Guangdong Ocean University

Guangdong Ocean University is a provincial key university jointly established by the Guangdong Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Natural Resources. It is a comprehensive marine university with coordinated development of multiple disciplines, an excellent university in the undergraduate teaching level assessment of the Ministry of Education, and a key discipline construction university of Guangdong Province's high-level universities.

The predecessor of the school was the Guangdong Provincial Advanced Fisheries Vocational School founded in 1935. It is the origin of modern marine fisheries education in Guangdong. The former Fisheries Department of Jinan University and the Zhanjiang Branch of the former South China Institute of Technology (now South China University of Technology) were successively incorporated. In 1979, it was upgraded to Zhanjiang Fisheries College directly under the Ministry of Agriculture. Approved by the Ministry of Education, Zhanjiang Agricultural College, which was developed on the basis of Zhanjiang Fisheries College with a history of 62 years and Zhanjiang Branch of the former South China Agricultural College (now South China Agricultural University) with a history of 39 years, was substantially merged in 1997 to form Zhanjiang Ocean University. In December 2001, Zhanjiang Meteorological School, a national key technical secondary school under the jurisdiction of the State Meteorological Administration, was merged into Zhanjiang Ocean University. In June 2005, Zhanjiang Ocean University was renamed Guangdong Ocean University. In January 2021, the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government clearly stated that our school would be the host school, and jointly build the Yangjiang Campus of Guangdong Ocean University with Yangjiang Municipal Government, Provincial Department of Education, and South China University of Technology.

The school is located in Zhanjiang and Yangjiang, two beautiful coastal cities in the southern end of the mainland of the motherland. The campus environment is beautiful, surrounded by mountains and water, with evergreen trees, birds singing and flowers blooming. It is an ideal place for students to study and become talents. The school recruits students from 29 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country. It currently has 38,000 full-time undergraduates, postgraduates and international students, and 12,000 adult higher education students.

The three campuses of Zhanjiang City, Huguang Campus (campus headquarters, No. 1 Haida Road, Mazhang District), Xiashan Campus (No. 40 Jiefang East Road, Xiashan District), and Haibin Campus (No. 5 Haibin Avenue, Xiashan District) cover an area of ​​4,892 acres. The Huguang Campus is located on the east side of the Huguangyan World Geopark, a national AAAA-level tourist attraction. The Zhanjiang campus has 19 colleges including the College of Fisheries, the College of Oceanography and Meteorology, the College of Food Science and Technology, the Binhai Agricultural College, the College of Mechanical and Power Engineering, the College of Marine Engineering, the College of Marxism, the College of Economics, the College of Management, the College of Mathematics and Computer Science (Software College), the College of Electronics and Information Engineering, the College of Chemistry and Environment, the College of Maritime Transport, the College of Literature and Journalism and Communication, the College of Law and Politics, the College of Foreign Languages, the China Song Art College, the College of Sports and Leisure, and the College of Continuing Education.

The Yangjiang Campus in Yangjiang City (No. 1, Luoqin Road, Jiangcheng District) is adjacent to Luoqin Mountain, one of the eight scenic spots in Yangjiang, in the west and the scenic Luoqin Lake in the south. The total planned land area is 3,500 mu, and the first phase of the construction project covers an area of ​​512 mu, which was completed in June 2021. The campus has five colleges, including the School of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, the School of Materials Science and Engineering, the School of Computer Science and Engineering, the School of Food Science and Engineering, and the School of Business. The first enrollment is 710 students. The second phase plans to build 7 colleges and 30 majors.

The school adheres to the "perseverance and self-improvement" spirit of the Ocean University, adheres to the school-running philosophy of "quality-based school, talent-based school, academic-based school, and characteristic-based school", and implements the "connotation development, characteristic development, and innovative development" strategy based on the goal of "making the school a cradle for the cultivation of marine talents in southern China, a highland for the cultivation of marine science and technology, an important platform for the inheritance and innovation of marine culture, an important engine for the development of Guangdong's marine power province and Zhanjiang's provincial sub-central city, and a first-class domestic and internationally renowned high-level marine university". With deepening reform as the driving force, discipline construction as the leader, talent cultivation as the center, faculty construction as the key, and education quality as the lifeline, the school will comprehensively improve its quality of operation, cultivate a large number of applied and innovative talents with comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor, international vision, national spirit, social responsibility, scientific spirit and humanistic literacy, innovation awareness and professional ability, solid theoretical foundation, and strong practical ability, to serve the national marine cause and local economic and social development.

