Jiangxi Science & Technology Normal University

Jiangxi Science & Technology Normal University is located in Nanchang, a historical and cultural city with a reputation for "rich natural resources and outstanding people". The school is a public multi-disciplinary undergraduate college that is key to the construction of the Ministry of Education to train vocational education teachers. It is also an important base for national vocational education research, mainly training vocational teachers, general teachers and other applied senior professionals. After more than 60 years of construction and development, the school has formed a multi-disciplinary and multi-level school-running pattern with undergraduate and postgraduate education as the main body and coordinated development of continuing education. In 2008, the school passed the undergraduate teaching work level evaluation of the Ministry of Education with "excellent" results. In 2018, it accepted the undergraduate teaching work review and evaluation of the Ministry of Education. The evaluation experts also fully affirmed the school's solid teaching work, obvious school-running results and distinctive school-running characteristics.

History Jiangxi University of Science and Technology is mainly composed of the former Jiangxi Normal University of Science and Technology, and Nanchang College of Higher Education was incorporated into it. Nanchang College of Higher Education began in 1952; the predecessor of Jiangxi Normal University of Science and Technology was the Nanchang Branch of Jiangxi Normal University established in 1977, which was renamed Nanchang Normal College in 1984, upgraded to Nanchang Vocational and Technical Normal College in 1987, and renamed Jiangxi Normal University of Science and Technology in 2002. In 2004, Nanchang College of Higher Education was merged into Jiangxi Normal University of Science and Technology, and in 2012 the school was renamed Jiangxi Normal University of Science and Technology; in 2014 it was placed under provincial management.

School Positioning The school takes teacher education and application-oriented talent training as its basic positioning, gives full play to the school-running advantages of vocational education teacher training, and highlights the school-running characteristics of innovating modern vocational education theory and serving the development of vocational education.

Development Goals The school adheres to the teacher education tradition of "high learning and high moral character", abides by the school motto of "Mingde Jingye", keeps pace with the modernization of education, promotes the all-round development of teachers and students, serves the local economic and social construction, and is committed to building a high-level comprehensive normal university with distinctive vocational education characteristics and leading the national first-class vocational teacher training.

Disciplines and majors The school is a newly added doctoral degree awarding unit in Jiangxi Province and is also a master's degree authorization unit. It has 13 first-level disciplines authorized for master's degrees [education (featured in vocational teacher training), design, chemistry, Chinese language and literature, electronic science and technology, materials science and engineering, business administration, music and dance, fine arts, Marxist theory, mathematics, biology, management science and engineering] and 1 second-level discipline authorized for master's degrees (sports education and training), and has 10 master's professional degree authorization categories (Master of Education, Master of Tourism Management, Master of Arts, Master of International Business, Master of Sports, Master of Chinese International Education, Master of Translation, Master of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Master of Pharmacy, Master of Business Administration). There are 66 undergraduate majors for enrollment, involving 10 disciplines including philosophy, education, science, engineering, management, art, economics, literature, history, and law, and 10 undergraduate majors have achieved first-class enrollment. It has one discipline (chemistry) ranked in the top 1% of the ESI world ranking, and one first-class discipline in Jiangxi Province (education). There is one high-level discipline in the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" (design), and two key first-level disciplines in the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" (education and chemistry). It has two national characteristic professional construction sites (applied chemistry and tourism management) and five national first-class professional construction sites (applied chemistry, electronic information engineering, pharmaceutical engineering, financial management, and tourism management), seven first-class majors in Jiangxi Province, 18 provincial characteristic and brand majors, and 23 approved provincial first-class professional construction sites. There are 10 provincial teaching teams, 3 provincial teaching experimental teaching demonstration centers, 83 provincial boutique courses, curriculum ideological and political normal courses, etc., and it has been approved as a demonstration base for mass entrepreneurship and innovation in Jiangxi Province. The school has won 108 national or Ministry of Education quality engineering construction projects (pilot project for comprehensive reform of pharmaceutical engineering, "dual-qualified" electronic information vocational teacher training, Ministry of Education new engineering research and practice project, 92 Ministry of Education industry-university cooperation and collaborative education projects). 12 projects of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance vocational teacher quality improvement plan.

