Sichuan University of Arts and Science

Sichuan University of Arts and Sciences, located in Dazhou City in the eastern part of Sichuan Province, the Land of Abundance, has a history of running schools that can be traced back to Longshan Academy in the late Qing Dynasty. It began to offer higher education in 1976, when it was called Daxian Normal College. In 1978, it was approved by the State Council as a full-time general college, and was successively renamed Daxian Normal College and Daxian Normal College. In February 2006, it was approved by the Ministry of Education to be upgraded to an undergraduate college. It is currently the only provincial-level general undergraduate college in eastern Sichuan. In 2016, it was identified as a "Sichuan Provincial College Overall Transformation and Development Pilot Unit", and in 2018 it was added as a "Sichuan Provincial Master's Degree Authorization Project Construction Unit".

The school has two campuses, Lianhu and Nanba, covering an area of ​​1,074.74 acres and a building area of ​​more than 290,000 square meters. The library has more than 1.5 million paper books, more than 800,000 electronic books, more than 550,000 Chinese and foreign paper newspapers and periodicals, more than 500,000 electronic journals, and teaching and research equipment worth 128 million yuan. There are nearly 1,100 faculty members of various types, 5 foreign teachers, including 836 full-time teachers (teachers with senior professional titles account for 32% of the total number of full-time teachers, and those with doctoral and master's degrees account for 84%), 1 person enjoying special allowances from the State Council, 6 academic and technical leaders and reserve candidates in Sichuan Province, 3 experts with outstanding contributions, 2 provincial teaching masters, and 4 provincial excellent teachers. There are more than 15,000 full-time students and 65 international students, recruiting students from 22 provinces and cities across the country.

There are 19 secondary colleges, including the School of Literature and Communication, the School of Marxism, the School of Political Science and Law, the School of Foreign Languages, the School of Teacher Education, the School of Finance and Management, the School of Mathematics, the School of Intelligent Manufacturing, the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, the School of Architectural Engineering, the School of Ecotourism, the School of Music and Performing Arts, the School of Fine Arts, the School of Physical Education, the School of Health Care Industry, and the School of Chinese Traditional Culture. There are 57 undergraduate majors and 7 junior college majors, covering ten disciplines of literature, science, engineering, education, art, management, history, law, economics, and medicine.

The school adheres to the school-running idea of ​​"student-centered, teacher-led, environmental education, and social cooperation", actively explores the reform of the "four-in-one" talent training model of modularization of knowledge structure, integration of theory and practice, informatization of teaching services, and normalization of assessment and evaluation, implements a four-year progressive innovation and entrepreneurship education plan, and strives to build seven knowledge systems for students' general core knowledge, general practical ability, subject basic knowledge, professional basic knowledge, professional core knowledge, comprehensive application ability, and compound quality training, and cultivate high-quality application-oriented and compound talents with "three hearts, four abilities, and five complexities".

The school has established cooperative and exchange relations with more than 10 universities in the United States, Britain, France, Australia, Czech Republic, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos and other countries. More than 300 teachers and students go to overseas universities for study and exchange every year. It has established co-construction and cooperation relations with more than 100 local governments, large and medium-sized enterprises and institutions in China. Since its establishment, it has trained more than 70,000 university graduates for the society. The graduates have solid professional basic knowledge, rich practical ability and innovative consciousness, and are deeply welcomed by employers. The employment rate has always been at the forefront of similar universities in the province.

