Zhaoqing University

Zhaoqing College is a public full-time undergraduate college sponsored by the People's Government of Guangdong Province and supervised by the Provincial Department of Education. It was founded in 1970 and is located in Zhaoqing, a city in the Pearl River Delta of Guangdong Province (90 kilometers from Guangzhou). Zhaoqing City is a national historical and cultural city, one of the first batch of excellent tourist cities and national garden cities in China. Zhaoqing Xinghu Scenic Area is one of the first batch of national key scenic spots and one of the top ten civilized scenic spots in my country. The school is located in it, echoing the mountains and waters of Xinghu, showing its beauty and beauty, which can be called a good place for studying and studying. Over the past 50 years, Zhaoqing College has not forgotten its original intention, forged ahead, and written a chapter of the transformation of Chinese local universities from small to large and from weak to strong. It has trained nearly 200,000 outstanding talents of various types and made positive contributions to the popularization of higher education in China.

Integrate historical heritage and run schools with local roots. The long Xijiang River has witnessed the vicissitudes and great changes of Lingnan, precipitated the unique Lingnan culture, and achieved the glory of the Xijiang River Basin for two thousand years. It is precisely because of the profound cultural heritage of the Xijiang River Basin and the nurturing of Lingnan culture that Zhaoqing College has continued to pursue its music and perseverance, and has embarked on a tortuous and accessible development path. The school strives to govern and pursue excellence, and has condensed the school-running philosophy of "student-oriented, quality-based, academic and technical", forming the school motto of "virtue, wisdom, erudition, and practice", inheriting the spirit of Zhaoqing College of "unity, forge ahead, truth-seeking, and innovation", and is committed to combining scale expansion with connotation development, achieving coordinated development of scale, structure, quality, and efficiency, and achieving gratifying results in talent training, scientific research, social services, cultural inheritance and innovation. The school has won the titles of National University with Typical Experience in Graduate Employment, National University with Typical Experience in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, National Model Unit for Greening, Guangdong Civilized Unit, Advanced School for Comprehensive Security Management of Guangdong University, Demonstration School for School Governance by Law in Guangdong Province, National University Science and Technology Park, National Science and Technology Enterprise Incubator, Guangdong Safe and Civilized Campus, Guangdong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Demonstration School, Guangdong Smoke-free Unit, Guangdong Green School, Zhaoqing Forest School, etc.

Introduce and cultivate excellent teachers and enhance core strength. Zhaoqing College recruits students from 23 provinces (regions) across the country (Note: excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan), with nearly 26,000 full-time students and more than 600 jointly trained masters. There are 1,732 faculty members, including 1,214 full-time teachers, 573 senior professional titles, 434 with doctoral degrees, 1 dual-appointed academician, and a group of experts and scholars renowned at home and abroad are employed to serve in the school's teaching and scientific research positions. The school attaches great importance to the construction of a "dual-teacher and dual-ability" teaching staff. In recent years, nearly 300 teachers have been selected and sent to enterprises and industries for training, on-the-job training and practical training, which has improved the application ability of teachers.

Condense the characteristics of disciplines and promote professional construction. The school has ten major disciplines, including economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, management, and art. There are 20 teaching institutions. In November 2021, it was officially approved as a master's degree awarding institution, and was approved to grant three master's professional degrees in education, electronic information, and art. Vigorously promote the construction of disciplines jointly built by the province and the city and the "Chongbuqiang" improvement plan, with 2 provincial characteristic key disciplines, 1 provincial advantage key discipline, 1 provincial key cultivation discipline, and 1 provincial key support discipline. There are 3 key construction disciplines in the "Chongbuqiang" improvement plan, 3 provincial and municipal key disciplines, and 3 municipal key disciplines. The mechanical engineering discipline is a post-setting discipline for Pearl River Scholars. 73 undergraduate majors have been established, including 1 national specialty major, 13 provincial key specialty majors, 8 provincial and above undergraduate major comprehensive reform pilots, 6 provincial applied talent training demonstration majors, 12 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 5 IEET engineering education majors, Chinese language and literature majors have passed the second-level teacher training major certification, and the chemistry major has completed the second-level teacher training major certification expert entrance examination.

