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The predecessor of the school was the Bailey Polytechnic founded by New Zealand international friend Louis Alley in 1942. It was rebuilt into Gansu Mechanical Manufacturing School in 1958. In 1962, it merged with five technical secondary schools of coal, electricity, light industry, heavy industry and post and telecommunications to form Gansu Industrial School. In 1974, it was renamed Lanzhou Industrial School. In 1989, it was rebuilt into Lanzhou Industrial College. In 2012, it was approved by the Ministry of Education and the Gansu Provincial People's Government to be rebuilt into Lanzhou Institute of Technology. Over the past 79 years, the school has been established by industry, prospered by industry, and proud of industry, and has gradually formed a school-running pattern with industry as the top priority, emphasizing application, and serving local areas and industries. The school currently has two campuses, Lanzhou Qilihe Campus and Lanzhou New District Campus, covering an area of 1,784.18 acres, a building area of 824,800 square meters, a collection of 932,800 books, 964,100 electronic books, and teaching equipment with a total value of 171 million yuan. The school strengthens the construction of teachers and has a team of excellent teachers. There are 763 faculty members and 521 full-time teachers, including 263 associate senior titles and above, 422 teachers with master's degrees and above, and the proportion of high-level and high-educated teachers is 50.48% and 81% respectively. There are 187 full-time teachers with "double-teacher and dual-ability", accounting for 35.89%. Among the teaching staff, a group of outstanding talents have emerged, including national teaching masters, national teaching teams, national entrepreneurial mentors, provincial leading talents, and provincial model teachers. The school emphasizes the construction of connotation and has achieved relatively fruitful results in running schools. There are 10,792 ordinary full-time students. There are 15 teaching units and 34 undergraduate majors, covering five major disciplines, including engineering, economics, management, literature, and art. Since 2012, there have been 3 provincial key disciplines, 1 provincial characteristic major, 8 provincial first-class major construction sites, 3 provincial innovation and entrepreneurship pilot majors, and 5 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers; 25 Gansu Provincial Teaching Achievement Awards, 61 Ministry of Education Collaborative Education Projects; 1 national first-class course, 20 provincial first-class courses, MOOCs, and high-quality resource sharing courses. The school focuses on student skill training and actively promotes innovation and entrepreneurship education. In various subject skill competitions such as the National College Student Mathematical Modeling, the National College Student Electronic Design Competition, the National College Student "Challenge Cup" Competition, the National College Student English Competition, and the "Next Generation Internet Technology Innovation Competition", our college students have won 263 national awards and 824 provincial awards. The school is based on its school-running positioning and strives to cultivate high-quality application-oriented talents. Since its establishment, the school has provided more than 90,000 talents of various types to the society. Graduates are widely welcomed by employers and praised by all sectors of society for their characteristics of "solid basic knowledge, strong hands-on ability, high comprehensive quality and good adaptability". The initial employment rate of undergraduate graduates has been ranked among the top provincial colleges for five consecutive years. The school attaches great importance to scientific research, and has remarkable scientific and technological innovation and research results. It has obtained 596 projects of various types, including 15 National Natural Science Foundation projects, 2 National Social Science Foundation projects; 55 provincial and ministerial science and technology projects. It has built 12 provincial and ministerial science and technology platforms, won 109 awards such as Gansu Science and Technology Progress Award and Provincial Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award, and obtained more than 600 patents and software copyrights. The school adheres to open education and actively carries out international exchanges and cooperation. It has established good exchanges and cooperation relations with Germany, Ukraine, Switzerland, the United States, Canada and other countries. Actively carry out exchanges and studies abroad for students, increase the training of key teachers and teaching management personnel in foreign universities, and encourage and support teaching and research personnel to participate more widely in international academic and cultural exchanges and cooperation. Actively serve the construction of the "Belt and Road", join the "Belt and Road" University Strategic Alliance and the China-Central and Eastern European University Association, and actively deepen exchanges and cooperation with alliance institutions. Over the years, the school has adhered to the school motto of "opening things to accomplish tasks, enlightening wisdom and seeking truth", vigorously promoted the school-running spirit of "tenaciousness, simplicity and selflessness, tolerance and innovation, harmony and progress", and has achieved remarkable results in talent training, scientific research, social services, party building and ideological and political work, and spiritual civilization construction. It has been awarded many honorary titles such as "National Advanced Vocational Education Unit", "National Civilized Unit", "Provincial Civilized Unit Model", and "Provincial Civilized Campus" by the Ministry of Education, the Central Civilization Committee, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and the Gansu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. The school will hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, take Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as its guide, fully implement the Party's education policy, adhere to the socialist direction of running schools, adhere to the school-running idea of "following the industry, revolving around the enterprise, quality for survival, transformation for development", implement the fundamental task of cultivating people with moral integrity, be based in Lanzhou, face Gansu, radiate to the west, actively serve the needs of regional industrial development, and strive to build an applied technology university with distinctive characteristics, outstanding advantages, and important influence in the region, cultivate high-quality, application-oriented, innovative, and strong application-oriented undergraduate talents, and provide strong talent support and intellectual services for regional economic and social development. (Data updated to October 30, 2021)
