Hainan University

Hainan University is a comprehensive key university established in August 2007 by merging the former South China University of Tropical Agriculture and the former Hainan University. It is a university jointly established by the Ministry of Education and the Hainan Provincial People's Government.

The school adheres to the school motto of "embracing all rivers and pursuing great aspirations" and promotes the school spirit of "self-reliance, dedication, virtue and perseverance". In December 2008, it was approved by the state to become a key university in the "211 Project"; in 2012, it entered the ranks of the national "Central and Western Higher Education Revitalization Plan" and successively received construction support such as the "Central and Western College Basic Capacity Construction Project" and the "Central and Western College Comprehensive Strength Improvement Project"; in 2017, it was selected as a national "World-Class Discipline" construction university; in 2018, the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government made a major decision to "gather the whole province's strength to run Hainan University well"; in the same year, Hainan University became a "Ministry-Provincial Joint Construction" university of the Ministry of Education and the Hainan Provincial Government, and was included in the sequence of universities directly under the Ministry of Education. On April 13, 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in his important speech at the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of Hainan Province and the establishment of the Special Economic Zone that "it is necessary to support Hainan University in creating world-class disciplines", which provided a fundamental guideline for the development of the school.

The former South China University of Tropical Agriculture was founded in 1958 and was closely integrated with the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, which was founded in 1954. They were called the "Two Academies of Tropical Agriculture" and were known as the "twin stars" in the field of tropical agricultural science and education in my country. Through arduous efforts, the "two academies" have made my country the only country in the world that has successfully planted rubber on a large scale within the range of 18-24° north latitude, and has miraculously risen from a country that did not plant rubber to the fifth largest rubber producer in the world. The school has thus established a unique position in the field of rubber and tropical agricultural research, and has won more than 900 scientific and educational achievements, including the first prize of the National Invention Award, the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, and the second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award, making significant contributions to my country's national defense and local economic and social development.

The former Hainan University started hard on a piece of wasteland in 1983. Before the merger, it had built the largest discipline and professional system in the province with extensive social radiation and influence, and became a provincial comprehensive key university. Hu Yaobang, former General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, wrote the name of the school. In 2005, the school was rated as excellent in the undergraduate teaching level evaluation of the Ministry of Education and was approved to establish a national college student cultural quality education base. The quality of talent training and scientific research capabilities have been greatly improved, and the overall school management level has continued to improve, making positive contributions to Hainan's economic and social development.

Since its establishment, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Dong Biwu, Ye Jianying, Deng Xiaoping, Hu Yaobang, Wang Zhen and other older generation revolutionaries, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, Li Peng, Zhu Rongji, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Zeng Qinghong, Li Lanqing, Wei Jianxing, Liu Yandong, Sun Chunlan and other party and state leaders have visited the school and given cordial care; the leaders of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government have shown great care and support for the construction and development of the school; all walks of life and overseas Chinese, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots have donated funds to build office buildings, teaching buildings, libraries, academic centers, sports stadiums, student activity centers and other important projects, and established a number of scholarships (aids), which have effectively promoted the development of the school.

The school currently has a campus area of ​​6,073 acres, 41,000 full-time students, 36 secondary colleges, 13 first-level discipline doctoral programs and 1 professional degree doctoral program, 34 first-level discipline master's programs, 21 master's professional degree categories, 74 undergraduate majors, 6 postdoctoral mobile stations, 25 national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 24 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites; 5 national first-class undergraduate courses, 2 national quality courses, 1 national quality online open course, and 2 Ministry of Education course ideological and political demonstration courses. The disciplines cover philosophy, economics, law, literature, science, medicine, agronomy, engineering, management, and art. Crop science was selected into the list of world-class disciplines, and 5 disciplines including plant and animal science, materials science, chemistry, agricultural science, and engineering entered the top 1% of ESI globally. There are more than 2,500 full-time teachers, including 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 academician of the Canadian National Academy of Engineering and the Canadian Academy of Engineering, 1 foreign academician of the Japan Academy of Engineering, 4 national famous teachers, and nearly 40 national talents such as Yangtze River Scholars, Outstanding Young Scholars, and National High-level Talent Special Support Program Leading Talents. In terms of scientific research platforms, the school has 2 national key laboratories (including 1 cultivation base), 17 provincial and ministerial key laboratories, 3 provincial and ministerial collaborative innovation centers, 2 national and regional research centers of the Ministry of Education, 14 provincial and ministerial engineering research centers, 14 provincial academician workstations, and 11 provincial key research bases for humanities, philosophy and social sciences. In 2021, the school's National Natural Science Foundation projects were approved for 157 projects, the National Social Science Foundation projects were approved for 23 projects, and the Ministry of Education's humanities and social science projects were approved for 4 projects.

