Huanghuai University

Huanghuai University is a full-time general undergraduate university approved by the Ministry of Education in 2004, with a 43-year history of running schools. It is a pilot university for the strategic research on the reform of applied technology universities of the Ministry of Education, a vice-chairman unit of the China Alliance of Applied Technology Universities, the first batch of demonstration applied technology undergraduate universities in Henan Province, a civilized unit in Henan Province, an advanced unit of landscape greening in Henan Province, and an advanced unit of party style and clean government construction in Henan Province.

Huanghuai University is a public full-time general undergraduate university approved by the Ministry of Education in 2004 and was founded in 1971. The school is located in Zhumadian City, which is known as "the hinterland of Yuzhou and the center of the world". It is currently a pilot university for the strategic research on the reform of applied technology universities of the Ministry of Education, a vice-chairman unit of the Alliance of Applied Technology Universities (Colleges), one of the first batch of demonstration applied technology undergraduate colleges in Henan Province, a demonstration applied technology undergraduate college in the "14th Five-Year Plan" of Henan Province, a key project construction unit for the awarding of master's degrees in Henan Province, a pilot university for the comprehensive reform of "three-dimensional education" in Henan Province, an advanced unit for the construction of grassroots party organizations in higher education institutions in Henan Province, a pilot university for 5G smart campuses in Henan Province, and the first civilized campus (model) unit in Henan Province.

At present, the school mainly has the Kaiyuan Road North and South Campus and the Medical College Campus, with a total area of ​​2,760 acres and 18 secondary colleges. The library has a construction area of ​​35,000 square meters, with a collection of 2.09 million paper books, 2.3 million electronic books, 67 Chinese and foreign databases and various application platforms. There are 59 undergraduate majors, covering ten disciplines including science, engineering, management, economics, literature, agriculture, education, art, medicine, and law. There are more than 20,000 students and more than 1,600 faculty and staff, including 128 senior professional titles, 416 associate senior professional titles, and nearly 300 doctors. There are more than 200 second-level professors, experts enjoying special allowances from the State Council, provincial excellent experts, Henan Province specially appointed professors, Central Plains Thousand Talents Plan, Henan Province academic and technical leaders, Henan Province teaching masters, doctoral supervisors, and master supervisors. More than 300 outstanding talents from industry and enterprises are employed as part-time teachers. The civil engineering teaching team won the first batch of "Huang Danian-style teaching teams in national universities", and the teacher development center was rated as the first batch of teacher teaching development demonstration centers in Henan Province. The comprehensive ability of the directly affiliated hospital Zhumadian Central Hospital ranks third among the three-level general hospitals in the province and ranks first among the municipal general hospitals in the province.

In recent years, the school has closely focused on the development goal of "building a high-level applied university with distinctive characteristics", adhering to the school motto of "virtue, erudition, practice, and self-reliance", continuing to promote the school spirit of "no choice but to struggle", and constantly honing the Huanghuai character of "only innovation can surpass", highlighting locality, focusing on application, insisting on leading high-quality development with high-quality party building, implementing the fundamental task of cultivating people with morality, and focusing on cultivating high-quality applied talents with "firm ideals and beliefs, solid professional knowledge, outstanding practical ability, innovative spirit and international vision", and successfully explored a "local, applied, open, and international" local undergraduate college transformation and development path.