[History of School] Gansu University of Political Science and Law is the only general undergraduate college of political science and law in Gansu Province. It is the earliest provincial undergraduate political science and law college in China. Its predecessor was the Gansu Provincial Political Science and Law Cadre School founded in 1956. In 1984, Gansu Institute of Political Science and Law was officially established to provide general higher education. The school obtained the qualification of a master's degree awarding institution in 2006, opened postgraduate education in 2007, and opened international student education in 2017. In the same year, it was identified as a project construction unit for the awarding of doctoral degrees in Gansu Province. It is one of the first batch of national excellent legal talent education and training bases, the second batch of national colleges and universities practice education innovation and entrepreneurship education bases, and a member of the "Lige Alliance" of national political science and law colleges. In June 2019, it was renamed Gansu University of Political Science and Law. 【Organization】The school has 15 colleges, 13 research bases approved by the provincial, ministerial and bureau departments, 5 independently established research institutions, 61 non-established research institutions at the school level, 4 provincial research and innovation teams, 5 school-level research and innovation teams, and 5 think tank teams of various types. There are 5 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers and 8 provincial teaching teams. 【School conditions】The school currently has three campuses: Anning West Road Campus, Lanzhou City, Anning Wanxin Road Campus, Lanzhou City, and Lanzhou New District Campus. The campus covers an area of 1,066.59 acres, the school building area is 400,600 square meters, the teaching, scientific research and administrative area is 155,700 square meters, the total value of teaching and scientific research equipment is 83.2283 million yuan, there are 1.4314 million paper books and 988,300 electronic books, a modern computer network service system, 65 professional teaching undergraduate laboratories, and 195 internship and training bases inside and outside the school, which can meet the needs of running schools. 【Talent Cultivation】Since its establishment, the school has cultivated more than 70,000 talents of all levels and types for the society, and a large number of advanced models have emerged. At present, the school has 12,608 full-time students, including 10,902 undergraduates and 1,567 postgraduates. Since 2016, it has won 11 provincial teaching achievement awards, and 19 provincial teaching achievement cultivation projects have been approved in the past two years. 【Teaching Staff】The school has a high-quality teaching staff that is adapted to the disciplines and majors, with 60.1% of teachers having senior professional titles and 91.5% of those with doctoral and master's degrees. There are 3 experts enjoying special allowances from the State Council, 2 national outstanding teachers, 1 young talent in propaganda, ideology and culture of the Central Propaganda Department, 3 selected in the "New Century Excellent Talent Support Program" of the Ministry of Education, 4 members of the Higher Education Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, 5 leading talents in Gansu Province, 3 outstanding experts in Gansu Province, 15 "Feitian Scholars" in Gansu Province, 13 "555" innovative talents in Gansu Province, 11 "Gansu Gardener Award", 9 provincial teaching masters, 2 innovative and entrepreneurial teaching masters in Gansu Province, 1 "Dunhuang Award" for foreign experts in Gansu Province, and 1 advanced individual in Longyuan teacher ethics. There are 3 talents in the "Four Batches" of the Propaganda and Culture System of Gansu Province, 2 outstanding young cultural talents in Gansu Province, and 33 talents in the Young Teachers' Achievement Award of Gansu Province. [Subjects and Majors] The school currently has 37 undergraduate majors, covering six major disciplines including law, management, engineering, literature, economics, and art. There are two national first-class undergraduate majors in law and information security, and nine provincial first-class majors in public administration and business administration. At the same time, there are three provincial first-class disciplines, of which law is a dominant discipline in Gansu Province, and two disciplines such as evidence science and business administration are characteristic disciplines in Gansu Province. There are also eight provincial key disciplines. There are three first-level master's degree authorization points in law, business administration, and cyberspace security, 19 second-level master's degree authorization points, and 9 professional master's degree authorization points. [Scientific Research] The school has strong scientific research capabilities. In the past five years, its scientific research results have won 27 awards at the provincial and ministerial levels, including one National Ethnic Affairs Commission Outstanding Social Science Achievement Award, and four first prizes and four second prizes for outstanding achievements in philosophy and social sciences in Gansu Province. From 2017 to 2021, the school undertook 119 scientific research projects at the provincial and ministerial levels, including 33 National Social Science Fund and Natural Science Fund projects. It hosts two professional academic journals, "Journal of Gansu University of Political Science and Law" and "Western Law Review", of which "Journal of Gansu University of Political Science and Law" is selected as the source journal of the CSSCI extended version and the core Chinese journal of Peking University. [Domestic and International Cooperation] The school actively carries out foreign exchanges and cooperation, and has established cooperative exchanges with foreign universities such as the University of Wolverhampton in the UK, the University of Central Oklahoma in the United States, the Vermont Law School in the United States, St. Petersburg University in Russia, Bishkek University of Humanities in Kyrgyzstan, Law University of Kazakhstan, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and domestic universities such as Jilin University and Qingdao University. It joined the Asian Forensic Science Association and initiated the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Law University Alliance as a member unit. In October 2017, the Ministry of Education decided that China University of Political Science and Law would provide counterpart support to our school. [Think Tank Construction and Social Services] The school actively gives play to its disciplinary and professional advantages, and takes the initiative to serve the construction of the rule of law and local economic and social development. First, we will proactively provide strong practical talent support for the implementation of the comprehensive rule of law and the national strategy of governing Xinjiang, Tibet and border areas; second, we will give full play to the think tank role of the humanities and social sciences research base to provide intellectual support for the decision-making of the Party Committee and the government; third, we will carry out comparative studies on the rule of law in different countries and actively serve the construction of the "Silk Road Economic Belt"; fourth, we will give full play to the functions of scientific research service platforms such as the Key Laboratory of Evidence Science Research and Application, the Judicial Appraisal Center, and the Criminal Psychology Testing Center, promote the transformation and application of scientific research results, and provide scientific and technological services for fair justice. [School Positioning] School type positioning: high-level political and legal university. School level positioning: take undergraduate education as the main body, strengthen master's degree education, and start doctoral degree education. Discipline and professional development positioning: create a peak discipline in law, strengthen the characteristic disciplines of evidence science, business administration, and cyberspace security, vigorously develop public management and national security disciplines, focus on improving the strength of disciplines such as Marxist theory, Chinese language and literature, and journalism and communication, and promote the cross-disciplinary integration and development. Strengthen the construction of first-class undergraduate majors, promote the overall professional level of the school, strengthen the construction of "new liberal arts" and "new engineering", and promote the cross-integration development between liberal arts majors and between liberal arts and science and engineering majors. Talent training goal positioning: Adhere to educating people for the Party and cultivating talents for the country, build a "five-pronged education" education system, cultivate high-quality professionals with lofty ambitions, social responsibility, innovative spirit and practical ability, and advocate the rule of law, and cultivate socialist builders and successors with comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor. Service orientation positioning: Based in Gansu, facing the whole country, radiating to the countries along the "Silk Road Economic Belt", give full play to the school's disciplinary advantages, actively connect with the country's major strategic needs, and actively serve the regional economic and social development and rule of law construction. Development goal positioning: First-class in the west, with important influence in the country, and a high-level political and legal university with a high reputation in the countries along the "Silk Road Economic Belt". (Data updated to December 2021)
