qinghai university

Qinghai University is located in the ancient plateau city - the summer capital Xining. The school was formerly known as Qinghai Institute of Technology, which was founded in 1958. In November 1960, it merged with Qinghai Agricultural and Animal Husbandry College, Qinghai Medical College, and Qinghai Institute of Finance and Economics to form Qinghai University, which was abolished in 1969. In 1971, Qinghai Institute of Industry and Agriculture was restored, with two major disciplines of industry and agriculture. Qinghai University was restored in 1988. In October 1997, Qinghai Animal Husbandry and Veterinary College was merged into Qinghai University. In January 2001, Qinghai Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Qinghai Academy of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences, and Qinghai Vocational College of Finance and Economics were fully transferred to Qinghai University. In 2004, Qinghai Medical College was merged to form the new Qinghai University.

The university has now developed into a teaching and research university with engineering, agriculture, medicine and management as the main disciplines, and other disciplines developing in a coordinated manner. Since 2001, six well-known universities including Tsinghua University, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, and Beijing University of Chemical Technology have successively supported Qinghai University. In 2004, it became a "province-ministerial co-construction" university jointly built by the Qinghai Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Education. In 2008, it became a key construction university of the national "211 Project". In 2012, it was selected as one of the 14 "central and western universities to enhance comprehensive strength" universities. In 2016, it became one of the first 100 national innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration schools. In 2017, it was selected as a national "world-class discipline" construction university. In 2018, it became a "ministerial-provincial co-construction" university by the Ministry of Education and the Qinghai Provincial People's Government.

The school covers an area of ​​more than 3,000 acres and recruits students from 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions around the world. There are more than 25,000 students on campus, including 3,714 postgraduates and more than 19,000 undergraduates. At present, the school has 5,356 faculty members (including 3,054 affiliated hospitals), including 1,451 full-time teachers, of which 548 have doctors, accounting for 40.1%, and teachers with master's degrees or above account for 90.43%.

The school currently has 1 world-class construction discipline, 2 domestic first-class construction disciplines, and 1 provincial first-class construction discipline; 1 national second-level key discipline, 1 national key (cultivation) discipline; 12 provincial first-level key disciplines, 5 provincial second-level key disciplines; there are 5 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 20 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, 1 interdisciplinary master's degree authorization point, and 108 second-level discipline master's degree authorization points; there are 15 master's professional degree authorization categories and 96 professional fields; there is 1 postdoctoral research mobile station; there are 67 undergraduate majors, 6 national characteristic professional construction points, 4 national teaching teams, 1 national talent training model innovation experimental zone, and 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center , 1 national-level high-quality bilingual demonstration course, 3 national-level high-quality video open courses, 7 national-level first-class courses, 10 national-level first-class professional construction sites, 9 national-level excellence plan projects, 1 national-level college student off-campus practical education base, and 1 national-level comprehensive professional reform project; there are 1 national key laboratory, 3 national key laboratory branches, 3 national-local joint engineering laboratories (research centers), 1 national field science observation and research station, 3 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 2 engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education (including 1 cultivation center), 1 field science observation and research station of the Ministry of Education, 5 laboratories (centers) of the Ministry of Agriculture, 1 key laboratory of the State Forestry Administration, and 1 National Education Huayu VR World Laboratory. There are 18 provincial-level university key laboratories and 23 provincial-level science and technology key laboratories (including 1 branch); there are national university science and technology parks and national-level new rural development research institutes.

The school currently has 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 7 dual-appointed academicians, 2 dual-appointed professors, 6 distinguished professors of the "Changjiang Scholars Program" of the Ministry of Education, 1 youth project, 2 experts of the National "Thousand Talents Program", 2 winners of the National "Outstanding Youth Fund", 22 national talents selected for the National "Ten Thousand Talents Program", the National "Million Talents Project", the Ministry of Education's "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program", 34 "Experts Enjoying Special Allowances from the State Council", 19 winners of the National Innovation Award, the Hong Kong Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Innovation Award, the Fok Ying-Tong Education Foundation Young Teacher Award, the Chinese Overseas Chinese (Innovative Talent) Contribution Award, the Third World National Academy of Sciences The Only Basic Medicine Award in the World, etc., more than 30 national and provincial teaching masters, outstanding teachers, and educators, more than 60 provincial outstanding experts and outstanding professional and technical personnel, 392 people selected for the Qinghai Province "High-end Innovative Talents Thousand Talents Program" talent project, 18 team projects, Qinghai Province "135" high-level talents, and provincial leaders in natural sciences and engineering technology. 1 team was selected into the "Innovation Team Development Plan of the Ministry of Education", 1 team was selected into the "Huang Danian-style Teacher Team of National Universities", and 16 research teams were selected into the "Qinghai Talent Highland".

The school actively promotes the deep integration of industry, academia and research, and actively serves the national strategy and regional economic and social development. It has formed distinct disciplinary advantages and school-running characteristics in the ecological protection of the Three Rivers Source, plateau agriculture and animal husbandry, plateau medicine, Tibetan medicine, salt lake chemical industry, new energy and new materials, and has cultivated a large number of application-oriented talents, making positive contributions to the economic construction and social development of Qinghai.

From 2016 to 2021, the school was approved for 2,140 scientific research projects, including 6 national key research and development plans, with a total research funding of more than 1.4 billion yuan, and 816 scientific research results were identified. Won 1 second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 2 national awards for excellence, 4 second prizes of the National Teaching Achievement Award, 2 first prizes of the Ministry of Education Science and Technology Progress Award, 60 provincial and ministerial awards, and 2 Qinghai Science and Technology Major Contribution Awards. 9,344 academic papers have been published in various domestic and foreign journals, and 4 academic papers have been published in the top international academic journals "Science" and "Nature".

The school adheres to open education and continuously strengthens foreign exchanges and cooperation. It has signed exchange and cooperation memorandums with universities in more than 20 countries and regions such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan to carry out pragmatic cooperation. It has joined international cooperation and exchange organizations such as the "Silk Road Agricultural Education Science and Technology Innovation Alliance" and the "Lancang-Mekong River Basin University Alliance", and was selected into the "Higher Education Discipline Innovation and Intelligence Introduction Program (111 Program)". It has been approved as the "Tibetan Medicine International Cooperation Base (Qinghai)", and the "Three Brothers" cooperation between Tsinghua University, the University of Auckland, and Qinghai University has continued to develop, becoming a major "highlight" of China-Singapore cultural exchanges. International exchanges and cooperation are expanding in an all-round, multi-field, distinctive and high-level manner.

Standing at a new historical starting point, the university adheres to the school motto of "Aspirations are as high as Kunlun Mountain, and learning is as competitive as the rivers and lakes", promotes the spirit of New Qinghai, takes moral education as the foundation, supports the innovation-driven development strategy, and serves economic and social development as the orientation, and strives to build the university into a distinctive and high-level modern university. (Note: The above data is as of December 2021)