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Guangxi University

Guangxi University

South of Guangxi, at the junction of the border and the sea, on the bank of the Yongjiang River, in the green city. Guangxi University is located in the picturesque capital of Guangxi, Nanning. It is the oldest and largest comprehensive university in Guangxi. It is the only national "211 Project" construction school in Guangxi, a world-class discipline construction university, and a "ministerial and regional joint construction" university of the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Guangxi University was founded in Wuzhou in 1928 and became National Guangxi University in 1939. It merged with Nanning Normal College in 1950 and merged with the undergraduate department of Xijiang College in 1951. In 1952, Chairman Mao Zedong personally wrote the name of Guangxi University. In the same year, the Agricultural College of Guangxi University became the independent Guangxi Agricultural College. When the colleges and departments of universities across the country were adjusted in 1953, the teachers, students, disciplines, equipment and books of Guangxi University were adjusted to 19 universities in Central and South China, making great contributions and sacrifices for the development of higher education in New China. In 1958, Chairman Mao approved the restoration and reconstruction of Guangxi University. In 1961, Guangxi Institute of Technology and Guangxi Institute of Science and Technology were merged into Guangxi University. In 1962, Guangxi Forestry College was merged into Guangxi Agricultural College. In 1970, Guangxi Labor University was merged into Guangxi Agricultural College. In 1992, Guangxi Agricultural College was renamed Guangxi Agricultural University. In 1997, Guangxi University merged with Guangxi Agricultural University to form the new Guangxi University.

Guangxi University pioneered higher education in Guangxi. The first president was Dr. Ma Junwu, a famous educator, scientist and democratic revolutionary in my country, who was known as the "North Cai and South Ma" and "Master of the Generation" in the education field. During the Anti-Japanese War, a group of famous scholars such as Li Siguang, Chen Wangdao, Chen Yinke, Li Da, Wang Li, Qian Jiaju, Liang Shuming, Lu Hefu, Chen Huanyong, Shi Ruwei, Wang Zhenru, Li Yunhua, Liu Xianzhou, Ji Yufeng, Xiong Deshan, Zhang Yingnan, Zhang Zhirang, Sheng Cheng, Jiao Juyin, etc. taught here. At that time, talents gathered and disciplines flourished. It was one of the most influential national comprehensive universities in China at that time. In 1997, the two universities merged and entered the "211 Project", which enabled Guangxi University to embark on a new journey of building a high-level university. Especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the reform and development of the university has achieved a series of major landmark achievements: successfully completed the plan to enhance the comprehensive strength of colleges and universities in central and western China, established a national key laboratory, won a number of national science and technology awards, and seven disciplines including engineering, materials science, agronomy, botany and zoology, chemistry, environmental science/ecology and biology and biochemistry entered the top 1% of the ESI global ranking, entered the ranks of national world-class discipline construction universities, became a "co-constructed by the ministry and the region" university, was selected as a national civilized unit, one of the top 50 colleges and universities in employment, one of the top 50 colleges and universities in innovation and entrepreneurship, one of the first batch of national demonstration colleges and universities for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, and the autonomous region's mass entrepreneurship and innovation demonstration base, etc. The school has entered a new stage of connotation-based development. In the course of more than 90 years of schooling, Guangxi University has adhered to the school motto of "protecting China and developing Guangxi" and the school motto of "diligence, simplicity and honesty", and has accumulated and precipitated distinctive school characteristics, profound humanistic heritage and unique Xida spirit.