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Minnan Normal University is a key university in Fujian Province and a "double first-class" university in Fujian Province. It was established in the spring of 1958. In 1963, under the personal advocacy and care of Premier Zhou Enlai, the State Council approved the establishment of Fujian Second Normal College, thus opening the door to undergraduate education in our university. In 1986, with the approval of the former State Education Commission, Fujian Second Normal College was reopened and renamed Zhangzhou Normal College. In 1992, it obtained the right to confer bachelor's degrees. In 2000, it successfully passed the first batch of undergraduate teaching work qualification evaluation of normal colleges by the Ministry of Education. In 2003, it was added as a master's degree awarding institution by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee. In 2007, it was listed as a key university in Fujian Province. In 2008, it passed the undergraduate teaching level assessment of the Ministry of Education with excellent results. In 2012, it was approved to serve the special needs of the country for the doctoral talent training project of Minnan culture and cross-strait exchanges. In April 2013, it was renamed Minnan Normal University. In 2017, it was determined to be a university for the construction of doctoral degree awarding and cultivation units in Fujian Province from 2018 to 2020. In 2018, it became a first-class discipline construction university in Fujian Province. In September 2018, the doctoral talent training project serving the special needs of the country passed the review of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee with unanimous votes. In 2020, it became a national first-class professional construction university. In 2021, it was approved as a doctoral degree awarding unit. The school currently has two campuses, Beijiangbin and Yuanshan, covering an area of about 2,000 acres. There are 68 undergraduate majors, covering ten major disciplines including literature, engineering, science, education, management, economics, law, art, agriculture and history, with more than 20,000 full-time undergraduates and graduate students. There are 1,343 full-time teachers, of which 658 have senior professional titles; 567 have doctoral degrees, 13 experts have enjoyed special government allowances from the State Council, 33 Minjiang scholars, 2 people in the "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program" of the Ministry of Education, and more than 130 outstanding experts and famous teachers at the provincial level and above. The school insists on cultivating people with moral integrity, takes talent cultivation as the central task, continuously deepens education and teaching reforms, and continuously improves the quality of talent cultivation. At present, it has 14 national undergraduate teaching projects, 1 national teaching achievement award, and has been approved as a national language and writing promotion base; 148 provincial undergraduate teaching projects, 28 provincial teaching achievement awards, and 99 provincial education and teaching reform research projects. The school currently has 1 first-level doctoral program (Chinese language and literature), 1 doctoral talent training program serving national special needs (research on Minnan culture and cross-strait exchanges), 7 first-level master's programs (Chinese language and literature, mathematics, chemistry, psychology, Marxist theory, education, optical engineering), 12 professional degree master's programs (education, social work, journalism and communication, applied psychology, electronic information, applied statistics, translation, resources and environment, Chinese international education, tourism management, landscape architecture, art), covering 11 disciplines. 4 disciplines (groups) (Chinese language and literature and Minnan culture discipline group, mathematics, chemistry and environment discipline group, education) were selected as plateau disciplines in Fujian Province, and 5 disciplines (food science and engineering, computer science and technology, psychology, information and communication engineering, applied economics) were selected as applied disciplines in Fujian Province. The school adheres to the strategy of developing the school through academics, aims to enhance scientific research innovation and social services, and continuously strengthens disciplines, talent teams and scientific research construction. The school currently has 27 provincial (ministerial) scientific research innovation platforms and humanities and social sciences research bases, and 6 provincial university science and technology innovation teams. Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, the school has undertaken a number of research tasks for national-level projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Social Science Foundation of China, and its research results have won 33 provincial and ministerial scientific research awards. The school actively carries out social service work, establishes industry-university-research cooperation with 29 enterprises and institutions, takes the lead in establishing two provincial collaborative innovation centers, including the Regional Rural Teacher Development Collaborative Innovation Center and the Fungus Health Industry Collaborative Innovation Center, and establishes the Institute of Applied Technology of Minnan Normal University to promote the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements of the school. The school actively carries out foreign cooperation and exchanges, and has established cooperative relations with many universities in Europe, America, Japan and Southeast Asian countries. The school actively carries out projects such as 2+X international undergraduate courses, international vocational education self-taught undergraduate courses, international master's preparatory courses, 4+2 study in Japan and the Overseas Learning Center of the University of Auckland, and vigorously promotes Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools. The school gives full play to its geographical advantages over Taiwan, maintains a good and stable inter-school exchange and cooperation relationship with universities in Taiwan for a long time, actively promotes the study of Minnan culture and cross-strait exchanges, and carries out joint training of talents between Fujian and Taiwan. The school has the qualifications to jointly recruit undergraduate, master and doctoral students from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas Chinese, as well as the qualifications to recruit students from Taiwan without examination. The school adheres to the school motto of "Broad Learning, Reasoning, Ambition and Practice", is rooted in southern Fujian, based in Fujian, and facing the whole country, and has provided a large number of outstanding professionals for the society. Since its establishment, it has trained more than 90,000 graduates of various types. They have the courage to fight and make achievements in their respective positions, and have won wide praise from the society. Party and state leaders Fang Yi, Peng Chong, Peng Peiyun, as well as leaders of the Ministry of Education and Fujian Province, have successively written inscriptions for the school or visited the school to inspect and guide the work, fully affirmed the school's development achievements, and placed high hopes on the school's future prospects. All the main leaders of the party and government of Zhangzhou City have visited the school on-site to work and fully support the development of the school. At present, the school is holding high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on education and the spirit of