Zhengzhou University of Light Industry

Zhengzhou University of Light Industry is located in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province, and is a key university in Henan Province. Since its establishment, the school has adhered to the school motto of "It is easy to do it, but it is difficult not to do it", seized the historical opportunity of the country to promote the development of higher education, and continuously pioneered and innovated, forged ahead. After more than 40 years of construction and development, it has become a high-level characteristic backbone university with engineering as the main subject and coordinated development of multiple disciplines such as engineering, science, literature, art, economics, management, law, education, and agriculture.

History The school was founded in 1977 and was originally under the Ministry of Light Industry. In 1998, it was transferred to the Henan Provincial People's Government. In 2011, it became a university jointly built by the Henan Provincial People's Government and the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration. In 2009 and 2018, it was twice listed as a key project construction unit for the awarding of doctoral degrees in Henan Province. In 2018, it was approved by the Ministry of Education to be renamed Zhengzhou University of Light Industry from Zhengzhou Institute of Light Industry. In 2020, it was approved as a characteristic backbone university construction university in Henan Province. In 2021, it was approved as a doctoral degree authorization unit.

Disciplines and majors The school has distinctive characteristics and outstanding disciplinary advantages. In recent years, it has vigorously promoted education and teaching reforms, continuously adjusted and optimized the discipline and professional structure, and steadily improved the quality of education. The school attaches great importance to discipline construction, actively adapts to the needs of economic, social and industrial development, continuously refines discipline directions, and highlights discipline characteristics. It has 2 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 15 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, and 15 professional master's degree authorization categories. The three disciplines of engineering, chemistry and materials science are among the top 1% in the ESI global ranking. There are two key disciplines in Henan Province, namely "Food Science and Engineering" and "Intelligent Manufacturing of Electrical Equipment", 18 provincial key disciplines, and strong traditional advantageous disciplines such as food science and engineering, chemical engineering and technology, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and design. The school currently has 71 undergraduate majors, including 19 national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 12 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 5 national characteristic majors and comprehensive reform pilot majors, 6 pilot majors of the "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" of the Ministry of Education, and 9 majors have passed the engineering education professional certification. There are 8 provincial teaching teams, 11 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers and virtual simulation experimental teaching centers.

Faculty Team The school has always adhered to the talent-oriented and teacher-oriented school-running strategy, vigorously promoted the talent-strengthening school strategy, and gathered and created a group of high-level discipline leaders and academic backbones. The school currently has more than 2,200 faculty and staff, nearly 800 teachers with associate senior titles or above, and more than 800 teachers with doctoral degrees. It has brought together more than 200 people, including academicians of both appointments, national candidates of the "Million Talents Project", experts of the National High-level Talent Special Support Program, Zhongyuan scholars, experts enjoying government subsidies, outstanding experts under provincial management, provincial middle-aged and young backbone teachers, and academic and technical leaders at or above the provincial and ministerial levels. It has formed a teaching staff team with academicians and national high-level talents as the core, professors and doctors with profound academic attainments as the backbone, and middle-aged and young teachers as the support. The professional and technical positions, academic qualifications and age structure are relatively reasonable, and the combination of full-time and part-time teachers has a high level of teaching and research.

Talent training The school continues to promote the linkage reform of "enrollment-training-employment", and the quality of talent training has steadily improved. There are more than 27,000 full-time students. The school recruits students nationwide and has sent 150,000 graduates to the country. The overall employment rate of graduates ranks among the top universities in the province. The school has been awarded many honorary titles such as "National University with Typical Experience in Graduate Employment", "Excellent Unit for Graduate Employment of Ordinary Colleges and Universities in Henan Province", and "Henan's Most Employment Competitive Demonstration University". A large number of middle and senior management and technical backbones in the national food industry, tobacco industry, home appliance industry, battery industry, and industrial design industry are graduates of our school. The school has won the honorary titles of "National Excellent Colleges and Universities for Implementing the "School Sports Work Regulations", "National Advanced Military Training Unit of Colleges and Universities", "Top Ten Undergraduate Colleges Most Satisfied by the Henan Public", "Top Ten Most Influential Education Brands in Henan", "The Most Ideal College in the Minds of Henan Candidates", and "Henan Colleges and Universities with Domestic Influence in the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up".