The school covers an area of ​​more than 21,300 mu, of which the Guangxi Subtropical Agricultural Science City (Agricultural, Forestry and Animal Research and Teaching Experimental Base) covers an area of ​​16,900 mu, the total building area of ​​the school building is more than 2 million square meters, the total value of teaching and research equipment is 2.85 billion yuan, the total number of paper documents in the collection is 4.16 million (including the college reference room), 3.66 million electronic books and periodicals, 57,000 electronic journals, and 206 Chinese and foreign databases. The disciplines are complete, including 11 major categories such as philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, and art. In 2021, there are 67 undergraduate majors, of which 37 majors are enrolled in 15 major categories. There are 26 colleges, 26,469 full-time undergraduates, 13,071 full-time graduate students, 2,119 part-time graduate students, 977 international students and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan studying for academic qualifications, and 63,743 students of various types of continuing education. There are 3,424 full-time faculty members, including 584 with senior professional and technical titles, 993 with deputy senior professional and technical titles, and 1,933 full-time teachers. There is 1 "world-class" construction discipline, 2 "ministerial and regional joint construction" first-class discipline groups, 2 national key disciplines, 1 national key (cultivation) discipline, 8 Guangxi first-class disciplines, 2 Guangxi first-class (cultivation) disciplines, 13 Guangxi characteristic and advantageous key disciplines, 20 Guangxi key disciplines, 28 national first-class undergraduate professional construction points, 22 autonomous region-level first-class undergraduate professional construction points; 19 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 1 professional doctoral degree authorization point, 38 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, 25 professional master's degree authorization categories and 11 postdoctoral research mobile stations. There are 1 national key laboratory, 1 provincial and ministerial co-construction national key laboratory cultivation base and 1 national international science and technology cooperation base, 2 provincial and ministerial co-construction collaborative innovation centers, 4 key laboratories and engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education, 1 strategic research base of the Ministry of Education, 2 regional and country research bases of the Ministry of Education, 1 key laboratory of the State Forestry Administration and a number of Guangxi major science and technology innovation bases, key laboratories, engineering technology research centers, agricultural seed breeding centers, key research bases of humanities and social sciences in colleges and universities, "2011 Collaborative Innovation Center", etc. Our school has signed academic cooperation and exchange agreements with 273 universities and academic institutions in 48 countries and regions around the world, and has close cooperation and exchanges with 90 universities and academic institutions in the ten ASEAN countries.

The school adheres to the socialist direction of running schools and the fundamental task of cultivating people with moral integrity, with the core of improving the quality of talent training, and has achieved a series of landmark results in teaching development and reform. Since 2007, it has obtained a total of 81 "quality engineering" construction projects and "undergraduate teaching engineering" projects from the Ministry of Education, and the number of projects obtained ranks among the top universities in the national "211 Project". Among them, there are 12 national characteristic majors, 3 national quality courses, 2 national bilingual teaching demonstration courses, 7 national quality open courses, 7 national first-class undergraduate courses, and 48 autonomous region first-class undergraduate courses; 3 national teaching teams, 2 national teaching masters, 4 national comprehensive reform pilot majors, 1 national talent training model innovation experimental zone, 5 national off-campus practical education bases for college students, 24 experimental teaching centers, 5 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 2 national virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, 1 national first-class undergraduate course in virtual simulation experimental teaching, 17 autonomous region experimental teaching demonstration centers, 10 autonomous region virtual simulation experimental teaching centers (including cultivation projects), 6 autonomous region first-class undergraduate courses in virtual simulation experimental teaching, 15 majors were selected into the "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program", "Excellent Legal Talent Education and Training Program" and "Excellent Agricultural and Forestry Talent Education and Training Program" of the Ministry of Education, and 28 national first-class undergraduate major construction sites. Professor Zhao Yanlin won the second prize of the 2018 National Teaching Achievement Award for Higher Education. The school has been awarded the titles of "Advanced Unit for Graduate Employment of Ordinary Colleges and Universities in Guangxi" and "Outstanding Unit for Graduate Employment and Entrepreneurship of Ordinary Colleges and Universities in Guangxi" for 16 consecutive years. Guangxi University KAB Entrepreneurship Club was named one of the top ten in the country. It won the first prize in the 16th "Challenge Cup" National College Students' Extracurricular Academic and Scientific Works Competition and won the "Champion Cup". It won 1 national gold medal, 3 silver medals and 7 bronze medals in the 7th China International "Internet +" College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. It won the first prize in a series of competitions such as the 2nd National Agricultural Science Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the National College Students' Electronic Design Competition, the 11th National College Students' Advertising Art Competition, and the 13th China Intelligent Manufacturing Challenge National Finals. It won 3 first prizes in the 2021 National Sixth College Students' Art Exhibition. Over the past 90 years, the school has trained more than 500,000 talents of various types for the country and society. Among them, 8 alumni including Li Lin, Dang Hongxin, Chen Taiyi, Shen Shanjiong, Lu Hefu, Wen Shengchang, Shi Ruwei and Han Bin were elected as academicians of the two academies. A large number of alumni including Li Zhaozhuo, Vice Chairman of the 10th and 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Li Jiheng, Minister of Civil Affairs, Chen Wu, Vice Chairman of the Finance and Economics Committee of the National People's Congress, and Lan Tianli, Chairman of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, have grown into outstanding talents in all walks of life.

The school focuses on improving the level and quality of teachers, increasing the training and introduction of high-level talents, and has created a high-quality faculty and staff team with noble character, superb business, reasonable structure and vitality. Among them, there are 2 full-time academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 60 candidates for national major talent projects, and 34 people who enjoy special allowances from the State Council.