As the cradle of marine talent cultivation in South China, the construction and development of the school have always received the cordial care and strong support of the leaders of the Party and the country. In January 1997, when former President Yang Shangkun unveiled the signboard of the Ocean University, he happily said: Our country needs such a university. Xie Fei, Li Changchun, Zhang Dejiang, Wang Yang and Hu Chunhua, then members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, all placed high hopes on the Ocean University and put forward requirements for promoting the development of the marine economy. In May 2018, when Li Xi, Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, conducted research in Zhanjiang, he pointed out that Zhanjiang also has scientific and technological research and development forces such as Guangdong Ocean University, which have unique advantages in the innovative development of marine resources. We must make good use of these important innovation platforms, use them as the main battlefield for innovative development, and build them into the main engine of innovative development, providing an endless source of power for Zhanjiang's economic development. In March 2021, when Ma Xingrui, then Governor of the Province, visited the school for research, he pointed out that the Ocean University should continue to strengthen its connotation construction and play a greater role and influence in the strategy of strengthening the marine province.

Complete disciplines and majors. The school currently has five key disciplines for high-level universities in Guangdong Province, namely "Aquaculture", "Marine Science", "Food Science and Engineering", "Ship and Ocean Engineering", and "Crop Science", and six provincial key disciplines. Among them, the first-level discipline of aquaculture and the second-level discipline of aquatic product processing and storage engineering are listed as "peak key disciplines", the first-level discipline of marine science is listed as a "key discipline with advantages", and the three second-level disciplines of mechanical manufacturing and automation, animal genetic breeding and reproduction, and agricultural economic management are listed as "key disciplines with characteristics". There are three first-level doctoral programs in "Aquaculture", "Food Science and Engineering" and "Marine Science"; 11 first-level master's programs and 12 master's professional degree categories. In the fourth round of national discipline evaluation, the three first-level disciplines of "Aquaculture", "Marine Science" and "Food Science and Engineering" with doctoral authorization ranked first, second and third in Guangdong respectively. There are 83 undergraduate majors, including 7 national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 5 national characteristic majors, and 1 national comprehensive reform pilot major; 6 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites, and 28 provincial and above advantageous and characteristic majors.

Strong faculty. The school currently has 2,343 faculty members, including 1,688 full-time teachers, 677 associate professors and above, and 648 doctoral degree holders; 95 doctoral supervisors, 388 master supervisors; 2 specially appointed academicians; 1 chief scientist of the "13th Five-Year Plan" National Key R&D Program; 8 dual-appointed academicians, selected as CAS Hundred Talents Program, Young Pearl River Scholars, "Sailing Program" Science and Technology Innovation Leaders, "Special Support Program" Science and Technology Innovation Young Top Talents, Guangdong Province Higher Education "Thousands, Hundreds, Tens Project" national training targets, 14 provincial training targets; 15 people have been selected as Guangdong Province Higher Education Outstanding Young Teachers Training Targets, 17 people have been selected as Guangdong Province "Sailing Plan" high-level talent training targets, 15 provincial teaching teams, 9 provincial high-level research teams, 11 provincial and ministerial teaching masters, 1 national meteorological teaching master, 6 members of the Ministry of Education Higher Education Teaching Steering Committee, and 31 members of the Guangdong Province Higher Education Undergraduate Teaching Steering Committee.

Excellent teaching and research platform. The school has 1 national technology innovation center platform - the South China Center of the National Salt-Alkali Tolerant Rice Technology Innovation Center, 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center - the Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center of Aquatic Science and Technology; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Aquatic Animal Disease Prevention and Control and Healthy Breeding, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Aquatic Product Processing and Safety, National Shellfish Processing Technology Research and Development Center (Zhanjiang) and other 40 provincial and ministerial scientific research platforms; South China Sea Aquatic Economic Animal Breeding Key Laboratory, Shelf and Deep Sea Climate, Resources and Environment Key Laboratory, South China Sea Modern Fisheries Collaborative Innovation Center and other 27 municipal and departmental scientific research platforms; Engineering Training Center, Navigation Skills Training Center and other 14 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers; 1 national off-campus practical education base for college students, 18 provincial practical teaching bases for college students; 1 Guangdong Province Collaborative Education Platform; 2 Guangdong Provincial Industrial Colleges; 16 Guangdong Province Joint Training Postgraduate Bases. It has one of the first batch of Guangdong Province Collaborative Innovation Platform Cultivation Objects - South China Sea Modern Fisheries Collaborative Innovation Center. It has built 98 school-level teaching and research laboratories such as the Marine Resources and Environmental Monitoring Center (with a national qualification certification laboratory) and the Marine Drug Research and Development Laboratory. There are two "National Marine Science Education Bases" in the Aquatic Biology Museum, which has the largest number of aquatic biological specimens among colleges and universities in the country, and the Marine Remote Sensing and Information Technology Laboratory jointly built with the Second Institute of Oceanography of the Ministry of Natural Resources (formerly the State Oceanic Administration).

