Jimei University

Jimei University is located in Xiamen, Fujian Province. It is a "double first-class" university in Fujian Province and a key university in Fujian Province. It is a university jointly built by the Ministry of Transport and Fujian Province, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Fujian Province, and Fujian Province and Xiamen City. It is a doctoral degree awarding institution and a master's degree recommendation institution. It is the only institution in the mainland approved by the Maritime Safety Administration of the Ministry of Transport to carry out Taiwan seafarer competency training.

The school started with the Jimei School Normal Department founded by the famous patriotic overseas Chinese leader Mr. Tan Kah Kee in 1918 and the Jimei School Fisheries Department and Business Department founded in 1920. It has a history of 103 years. In 1994, Jimei Normal College, Jimei Navigation College, Jimei Finance and Economics College, Xiamen Fisheries College, and Fujian Institute of Physical Education merged to form Jimei University. The school takes "Sincerity and Perseverance" as its motto. In the long-term practice of running schools, it adheres to the principle of "establishing the school with the spirit of Jiageng and cultivating people with sincerity and perseverance", and enjoys a wide reputation at home and abroad.

The school established a board of directors in 1996. Xi Jinping, He Guoqiang, Chen Mingyi, Lu Zhangong, Huang Xiaojing and others have served as chairmen of the board of directors. The current chairman of the board of directors is Wang Yifu, and the current advisors of the board of directors are Jia Qinglin and Chen Yongzai. From 1999 to 2002, General Secretary Xi Jinping served as the chairman of the board of directors of Jimei University while serving as the governor of Fujian Province. He visited the school 7 times to guide the work and put forward a series of important instructions, laying a solid foundation for the development of Jimei University and pointing out the direction for future reform and development.

The school has 20 colleges and more than 28,500 students, including more than 26,000 full-time undergraduates, more than 2,300 graduate students, and nearly 200 international students. There are about 1,500 full-time teachers, including 29 national talents including 10 academicians (2 full-time), and 177 provincial and ministerial talents.

The school has a relatively complete range of disciplines, covering 9 disciplines including economics, law, education, literature, science, engineering, agriculture, management, and art. Botany and zoology are among the top 1% in the world in ESI. There are 4 first-level doctoral degree authorization points, 15 first-level master's degree authorization points, and 18 master's professional degree authorization points (categories). It has 8 first-level key disciplines in Fujian Province (including 2 characteristic key disciplines) and 1 postdoctoral research station for aquatic disciplines. The ship and ocean engineering discipline group and the aquatic and food engineering discipline group were selected as peak disciplines in Fujian Province, and the shipping and port logistics discipline group, regional economy and management discipline group, Fujian-Taiwan sports culture discipline group, and mathematics and physics discipline group were selected as plateau disciplines in Fujian Province.

The school currently has 74 undergraduate majors, including 4 national specialty majors, 14 national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 6 national "excellent" talent training plan majors, 3 national professional comprehensive reform pilot projects, 1 Ministry of Education engineering education certification major, 18 provincial first-class professional construction sites, 11 provincial specialty major construction sites and provincial professional comprehensive reform pilots, 8 provincial service industry specialty majors, and 6 provincial innovation and entrepreneurship education reform pilot majors. It has 1 national teaching team, 2 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 national virtual simulation experimental teaching center, 1 national college student off-campus practical education base, 12 provincial teaching teams, 16 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, and 4 provincial virtual simulation experimental teaching centers. In the long-term school-running process, the school has formed the characteristics and advantages of marine-oriented disciplines such as navigation and aquatic products. Navigation education has a great influence at home and abroad. It is an important base for cultivating senior navigation talents in my country. The school's teaching practice ship "Yude" has a total load of 64,000 tons, which is currently the largest teaching practice ship in the world.

The school currently has 2 national and local joint engineering research centers, 15 provincial (ministerial) scientific research innovation platforms and humanities and social science research bases, 3 provincial collaborative innovation centers, 2 provincial university characteristic new think tanks, 21 provincial university innovation platforms/research bases, and 9 provincial university science and technology innovation teams. It has successively undertaken a number of national key projects (including the original National 973 Project, the National 863 Project, the National Key R&D Program Project, etc.), National Natural Science Foundation Projects, National Social Science Foundation Projects and other national research tasks, and its research results have won 139 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards or above. The school has long focused on giving full play to the advantages of its distinctive disciplines, continuously expanding the forms and fields of social services, actively contributing to the development of national and local social construction, and has established industry-university-research cooperation with nearly a thousand enterprises and institutions.

The school actively promotes the opening up of education in the new era, gives full play to its location advantages facing Southeast Asia and adjacent to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, and serves the country's "Belt and Road" initiative. It has established friendly cooperative relations with more than 100 well-known universities and research institutions around the world, and has carried out academic exchanges and cooperation with the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the International Association of Maritime Universities (IAMU), the International Association of Navigational Aids (IALA), etc. It has been approved for 2 Sino-foreign cooperative education projects, and has trained nearly 5,000 graduates so far; it has innovatively carried out the joint training of international talents for the "Belt and Road" between schools and enterprises, and has completed the first talent training program in Africa (Angola). It is a strategic partner unit of the Ministry of Education (China) Study Abroad Service Center, and is one of the earliest institutions approved by the Ministry of Education to recruit students from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, overseas Chinese and foreign students. It is the enrollment unit of the Xiamen Tan Kah Kee Scholarship and the Fujian Provincial Government Scholarship for International Students in China, the Taiwan Youth Study and Tourism Base of Fujian Province and Jimei District, and the funding unit of the "Youth Mainland Two-way Exchange Program" of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. It is the first batch of "Overseas Chinese Education Bases" in Fujian Province.

The school covers an area of ​​2,344 acres, with a school building area of ​​about 1.03 million square meters. The campus buildings are distinctive. There are 8 Jiageng buildings that are national key protected cultural relics. The new campus building complex won the "100 Classic and Excellent Projects for the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of New China". The school has a 10,000-gigabit high-speed campus network. The library currently has more than 3.24 million paper documents, more than 1,650 Chinese and foreign paper journals, more than 10 million electronic books, and more than 10,000 electronic journals. 60 Chinese and foreign databases have been introduced, and 5 self-built special databases have been built.

(The above data is as of November 2021)