the National Education Conference, following the "five-in-one" overall layout and the "four comprehensive" strategic layout, bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's important requirement that "Fujian has no reason not to run education well", unswervingly implementing the new development concept, adhering to and strengthening the party's overall leadership over education, and comprehensively implementing the party's education policy. With the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, the theme of promoting high-quality development, and reform and innovation as the fundamental driving force, the "construction of a new Minnan Normal University" is the main line, actively serving the national strategic needs of "national unity, China-ASEAN people-to-people bonds, and the construction of a united front for overseas Minnan people", serving the revitalization and development of the former Central Soviet Area, cultivating socialist builders and successors with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor, building new advantages for development in the new stage, and accelerating the pace of building a high-level normal university that is "well-known in Southeast Asia, distinctive in characteristics, and integrated in multiple disciplines", and making new and greater contributions to the all-round promotion of the development and transcendence of higher education quality in Fujian in the new era. (Data cutoff time March 2022)
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Jianghan University is a comprehensive university located in Wuhan, Hubei Province, a city that connects nine provinces. The school implements a system of co-construction by the province and the city, with the city as the main body. In October 2001, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the new Jianghan University was established on the basis of the merger of the original Jianghan University, the Hankou Branch of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan Education College, and Wuhan Workers Medical College. In June 2002, the school moved as a whole to Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone. In 2018, the school was selected as a "domestic first-class discipline construction university" in the "Double First-Class" construction of Hubei Province, and the chemical engineering and technology discipline was selected as a "domestic first-class discipline construction discipline" in Hubei Province. In 2019, the school introduced Academician Xie Xianqi of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, becoming the first Hubei provincial university with a full-time academician; in 2021, the school was approved to become a doctoral degree-granting institution, and the discipline of chemical engineering and technology was approved as a first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization point; it was approved to build a provincial and ministerial joint state key laboratory for fine blasting. It has a profound cultural heritage, beautiful scenery and pleasant scenery. The school is bordered by the Yangtze River in the east and the Han River in the north. It is the hometown of the eternal legend of "high mountains and flowing water". The campus environment is beautiful, the rippling Triangle Lake embraces the green garden, and the Qingyuan River is like a rainbow lying on the waves, reflecting the school. There are distinct four seasons here, and the flowers and fruits are fragrant. In spring, there are peaches and plums, and the grass is long and the warblers are flying; in summer, there are lotus fields, and the fragrance is overflowing; in autumn, there are red maples and golden chrysanthemums, and the light is colorful; in winter, there is a faint fragrance of cold plums, and the powder is made up of jade. The school covers a total area of about 1,960 acres, and the building area of the school is nearly 720,000 square meters. The student apartments are equipped with independent bathrooms, air conditioners, washing machines and other living facilities. The six school canteens are known as "Internet celebrity canteens". The campus is close to the regional government center, business center and national super-large enterprise headquarters. It is convenient for life and quiet in the bustling city. It is an excellent place for learning, research, practice and life. The disciplines are rich, and a hundred schools of thought contend. The school has 1 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization point, 9 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, and 11 master's professional degree authorization categories; 77 undergraduate majors are opened, covering 11 major disciplines such as economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, and art. The chemical engineering and technology major has passed the engineering education professional certification, the clinical medicine major has passed the clinical medicine professional certification of the Ministry of Education, and the material forming and control engineering major has been selected as a national first-class undergraduate major construction point, and 27 undergraduate majors have been selected as provincial first-class undergraduate major construction points. The school has 5 provincial key disciplines (including cultivation), 5 provincial advantageous and characteristic discipline groups, 2 national characteristic majors, 1 national comprehensive reform project, 2 provincial brand majors, 5 provincial comprehensive reform projects, 9 provincial strategic emerging (pillar) industry talent training plan undergraduate projects, and 8 provincial general undergraduate colleges and universities "Jingchu Excellent Talents" collaborative education plan projects; 5 national first-class undergraduate courses, 32 provincial first-class undergraduate courses, and high-quality online open courses have been approved. The faculty is strong, the teachers are good, and the teachers are of noble morality. Xie Xianqi, director of the school's academic committee, is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and an expert with special government allowances from the State Council. He has won the National Science and Technology Progress Award many times and has made important contributions to promoting the progress of engineering blasting technology. The school currently has 1,270 full-time teachers, including 200 senior professors and 504 associate senior professors, and the proportion of teachers with doctoral degrees has reached 47.5%. Two academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and two academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering were hired, as well as two candidates for the national talent plan and 35 candidates for the provincial talent plan, forming a high-level teaching staff led by national talents, provincial and ministerial talents as the backbone, and young and middle-aged doctoral teachers as the backbone. Foreign teacher Sarah won the 2020 China Government Friendship Award, and many teachers were awarded titles such as "National Excellent Teacher", "Chutian Gardener Award", and "Jingchu Good Teacher"; many people won awards in activities such as the National College Ideological and Political Theory Course Teaching Demonstration and the National College Teachers' Teaching and Guidance Skills Competition. The combination of industry, academia and research has brought about a hundred flowers blooming and fruitful results. The school has built 20 scientific research platforms at the provincial level and above, including 1 national key laboratory, 1 key laboratory of the Ministry of Education, 3 provincial key laboratories, and 3 provincial key research bases for humanities and social sciences. It has 1 innovation group of key projects of Hubei Self-Science Fund and 10 provincial science and technology innovation teams. In the past five years, the school has obtained more than 1,600 scientific research projects of various types, including more than 110 national scientific research projects, and has been approved to host one special project of the National Key R&D Program "Intergovernmental International Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation", undertake