The school has complete conditions for running a school. The school has teaching buildings, science and technology buildings, libraries, gymnasiums, museums, school history museums, student apartments, student canteens, as well as complete teaching and living facilities such as the Ocean Square, Cultural Square, Sports Field and Standard Swimming Pool. The total building area of ​​the existing school buildings is 803,700 square meters, the fixed assets are worth 2.068 billion yuan, the teaching and scientific research equipment is worth 551 million yuan, and the library has a collection of 3.92 million books (including electronic books). A large-scale, wide-coverage, convenient and fast campus network has been built.

The educational effect is remarkable. Over the past 87 years since its establishment, the school has trained more than 300,000 (including continuing education) high-quality professionals of various types for the country and local areas, and has produced a large number of social talents represented by Chen Hongze, the first ocean-going captain of New China, Zhong Lin, the father of the fully artificial breeding of China's four major carps, Xie Shaohe, the Chinese pearl king, Wu Songying, the winner of the National "May 1st" Labor Medal and the first Guangdong Province News Lifetime Honorary Award and former chairman of Shenzhen Press Group, Wu Zhuang, the former director of the Nanhai Fishery Administration of the Ministry of Agriculture and a well-known Chinese marine expert, Wu Xiangfeng, a national model worker and chairman of China Water Group Ocean Co., Ltd., Ke Yingfeng, the first Shenzhen new generation of entrepreneurial figures and chairman of Shenzhen Zhongshen Construction Group, Li Zhoukui, the winner of the National Outstanding Border Children Gold Award, and Liu Sheng, who was commended as a "model for earthquake relief" by the Party Central Committee, the State Council, and the Central Military Commission. In recent years, the school has attached great importance to students' innovation and entrepreneurship education. The "Sea Rice - China's New Rice Bowl" project won the national gold medal in the business group of the Red Dream Journey track of the 6th China International "Internet +" College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition; the "Pearl Industry 4.0 - Leading the World Jewelry Industry into a New Era" project won the national gold medal in the creative group of the Red Dream Journey track of the 7th China International "Internet +" College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. For a long time, the overall employment rate of graduates has been at the forefront of colleges and universities in the province, and the quality of employment has improved year by year. Graduates are widely distributed in the Pearl River Delta, the Yangtze River Delta, the coastal areas of South China and other regions. Most of them have grown into technical and management backbones in various fields or leading cadres of local governments, and have made important contributions to China's marine fishery industry and local economic and social development.

Fruitful scientific and technological achievements. In the past five years, the school has undertaken a total of 1,956 scientific research projects including the National Key R&D Program, the National Natural Science Foundation, and the National Social Science Foundation, and has hosted one key project of the National Natural Science Foundation and one outstanding youth project of the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation, achieving a historic breakthrough. Among them, there are 217 national-level projects; scientific research funding reached 940 million yuan; 1,595 authorized patents were obtained; 166 books and textbooks were published; 1,116 computer software copyrights were obtained; 6,744 academic papers were published, including 1,455 papers in the three major indexes. It has won 48 scientific research awards at or above the municipal and departmental level, including 36 scientific and technological awards at or above the provincial and ministerial level. Projects such as "Precision Nutrition Research and High-efficiency Feed Development for Grouper" and "Research and Application of Tilapia Streptomyces Disease Prevention and Control Technology" won the second prize of Guangdong Science and Technology Award; the project "Key Technology Innovation and Application of High-efficiency and Environmentally Friendly Grouper Feed" won the first prize of Marine Science and Technology Award; the project "Microparticle Detection Technology and Application Based on Microfluidic Chip" won the first prize of Marine Engineering Science and Technology; the project "Ship Ballast Water Sampling and Detection Technology and Equipment" won the first prize of China Navigation Technology Invention; the project "Key Technology and Application of Deep-sea Fishery Resources Development in the South China Sea" won the second prize of Shennong China Agricultural Science and Technology Award; the projects such as "Theoretical and Empirical Research on the Selection and Cultivation of China's Strategic Emerging Marine Industries" and "Characteristics and Policy Research on the Value Chain of Oyster Industry in Guangdong and Guangxi" won the second prize of Guangdong Province's Outstanding Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences... Active external exchanges. Facing the major needs of the country and Guangdong Province, the school promotes strategic cooperation with foreign universities and research institutions in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The school has established good academic exchanges, talent training, scientific research and other multi-level and multi-field cooperation relationships with more than 50 universities and research institutions in the United States, Russia, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Australia and other countries, as well as Hong Kong, Taiwan and other regions.

