Nanchang University

Nanchang University is a comprehensive university that "integrates liberal arts, science, engineering, and medicine, and combines research, production, and application". It is a key university of the National "211 Project" jointly built by the Jiangxi Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Education. It is a selected university in the national "Plan for Improving the Comprehensive Strength of Colleges and Universities in Central and Western China" and "Basic Capacity Construction Project for Colleges and Universities in Central and Western China".

The school is located in Nanchang, the "Hero City", and has four campuses: Qianhu, Qingshan Lake, Donghu, and Poyang Lake. The Qianhu main campus covers an area of ​​4,321 acres and has a school building area of ​​1.5 million square meters.

The school began with the Jiangxi Public Medical College founded in 1921 and the National Chung Cheng University founded in 1940. In 1993, Jiangxi University and Jiangxi University of Technology merged to form Nanchang University, which pioneered the reform of the national higher education system. In 2005, Nanchang University merged with Jiangxi Medical College to form the new Nanchang University, opening a new chapter in the school's reform and development. Party and state leaders, the Ministry of Education, and the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government attach great importance to the construction and development of the school. In October 2008, Comrade Xi Jinping visited the school and sent a heartfelt message that "Nanchang University has unlimited prospects." In February 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited the school again and delivered an important speech on scientific research innovation and talent training in colleges and universities, and encouraged the school to take the road of innovative development, hoping that contemporary college students will cherish their youth, pave the way with their youth, and extend their ideals.

The university now has the Faculty of Humanities, the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Faculty of Science and Engineering I, the Faculty of Science and Engineering II, and the Faculty of Medicine. It has 132 undergraduate majors in 12 disciplines, 3 national key (cultivation) disciplines, 22 first-level disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees, 3 doctoral professional degree authorization categories, 11 postdoctoral research mobile stations; 51 first-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees, and 30 master's professional degree authorization categories. The university has 5 directly affiliated hospitals and a total of 9 national key clinical specialties. The university's 8 disciplines, including chemistry, clinical medicine, agricultural science (mainly food science and engineering), engineering, materials science, pharmacology and toxicology, biology and biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics, have entered the top 1% of the ESI world rankings. Among them, agricultural science (mainly food science and engineering) entered the top 1.02‰ of the ESI world rankings, clinical medicine entered the top 2.2‰ of the ESI world rankings, and chemistry entered the top 2.68‰ of the ESI world rankings. In the fourth round of national discipline evaluation, the evaluation grade of food science and engineering was A, ranking third in the country. The school ranks among the top 400 in the world in the 2021 academic ranking of a third-party authoritative institution.

The school headquarters currently has 4,400 faculty members (including 2,688 full-time teachers and 1,530 full and associate professors), including 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 4 "double-appointed" academicians, 1 academician of the International Academy of Food Sciences, and 82 national talents. There is 1 national outstanding doctoral dissertation supervisor, 1 member of the discipline evaluation group of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, and 1 national teaching team. The school has always adhered to the core of talent cultivation and implemented the fundamental mission of cultivating morality and educating people. In recent years, there have emerged advanced collectives such as the National Silicon-based LED Engineering Technology Research Center, the National Worker Pioneer Engineering Mechanics Experimental Center, and a group of advanced models of dedication to work and cultivating morality and cultivating people, represented by Jiang Fengyi, an outstanding member of the National Communist Party, and Zou Defeng, the winner of the "Nightingale Medal", the highest honor in the international nursing community; Wang Yu, the "Model Teacher of Jiangxi Province", and Shi Qiujie, the "Doctoral Supervisor Mother", used their lives to interpret the "Four Loves" spirit of Nanchang University teachers: "Love the Party and the Country, Love the Job and Dedicated, Love the School as Home, and Love Students as Children".

The school headquarters currently has 34,232 full-time undergraduate students, 16,538 graduate students of various types, and 1,679 foreign students. The school actively promotes the reform of talent cultivation models, and has formed a top-notch talent cultivation model characterized by "three systems, three transformations, and three integrations", an applied talent cultivation model represented by excellent talent cultivation, and a compound talent cultivation model in the form of double degrees and major and minor subjects. Four national-level ideological and political demonstration courses and four national-level ideological and political teaching teachers and teams were selected. One project was selected as a "high-quality project of ideological and political work in colleges and universities". One of the "100 Model Party Branches of Graduate Students" and "100 Model Party Members of Graduate Students" was selected as a "National Benchmark Department for Party Building Work", two "National Model Branches for Party Building Work", and one "Double Leader" Teacher Party Branch Secretary Studio of National Colleges and Universities. Since its establishment, the school has trained more than 500,000 outstanding talents and made important contributions to the national and local economic and social development.

Focusing on the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, the school has firmly established the central position of talent training, the basic position of education and teaching, and the priority position of undergraduate teaching. Connecting with the "Double Ten Thousand" plan of the Ministry of Education, 39 national first-class undergraduate professional construction sites and 39 provincial first-class undergraduate professional construction sites were approved. 30 courses were selected as national "first-class courses", ranking first among the universities jointly built by the ministry and the province, and 37th in the country. For two consecutive sessions, a total of 5 second prizes for national teaching achievements were won. The school is one of the first national demonstration universities for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, the main node unit of the China Education and Research Network (CERNET) of the Ministry of Education in Jiangxi, and the only university in Jiangxi participating in the construction of China's next generation Internet demonstration project CNGI.