one national key science and technology program project as a subject undertaking unit, and approved one key funding project of the National Natural Science Foundation, participated in one major bidding project of the National Social Science Fund, and participated in more than 10 national "863" programs, support programs and key R&D program projects; published more than 2,200 academic papers and included in the three major retrievals such as SCIEICPCI; published more than 330 textbooks and books; obtained more than 1,700 intellectual property authorizations of various types, including more than 310 invention patents. The school has successively won more than 130 scientific research achievement awards at provincial, ministerial and municipal levels, including: 2 second prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 4 first prizes of Hubei Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 special prize of the China Engineering Blasting Association Science and Technology Progress Award and 5 first prizes. There are 4 provincial internship and training bases, 9 provincial graduate education innovation bases and provincial graduate workstations. The school cooperates with more than 100 local enterprises to build more than 20 industry-university-research bases and school-enterprise co-built laboratories. It attaches great importance to cultivating students' scientific research capabilities. Many undergraduates and postgraduates have published papers in international academic journals during their time at school, and outstanding undergraduate students have entered Peking University to directly pursue doctoral degrees. The school has significant benefits, based in Wuhan, serving Hubei, and facing the whole country. The school has trained more than 180,000 talents of various types for the society. A large number of outstanding alumni have become backbones and industry leaders. They have selflessly dedicated themselves and worked hard in their respective positions, interpreting the spirit of Jiangda's motto of "morality, practicality, compatibility, and innovation". In the past five years, more than 70 achievements of the school have been transformed and promoted. Among them, the industrialization of projects such as "polyimide preparation technology for flexible display substrate materials", "halogen-free flame retardant film" and "new varieties of cowpea" has generated social and economic benefits of more than 2 billion yuan. In particular, the "polyimide preparation technology for flexible display substrate materials" was successfully transferred to Dinglong Holdings Co., Ltd., breaking the current situation of all flexible display substrate materials relying on imports; the new technology for variety identification-multiple nucleotide polymorphism (MNP) labeling method has solved the "neck-stuck" technical problems of many biological DNA identifications, and the school's biological gene detection and identification center has obtained national-level crop seed quality inspection qualifications; 6 scientific and technological achievements industrialization and discipline companies have been established, one of which has been listed on the "New Third Board". As a high-end think tank, Wuhan Research Institute has provided a large number of high-level ideological and theoretical achievements and decision-making consulting solutions for the local area. Wuhan Chedu Jiangda Women's Football Club is the only student army in the country to compete in the Women's Super League. Many players are active national team main players. They won the 2020 Women's Super League championship and created the history of Wuhan's three major sports. In the fight against the COVID-19, the affiliated hospital of the university successively admitted 1,393 confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients, and the fever clinic received a total of 18,000 patients. Liu Jianhua was named an advanced individual in the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic, and Zhu Guochao was named an advanced individual in the prevention and control of COVID-19 in the national health system; alumnus Xia Sisi unfortunately died in the fight against the epidemic and was posthumously awarded the "National March 8 Red Flag Bearer" and "China Youth May 4th Medal". Adhere to opening up to the outside world, global vision, and integration into the world. The school continues to promote foreign exchanges and cooperation, becoming the first municipal unit in Wuhan to be approved by the State Administration of Foreign Experts for key education, science, culture, and health projects, which has an important leading role and demonstration effect on Wuhan's active role in foreign experts. It has established cooperative relations with 63 universities or organizations in 22 countries and regions. The school's dragon boat team participated in the Uganda Dragon Boat Race and won the championship for three consecutive years. It has been approved for a number of world-renowned scientists to come to Hubei to give lectures. The school cooperates with Athlone Institute of Technology in Ireland to open Sino-foreign cooperative education projects, and has established more than ten inter-school exchange programs and exchange student programs with universities in the United States, Germany, France, Japan and other countries. Actively promote students to go abroad for short-term study, and send more than 300 students each year. There are more than 300 international students. 12 international joint laboratories such as the Nanobiomedical Engineering Center have been built. The school insists on undergraduate education as the main focus, accelerates the development of graduate education, actively develops education for international students, and vigorously develops continuing education with social training as the main body. It focuses on cultivating high-quality applied, innovative, and international talents with comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor, and innovative spirit and practical ability for Wuhan, Hubei, and national economic construction and social development, and strives to build a high-level urban university with influence and characteristics in China. (Data deadline: November 2021)
Chongqing Three Gorges University was founded in 1956 and is now located in Wanzhou District, Chongqing, a thousand-year-old ancient city and the capital of immigrants. It is the only comprehensive applied undergraduate college in the hinterland of the Three Gorges Reservoir (school code 10643). In 2013, it was approved by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee as a master's degree awarding institution. In 2021, it was approved by the Chongqing Academic Degrees Committee as a doctoral degree awarding institution for project construction. After more than 60 years of development, the school has become the first undergraduate college in Chongqing to advocate the "green education concept" and promote the "integration of green education and industry". It has now formed a discipline and professional system with engineering, literature, and management as the main disciplines, and coordinated development of disciplines such as science, agriculture, economics, education, law, and art. It focuses on undergraduate education, and coordinates the development of graduate education and adult education. The school is a national smart campus construction pilot unit, a member unit of the "Double Hundred Plan" of Sino-US applied technology education, a demonstration unit of Chongqing education informatization, and an experimental school for the reform and development of aesthetic education in Chongqing universities. The school covers an area of 3,039 acres, with a building area of 726,400 square meters, a total value of 289 million yuan for teaching and scientific research equipment, 1.9673 million paper books in the library, and 1.7825 million electronic books. A complete modern electronic book system and information network service system have been built. The school currently has 18 secondary colleges, with more than 20,000 full-time undergraduate and above students, including 1,227 master's students. There are 62 undergraduate majors, 5 first-level master's