Faculty There are 1,705 faculty members, including 1,409 full-time teachers, 658 professional and technical personnel with associate senior or higher professional titles, 1,236 teachers with doctoral and master's degrees, and 366 teachers with doctoral degrees. More than 270 outstanding talents at or above the provincial and ministerial level, including those who enjoy special government allowances, national candidates for the "New Century Hundred Thousand Talents Project", candidates for the "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program" of the Ministry of Education, great country craftsmen, distinguished professors of Jiangxi Jinggang Scholars, young Jinggang Scholars of Jiangxi Province, candidates for the "Double Thousand Program" of Jiangxi Province, academic and technical leaders of major disciplines in Jiangxi Province, candidates for the "Outstanding Young Talents Support Program" of Jiangxi Province, candidates for the "Jiangxi Hundred Thousand Talents Project", candidates for the "Ganpo Talent 555 Project", young scientists of Jiangxi Province, candidates for the "Young Scientists (Jinggang Star) Training Program" of Jiangxi Province, national outstanding teachers, famous teachers of Jiangxi Province, model teachers of Jiangxi Province, gold medal postgraduate tutors of Jiangxi Province, gold medal professors of Jiangxi Province, gold medal young teachers of Jiangxi Province, young and middle-aged discipline leaders of Jiangxi Province, and young and middle-aged backbone teachers of colleges and universities in Jiangxi Province, etc.

School conditions There are mainly Fenglin Campus and Hongjiaozhou Campus, covering an area of ​​2,159 acres, with a building area of ​​686,500 square meters, a total value of teaching and scientific research equipment of 299.2 million yuan, and 2.7127 million paper books. There are 336 on-campus teaching experiments and training sites and 447 off-campus internship training bases. Among them, four centers, including comprehensive liberal arts, basic chemistry, basic physics and metalworking training centers, are school-level basic experimental training centers, and electronic and electrical engineering, computer basic experimental teaching centers and tourism management teaching training centers are provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, which fully meet the requirements of practical teaching and have established a complete public service system.

Talent training A total of more than 130,000 graduates have been trained, making positive contributions to the economic and social development of Jiangxi. There are more than 26,000 students on campus, including 1,500 junior college students, 23,293 undergraduates and 1,785 graduate students. In recent years, the employment rate of graduates has ranked among the top universities in the province. In the past five years, graduate students and college students have won 2,171 provincial and above awards in various competitions and scientific and technological cultural activities such as the China College Students' "Internet +" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the National Youth Science and Technology Innovation, the National College Students' English, the National College Students' Advertising Art, the National College Students' Mathematical Modeling, Electronic Design, Mechanics, Art Design, Music, and Sports. In 2020, our school ranked 249th in the national general college subject competition rankings. The school's aerobics team members won the first world gold medal in my country's aerobics project on behalf of the national team. The school has won the title of an outstanding unit for the national summer "three going to the countryside" social practice activities for college and technical secondary school student volunteers for two consecutive years. The school's performance in the "Internet +" College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition has been at the forefront of Jiangxi Province for four consecutive years. The "Internet +" College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition is very popular, and the number of students participating each year exceeds more than half of the total number of students. In the national "Internet +" college student innovation and entrepreneurship competition, it won 1 gold, 7 silver and 14 bronze medals, and twice won the national advanced collective of "Youth Red Dream Journey"; in the provincial competition, it won 11 gold, 19 silver and 16 bronze medals, and won the provincial "Internet +" college student innovation and entrepreneurship competition advanced collective and excellent organization awards for 5 consecutive times, ranking among the top universities in Jiangxi Province for many years. It was rated as the Jiangxi Province Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation Demonstration Base. 41 majors participated in the first round of Jiangxi Province (2015-2018) undergraduate major comprehensive evaluation, with 4 majors ranking first in the province, 6 majors ranking second, 9 majors ranking third, and 10 majors ranking fourth. The top four majors accounted for 71%.