The school implements the strategy of strengthening the school through scientific research, focusing on scientific research platforms and team building. It has built the Sichuan Revolutionary Old Area Development Research Center, a provincial key research base, a youth literature and art social science popularization base, a provincial university key laboratory, a characteristic plant development research laboratory, participated in the construction of the "Industrial Organic Solid Waste Resource Treatment" 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center, Sichuan Phosphorus Resource Comprehensive Utilization Engineering Technology Center, and built more than 30 scientific and technological innovation platforms such as the Ba Culture Research Institute, the Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Old Area Revitalization and Development Research Institute, the Higher Education Research Institute, the Qinba Cultural Industry Research Institute, the Intelligent Manufacturing Industry Technology Research Institute, the National Urban Wastewater Treatment and Resource Engineering Technology Research Center, the East Sichuan Branch, the Oil and Gas Field Wastewater Treatment Technology Research Center, the Bashan Writers Group Research Institute, and the Calligraphy Art Research Institute; it has built 22 scientific research teams such as the Sichuan Provincial Social Science High-level Research Team "Sichuan Revolutionary Old Area Ecological Civilization Construction Research Team" and the Sichuan Provincial Education Department "Qinba Culture Research and Communication Innovation Team".

The school adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implements the education policy of the Party and the State, follows the laws of higher education, upholds the school motto of "Broad Learning, Great Reasoning, Virtue and Practice", promotes the school-running spirit of "hardships and difficulties, success in success", absorbs the excellent educational concepts of ancient and modern times and the latest achievements of Chinese and foreign educational reforms, innovates the talent training model, is based in eastern Sichuan, serves Sichuan, faces the whole country, and fully implements the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people in accordance with the "three-step" development strategy and the "1234" overall deployment. Adhere to the connotation development, transformation development, innovation development, and characteristic development, cultivate high-quality talents with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor, and strive to build the school into a high-level application-oriented university with distinctive characteristics and outstanding advantages.

Talent cultivation goals

The school is committed to cultivating high-quality applied and compound talents with "three hearts, four abilities and five complexes": let a high sense of responsibility, continuous enterprising spirit and strong curiosity accompany students throughout their lives; let good expression skills, solid practical skills, outstanding innovation skills and basic entrepreneurial skills become the strong wings for students to take off successfully; let people with social responsibility and sound personality, professional ethics and professional ability, humanistic feelings and scientific spirit, historical vision and global vision, innovative spirit and critical thinking become the conscious pursuit of every Sichuan liberal arts and science person.

Discipline and professional construction

The school adheres to the principle of "optimizing structure, highlighting characteristics, improving level and staggered development", takes discipline construction as the leader, follows the laws of discipline construction, coordinates planning and scientific layout. With the goal of serving the regional economy and society, developing and forming a group of advantageous disciplines, focusing on planning and building master's degree programs, implementing advantageous and characteristic discipline construction projects, and creating first-class and influential brand disciplines in the province. In line with the needs of local social and economic development, we actively promote the construction of eight disciplines and professional groups, including cultural creativity, intelligent manufacturing, chemical environmental protection, teacher education, health tourism, financial management, political law, and ecological architecture. There are 6 provincial-level professional comprehensive reform projects, including provincial-level specialty chemical engineering and technology, mathematics and applied mathematics, cultural industry management, property management, administrative management, and preschool education, 4 provincial-level application-oriented demonstration majors, including radio and television editing and directing, mechanical engineering, fine arts, and primary education, and 3 provincial-level experimental teaching demonstration centers.

As a comprehensive reform project college in the field of education in Sichuan Province, the school has established provincial experimental teaching demonstration center projects such as the Basic Foreign Language Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center and the Culture and Communication Experimental Teaching Center, as well as excellent engineer education and training program projects and excellent teacher education and training program reform pilot projects. It has established 27 provincial teaching reform projects and 354 school-level teaching reform projects. There are 34 provincial and school-level excellent teaching teams such as Comparative Literature and World Literature, Ancient Chinese Literature, Politics and Administration, Theoretical Physics, and Mathematical Modeling Teaching and Research Sections, 8 provincial-level boutique (resource sharing) courses such as mathematical analysis, thermal science, ancient Chinese history, planning theory, history of new Chinese literature, foreign literature, advanced algebra, and elementary education research methods, 12 provincial-level application-oriented demonstration courses such as printmaking, material mechanics, and nonlinear editing, 12 provincial-level first-class undergraduate courses and 88 school-level boutique (resource open) courses. In recent years, it has won 2 provincial-level first prizes and 8 third prizes for teaching achievements.