Relying on Hainan's location advantages, the school adheres to the school-running purpose of "serving the national strategy, fully connecting with the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port, and striving to create world-class disciplines and domestic first-class universities", and condenses the four major school-running characteristics of "tropical, marine, tourism, and special zones". "Support and leadership, winning with characteristics, high-level grafting, open innovation" is determined as the overall school-running idea, and adheres to "seeking support through service and development through contribution", and strives to create an atmosphere of "unity of knowledge and action, advocating academics, and pursuing excellence". In recent years, the school has adapted to the new development trend of higher education, accurately grasped the laws of academic development and talent growth, carried forward the reform and innovation spirit of "daring to venture, dare to try, and dare to be the first", and made every effort to promote the three major reforms of the full credit system, the college system, and the establishment of a collaborative innovation center, striving to break the barriers between colleges and disciplines, strengthen the intersection of different disciplines and majors, and the deep integration of teaching and scientific research, improve the "personalized" talent training mechanism, stimulate students' motivation for independent learning, cultivate top-notch innovative talents, and create an organized scientific research system. Adhering to the national development strategy and the needs of Hainan's economic and social development, in accordance with the idea of ​​"solving real problems and truly solving problems", focusing on the seven key research areas of "free trade port development and institutional innovation", "ecological civilization", "cultural tourism", "tropical high-efficiency agriculture", "marine technology", "full health" and "information technology", we have established a collaborative innovation center to support and lead the school's related fields or disciplines to become "urgently needed in Hainan and first-class in the country", and comprehensively enhance the school's ability to serve national strategies and regional economic and social development.

The school implements the open school strategy and builds a new pattern of "all-round, multi-level and wide-ranging" foreign exchanges and cooperation. It has reached cooperation with 208 overseas institutions, international research institutions and university alliances from 38 countries and regions. The school was selected as the second batch of demonstration bases for studying abroad in China by the Ministry of Education, and has established a complete training system for international students' undergraduate, master and doctoral education. In 2017, it cooperated with Arizona State University in the United States to establish the "Hainan University Arizona State University Joint International Tourism College", which is the only Sino-foreign cooperative school in the country in the field of tourism.

Batches of students gathered here from all corners of the country with passion and dreams, and played the song of innovation and progress with their youthful blood. Over the past 60 years, the university has trained nearly 300,000 senior professionals, and has created management and technical backbones in major industries across the country and Hainan, and a large number of talents have started businesses and found jobs abroad.

At present, Hainan is benchmarking the world's highest level of openness and comprehensively promoting the construction of a free trade port with Chinese characteristics. As the only national "double first-class" university in Hainan and the only one in the tropical region of the country, facing the forefront of the South China Sea, and a "ministerial and provincial joint construction" university, Hainan University is following the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping to "support Hainan University in creating world-class disciplines" and the requirements of Hainan Provincial Party Committee Secretary Shen Xiaoming to Hainan University to "be a good participant, staff, incubator and reserve team in the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port". Riding on the east wind of Hainan's "gathering the whole province's strength to run Hainan University well", focusing on the overall situation of serving the country's major strategies, and focusing on the practice of Hainan Free Trade Port, under the strong leadership of the Central Committee and the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, we will unite our hearts and minds, forge ahead, and strive to build the school into a first-class university that is compatible with the development of Hainan Free Trade Port.

(The above data statistics are up to March 2022)