Shangqiu Normal University

Shangqiu Normal University has 1,537 faculty members, including 1,037 full-time teachers, including 94 professors and 273 associate professors. Teachers with senior professional titles account for 35.4% of the total number of full-time teachers. There are 162 doctors and 512 masters, and teachers with master's degrees or above account for 65% of the total number of full-time teachers.

Shangqiu Normal University is located in Shangqiu City, Henan Province, a national historical and cultural city, the source of the three merchants, and the capital of Chinese merchants. It is adjacent to the coast in the east, the Central Plains in the west, the Yangtze River and Huaihe River in the south, and Qilu in the north. It is located at the junction of the four provinces of Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu and Anhui. It is located in the golden transportation hub where the Beijing-Kowloon Railway, Longhai Railway, Zhengxu High-speed Railway and Zhenghehang High-speed Railway meet. The history of Shangqiu Normal University can be traced back to the "Guidefu Middle School" founded in 1905. It has gone through wind and rain, and has been singing and dancing. It has gone through the stages of Shangqiu Normal College and Shangqiu Normal College. In 2000, it was upgraded to Shangqiu Normal College with the approval of the Ministry of Education.

The school is a national "13th Five-Year Plan" industry-education integration development project planning project construction university, the Ministry of Education Data China "Hundred Schools Project" project university, the "14th Five-Year Plan" period of Henan Province, a key construction unit for the demonstration of applied technology type undergraduate universities, Henan Province Master's Degree Authorization Key Project Construction Unit, Henan Province Smart Teaching Demonstration School, Henan Province's first batch of demonstration universities for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, and Henan Province East District Teacher Education Linkage Development Community Leading Unit.

The teaching facilities are complete and the campus scenery is beautiful. The school currently has two campuses on Pingyuan Road and Wenhua Road, covering an area of ​​1,776.2 acres and a construction area of ​​nearly 688,550 square meters. The school has complete teaching facilities, and has built advanced scientific research platforms, experimental teaching centers, and internship training centers, totaling 393, including 26 provincial-level, 9 department-level, and 6 school-enterprise cooperation training centers. It has built a digital foreign language teaching center, a multi-functional studio, various sports venues, etc. The library has a rich collection of nearly 1.91 million paper books and 27 electronic resource databases. The total value of teaching instruments and equipment is 424.0559 million yuan. The school has a beautiful environment. There are Chunming Lake, Xiameng Lake, Qiuyun Lake, Dongtai Lake and Wenxiu Mountain on the campus. Pavilions, waterside pavilions, lotus weeping willows, rippling waves, lakes and mountains are ideal for studying and studying.

Focusing on economic and social needs, optimize the application professional cluster. The school follows the principle of "highlighting application, cluster development, improving quality, and creating characteristics", facing the modern service industry and local leading industries, and building a discipline and professional system with application-oriented majors as the main body. The school has 20 colleges and currently has 69 undergraduate majors, covering 10 major disciplines. There are 25,320 students on campus, with students coming from 28 provinces, municipalities and regions across the country. It has 6 provincial key disciplines, 2 national specialty majors, 7 provincial specialty majors, 9 provincial comprehensive reform pilots, and 1 provincial undergraduate engineering education talent training model reform pilot major. It focuses on planning 6 major professional clusters, including "business services, urban and rural construction and human settlement environment services, advanced manufacturing supporting services, information technology services, cultural creativity, and teacher education", forming a new talent training pattern of school professional chain, talent chain, innovation chain, local industrial chain, and value chain cluster docking and open collaboration.

Adhere to the strategy of strengthening the school with talents and build a team of "double-teacher and double-capable" teachers. Vigorously introduce academic leaders such as "Yingtian Scholars" and "Distinguished Professors", discipline and academic and technical leaders and other high-level talents, actively promote the transformation of professional teachers to "double-teacher and double-capable", strengthen practical teaching ability, and strive to build a first-class teaching staff for application-oriented talent training. Among the full-time teachers in the school, there are 124 professors, 360 associate professors, 350 doctors, 779 masters, and 438 people with "dual-qualified" teachers. The school has 7 provincial teaching teams, 2 provincial Huang Danian teaching teams, and 1 provincial curriculum ideological and political teaching team. Many teachers have been hired as doctoral and master's tutors in other colleges and universities and research institutes. A "two-way mutual advancement" mechanism has been established with enterprises and institutions, and nearly 506 applied professional teachers have been jointly trained.