Scientific Research The school has two Henan Provincial Collaborative Innovation Centers for Environmental Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration and Food Production and Safety, Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Informationized Electrical Appliances, Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Science, Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing of Mechanical Equipment, State Tobacco Monopoly Administration Tobacco Industry Biotechnology Key Laboratory, Emergency Platform Information Technology Henan Engineering Laboratory and other 51 provincial and ministerial subject platforms, with 16 provincial and ministerial scientific and technological innovation teams, providing important support for high-level scientific research and talent training. In the past five years, the university has undertaken more than 3,500 vertical and horizontal scientific research projects, including national science and technology support plan projects, national natural science foundation projects and national social science foundation projects, and won 4 national science and technology awards and more than 130 provincial and ministerial awards. More than 2,000 natural science research papers have been included in the three major retrievals, more than 600 monographs and textbooks have been published, and more than 900 patents have been authorized. "Journal of Light Industry" is a core Chinese journal of Peking University, a first-level journal of Henan Province, an excellent science and technology journal of Chinese universities, and an SCD source journal; "Journal of Zhengzhou Institute of Light Industry" (Social Science Edition) is a national excellent social science journal, a first-level journal of Henan Province, and one of the top 20 journals in Henan Province.

Social Services Give full play to the research advantages in the fields of agricultural product processing, food safety, intelligent manufacturing of electrical equipment, fine chemicals, new energy, light industry machinery, arts and crafts, etc., and serve the high-quality development of the local economy. It has signed strategic cooperation agreements on collaborative innovation with Zhengzhou, Xuchang, Jiyuan, Luohe and other cities, established strategic alliances with a number of domestic tobacco companies, and maintained long-term industry-university-research cooperation with large enterprises in Henan's pillar industries, industrial clusters, and light industries, such as Dayong, Sanquan, Shuanghui, Haoshangni and other well-known food companies, Xuji, Senyuan, Pinggao and other well-known electrical companies, Midea, Haier and other well-known home appliance companies, Pingmei Shenma, Puyang Huicheng, Duofuduo and other well-known chemical companies, Yutong Bus, CITIC Heavy Industries and other well-known machinery companies, providing them with important technical support and talent support.

School conditions The school currently has the Science Campus, Dongfeng Campus and Yuzhou Internship Training Base, covering an area of ​​more than 2,200 acres. The school has complete facilities, beautiful environment, advanced teaching and research equipment, and has more than 2.38 million Chinese and foreign paper books and more than 8.6 million electronic books. It has an electronic book system and computer network service system, with more than 170 databases such as Nature, Elsevier, Wiley, IEEE, SCI, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang, and self-built databases and free databases. It has the first national demonstration digital archive room in colleges and universities across the country. It has a 10G campus network with complete functions, rich applications, and wired and wireless network coverage throughout the school. It is a demonstration school for the construction of smart campuses in Henan Province.

International Exchange The school attaches great importance to international cooperation and exchanges, and is at the forefront of Henan universities in introducing and utilizing international educational resources to carry out international cooperation and exchanges. The school has established cooperative school-running relationships with nearly 80 universities in the United States, Britain, Australia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Ireland, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan and other countries. It often selects experts and scholars to give lectures, further studies, and inspections abroad, and invites foreign experts to teach at the school, conduct academic exchanges, carry out scientific research cooperation, build joint laboratories, and widely carry out student exchanges, joint training and other cooperation. The school has carried out joint training of doctoral students with domestic and foreign universities such as Oakland University in the United States and Camerino University in Italy. The school has the earliest IELTS test center in Henan Province, and is praised by the British Embassy in China as "one of the best test sites in China".

Campus Culture In the long-term practice of running schools, the school has gradually condensed and formed a university culture with the school motto of "It is easy to do it, but difficult not to do it", the school spirit of "simple, pragmatic and solid", the teaching style of "establishing morality and cultivating people, studying things and seeking knowledge" and the style of study of "diligent and progressive, seeking knowledge and practicing" as the core, which has injected a strong spiritual driving force for the development of the school's cause. The school actively carries out campus cultural activities such as "The Most Beautiful Qingda People" and "Qingda Students·Model Power", as well as second-classroom activities such as college students' social practice, science and technology culture and art festivals, and community trends, which have effectively promoted campus cultural construction and students' all-round development. The school was approved as a pilot university for the comprehensive reform of "three-dimensional education" in Henan Province and a pilot school for network culture in Henan Province.

Party Building and Ideological and Political Work The school has always adhered to the socialist direction of running schools, attached great importance to party building and ideological and political work, and effectively guaranteed the healthy development of the school's teaching, scientific research, disciplines and other undertakings. The cohesion and combat effectiveness of the party organization have been continuously strengthened, and the vanguard and exemplary role of the majority of party members has been fully exerted, creating a good atmosphere of unity, progress, and entrepreneurship. In recent years, the school party committee has been awarded the title of "Advanced Grassroots Party Organization" by the Provincial Party Committee, and the school has been awarded the title of "Henan Civilized Campus", "Henan School Style Construction Advanced Unit", "Henan Civilized School", "Henan Ideological and Political Work Advanced Unit", "Henan Province Law-based School Demonstration School", "Henan University 'Five Good' Party Organization" and other honorary titles.

(Note: The above data is as of February 2022)