Consolidate school conditions and improve educational results. The school has two campuses, the main campus and the Xinghu campus, with a total area of ​​more than 1,200 acres. The school currently has teaching equipment with a total value of 324 million yuan, 1.83 million paper books, 1.08 million electronic books, nearly 33,000 electronic journals, and 36 Chinese and foreign literature databases. The school vigorously promotes information construction and has built an information portal platform, OA office system, modern electronic book system and computer network service system. The school has strong teaching strength and high teaching level, strict and standardized teaching management, and professors and doctors teach students at the forefront of teaching; the school vigorously advocates and encourages undergraduates to take postgraduate entrance examinations, and has achieved remarkable results. The school has established a teacher education reform and innovation pilot zone, and has been approved to establish a national teacher education innovation pilot zone. In February 2019, the Ministry of Education specially invited our school to participate in the press conference to introduce the experience and highlights in revitalizing Guangdong teacher education and promoting the construction of "new normal". In September 2020, the website of the Ministry of Education published an article about our school as a local teacher education university, bravely becoming the main force in the construction of rural teacher teams. In November 2020, the Ministry of Education called our school's rural teacher education experience and practices the "Zhaoqing Model". Important progress has been made in the construction of practical teaching systems and practical teaching platforms. There are currently dozens of provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, provincial off-campus practical teaching bases for college students, more than 550 industry-university-research cooperation bases, and more than 600 off-campus practical teaching bases. The school attaches great importance to employment and entrepreneurship. Xinhua News Agency, Guangming Daily and other media have interviewed and reported on the school's innovation and entrepreneurship education experience. The school has been awarded the Guangdong Provincial College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Demonstration School, the National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Typical Experience University, and the Guangdong Provincial College Employment and Entrepreneurship Collective Typical Experience Award and other honors and awards. The school's employment guidance course was rated as the Guangdong Provincial College Employment and Entrepreneurship Gold Course, and the "Construction and Practice of the '531' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education System of Local Undergraduate Colleges" won the second prize of the 9th Guangdong Provincial Education and Teaching Achievement. In 2021, it won 1 provincial silver medal, 6 bronze medals and the "Excellent Organization Award for the Main Track of Higher Education" in the 7th China International "Internet +" College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and won 1 national bronze medal.

Highlight collaborative innovation and strengthen the integration of industry and education. The school uses industry alliances and collaborative innovation platforms as a driving force to gather projects, talents and funds, build innovative teams, new R&D institutions, scientific and technological collaborative innovation platforms, and high-level think tanks to provide strong scientific and technological support for local economic development and industrial transformation and upgrading. At present, the school has 38 scientific research platforms at or above the municipal (department) level, including 19 provincial scientific research platforms. The university has established 12 new R&D institutions and think tanks, including Zhaoqing Xiechuang Auto Parts Industry Research Institute Co., Ltd. and Zhaoqing High-tech Zone Innovation Research Institute, and 7 public service platforms for advanced equipment manufacturing industry on the west bank of the Pearl River (Zhaoqing College Intelligent Industry Research Center, Zhaoqing Auto Parts Industry Intensive Aggregation Public Service Platform, Zhaoqing College Important Basic Parts Industry Service Platform, Zhaoqing Environmental Protection Industry Development Service Platform, Zhaoqing College High-end Electronic Information Service Platform, Solid Waste Comprehensive Utilization Equipment and Its Application Technology Service Platform, Artificial Intelligence and Robot Public Technology Service Platform), focusing on the development of Zhaoqing's new energy vehicles, advanced equipment, energy conservation and environmental protection, artificial intelligence robots and other leading industries, and continuously strengthening the support for science and technology and talents for local environmental protection industries, information industries, new energy vehicles, intelligent equipment manufacturing, biomedicine and other industries. The university actively carries out the construction of innovative scientific research teams, and the university has 4 innovation teams of ordinary colleges and universities in Guangdong Province. The University Science and Technology Park of Zhaoqing College has been recognized as a national university science and technology park by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education, a national science and technology enterprise incubator and a national makerspace by the Ministry of Science and Technology, a Guangdong Province Small and Micro Enterprise Entrepreneurship and Innovation Demonstration Base by the Provincial Economic and Information Commission, a Guangdong Province Patent Technology Entrepreneurship Incubator by the Provincial Intellectual Property Office, and a Guangdong Province Copyright Development Demonstration Base by the Provincial Copyright Office. Fu Tingdong, a dual-appointed academician of the school, took the lead in jointly building the National Rapeseed Engineering and Technology Center Achievement Transformation (Guangdong) Demonstration Base and the Xijiang River Basin Rapeseed Experimental Base at our school; the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs established the Guangdong Xijiang River Basin Citrus Industry Collaborative Innovation Center at our school; the "Guangdong Provincial Environmental Health and Resource Utilization Laboratory" was approved as a provincial key laboratory, achieving a zero breakthrough in our school's provincial key laboratories; and was approved by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs to build an agricultural product quality and safety risk assessment laboratory at our school; and reached a consensus with the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences to jointly undertake the research on plant disease and pest control in the Xijiang Laboratory, and jointly completed major documents such as the "Construction Plan for the Xijiang Laboratory Green Plant Protection Technology and Input Research Institute", and the jointly applied provincial key field R&D plan project "Creation of new rice germplasm resistant to rice planthoppers and purification, rejuvenation and promotion of authentic southern medicines" was approved and a funding of 5 million yuan was approved. Signed a contract with the Management Committee of the Guangzhou-Foshan-Zhaoqing (Huaiji) Cooperation Zone to jointly build the Guangdong Provincial Agricultural Science and Technology Park; built 1 liberal arts and 6 science and engineering industrial colleges, achieving full coverage of science and engineering secondary colleges and industrial colleges, including 1 provincial demonstration industrial college, 1 provincial modern industrial college construction project, and 3 school-level industrial colleges that have been included in project management. Relying on the local historical and cultural heritage of "China's Inkstone Capital", we will strive to create special majors such as arts and crafts, product design, and tourism management. The "Wangfu Silk Painting" team has obtained more than 150 patents and copyright protections, and was selected as a national gift at the G20 Summit. At the same time, it was selected as a special gift for more than 60 countries' consulates general in Guangzhou. It is the "Zhaoqing Cultural and Creative Leading Brand".

