University of South China

Nanhua University is a comprehensive university jointly established by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the National Health Commission, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, China National Nuclear Corporation and the People's Government of Hunan Province. In March 2000, Central South University of Technology and Hengyang Medical College merged to form Nanhua University. In October 2002, the Sixth Institute of Nuclear Industry was incorporated. The school is a university supported by the National Central and Western Colleges and Universities Basic Capacity Construction Project, a unit of the Excellent Engineer and Excellent Doctor Education and Training Program approved by the Ministry of Education, and a first-batch undergraduate enrollment institution.

In the course of more than 60 years of development, the school has adhered to the school motto of "Mingde, Erudition, Seeking Truth, and Ambition", carried forward the Nanhua spirit of "Diligence and Pragmatism, Willing to Dedicate, Strong and Self-reliant, and Dare to Be the First", and always insisted on cultivating people with morality and talent as the center, and continuously promoted the comprehensive development of the cause. Since the beginning of the new century, the school has been moving towards the goal of "a first-class domestic and internationally renowned high-level university".

The school has formed a discipline and professional system with engineering and medicine as the main subjects, and nine major disciplines such as philosophy, economics, law, literature, science, management, and art developing in a coordinated manner. There are 27 directly affiliated colleges, 6 directly affiliated hospitals (Affiliated First Hospital, Affiliated Second Hospital, Affiliated Nanhua Hospital, Affiliated Changsha Central Hospital, Affiliated Third Hospital and Affiliated Public Health Hospital), 11 collaborative affiliated hospitals, and 23 graduate collaborative training units. There are 67 undergraduate majors, 24 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, 19 master's professional degree authorization categories; 5 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points; 3 first-level discipline postdoctoral research mobile stations. The school recruits students from all over the country (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) and some countries and regions in the world. There are more than 35,000 full-time undergraduates, nearly 5,000 doctoral and master's students, and more than 600 international students.

There are more than 1,800 full-time teachers in the school headquarters; nearly 3,000 clinical teachers in directly affiliated hospitals. There are nearly 640 professors, chief physicians and other senior professional titles, 1,975 associate senior professional titles; there are 14 national defense science and technology innovation teams, ministerial and provincial innovation teams, provincial university science and technology innovation teams, and provincial teaching teams; there are more than 100 overseas high-level talent program candidates, Changjiang Scholars Distinguished Professors, National Outstanding Youth Fund winners, national outstanding young and middle-aged experts, chief scientists of national major projects, selected candidates for the New Century Excellent Talent Support Program of the Ministry of Education, and experts enjoying special government allowances from the State Council, and more than 260 provincial and ministerial academic leaders, famous teachers, and outstanding young and middle-aged experts.

The school has 15 national first-class undergraduate majors, 21 national characteristic majors, national defense key majors and in-demand majors, excellence plan majors, and comprehensive reform pilot majors, 7 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, and practical education bases, 7 national first-class courses, and 3 national quality courses and quality open courses. There are 35 provincial school-enterprise cooperation talent training demonstration bases, innovation and entrepreneurship driven employment demonstration bases, and college student innovation and entrepreneurship incubation demonstration bases, as well as 425 comprehensive internship bases.

The school has a national nuclear medicine combined with innovative talent training demonstration base, a provincial and ministerial joint innovation center for nuclear fuel cycle technology and equipment, a national demonstration-type international scientific and technological cooperation base for nuclear energy and nuclear safety, a national and local joint engineering research center for airborne pollutant control and radioactive protection in the building environment, a national engineering center for improving the ability to diagnose and treat difficult and complicated diseases, a national clinical medicine research center for metabolic diseases (core member unit), a national and local joint engineering laboratory for vascular implant development (core member unit), a national integrated demonstration base for elderly health emergency, a national clinical teaching and training demonstration center, a national advanced stroke center, and a national nuclear science popularization education base. The university has 23 provincial and ministerial key laboratories, 18 provincial engineering technology research centers/research centers, 2 Hunan Collaborative Innovation Centers, 3 Hunan Academician Workstations, 1 Hunan Branch of the National Clinical Research Center for Eye Diseases, 8 Hunan Clinical Research Centers, 19 provincial scientific research bases, 13 industry key laboratories, 3 Hunan Social Science Research Bases, and 6 Hunan Social Science Popularization Bases. The university has 10 national defense support disciplines and provincial key disciplines, 3 first-class disciplines in Hunan Province, and 5 national defense specialty disciplines. The university has undertaken more than 3,000 scientific research projects, including the "863" program, the "973" program, major special projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, national key R&D program projects, major research programs of the National Natural Science Foundation, key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation Joint Fund, national defense basic research programs, and nuclear energy development projects. The university has won 12 national science and technology awards, more than 300 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards, and more than 20 provincial and ministerial outstanding social science achievement awards. The school's clinical medicine and chemistry disciplines are among the top 1% in the ESI global ranking.

The school has established cooperative relations with the China Institute of Atomic Energy, international organizations, and nearly 100 universities and research institutions at home and abroad.

The library has a collection of more than 2.78 million paper books, more than 2,400 Chinese and foreign journals, and 372TB of digital resources, including 2.03 million electronic books. The school hosts academic journals such as "Chinese Journal of Atherosclerosis", "Zhongnan Journal of Medical Sciences", "Journal of South China University·Natural Science Edition", and "Journal of South China University·Social Science Edition".

The school was shortlisted in the "Times Higher Education" world university, discipline, and emerging economy university rankings, ranking among the top provincial universities. The school was rated as a typical university with innovative and entrepreneurial experience in the country, an advanced collective for enrollment work in ordinary colleges and universities in the country, an advanced collective for youth employment and entrepreneurship education in the country, and a national military industry cultural education base; it is a civilized unit in Hunan Province, a national defense education base, and an advanced unit for student aid work. The school's School of Nuclear Science and Technology was selected as the first batch of pilot colleges and departments for the comprehensive reform of "three-dimensional education" in the country.

Over the past 60 years, the school has provided nearly 300,000 high-quality professionals of various types to the country and local areas, and a large number of outstanding alumni have emerged. Graduates are widely distributed in the defense industry, nuclear industry, health and hygiene, environmental protection, equipment manufacturing, financial management and other industries, and have become technical and management backbones of their units, making positive contributions to national construction and development, social civilization and progress, local economic construction and social development.

(Note: The data in this article is as of September 5, 2021)