Wuzhou University

Wuzhou University is located in Wuzhou City, Guangxi Province. It is a multi-disciplinary public undergraduate college. The predecessor of the school was the Wuzhou Branch of Guangxi University, which was founded in 1985. In October 2003, the former Wuzhou Education College and the former Wuzhou Normal School were merged into the Wuzhou Branch of Guangxi University. In February 2006, the Ministry of Education approved the establishment of Wuzhou University on the basis of the Wuzhou Branch of Guangxi University.

The predecessor of Wuzhou University was the Wuzhou Branch of Guangxi University, which was founded in 1985. In October 2003, the former Wuzhou Education College and the former Wuzhou Normal School were merged into the Wuzhou Branch of Guangxi University. In February 2006, the Ministry of Education approved the establishment of Wuzhou University on the basis of the Wuzhou Branch of Guangxi University. Wuzhou University is a multi-disciplinary public undergraduate college run by the People's Government of the Autonomous Region. Wuzhou University is located in Wuzhou, Guangxi, which is known as a thousand-year-old ancient city, a century-old commercial port, and the world's artificial gem capital. Wuzhou City is the birthplace of higher education in Guangxi. In 1928, Guangxi University was established in Wuzhou.

The campus of Wuzhou University is located on the west bank of the Guijiang River, surrounded by mountains and rivers, with pleasant scenery and elegant living. The campus covers an area of ​​about 820,000 square meters, and the existing building area is about 420,000 square meters.

Wuzhou University currently has 14 teaching units, 7 teaching auxiliary units, and 19 party and government mass organizations. It recruits students from 27 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country, with 18,228 students. There are 966 faculty and staff in the school, including 765 full-time teachers.

Wuzhou University has a clear school orientation. The college insists on educating people as the foundation, teaching as the center, talents as the support, and service for development, and builds a distinctive high-level application-oriented university. In accordance with the requirements of "focusing on morality, solid foundation, appropriate caliber, emphasizing ability, and being innovative", we cultivate applied talents with good humanistic qualities, solid professional foundation, reasonable knowledge structure, adaptability to social needs, and a spirit of hard work and strong sense of innovation. Based in Wuzhou, facing Guangdong and Guangxi, radiating Southeast Asia, and actively serving the national and regional development strategies. Close to the industry, school-local collaboration, east-west integration, and connecting rivers and seas. Highlight the characteristics of talent training that is oriented to industries and sectors, focuses on practice, and serves the local area; cultivate the characteristics of school-local close integration and coordinated development with the local area; serve the national and regional development strategies, and even the regional characteristics of "connecting rivers and seas".

Wuzhou University has obvious characteristics in disciplines and majors. The college currently has 55 undergraduate majors and 22 higher vocational and technical college majors, covering disciplines such as philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, agriculture, science, engineering, management, and art. Electronic information engineering is a national first-class undergraduate major construction site, and international economics and trade, software engineering, mechanical design and manufacturing and automation, product design, and pharmaceutical engineering are first-class undergraduate major construction sites in the autonomous region. Information and communication engineering is a first-class discipline (cultivation) in Guangxi, signal and information processing, industrial economics, software engineering, machinery and automation are key disciplines in Guangxi, tourism management is a key cultivation discipline in Guangxi, electronic information engineering and international economics and trade are characteristic majors in universities across the country, tourism management, art design, software engineering, electronic information engineering, forest chemical industry, environmental design, international economics and trade, pharmaceutical engineering, mechanical design and manufacturing and automation and product design are characteristic majors in Guangxi. Gem cutting design technology has been recognized as a first-class undergraduate course in virtual simulation experimental teaching at the autonomous region level, and software engineering has been recognized as a first-class undergraduate course offline at the autonomous region level.

Wuzhou University has achieved remarkable results in talent training. The college closely focuses on the goal of cultivating high-quality applied talents, continuously deepens teaching reforms and quality engineering project construction, and actively carries out the practice and exploration of applied talent training. Solidly promote the construction of quality engineering, 40 quality engineering projects at all levels have been established, and 2 provincial virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, 1 autonomous region-level engineering technology research center, and 1 autonomous region engineering research center have been obtained. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the college approved 287 undergraduate teaching reform projects, including 89 Guangxi higher education undergraduate teaching reform projects, and won 34 teaching awards, including 3 first prizes, 1 second prize, and 4 third prizes at the autonomous region level. "Exploration and practice of the construction of a new engineering talent training practice innovation platform for local optoelectronics industry under the collaborative vision" was approved by the Ministry of Education for the second batch of "new engineering" research and practice projects. The college is the first batch of national-level mass innovation spaces in Guangxi universities, Guangxi university student entrepreneurship demonstration base, and Guangxi overall transformation pilot university. Relying on the Comprehensive Development Center for College Students, it has built a university student micro-enterprise incubator, Wuzhou Cultural and Creative Industry Incubator, Maker Space, Microsoft IT Academy and other university student innovation and entrepreneurship platforms. 170 open laboratory innovative experimental projects were established, with a funding of 510,000 yuan, 606 college innovation projects, with a funding of more than 2.7 million yuan, and 12 various university student innovation and entrepreneurship competitions at the school level were held, with a reward of 250,000 yuan.