Academic Research

The school pays attention to the construction of scientific research teams, establishes scientific research innovation platforms, and rewards and funds key scientific research projects. Invite well-known experts from home and abroad to give lectures at the school to liven up the academic atmosphere and promote academic prosperity. The "Qinba Forum" was opened to invite well-known scholars from home and abroad to give lectures at the school, and 35 honorary deans, specially appointed professors or visiting professors were hired to enhance the strength of the scientific research team. Faculty and staff are encouraged to apply for high-level scientific research projects and horizontal projects, and group research and industry-university-research cooperation are encouraged to enhance scientific and technological competitiveness and service capabilities.

In recent years, faculty and staff have undertaken 17 national scientific research projects, 141 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects, and more than 1,580 municipal and departmental projects. They have won more than 300 provincial and municipal social science outstanding achievement awards, nearly 10 scientific and technological achievement awards, and nearly 60 national patents have been approved. More than 60 scientific research results have been approved or adopted by local government leaders at all levels, more than 50 monographs have been published, more than 4,000 academic papers have been published, and more than 500 articles have been reprinted or included in authoritative search tools (journals).

The Sichuan Revolutionary Old Area Development Research Center, a provincial key research base for philosophy and social sciences, is mainly engaged in research on the economic and social development of the Sichuan Revolutionary Old Area, the historical and cultural research of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Area, and the Qinba culture. The center has established a research team on the economic and social development of the old revolutionary base areas, a research and innovation team on the history and culture of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Area, and a research and innovation team on Qinba culture. It has completed more than 30 national and provincial social science fund projects, undertaken more than 100 projects of the Dazhou Municipal Government, published more than 200 research papers on the construction of the old revolutionary base areas in core journals, and submitted 32 special reports on important achievements to the provincial and municipal governments. 17 of them were signed and approved by the main leaders of the Dazhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, and many issues were published in the "Investigation and Decision-making" of the Provincial Party Committee Policy Research Office. The Key Laboratory of Characteristic Plant Development Research of the Provincial University Key Laboratory is mainly responsible for the extraction and separation of effective ingredients of characteristic plants in Dazhou and its surrounding areas, product development, drug screening and synthesis, environmental pollution prevention and comprehensive utilization research, and has published 110 academic papers, nearly 40 of which have been included in SCI.

The Sichuan 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center for Resource Treatment of Industrial Organic Solid Waste mainly targets organic solid waste generated by enterprises in the production processes of cement, electricity, steel, etc., and makes full use of industrial boilers and other production facilities to achieve harmless disposal and partial resource utilization of solid waste while meeting the production requirements of enterprises and without reducing product quality.

Academic resources

The school library has more than 1.5 million paper documents, more than 800,000 electronic books, more than 50,000 Chinese and foreign paper newspapers and periodicals, and more than 500,000 electronic journals; it has large ancient and modern series such as "Sikuquanshu", "Zhongguo Yeshi Jicheng", "Gujin Tushu Jicheng", and photocopies of large newspapers and periodicals such as "Ta Kung Pao", "Morning Post", "Minguo Daily", and "Dacheng Guzhidui Database", "China Journal Full-text Database (CNKI)", "Chinese Science and Technology Journal Full-text Database (VIP)", "Renmin University Newspaper and Periodical Data Full-text Database", "Duxiu Academic Search", "China Dissertation Database" and other 22 digital resources. It has established special document resources such as "Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Area Document Research Database" and "Sichuan University of Arts and Sciences Digital Library", and has established a document resource co-construction and sharing cooperation relationship with information institutions such as the National Library, CALIS, and CASHL. It is the document resource and intelligence service guarantee center in eastern Sichuan.