The quality of talent training continues to improve. Focusing on the goal of cultivating applied talents, adhering to the "running majors around industries, running majors to promote industries, running universities around development, and cultivating talents around needs", vigorously promoting the construction of applied disciplines and professional systems, 2 majors were selected as national first-class professional construction points, 17 majors were selected as provincial first-class professional construction points, and national and provincial first-class professional construction points ranked among the top universities of the same type in Henan Province. In accordance with the "four new" concepts of "new engineering, new agriculture, new medicine, and new liberal arts", the school has carried out in-depth "dual-subject" training for schools and enterprises, and built a "module + platform" characteristic application-oriented curriculum system of "four-in-one" general knowledge, disciplines, majors, innovation and entrepreneurship, forming a new practical teaching ecology of "knowledge learning + practical training + base employment". In the past three years, the school has been approved for 31 provincial first-class courses, 23 provincial teaching reform projects, 4 application-oriented talent training projects have been approved as provincial major projects and major commissioned projects, 10 provincial education and teaching achievement awards, 102 provincial undergraduate teaching quality engineering projects, and selected as the pilot college of the "1+X Certificate System" of the Ministry of Education's "Building Information Model (BIM)" and "Industrial Robot Operation and Maintenance". The school has carried out joint training of master's students with Zhengzhou University, Henan University, Xinyang Normal University, Zhongyuan University of Technology, Pakistan COMSATS University and other universities, and the master's degree awarding project construction unit has been included in the education revitalization and development plan of the old revolutionary base area of ​​Dabie Mountain by the Henan Provincial Department of Education. School-enterprise cooperation promotes innovation and entrepreneurship education, creates a "1+N" maker space cluster, and builds an innovation and entrepreneurship education system featuring "five integrations". In the past three years, students have won more than 200 awards in national and provincial subject competitions, and 10 students have been selected as "Top 100 National College Student Entrepreneurship Heroes". The school has been approved as a national science and technology enterprise incubator, the first batch of national mass innovation spaces, national innovation and entrepreneurship typical experience colleges and universities, and the first batch of "demonstration colleges and universities for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform" in the country. In February 2022, the Henan Higher Education Innovation and Entrepreneurship Management Service Center settled in our school.

The ability of scientific and technological innovation continues to increase. The school actively integrates into the regional innovation-driven development system and vigorously promotes the construction of scientific and technological innovation platforms and teams. There are 9 provincial key disciplines, 32 provincial key laboratories, provincial engineering technology research centers, provincial international joint laboratories, provincial colleges and universities humanities and social sciences key research bases, 14 provincial teaching teams and innovation teams, and 29 municipal teaching and scientific research innovation teams. Academician Wang Fuming of the Chinese Academy of Engineering was hired as the director of the school's academic committee. In cooperation with local governments and industry enterprises, the "Zhumadian Industrial Innovation and Development Research Institute", "Dabie Mountain Revolutionary Old Area Revitalization and Development Research Institute", "Zhumadian Big Data Development Research Institute", "Zhumadian Entrepreneur College", "Rural Revitalization College", "Yuantong Science Work Institute" and other industrial innovation service platforms have been established. The "University Digital Media Industry-Education Integration Innovation Application Demonstration Base" has become one of the first 13 construction schools in the country. The school was awarded the "Henan Provincial Academic Exchange Base" and "Henan Provincial Technology Transfer Demonstration Institution". The journal "Tianzhong Journal" was selected as an extended journal of the "Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences Core Journals" and "Top 100 Social Science Journals of Colleges and Universities in China".

The ability to serve regional development has been significantly improved. Deeply promote the integration of industry and education, school-enterprise-local cooperation, and cooperate with nearly 300 industry enterprises to establish the "Huanghuai College Cooperation and Development Alliance". The school, local governments, schools and enterprises have jointly built 11 modern industrial colleges such as "Leizu Clothing Intelligent Manufacturing College", "Yellow River Ecological Engineering Technology College", "Agricultural Products Processing College", "Xiananniu Industry College", "Edible Fungi Industry College", "Peanut Industry College", "Cross-border E-commerce Industry College", and "Emergency Management College". The "Waterproof Materials and Engineering Industry College" jointly built with the "Badao Engineering Hospital" team of Wang Fuming, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Pingyu County was approved as the "First Batch of Provincial Key Modern Industry Colleges in Henan Province". The "New Energy and Connected Vehicle Industry College" jointly built with Suiping County People's Government and Henan Huiqiang New Energy Materials Technology Co., Ltd. was approved as the "Key Construction Industry College of Henan Demonstration School in 2022". School-enterprise-local cooperation serves rural revitalization, and jointly built 13 "Beautiful Village" demonstration sites such as Xinji Village in Minggang Town, "Huilan Zhuojiang Academy" in Yifeng Town, Yicheng District, Zhongshandian Village in Queshan County, Hongshiya Village in Suiping County, Luwan Village in Yicheng District, and Louzigou Village in Xiaoguan Town, Gongyi City. Xinji Village was selected as the "First Batch of Selected Pilot Villages for the Joint Creation of a Beautiful Environment and a Happy Life" by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the "National Rural Governance Demonstration Village" by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. Gaomiao Village in Xiping County, a designated assistance village, was awarded the "Henan Civilized Village" in 2020. Focusing on "Rural areas make life better", we co-organized the "Rural Areas Make Life Better-Rural Revitalization Forum" and "Revolutionary Old Area Revitalization and Development Forum" with the Zhumadian Municipal Government, and fully served the local "industry, talent, culture, ecology, organization" and "five revitalizations".