Scientific Research: There are 1 provincial 2011 collaborative innovation center, 1 provincial 311 engineering center for high-level innovation platforms in higher education institutions, 5 provincial key laboratories, 2 provincial development and reform commission engineering centers (laboratories), 2 provincial engineering technology research centers, 3 provincial key research bases for humanities and social sciences, 1 provincial key research base for philosophy and social sciences, 1 provincial soft science research base, 1 provincial key research base for cultural and artistic sciences, 1 provincial intangible cultural heritage research base, and 3 provincial scientific research innovation teams; there is 1 postdoctoral research workstation, which has been rated as a national excellent postdoctoral research workstation. In the past five years, it has undertaken 982 national scientific research projects such as the National Social Science Foundation and the National Natural Science Foundation, and ministerial and provincial scientific research projects such as the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education; won 16 national and provincial awards; and obtained 108 invention patents. The school edits and publishes three academic journals: Vocational Education Forum, Journal of Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, and Local Cultural Research. "Vocational Education Forum" was rated as a Chinese core journal (2008, 2011, 2014, 2017, 2020 editions), and was rated as "RCCSE Chinese Core Academic Journal (A)" in 2020. It was selected as an important reprint source journal of the "Reprinted Newspapers and Periodicals" 2017 and 2020 editions of Renmin University of China, and was selected into the "Selected Cases of Characteristic Development of Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences Journals" by the Journal Evaluation Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 2019. In 2020, the "Continuing Education" column of "Vocational Education Forum" won the "Jiangxi Province 2020 Annual Journal Excellent Column" and the "Excellent Column" in East China. It won the first prize of Jiangxi Province's Excellent Social Science Journal and the National Excellent Vocational Education Journal. It is one of the most influential vocational education and continuing education journals in my country. "Journal of Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University" has made great contributions to teaching and scientific research. In 2018, the "August 1st Spirit and Red Culture Research" column won the fifth national local colleges and universities academic column. "Local Culture Research" has received increasing attention from the academic community in recent years.

The Vocational Education Base has been identified by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance as a national key vocational education teacher training base, and has been approved by the Jiangxi Provincial Government and the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Education as the Jiangxi Vocational Teacher Training Center and the Jiangxi Provincial Teacher Qualification Interview Direct Examination Center Management Office. As of the end of April 2021, the training base has held 109 training sessions of various levels and types of vocational teachers, trained 12,298 vocational teachers, and has been approved by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance for 5 professional training (training) standards, training (training) plans, core courses and characteristic teaching materials development projects in the "Vocational College Teacher Quality Improvement Plan Project", and 7 vocational teacher training professional point construction projects.

Foreign Exchange The school adheres to open education and actively carries out cooperation and exchanges with foreign countries. It is a receiving institution for international students in China with Jiangxi Provincial Government Scholarships and Confucius Institute Scholarships, and is also qualified to recruit students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The school has established friendly cooperative relations with more than 50 universities in more than 20 countries and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and has carried out cooperation and exchange projects such as cooperative education, mutual recognition of credits, mutual visits of teachers, student exchanges, academic research, and cultural exchanges. At present, there are undergraduate majors such as financial management and visual communication design that are jointly run by China and foreign countries. The school has long hired foreign teachers, well-known experts and scholars to teach and give lectures at the school, and has selected teachers from the school to study, visit, teach and conduct cooperative research abroad, and encourage students to study and exchange at foreign universities. The school actively promotes international Chinese education and dissemination. In 2016, it cooperated with Abdul Malik Assad University in Morocco to open an overseas Confucius Institute, and organizes summer camps for outstanding students of the Confucius Institute to come to our school for study and cultural exchange activities every year. With the improvement of the school's international influence, it has attracted students from more than 20 European, Asian and African countries such as Russia, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Morocco, Madagascar, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Ethiopia, etc. to study in our school, study Chinese, and pursue undergraduate and master's degrees.

Development Vision The school is an important pole in the pattern of "Tianjin in the north, Jiangxi in the south, and complementary advantages" in the field of vocational teacher training in my country, and is praised by the society as the "cradle of vocational teacher training in the south". At present, the school follows the development ideas of "one core task, two trends, three constructions, four improvement actions, and five more colors" during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, that is, focusing on the core task of breaking through the doctoral degree-granting unit, grasping the two trends of high-quality teacher education system construction and vocational education type characteristic construction, promoting the three major constructions of discipline level, teacher education characteristics, and more optimized resource allocation, implementing cross-integration, innovation cultivation, team strengthening, and exploration and leadership. Four major improvement actions promote talent training to show more normal characteristics, scientific research to show more application characteristics, social services to show more educational roles, cultural inheritance and innovation to show more red gene background, and foreign exchanges and cooperation to show more two-way openness. The new journey of a high-level comprehensive normal university with distinctive vocational education characteristics and leading the national first-class vocational teacher training will make new contributions to the efforts to write the Jiangxi chapter of the comprehensive construction of a socialist modern country.

(Data statistics as of April 2021)