Wuzhou University's scientific research work has achieved significant results in serving the local area. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, 12 national scientific research projects were approved, including 7 National Social Science Fund projects and 5 National Natural Science Fund projects. 50 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects and 186 municipal and departmental projects were approved. The Guangxi Innovation-Driven Development Project (Major Science and Technology Project) "Research and Development and Industrialization of Key Technologies for Intelligent Optical Microscope Equipment" applied for by the college was approved. 1,457 papers were published, 45 academic works were published, 193 patents were obtained, and 16 provincial and ministerial scientific research awards were won, including 5 second prizes and 11 third prizes for Guangxi Social Science Outstanding Achievements. The college has established 4 master's degree authorization points and was approved as the sixth batch of Guangxi Postdoctoral Innovation and Practice Base Units. The Guangxi Intelligent Microscope Equipment Engineering Technology Research Center and the Guangxi Liubao Tea Germplasm Innovation and Comprehensive Utilization Engineering Research Center were approved as the Autonomous Region Engineering Technology Research Center, and the "Wuzhou Jewelry Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering Technology Research Center" and the "Wuzhou Big Data Analysis and Processing Engineering Technology Research Center" were recognized as Wuzhou Engineering Technology Research Centers. Focusing on local needs, the college has completed a number of major bidding projects in the district and city, providing useful research results for the construction of the Pearl River-Xijiang Economic Belt and the development of local industries. The college has successfully developed more than 20 (sets) of application software and equipment. The series of artificial gem intelligent processing equipment has reached the domestic leading level. The "Changzhou Water Conservancy Hub Lock Dispatching Management Information System" fills the gap in the intelligent ship lock dispatching of the Xijiang waterway. The "360-degree panoramic imaging processing system" has been exported to the European and American markets. The independently developed "poverty alleviation auxiliary data platform" has played an important role in the poverty alleviation battle promoted by the country and the autonomous region.

Wuzhou College has a reasonable faculty structure. The college currently has 715 full-time teachers, including 88 doctors and 239 associate senior titles or above. Two people have been selected as the "Ten Hundred Thousand" top accounting talents in Guangxi, two people have been selected as "Outstanding Teachers of the Autonomous Region", one person has been selected as "Outstanding Educator of the Autonomous Region", one person has been selected as the sponsor of "Guangxi Higher Education High-level Innovation Team and Outstanding Scholars Program", one person has been selected as a Guangxi cultural celebrity and "Four Ones" talent, one person has been selected as "Outstanding Talent in Ideological and Political Education of Guangxi Higher Education Institutions", five people have been selected as sponsors of "Guangxi Higher Education Outstanding Talents Funding Program", 11 people have been selected as sponsors of "Guangxi Higher Education Outstanding Teachers Study Abroad Project", nine people have been selected as sponsors of "Guangxi Higher Education Backbone Teachers Training Program", three people have been selected as training targets of "Guangxi Higher Education Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Backbone Teachers Training Project", four people have been selected as training targets of "Western Region Talent Training Special Project", six people have been selected as "Thousands of Young and Middle-aged Backbone Teachers of Guangxi Higher Education Institutions", and one person has been selected as the chief expert of "Situation and Policy" of the ideological and political theory course of Guangxi Higher Education Institutions.

Wuzhou University has complete school facilities. At present, the total area of ​​the campus is 1,168 acres. The campus buildings are mainly in European style, built on the mountain, scattered and unique. Mingli Building, library, gymnasium, tennis center, A11 student dormitory, etc. are the landmark buildings of the college. By the end of 2021, the total value of teaching and scientific research equipment assets is 200 million yuan, and the library has a collection of more than 1.6 million books. It has a campus network security platform and 10 information management systems such as Wuzhou College website system and teaching management system. It has built 4 online teaching platforms, 5 subject websites, 32 course websites and 31 secondary department websites, 6 special websites, and more than 70 servers of various types are running on the campus network.

Wuzhou College has a good social reputation. In 2015, Liu Yunshan, then member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Secretariat, visited the college for inspection and research and spoke highly of the college's party building work and innovation and entrepreneurship education work. The college has been repeatedly rated as an outstanding unit for employment and entrepreneurship of graduates from ordinary colleges and universities in the region, a safe and civilized campus for higher education institutions in Guangxi, an advanced collective of the three pairs of innovation action plans for colleges and universities in the region, and an advanced collective of student aid work in colleges and universities in the region. It has also won many honorary titles above the autonomous region level, including the National Advanced College for the Social Reform of College Logistics in the Past Decade, the Second Batch of National Demonstration Units of Conservation-oriented Public Institutions, the Autonomous Region Civilized Unit, the Autonomous Region Military, Police and Civilian Jointly-built Advanced Unit, the Autonomous Region Harmonious School, the Guangxi Excellent Health School, the Autonomous Region Advanced Health Unit, the Guangxi Forest Campus, the Autonomous Region Fire Safety Publicity and Education Advanced College, the Autonomous Region's First Batch of Demonstration Colleges for Rule of Law, and the Demonstration Colleges for Deepening Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform.

Since its establishment, Wuzhou University has achieved remarkable results and achieved leapfrog development. Looking into the future, Wuzhou University will uphold the school motto of "Virtue, Erudition, Truth-seeking, and Innovation", promote the school spirit of "honesty, open-mindedness, hard work, and meticulousness", and actively serve the implementation of major national strategies such as the "Belt and Road Initiative", the Beibu Gulf Economic Zone, the "Pearl River-Xijiang Economic Belt, the Guangdong-Guangxi Cooperation Special Experimental Zone, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. It will serve the development of Guangxi and Wuzhou's electronic information engineering, machinery, chemical industry, pharmaceuticals, gem jewelry product design and processing, logistics, tourism, finance, international trade, e-commerce, tea planting and processing, and network information security industries, and strive to build Wuzhou University into a distinctive high-level application-oriented university. (Data as of September 2021)