Cultural inheritance and innovation have achieved fruitful results. The school attaches great importance to cultural education and actively participates in local cultural inheritance and innovation. Adhering to "cultivating urban civilization with campus civilization, improving urban civilization with campus civilization, serving urban development with campus development, and promoting urban development with campus development", we strive to create a "purification, greening, beautification, culture" "four modernizations" campus environment, and strive to build a "four-suitable" education ecology of "suitable for learning, suitable for teaching, suitable for work, and suitable for living". In July 2021, the school was recommended as an "advanced school for creating a national civilized campus". In order to explore, protect and inherit local culture, the school has established Tianzhong Academy, Tianzhong Cultural Research Institute, Henan Erhu Research Institute, Yang Jingyu Spirit Research Center, and Zhugou Red Culture Research Center. It has edited and published more than 10 local folk culture monographs such as "Tianzhong Nine Chapters", "Double Ninth Festival Culture", and "Leizu Culture". In cooperation with Zhumadian City, it has filmed TV documentaries such as "Rural Charms and Souls•Silk Strings", "China's Legendary Capital•Zhumadian Cultural Business Card", and "The Wind Blows the Red Flag - A Series of Special Documentaries on the Red History and Culture of the Central Plains•Zhugou Memories". It has produced original animated films such as "Pangu Creates the Sky", "Butterfly Lovers Turn into Butterflies", "Legendary Tianzhong", and "Double Ninth Festival Climbing". The school has been approved as three "Henan Intangible Cultural Heritage Research and Inheritance Bases", namely the Henan Folklore and Traditional Culture Research Center, the Tianzhong Local Music Research Institute, and the Zhumadian Legendary Culture Research Center. The original musical "Yang Jingyu" was approved as a key creative project of the "Five Ones" project for the construction of spiritual civilization in Henan Province in 2020. In May 2021, the dance "Wenshi Boy" created by our school, as the only representative work of colleges and universities in Henan Province, participated in the opening ceremony of the 6th National College Students' Art Exhibition and won the first prize. The musical "My Zhugou, My Road" and the song "Dear Communist Party" were selected as key creative projects of the "Five Ones" project for the construction of spiritual civilization in Henan Province in 2021. The library won the titles of "National Advanced Unit for Reading", "National Reading Demonstration Base", and "Henan Provincial University Library Innovation Service Advanced Unit".

International exchanges and cooperation continue to expand. Actively connect with the national "Belt and Road" construction, introduce high-quality educational resources through open schooling, cooperate with world-renowned universities in international cooperation, and carry out cooperation and exchanges with more than 20 universities at home and abroad. Since 2005, nearly 10,000 graduates have been trained in cooperation, and graduates have achieved high-quality employment. More than 1,000 students have studied abroad and exchanged studies. At the same time, the school selects more than 100 teachers to study, exchange and train abroad every year, and introduces more than 50 foreign experts and scholars to the school to engage in teaching and research. The school was selected into the first batch of the "Double Hundred" cooperation plan for applied technology education between China and the United States, and the "Huanghuai-Mysore International Software Engineering College" was included in the "Belt and Road" education action plan of Henan Province. Since 2014, the school has hosted the Ministry of Education's "International Forum on Industry-Education Integration Development Strategy" for eight consecutive years, building an international platform for exchanges and cooperation between Chinese and foreign education and business circles. In December 2020, Chen Baosheng, former Minister of the Ministry of Education, pointed out at the fifth joint meeting between the Ministry of Education and the Henan Provincial Government that "the International Forum on Industry-Education Integration Development Strategy has formed a brand effect."

Stand in the new era and forge ahead on a new journey. The Party Committee of Huanghuai University will focus on "New Era, New Start", follow the requirements of the Party's education policy in the new era, base itself on the needs of economic and social development in the new era, lead the pursuit of growth and success of students in the new era, and firmly shoulder the political responsibility of "managing the Party and running schools". Focus on the "one goal and two tasks" determined in the "14th Five-Year Plan", make extraordinary efforts and use long-term efforts to coordinate, grasp the key points, and implement them, boost spirits, improve levels, and improve efficiency, and continue to deepen the "four constructions" of "political leadership of party organizations, core competitiveness, cohesion, and influence", and strive to write a new chapter in the construction of a distinctive high-level applied university!

(Updated on February 28, 2022)