The school focuses on scientific and technological innovation, strives to serve the society, and has produced a number of original achievements with significant influence. Among them, Professor Wang Pijian has made remarkable achievements in the research on the hybridization and improvement of cattle and pigs. In 1978, he won the Advanced Individual Award of the National Science Conference and the "Science Pioneer" Award of the First World Buffalo Conference in 1985. The "Indica Hybrid Rice" project led by Researcher Zhang Xiancheng won the National Special Invention Award in 1981; the "Research and Development of Cattle In Vitro Fertilization Technology" project undertaken by Professor Lu Kehuan (the second completer) won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2000; the "Development and Application of High-Activity α-Acetolactate Decarboxylase" project led by Professor Huang Ribo won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2007; Professor Wang Shuangfei led the The "Key Technology and Application of Typical Wastewater Resource Utilization and Ultra-low Emission of Papermaking and Fermentation" project and the "Key Technology and Application of Large-scale Chlorine Dioxide Preparation System and Pulp Element-free Chlorine Bleaching" project won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2016 and the second prize of the National Technological Invention Award in 2019 respectively; the "Key Technology Research Team of Large-span Arch Bridges" led by Academician Zheng Jilian won the medal of the Second National Innovation Team, and won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2018, the 16th China Civil Engineering Zhan Tianyou Award, and the highest award of the 36th International Bridge Conference (IBC) - George Richardson Award. In addition, since 2006, the school has also won 31 first prizes of provincial and ministerial science and technology awards from the Ministry of Education and other provinces, 2 second prizes and 4 third prizes of the Ministry of Education's Outstanding Scientific Research Achievements Award for Higher Education Institutions (Humanities and Social Sciences), and 23 first prizes of Guangxi Social Science Outstanding Achievements Award. The university serves the national and regional development strategies, performs social service functions, highlights the school-running characteristics and scientific research advantages of serving the protection and utilization of subtropical characteristic resources and industrial upgrading, serving the "Belt and Road" construction with a focus on ASEAN, serving the development of marine resources and ecological environment protection in the South China Sea and Beibu Gulf, serving the governance and unity and progress of ethnic minority areas in border areas, and promoting the integration of industry, academia and research and the transformation of results. A large number of results have achieved huge economic and social benefits.

In recent years, the development of Guangxi University has received the care and support of the Central Committee and the Party Committee and Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. In October 1998, Jiang Zemin, then General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President of the State, wrote an inscription for Guangxi University: "A century-long plan, education-based, unity and struggle, and efforts to run Guangxi University well"; in December 2018, Wang Yang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, visited Guangxi University for inspection and condolences; Jia Qinglin, Song Ping, Wei Jianxing, Li Lanqing and many other party and state leaders have visited Guangxi University, and the main leaders of the Ministry of Education and the Party Committee and Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region have visited the school to guide work and solve problems. The Party Committee and Government of the Autonomous Region have successively approved and issued the "Guangxi University Comprehensive Reform Pilot Plan", "Guangxi University Promotion Plan for First-Class Universities and First-Class Disciplines" and "Implementation Plan for the "Ministry-Region Joint Construction" of Guangxi University", and signed the "Agreement between the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on the "Ministry-Region Joint Construction" of Guangxi University" with the Ministry of Education. The university has entered a new stage of connotation-oriented development with the construction of "Double First-Class" and "Ministry-Region Joint Construction" as the main goals.

Facing the future, the university will be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Plenary Sessions of the 19th Central Committee, thoroughly study General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech on July 1 and his important speeches and instructions during his inspection of Guangxi, firmly adhere to the original mission of “educating people for the Party and cultivating talents for the country”, adhere to the school-running purpose of “developing Guangxi and rejuvenating China”, firmly grasp the new round of “Double First-Class” construction and the new opportunities of the country’s promotion of the revitalization of higher education in the central and western regions in the new era, focus on the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, vigorously promote the “Double First-Class” spirit of Guangxi University of “innovation and creation, striving for the first place, and being first-class in all aspects”, driven by the two wheels of talents and disciplines, and taking the construction of world-class disciplines as the leader, deeply implement the talent strategy of the new era, continuously improve the quality of education and teaching, promote scientific and technological research and social services, improve the people’s livelihood guarantee and service support system, and promote the school’s various undertakings to be first-class in all aspects, and make unremitting efforts to build a good university that lives up to the past and forges into the new era, and make new and greater contributions to building a magnificent Guangxi with Chinese characteristics in the new era and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation! (Data updated as of December 31, 2021)

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