Serve the society with achievements. Overcome the technical difficulties of sea rice and help the "South Guangdong Grain Security Project". Professor Chen Risheng, the discoverer of "Sea Rice 86", developed sea rice with an output of more than 900 kilograms per mu, which was widely reported by mainstream media platforms such as People's Daily Client, People's Daily Online, and Nanfang Daily, and was praised by Academician Yuan Longping. Developed ocean energy collection, conversion, management and storage technologies based on various power generation methods such as nano-power generation, temperature difference power generation, and electromagnetic power generation. The results have been transformed and applied in many aspects such as seawater desalination and island power supply. Presided over the first formulation of the national standard for the determination of PAHS in seawater, which improved the level of marine environmental monitoring and the prevention and control capabilities of marine organic pollution. The key technologies of efficient and environmentally friendly grouper feed have been developed, which have significantly improved the feed utilization efficiency, the penetration rate of compound feed and the self-sufficiency rate of high-quality protein sources, reduced the dependence on fish meal and soybean meal in the international market, and promoted the production of 84,700 tons of efficient and environmentally friendly grouper feed, with an additional output value of 1.1 billion yuan, an additional profit and tax of more than 220 million yuan, and an increase in revenue and savings of 55 million yuan. Comprehensive marine ecological restoration technologies such as artificial ecological coral reef restoration, mangrove ecological conservation and coastal wetland restoration, and restoration of large seaweed ecosystems along the southern coast have been developed. The South China Sea fishery information collection system based on Beidouxing navigation and positioning technology has been developed, realizing the digitization of fishery resources in the South China Sea and the localization of tuna exploration and capture. The international problem of fully artificial breeding of sand cone fish has been overcome, and the industrialization of fully artificial breeding of sand cone fish at home and abroad has been realized. Cultivated new national agricultural varieties - Pinctada martensii "Haixun No. 1" and Penaeus vannamei "Xinghai No. 1", providing strong support for the revitalization of my country's South Pearl industry and promoting the sustainable development of the South Pearl industry, and making outstanding contributions to my country's shrimp industry to break away from the control of foreign parents, lead the development of the shrimp industry, and enhance the competitiveness of my country's shrimp industry. Bananas, red river oranges, Haida jackfruit, dragon fruit, Maohai pepper series, and a large number of new varieties and new technologies of horticultural crops with South Asian tropical characteristics have gone out of Zhanjiang from Haida and spread to the whole country. Give full play to the role of think tanks, participate in the construction of the Guangdong Provincial Laboratory of Southern Marine Science and Engineering (Zhanjiang Bay Laboratory) as the main supporting unit, and preside over the compilation of a series of major plans such as the "Guangdong Marine Culture Power Province Construction Plan" and the "Guangdong Modern Aquatic Seed Industry Development Plan (2014-2020)". Provided more than 30 internal reference reports on "South China Sea Fisheries Issues" to the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, providing important decision-making basis for the management and development of fishery resources in the South China Sea.

Entering the new era, the school adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, strengthens comprehensive and strict party governance, adheres to the socialist direction of running schools, and implements the fundamental principles of cultivating morality and educating people.

This task implements the strategy of building a strong maritime nation and rural revitalization, actively connects with the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Hainan Free Trade Zone (Port), and the Beibu Gulf Economic Zone, actively helps Zhanjiang to build a provincial sub-central city, and accelerate the creation of an important development pole of the modern coastal economic belt. Focus on the "three-step" strategic arrangement proposed by the Fourth Party Congress of the school by the middle of this century and the "nine major projects" goals and tasks to be implemented in the next five years. With the development concept of "innovation, coordination, green, openness, and sharing", we will strengthen the characteristics of running schools with more powerful measures, cultivate social talents with more advanced concepts, improve the level of scientific research with more persistent efforts, attract high-end talents with a broader vision, and promote the internationalization process with a more open attitude. We will forge ahead and work hard to build the school into a first-class domestic and internationally renowned high-level marine university as soon as possible.

(Updated: April 2022)