degree authorization points (Chinese language and literature, environmental science and engineering, electronic science and technology, agricultural and forestry economic management, mathematics), and 8 professional degree master's degree authorization points (Master of Education, Master of Agriculture, Master of Civil Engineering and Water Conservancy, Master of Tourism Management, Master of Journalism and Communication, Master of Electronic Information, Master of Resources and Environment, Master of Public Administration). There are 7 municipal key disciplines of Chongqing Higher Education Institutions in the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, namely Chinese language and literature, electronic science and technology, environmental science and engineering, agriculture, education, civil engineering and water conservancy, and tourism management. The school currently has 1,412 faculty and staff, including 1,071 full-time teachers. Among the full-time teachers, 427 have senior professional and technical positions, including 145 senior professional and technical positions, 910 have master's degrees or above, and 219 have doctoral degrees. It has established a national expert service base of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, a Chongqing-level academician expert workstation, and a postdoctoral research workstation. Flexible introduction of 4 domestic and foreign academicians and 12 academic teams. Among the faculty and staff, there is one academician of the European Academy of Sciences and one national "Yangtze River Scholar" lecture professor; two experts enjoying special government allowances from the State Council; five Chongqing talents, 11 Chongqing Bayu scholars, nine academic and technical leaders (reserve candidates), two young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions; two winners of the National "May 1st" Labor Medal, one national advanced agricultural worker; one famous teacher in Chongqing, one excellent teacher, 13 backbone teachers; and two winners of the Chongqing "May 1st" Labor Medal. The school has won six provincial and ministerial-level outstanding teaching achievement awards in the past two terms. There are 1 national specialty, 2 first-class specialties, 1 provincial and ministerial specialty discipline group, 21 provincial and ministerial specialty specialties and first-class specialties, 6 provincial and ministerial teaching teams, 43 provincial and ministerial first-class courses, ideological and political demonstration courses, quality courses, quality resource sharing courses, quality video open courses, etc.; 4 provincial and ministerial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 4 virtual simulation experimental projects; 1 new engineering research and practice project of the Ministry of Education, 2 provincial and ministerial pilot projects for deepening comprehensive reform in the field of education; 96 provincial and ministerial education reform projects have been undertaken in the past five years. In the past five years, students have won more than 2,000 awards at the provincial and ministerial level or above in competitions such as the China "Internet +" College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the "Challenge Cup" College Student Extracurricular Academic and Scientific Works Competition, the "Chuang Qingchun" College Student Entrepreneurship Plan Competition, and the National College Student Electronic Design Competition, including more than 500 national awards. The school won 34 provincial and ministerial awards at or above the National College Students Mathematical Modeling Competition; won the special prize of the China TRIZ Cup College Students Innovation Method Competition; won the first prize of the National College Students Engineering Training Comprehensive Ability Competition for two consecutive sessions; won the China College Students Computer Game Competition for 10 consecutive championships, and the Chongqing College Students Wushu Competition Team for 13 consecutive championships; the Tchougu Ball Team represented China in the third East Asian Tchougu Ball Competition, and both the men's and women's teams won the first place. The school closely focuses on the needs of national and local economic and social development, and strengthens scientific and technological innovation and achievement transformation. In the past five years, it has won 31 provincial (ministerial) and above awards for outstanding scientific research achievements, including one "Five One Project Award" for the 15th Spiritual Civilization Construction of the Central Propaganda Department. There are 29 scientific research platforms such as provincial and ministerial key laboratories and engineering technology centers, including 4 provincial and ministerial key laboratories; more than 600 horizontal projects entrusted by government departments, enterprises and institutions have been undertaken; 549 national and provincial and ministerial scientific research projects have been approved, 12 provincial and ministerial innovation teams (innovation research groups) have been approved, and more than 1,000 national authorized patents have been obtained, including more than 140 invention patents; more than 200 academic works have been published; 4,652 academic papers have been published, 1,294 papers have been published in Peking University core and above journals, 565 papers have been included in the three major retrieval systems, 336 CSSCI source journal articles, and 326 CSCD source journal articles. The school actively carries out international exchanges and cooperation, and has established cooperative relationships such as joint schooling, mutual dispatch of teachers, visiting scholars and academic exchanges with many foreign universities such as the United States and the United Kingdom, many foreign companies and research institutions such as Germany's BSK and Indonesia's International Daily, and many domestic universities such as Southeast University, Shandong University, and Beijing Institute of Technology; and has established strategic cooperative relationships with departments and local governments in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and enterprises (institutions) such as ZTE, Inspur, and Ruijie in talent training, professional construction, internship practice, innovation and entrepreneurship. (Data as of December 2021)
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Chengdu University was founded in 1978 and is one of the first full-time undergraduate colleges hosted by local cities after the reform and opening up. The school implements a system of co-construction by the province and the city, with the city as the main body. It is a key university in Sichuan Province and Chengdu City, and is the host university of the Athletes Village of the 31st World University Summer Games. The school has gone through many mergers, and its history can be traced back to the public Sichuan Excellent Selection Normal School in 1906 and the public Sichuan Provincial Women's Normal School in 1911. It now has a century-old Class III Class A comprehensive affiliated hospital, the Sichuan Antibiotics Industrial Research Institute, a national antibiotic research and development base, with the right to confer bachelor's and master's degrees, and a postdoctoral practice base. It is a university in the "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" of the Ministry of Education, a university with national defense education characteristics of the Ministry of Education, a first-class undergraduate professional construction point project unit of the Ministry of Education's "Double 10,000 Plan", and a "priority cultivation" type construction unit of the Sichuan Provincial Doctoral Construction Unit Progressive Cultivation Plan. In the long-term development process, the university has always taken national rejuvenation and social progress as its own responsibility, adhering to the school motto of "self-love, self-cultivation, self-respect, and self-improvement", promoting the spirit of "truth-seeking, pragmatism, and self-improvement", adhering to the educational concept of "elegant and great virtue, constant and great talent" and the service