Create campus culture and establish a distinctive brand. The school attaches great importance to campus cultural construction, actively organizes students to participate in various science, technology, culture, sports, and art competitions, and has won numerous awards. In recent years, our students have won thousands of national honors and provincial awards in the National College Student Electronic Design Competition, the National College Student Mathematical Modeling Competition, the "Challenge Cup" College Student Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition, the China "Internet +" College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the Guangdong College Student Mechanical Innovation Design Competition, the "Governor Cup" Industrial Design Competition, and the Guangdong College Student Art Performance. In the 9th and 10th Guangdong College Student Games, the total number of medals ranked among the top undergraduate colleges in the province. The school vigorously cultivates and practices the core values ​​of socialism and actively carries out volunteer service work. In the past five years, the school has won the excellent grade of the annual student aid work assessment of colleges and universities in the province four times. The blood donation work has won the National Blood Donation Promotion Award, the Guangdong Province Blood Donation Promotion Award, and the Zhaoqing City College and University Blood Donation Promotion Award and many other honors. In response to the national call and continuing the spirit of aiding Tibet, nine batches of 71 college students were selected to participate in the aid-Tibet teaching work. The first eight batches of 61 college students were all awarded "Medog County Outstanding Aid-Tibet Talents", and our school was awarded the title of "Aid-Tibet Meritorious Unit". We have continuously strengthened the construction of online ideological and political education and built a "new position" for online ideological and political education. The school's Yiban Development Center has won many honorary titles, including "Top Ten Yiban Development Centers" and "National Excellent Yiban Counselors (Public Accounts)" in Guangdong Universities. More than 30 works have been selected and awarded in the 13th National Art Exhibition, Guangdong University Art and Design Biennial, National Youth Lacquer Painting Exhibition and other national and provincial teacher biennials. Among them, 5 works were selected in the National Art Exhibition, and 1 won the bronze medal (the only award in Guangdong), and a number of landmark artistic achievements have been achieved. The school choir won the silver medal in the chorus category in the "My Motherland and I-the 13th Guangdong Province's 'Hundred Songs to Praise China' Singing Activity". The school was approved to build a base for the inheritance of China's excellent traditional culture; the school has been rated as an excellent unit for the national summer "three going to the countryside" social practice activities of college and technical secondary school student volunteers 20 times. The Youth League Committee of the school was identified by the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Civilization Office as a demonstration point for cultivating and practicing the core socialist values ​​in Guangdong Province. It has been awarded the honorary titles of "Guangdong Province May 4th Red Flag Youth League Committee" and "Advanced Unit of Guangdong University Youth League Work" for many times. The Student Union of Zhaoqing College has been awarded the honorary title of "Guangdong Province Outstanding Student Union" for many times. In the "Vibrant at the Grassroots" theme Youth League Day competition of Guangdong universities, many Youth League branches of our school won honors. In recent years, many national advanced collectives and outstanding individuals have emerged in the school, such as the National Outstanding College Students' Chinese Studies Society, the Chinese University Students' Self-improvement Star, the National University Vitality Youth League Branch, the National University Demonstration Youth League Branch for Practicing the Core Socialist Values, the National University Top 100 Theoretical Learning Societies and 100 Outstanding Theoretical Articles, and the National University Youth League "Four Into Four Beliefs" Activity Grassroots Outstanding Projects, etc.

The school adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly studies and implements the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the previous plenary sessions of the 19th CPC Central Committee, conscientiously studies General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on education and the spirit of the National Education Work Conference and the Provincial Education Conference, takes party building and ideological and political work as the guide, takes moral education as the fundamental task, takes the construction of a high-level applied university with distinctive characteristics in the new era as the goal, takes high-quality development as the main line, takes deepening reform as the driving force, takes team building as the core, takes scientific and technological innovation as the support, takes serving the society as the orientation, promotes the modernization of the school's governance system and governance capabilities, effectively improves the quality of talent training, further improves the level of school management, strives to create a new situation for the development of the school, and welcomes the successful convening of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China with outstanding results!

(Data from February 2022)