, second and third prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award and 13 National Science Conference Awards. In the past five years, more than 120 national scientific research projects such as national key R&D projects (topics), major and key projects of the National Social Science Fund, and more than 400 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects have been undertaken, and the annual average scientific research funding to the school exceeds 130 million yuan; the project he presided over won 2 second prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 40 provincial and ministerial scientific and technological achievements awards and outstanding achievements in philosophy and social sciences, and 85 important social forces awards. It has built the National Marine Facility Aquaculture Engineering Technology Research Center, the National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for the Exploration and Utilization of Marine Biological Germplasm Resources, the National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Port Oil and Gas Storage and Transportation Technology, the International Science and Technology Cooperation Base for Marine Aquaculture Engineering Technology, as well as 29 provincial and ministerial key laboratories, engineering laboratories, engineering technology research centers, collaborative innovation centers and 8 Sino-foreign cooperative scientific research platforms. It has built the Xixuan Fishery Science and Technology Island, and has two scientific research vessels, "Zhehai Science 1" and "Zhejiang Fishery Science 2", of which "Zhehai Science 1" has entered the sequence of national marine scientific research vessels. It publishes the Journal of Zhejiang Ocean University (Natural Science Edition, Humanities and Social Sciences Edition), and has the Zhejiang Branch of the National Ocean Press.

The school uses social services as a carrier, and has established a new model of school-local cooperation development of "Zhejiang Ocean University + city, outside the city + industry associations + key enterprises" that fully relies on the school's distinctive discipline advantages and faces related industries, forming a new social service mechanism with the characteristics of Zhejiang Ocean University, and continuously improving the overall level of social services. In recent years, the university has actively promoted the integration of industry, academia and research, and participated in major industrial upgrading projects such as "deep processing of aquatic products", "machine replacement, intelligent manufacturing", "wild yellow croaker resource reconstruction", and "air pollution control in chemical parks". The university has co-built a number of local science and technology innovation service platforms such as the Zhejiang Zhoushan Archipelago New Area University Science and Technology Park, Dinghai Research Institute, and Putuo Research Institute, as well as Zhejiang Zhoushan Archipelago New Area Research Center, China (Zhejiang) Free Trade Pilot Zone Research Institute and other decision-making advisory institutions. The school has successively won the honorary titles of "Advanced Collective of Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Special Envoys" and "National Three Rural Science and Technology Service Golden Bridge Award Collective Award".

The school actively promotes the internationalization of education, deepens cooperation and exchanges with domestic and foreign universities and research institutions, and carries out various forms of education and scientific research cooperation. It has established teaching and research cooperation with 55 universities and research institutes at home and abroad, and jointly established the Zhejiang Ocean University Pisa Marine Graduate School with the University of Pisa in Italy. It has carried out 6 joint training doctoral programs and multiple dual master programs with universities such as the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology in Japan, and South Ural State University in Russia. It has cooperated with the St. Petersburg State University of Marine Technology in Russia to organize a dual bachelor's program in undergraduate education in ship and ocean engineering. The undergraduate major in marine science is the first batch of international majors in Zhejiang Province. The school is a qualified unit for the training of foreign students with Chinese government scholarships, an undergraduate enrollment and training unit for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, a unit of the "Belt and Road" South-South Cooperation Agricultural Education Science and Technology Innovation Alliance, and a member of the China-Central and Eastern Europe "17+1" National University Association. It has the only Russian language level test site of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science in the province.

The 21st century is the century of the ocean. The university closely focuses on the strategic deployment of building a "maritime power" and the construction of the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road", closely combines the construction and development needs of Zhejiang Marine Economic Development Demonstration Zone, Zhejiang Zhoushan Archipelago New Area, China (Zhejiang) Free Trade Pilot Zone and Zhoushan River-Sea Transport Service Center, and takes the construction of a distinctive and first-class marine university in my country as its strategic goal. It strives to become an important marine talent training base, marine science and technology research and development platform, marine high-tech incubation park, marine science and technology introduction carrier and marine humanities and social sciences research center in China, and cultivates a generation of talents with profound cultivation and brave marine character for the national marine cause.

(Updated in February 2022)