positioning of "rooted in Chengdu, facing the world, and serving the society", adhering to the connotation development, reform and innovation, and quality improvement, and focusing on cultivating high-quality applied talents for the society, conducting high-level scientific research, providing high-quality social services, and promoting cultural inheritance and innovation. In the 2022 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the school entered the top 100 universities in China for the first time, ranking 77th in China and 1001-1200 among universities worldwide; in the 2022 Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject, 2 disciplines were listed for the first time, with clinical and health disciplines ranking 601+ globally and engineering disciplines ranking 801-1000 globally. Disciplines and majors The school scientifically plans and sets up disciplines and majors around the core literacy of high-quality applied talents, scientific and technological development, and industrial development needs, and continuously promotes the integration of disciplines and majors. There are 10 disciplines and 62 undergraduate majors in art, literature, management, education, economics, law, engineering, medicine, science, and agriculture. There are 9 first-level disciplines authorized to grant master's degrees, 16 master's professional degree authorization categories, and a postdoctoral innovation and practice base. The engineering discipline is in the top 1% of the ESI global ranking. The pharmacy discipline was selected as a high-level discipline in China by the Alumni Association in 2019, ranking second in the province. There are 4 majors in the national outstanding talent education and training program and 7 majors in the provincial outstanding talent education and training program; 4 majors such as food science and engineering were selected as applied demonstration majors in Sichuan Province; radio and television editing and introduction were selected as provincial "curriculum ideological and political" demonstration majors; 19 majors such as tourism management were selected as the first-class undergraduate majors of the Ministry of Education "Double Ten Thousand Plan". Faculty The school takes the "four-have" teachers as the standard, vigorously implements the talent-strengthening school strategy, vigorously introduces outstanding talents, improves the teacher management and development mechanism, promotes noble teacher ethics, and stimulates the vitality of teacher professional development. There are more than 30 doctoral supervisors, 529 master's supervisors, 1,632 full-time teachers, 230 teachers with senior professional titles, 567 teachers with associate senior professional titles, and 773 doctoral teachers. The school specially appointed Fan Daiming, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, as the honorary president. There are more than 20 people such as National Outstanding Youth, Yangtze River Scholars, National Candidates of the New Century Hundred Thousand Talents Project, and experts who enjoy special government allowances from the State Council, and more than 80 provincial academic and technical leaders, provincial outstanding experts with outstanding contributions, etc. 3 academicians of the two academies, 2 academicians of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, more than 20 Yangtze River Scholars, National Outstanding Youth, nearly 30 high-end foreign experts, and more than 100 researchers (associate researchers). Talent Cultivation The school closely focuses on moral education, adheres to the foundation, fully implements the four returns, intensifies education and teaching reforms, and builds an open and flexible curriculum system and learning support system. The school currently has more than 25,000 full-time students (including about 1,700 graduate students). The quality of the school's students has improved year by year. In 2021, 16 majors will enroll undergraduates in Sichuan, Gansu, Henan, and Xinjiang in the first batch, and 94% of freshmen in liberal arts and science have scores above the first-tier line. Food Science and Engineering, Automation, Mechanical Design, Manufacturing and Automation, and Clinical Medicine have passed the professional certification of the Ministry of Education. There are 223 Ministry of Education industry-university cooperation and collaborative education projects, 2 national engineering practice education centers, 2 off-campus practice education bases, and 3 provincial off-campus practice education bases; 8 national first-class professional construction sites, 11 provincial first-class professional construction sites; 3 national first-class courses, 26 provincial first-class courses, 9 provincial "curriculum ideological and political" demonstration courses, 7 provincial innovation and entrepreneurship education demonstration courses, 9 provincial application-oriented demonstration courses, 38 provincial quality courses; 7 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 3 provincial virtual simulation experimental teaching centers; 28 provincial teaching reform projects were approved in 2019, and 2 of the first batch of new liberal arts research and reform practice projects of the Ministry of Education. In the past two sessions, 5 first prizes for education and teaching achievements in Sichuan Province have been won; the achievements of student apartment work have won the first prize for innovation achievements in student apartment work in colleges and universities across the country. The School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship is the first batch of "Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship Course Experimental Center" in the country. It has been approved as a national mass innovation space and selected as one of the "100 Characteristic Spaces in the Country". In the past five years, it has been approved for 222 national college student innovation and entrepreneurship training programs and 594 provincial college student innovation and entrepreneurship training programs. Students have won 1,254 national awards and 2,085 provincial awards in major subject competitions such as the China "Internet +" College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. It has established a top-notch innovative talent training base-Zhang Lan College, exploring and promoting the "three systems and four transformations" model of top-notch innovative talent training. The national postgraduate entrance examination rate of three graduates is 86%, and the average enrollment rate is 45%; in the past five years, the average employment rate of school graduates is 93%. Scientific Research The school focuses on the national economic and social development strategy layout, especially the major regional development strategies, and focuses on adapting to regional industrial clusters, key pillar industries and emerging industries, and continuously improves the level of scientific research services and support capabilities. There are more than 1,200 scientific researchers, and 76 scientific research platforms of various levels and types have been built, including the International Science and Technology Cooperation Base of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National and Regional Research Center of the Ministry of Education, the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, the Engineering Technology Research Center of Sichuan Province, the Engineering Laboratory of Sichuan Province, and the Sichuan 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center. In the past five years, the school has undertaken 128 national science and technology plan projects, including 21 major projects and key research and development projects, and 107 National Natural Science Foundation projects; 34 National Social Science Foundation projects and 6 National Art Foundation projects; the number of National Natural Science Foundation and National Social Science Foundation projects ranked among the top ten in the province, and the number of National Art Foundation projects ranked among the top three in the province. In 2019 and 2020, the research funding exceeded 240 million for two consecutive years, and the average research funding