The school publicly publishes "Journal of Sichuan University of Arts and Sciences" and "Sichuan University of Arts and Sciences News". The Journal of Sichuan University of Arts and Sciences was founded in 1987. It was rated as an excellent social science journal in national universities, the first prize of excellent journals in local universities, a characteristic academic journal of Sichuan Province and an excellent social science journal. It was selected into the extended version of the core journal of the AMI comprehensive evaluation of Chinese humanities and social sciences journals. The academic papers published have been reprinted or excerpted by Xinhua Digest and Renmin University photocopied materials many times.

In the early 1980s, Ms. Ouyang De, a professor at Michigan State University in the United States, visited the school for the first time, opening up the international exchange of the school. Since then, nearly 100 foreign experts, presidents of foreign universities, teachers and students have visited the school for exchanges. 66 foreign teachers from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, South Korea, Uzbekistan and other countries have successively taught in the school. The longest continuous teaching time is 6 years. There are about 10 foreign experts and teachers teaching in the school all year round. The introduction of high-quality foreign wisdom has made positive contributions to expanding the vision of international education, promoting education and teaching reforms, and enhancing the internationalization of education and cross-cultural exchanges.

The school actively expands the international vision of education, and has established cooperation and exchange relations with more than 10 universities in the United States, Britain, France, Australia, Czech Republic, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos and other countries. It selects students and key teachers to exchange and visit Caotang University, Palacky University, Northern University, Botra University, Swansea University, Highlands and Islands University and other countries all year round, and recommends students with good character and academic performance to go to the United States for paid internships and master's degree studies. In 2014, it began to recruit international students, and has recruited more than 140 international students from 11 countries including Laos, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, etc., and currently has 65 international students.

The school pays attention to the subtle influence of the environment and campus culture on teachers and students, and gives full play to the educational function of the campus's natural and cultural landscapes and cultural, artistic and technological activities to create an ecological, technological and cultural campus. In the past five years, it has participated in national and provincial college student art festivals, mathematical modeling, electronic design, cheerleading, hockey and other events, and won nearly 100 national awards and more than 400 provincial awards. At the Sixth National College Students' Art Exhibition and Performance, three works including the recitation of "A Hundred Years of Beauty", the vocal music "Cuckoo", and the college students' art practice workshop "East Sichuan Rural Revitalization Planning and Design Art Workshop" won first prizes, the micro-film "Flame Blue, My Heart Still Burning" won the second prize, and four works including calligraphy and painting "No Confusion, No Worry, No Fear" and "Poems of Wang Wei" and photography "Rice Fragrance" and "Youth" won the University President Style Award. The dances "To Youth" and "Soul Cast in Bashan" won the silver medal of the 9th China Dance "Lotus Award"; dozens of works including the dances "Rain Nourishes Bashan", "Carrying Mountains, Water and Sun", "Walking Together in Red Snow", and the painting "Traveling in Autumn Water" won the first prize in the 5th National College Students' Art Festival; represented Sichuan Province in the 2nd National Military Training Camp, winning first prizes in four training subjects: theoretical knowledge competition, radio direction finding, map recognition and map training, and live-fire shooting; in 2017, it was awarded the title of "National Defense Education Characteristic School" by the Ministry of Education; the Theory Research Society of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics was awarded the "National Outstanding Theoretical Society", the Jianjia Hanfu Society was awarded the "National Outstanding College Students' Chinese Studies Society", the Computer Society was awarded the "National Most Influential Student Science and Technology Society", and the Student Society Federation was awarded the "National Student Most Influential Society Federation", 37 students appeared on the stage of the 2017 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, 3 students represented Chinese universities in the 7th Asian Cup Indoor Women's Hockey Tournament and won the 6th place in Asia, and participated in the 2018 San Francisco World Line Dance Championship and won 4 first places. The micro-film "Knowing to Return" won the second prize in the "Ideological and Political Course in My Heart" exhibition activity of the Ministry of Education; our school students participated in the 2020 "Kingdee Cup" Intelligent Financial Cloud Competition and won the first prize in the country. (Data as of March 2022)