Adhering to the concept of scientific research serving the society, we will take the road of coordinated development of industry, academia and research. Implementing the strategy of driving major scientific research projects, the number of high-level scientific research projects has increased year by year. As of 2021, our school has been approved for 141 national projects, including 102 National Natural Science Foundation projects and 39 National Social Science Foundation projects. Strengthen the construction of scientific research and discipline platforms. More than 40 scientific research platforms of various levels and types have been built or are under construction. Among them, 25 provincial and ministerial scientific research platforms have been built, including the Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomolecular Recognition and Sensing, the Henan Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for Optoelectronic Functional Materials, the Henan Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Green Synthesis of Drugs, and the Henan Provincial Engineering Research Center for Modern Logistics and E-commerce. Relying on the advantages of disciplines and majors, we have built a school-enterprise cooperation and sharing platform with large and well-known domestic companies. The school has now co-built the Beidou College with the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics of Shanghai Jiaotong University and Shanghai Sinan Satellite Navigation Technology Co., Ltd., the Huawei Network Information Technology College with Shenzhen Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., the Zhongke Remote Sensing College with Tianjin Zhongke Remote Sensing Group, and the Big Data College with Zhongke Suguang. Signed school-enterprise cooperation agreements with Danai Technology, Phoenix Education, Hasen Pharmaceutical, Aerospace Jinsui and other companies. Based on the rich regional cultural heritage of Shangqiu, we consciously undertake the important task of cultural inheritance. The school currently has the key research bases of humanities and social sciences in Henan Province's general colleges and universities-Hanliang Culture Research Center, Henan Province Cultural Industry Research Base and provincial and municipal "Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Center". The school has established the "Yingtian Academy Research Center", which has achieved a large number of influential research results and formed a group of social science research bases with unique regional cultural characteristics.

Actively gather training forces to strengthen innovation and entrepreneurship education. Relying on the School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, integrating resources inside and outside the school, coordinating the "double innovation" education work of the whole school, and ensuring that "double innovation" education runs through the entire process of talent training; guided by the "double innovation" education curriculum system and the construction of "double innovation" experimental classes, actively explore the integration model of "double innovation" education and professional education; take the construction of an entrepreneurial complex with Shangqiu City as a starting point, actively explore the integration model of "double innovation" education and urban development; take the construction of a college student cultural and creative park as a carrier, and actively explore the integration model of "double innovation" education and industrial development. The school invested more than 5 million to build a 3,000-square-meter college student innovation and entrepreneurship center, set up a special fund for the "College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program", and has now built 68 project studios, initially forming a one-stop service model for the interactive development of "production-university-research", creating a strong campus innovation and entrepreneurship culture ecology. In recent years, our students have won more than 2,000 awards in various national and provincial innovation and entrepreneurship competitions such as the Challenge Cup, College Student Entrepreneurship Design Competition, and Mathematical Modeling Competition.

Broaden the vision of open schooling and vigorously carry out cooperation and exchanges. The school adheres to the principles of open cooperation, mutual benefit and win-win, actively broadens the channels for international exchanges and cooperation, continuously enriches the connotation of international exchanges and cooperation, gradually improves the level of Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools, steadily promotes the internationalization of schooling, and further expands the opening up of education. The school has established long-term friendly cooperative relations with universities in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Ukraine and other countries, and actively introduced high-quality foreign educational resources. It has cooperated with Brandon University in Canada and Danube University in Hungary to carry out Sino-foreign cooperative education projects, and has carried out undergraduate course cooperation projects with foreign universities such as Tiffin University in the United States, Colorado State University Pueblo, and the University of South Australia in Australia. The school implements overseas training projects for key teachers, increases the dispatch of visiting scholars, encourages teachers to participate in international academic conferences, and actively builds a teaching staff that adapts to the internationalization of schooling. The school is now the "Henan Province Chinese International Promotion Hanliang Cultural Base", and has selected many Chinese teachers and Chinese teacher volunteers to go to countries along the "Belt and Road" to engage in Chinese international promotion work.

Strengthen campus cultural construction and build a harmonious education environment. The spring breeze and rain sneak into the night, moistening things and educating people silently. The school strives to cultivate a broad, profound and wise university spirit, inherit the school motto of "Yingtian Guide, Zhiyuan Xingfang", promote the school spirit of "learning to seek truth, acting with faith", carry out in-depth teacher ethics and spiritual civilization construction activities, continuously strengthen ideological construction, organizational construction, cadre team construction, party style and clean government construction, vigorously strengthen and improve college students' ideological and political work, and provide a strong organizational and ideological guarantee for the school's continuous, healthy and rapid development. The school has won more than 50 provincial and above honorary titles such as the model of civilized units in Henan Province and the "Five Good" Party Committee of Henan Province's colleges and universities.

The thousand-year-old academy inherits the ancient rhyme and composes a new chapter of transformation and development. "Gathering learning as the sea, I swallow the nine rivers and respect the hundreds of valleys; tempering words as the sharp edge, I decide the floating clouds and cut the good jade." Shangqiu Normal University inherits the thousand-year-old ancient rhyme of Yingtian Academy, conforms to the laws of higher education development, and is based on the requirements of economic and social development. It adheres to the development positioning and ideas of building a local, international, open and application-oriented university, and is accelerating the pace of transformation and development and promoting the construction of an application-oriented university.

The third party congress completed the top-level design of the school's transformation and development. The approval of projects such as Henan Province's Demonstration Applied Technology Undergraduate College, the National "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" Applied Undergraduate Industry-Education Integration Project Planning Project, and the Ministry of Education's Data China "Hundred Schools Project" has built an important support for the school's transformation and development. The strategy is in place and the grand plan is in place. The leadership team of Shangqiu Normal University is uniting and leading all the teachers, students and staff of the school to seize opportunities, forge ahead, and strive to achieve the goal of running a high-level applied university!

(The above data statistics are as of December 31, 2021)