The school currently has 1 national key laboratory, 1 national engineering technology research center, 2 national-local joint engineering research centers, 1 national demonstration base for international scientific and technological cooperation, 1 China-Canada Joint Laboratory of Food Science and Technology (Nanchang), 2 collaborative innovation centers jointly built by the Ministry of Education and the province, 1 key research base for humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, 1 base for the transformation and technology transfer of scientific and technological achievements in colleges and universities of the Ministry of Education, 1 national intellectual property information service center for colleges and universities, 1 national red tourism innovation and development research base, 1 national training and research center for ideological and political work teams in colleges and universities, 1 national genetic testing technology application demonstration center, 2 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 3 engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education, 1 national university science and technology park, 2 national virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, 5 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 2 national off-campus practical education bases for college students, 4 national engineering practice education centers, 9 Jiangxi Provincial Collaborative Innovation Centers, 3 "5511" major science and technology innovation cultivation platforms, 73 provincial and ministerial science and technology platforms (excluding affiliated hospitals), and 19 provincial key research bases for philosophy and social sciences. In 2021, the school was approved for 326 National Natural Science Foundation projects, including 1 National Outstanding Young Scientist Fund, 1 Excellent Young Scientist Fund Project, 2 key projects, and 1 key international (regional) cooperation and exchange project; 25 National Social Science Fund projects were approved.

The school's collaborative innovation capabilities have been continuously enhanced, and a number of original, iconic, and distinctive scientific research results have been achieved. Professor Jiang Fengyi's team's "Silicon Substrate High-Efficiency GaN-Based Blue Light-Emitting Diode" project won the only first prize of the National Technological Invention Award in 2015. This is the first first prize won by a local university since the establishment of the National Science and Technology Award, which is helping Jiangxi to build the "Nanchang Optical Valley". In 2019, after appraisal by national authoritative departments, 4 of the 5 achievements, including high-efficiency yellow LED technology, were internationally leading and 1 was internationally advanced. The 7th China International "Internet +" College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition won a total of 23 gold medals (including 7 recommended international projects), of which our school won 19 gold medals (including 7 recommended international projects) in the 7th competition and won the championship in the finals. The university ranked 34th in the 2016-2020 National College Student Competition Ranking (undergraduate) published by the China Higher Education Society, and ranked 14th among colleges and universities nationwide in 2020. The school has made breakthroughs in high-level scientific research papers, which have been published in high-quality journals such as Science and Nature. The school also conducts all-round and multi-level cooperation with the government, enterprises and institutions to promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and promote the close integration of government, industry, academia, research and application. The school won the title of "Advanced Collective" in the third-party evaluation of the effectiveness of national targeted poverty alleviation work for two consecutive years in 2019 and 2020. The "Rice-Fish Project" team served the rural revitalization strategy and won the "China Youth May Fourth Medal Collective".

The school has joined the "China-Central and Eastern Europe University Association" and the "Belt and Road and BRICS Skill Development International Alliance". It is one of the founding universities of the "South Asia-Southeast Asia University Alliance" and a member of the "Eurasian-Pacific Alliance", "China-Thailand Higher Education Cooperation Alliance", "Yangtze River-Volga River University Alliance" and "China-Ukraine University Alliance". It is a standing director unit of the China Education Exchange Association, a demonstration base for studying abroad in China of the Ministry of Education, a training base for studying abroad at the Ministry of Education's Study Abroad Service Center, and an advanced test site for the national HSK online Chinese proficiency test. It is the only university in Jiangxi Province approved to simplify the procedures for official overseas travel. The school attaches great importance to internationalization and has established exchanges and cooperation with more than 170 universities and scientific research institutions in more than 40 countries (regions). The school has established the Sino-German Research Institute, the China-Canada Joint Laboratory of Food Science and Technology (Nanchang), the International Science and Technology Cooperation Base for Food Safety, the International Food Innovation Institute, and the International Materials Innovation Institute. It has co-built the first Russian language center in Jiangxi Province with Russian universities. The school-running project with Queen Mary University of London, the UK, has continuously improved its school-running efficiency and social impact. The school has established 4 Confucius Institutes and 2 Confucius Classrooms in France, Spain and Indonesia, and a Chinese Language Research Center in Russia. Broadening the channels for international exchanges for students, more than 5,000 students have gone abroad for exchanges and studies in recent years.

Entering the new era, Nanchang University insists on cultivating people with morality as the foundation, actively implements the three major strategies of "strengthening the school with talents, characteristic innovation, and integration of industry and education", follows the development ideas of "education-oriented, innovation-led, joint construction-driven, reform-driven, practical work-driven, and striving for the first-class", seeks truth from facts, pioneers innovation, and strives for the grand goal of creating a "world-class university with Jiangxi background and Chinese characteristics"!