Wuhan University

There are many mountains in Jiangcheng, and Luojia stands out; there is a school on the mountain, Wuhan University.

Wuhan University is a key comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education of China, a key university of the national "985 Project" and "211 Project", and one of the first batch of "double first-class" universities.

Wuhan University can be traced back to the Self-Strengthening Academy founded by Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang in the late Qing Dynasty, at the request of the Qing government in 1893. After inheritance and evolution, it was named National Wuhan University in 1928 and was one of the first batch of national universities in modern China. In 1946, the school had formed a school-running pattern with six colleges of liberal arts, law, science, engineering, agriculture, and medicine running side by side. After the founding of New China, Wuhan University was highly valued by the Party and the government. In 1958, Chairman Mao Zedong personally visited Wuhan University. In 1993, on the occasion of Wuhan University's 100th anniversary, Jiang Zemin and other party and state leaders wrote inscriptions to congratulate. Since the reform and opening up, Wuhan University has taken the lead in carrying out educational and teaching reforms among domestic universities, and its various undertakings have flourished, and its overall strength has increased significantly. In 1999, the world's authoritative journal Science listed Wuhan University as "one of the most outstanding universities in China." In 2000, Wuhan University merged with Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electric Engineering, Wuhan University of Surveying and Mapping, and Hubei Medical University to form a new Wuhan University, opening a new chapter in the school's reform and development. Over the past 20 years, the school's comprehensive strength and core competitiveness have continued to improve. In 2021, the school ranked 157th in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, 151-200th in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), and 225th in the QS World University Rankings, an international education research organization.

Looking back, we have worked hard and made great efforts to achieve success. Luojia Mountain was a place where Zhou Enlai, Dong Biwu, Chen Tanqiu, and Luo Ronghuan once made plans for the country; Gu Hongming, Zhu Kezhen, Li Siguang, Wen Yiduo, Yu Dafu, Ye Shengtao, Li Da, etc. once wrote inspiring articles here. For more than 100 years, Wuhan University has brought together many wonderful chapters in the modern history of the Chinese nation, formed a fine revolutionary tradition, accumulated a profound humanistic heritage, and cultivated the university spirit of "self-reliance, perseverance, truth-seeking, and innovation".

Surrounded by the East Lake and sitting on Luojia Mountain, Wuhan University has a beautiful campus environment and picturesque scenery. It is known as "the most beautiful university in China". The school covers an area of ​​5,195 acres and a construction area of ​​2.8 million square meters. The palace-style buildings that combine Chinese and Western styles are simple and elegant, majestic and spectacular. 26 early buildings have been listed as "national key cultural relics protection units".

Wuhan University has a complete range of disciplines, strong comprehensiveness and distinct characteristics, covering 12 disciplines including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management and art. The school has 34 colleges in six major departments of humanities, social sciences, science, engineering, information science and medicine, as well as 3 third-level Class A affiliated hospitals. There are 127 undergraduate majors, 59 first-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees, and 49 first-level disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees. There are 46 postdoctoral research stations. There are 11 first-class construction disciplines, 5 first-level disciplines and 17 second-level disciplines recognized as national key disciplines, and 6 disciplines are national key (cultivation) disciplines.

Wuhan University has a gathering of famous teachers and talents. The school currently has 3,862 full-time teachers, including 3,086 professors and associate professors, 10 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 6 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 3 academicians of the Eurasian Academy of Sciences, 9 senior professors of humanities and social sciences, and 15 national teaching masters.

Wuhan University has strong scientific research strength and outstanding achievements. The school has 4 national key laboratories, 2 national engineering technology research centers, 2 national field science observation and research stations, 2 2011 collaborative innovation centers, 2 national high-end think tanks, 2 national science and technology basic conditions sharing platforms, 8 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education and 5 engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education; it also has 7 key research bases of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, 10 national basic science research and talent training bases, 10 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 3 national virtual simulation experimental teaching centers and 1 national college student cultural quality education base. 36 professional journals are published regularly.

Since 2000, the school has won 88 National Natural Science Awards, National Invention Awards and National Science and Technology Progress Awards. The number of SCI papers and the number of National Natural Science Foundation projects are among the top universities in the country. The number of awards in the selection of the Ministry of Education's Humanities and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievements Awards ranks among the top three universities in the country. The National Social Science Fund Project and the Ministry of Education's Social Science Project are among the top universities in the country, and dozens of achievements have won the National "Five One" Project Award, the National Book Award, and the China Book Award. The school has won the Shenzhen International High-tech Achievements Fair Excellent Product Award (Transaction Award) and Excellent Organization Award for more than ten consecutive times.

Wuhan University actively uses its own advantages in science and technology and intellectual resources, and through the transformation and industrialization of scientific and technological achievements, it has carried out multi-level and multi-field cooperation with enterprises and scientific research institutions to jointly build a platform for the development of high-tech industries. It has co-founded more than 70 high-tech enterprises, achieved good social and economic benefits, and also promoted the development of the school.

The school has participated in the scientific research and engineering construction of national key projects such as the Three Gorges Project, South-to-North Water Diversion, and West-to-East Power Transmission. It has continuously made new breakthroughs in scientific research in the Antarctic and Arctic scientific expeditions, prevention and control of major infectious diseases, and other scientific and technological research. The applied scientific and technological achievements such as Ma Xie type and Honglian type hybrid rice, high-frequency ground wave monitoring radar, GPS global satellite positioning and navigation, and high-performance hybrid batteries not only have great scientific and theoretical value, but also have produced huge social and economic benefits.

Experts and scholars in the humanities and social sciences give full play to the role of "think tanks" and "think tanks", actively explore major theoretical and practical issues related to national economic construction, social development and human progress, and have achieved a number of scientific research results with great theoretical significance and application value, providing strong theoretical guarantees and intellectual support for national economic construction and social development.

Seek knowledge in Wuhan University, and become talents in Luojia. Wuhan University took the lead in proposing the new concept of "creation, innovation, and entrepreneurship" education, cultivating compound talents with "thick foundation, broad caliber, high quality, and innovative", and actively exploring talent training models that adapt to economic and social development. The school currently has 29,450 ordinary undergraduates, 20,085 master's students, 8,616 doctoral students, and 1,623 foreign students. Since its establishment, the school has trained more than 500,000 senior professionals of various types, including more than 100 academicians of the two academies, making important contributions to national construction and social progress.

The remarkable high-level achievements in running schools have won Wuhan University a wide international reputation. International exchanges and cooperation are becoming increasingly frequent. The school has established cooperative relations with 310 universities and research institutions in 53 countries and regions.

More than a hundred years of wind and rain, more than a hundred years of hard work, and more than a hundred years of glory. Wuhan University will be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, keep its original aspirations in mind, bear in mind its mission, take moral education as its foundation, take running a university that satisfies the people as its purpose, take seeking human welfare, promoting social progress, and realizing national prosperity as its own responsibility, unite its hearts and minds, seek truth and pragmatism, forge ahead, pursue excellence, and fully embark on a new journey to create a world-class university with Chinese characteristics!

Data update: March 2022