per teacher exceeded 170,000 yuan. 63 scientific research awards at the provincial and ministerial levels and above have been won, including 8 first prizes, 14 second prizes, and 41 third prizes. The "Ultra-long Life Fatigue Crack Initiation Mechanism and Life Prediction" in charge of our teachers won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award in 2018, and the "Key Technology and Industrialization of Acarbose Raw Materials and Preparations Production" in which they participated won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2014. The "Research on the Names of "Three Rites"" in charge of our teachers was selected into the 2015 "National Philosophy and Social Sciences Achievement Library", and "Going Home for the New Year" won the first prize in the Socialist Core Values Animation Short Film Creation Competition hosted by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television in 2016. Nearly 1,500 patents have been authorized. In the past five years, 488 CSSCI papers have been published, and 450 monographs and textbooks have been published. In 2021, 990 ESI papers in various disciplines were published, many of which were published in top international academic journals such as "Nature-Microbiology", "New England Journal of Medicine", and "The Lancet"; 60 articles were selected as ESI highly cited papers, 10 articles were selected as hot papers, and the total ESI citation frequency exceeded 23,000 times. In the latest Nature Index list released in 2021, our university ranks 5th among universities in Sichuan, 150th among universities in China, and 700th among universities in the world. Professor Wang Qingyuan has been selected for the "China Highly Cited Scholars" list for seven consecutive years, and was also selected for the "Career Influence" and "Annual Influence" lists of the top 2% of scientists in the world in 2020 and 2021. Four teachers were selected for the "Annual Influence" list of the top 2% of scientists in the world in 2021. Local Service The school is fully integrated into the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle, closely connected with the needs of Chengdu's "5+5+1" modern industrial system and functional area construction, and built an ecosystem of "interaction between government, school and enterprise, integration of industry, academia and research". It has established strategic cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, H3C Group, Greenland Group, Sichuan Energy Investment, Sichuan Railway Group, Tianfu Supercomputing Center and multiple districts (cities), counties and municipal departments in Chengdu. It has cooperated with the Chengdu Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, H3C IT College, Chengdu Ecological Civilization Research Institute, Chengdu Government Affairs Management and Cultural Construction Research Center, Chengdu Journalism College, Tianfu Culture Research Institute, Chengdu Documentation Center, Chengdu Football Academy, Chengdu Research Institute, Chengdu Tourism Research Institute, Chengdu Exhibition Economic Development Research Institute, Chengdu Pharmaceutical Industry Technology Research Institute, and Children's Sports Development Research Center (the only one in the country). The China City Convention and Exhibition Industry Competitiveness Index has been released to the world for 6 consecutive years. Introduce resources from all parties to create a local incubation base for the transfer and transformation of results, and help the local transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements. In the past five years, the school has provided targeted assistance to Shiqu County, Ganzi Prefecture, Jiuzhaigou County, Aba Prefecture, Shijia Village, Xinshi Street, Jianyang City, and Minqiang Village, Shizhong Town, and was awarded the title of "Provincial Advanced Targeted Poverty Alleviation Unit in 2018". International Exchange The school has incorporated "high-standard implementation of first-class international projects" into the "six first-class" construction goals for the next five years, implemented a project of one college connecting to one world-class discipline (university), and signed cooperation memoranda with 130 universities in 38 countries and regions, including 35 world-renowned universities, 10 world-renowned young universities and 44 Chengdu International Sister City Universities. The Confucius Institute at the University of New Hampshire in the United States won the title of "Global Advanced Confucius Institute" in 2019. A total of 2,900 international students have been enrolled from 54 countries; 769 international students will be trained in 2021. It was rated as the first batch of "Sichuan Demonstration Base for International Students in China". We have carried out 4 undergraduate and junior college Sino-foreign cooperative education projects, and established Stirling College in cooperation with the University of Stirling in the UK; we have carried out 40 undergraduate, master and doctoral multi-level overseas joint training programs and 42 overseas inter-school exchange programs, with a total of nearly 1,000 participating students. We have established two overseas alumni chapters in Thailand and New Zealand. We have held six consecutive International Exchange Weeks. We have hired Princess Sirindhorn of the Kingdom of Thailand as an honorary professor; and we have specially hired Thai expert Guan Guoxing to receive the "Chinese Government Friendship Award". The "Sichuan Province Thailand Research Center" was selected into the list of national and regional research centers of the Ministry of Education. We have facilitated the establishment of international sister city relations between Chengdu and Chiang Mai, Thailand and Hamilton, New Zealand. We have taken the lead in establishing the "Chengdu International Sister City University Alliance" and served as the alliance secretariat and the first executive chairman unit. In 2021, the "International Competitiveness" evaluation module of China's universities ranked 163rd, and the two indicators of the proportion of international students and the proportion of international cooperation papers have both entered the top 100 in the country. Location conditions The school is located in Chengdu, a national central city, with obvious advantages in development location conditions. The school is one of the important integrated universities in the national new era revitalization of higher education in central and western China, taking Chongqing and Chengdu as strategic fulcrums, giving play to the spillover effect of university clusters, and building a bridgehead for the opening up of higher education in the southwest region. The school is a single campus school, covering an area of more than 2,300 acres, more than 30,000 acres of Qinglong Lake Wetland Park and Jincheng Greenway surround the campus, with a beautiful environment. Metro Line 4 has a Chengdu University Station, which takes 20 minutes to reach the city center, and convenient transportation. The school building area is 964,300 square meters, of which the area of teaching, scientific research and administrative buildings is 489,100 square meters. The total value of teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment is 377 million yuan, the library building area is 60,600 square meters, the total number of paper books in the collection is 2.4082 million, and the number of electronic journals is 552,700. The campus culture, teaching and research, learning and living facilities of the school are complete, convenient and modern. There is a one-stop student affairs hall, teacher affairs hall, and alumni home. It has the largest single university library in the southwest region, an art library, Chengdu ASEAN Art Center, museum, art gallery, concert hall, student mental health center, high-standard gymnasium, volleyball hall, constant temperature swimming pool, 3 track and field stadiums, 4 basketball courts and weatherproof basketball courts, and an international academic exchange center and conference center that can undertake large-scale academic conferences. The scientific research building (frontier technology research center for biology and medicine) is under construction. There are tertiary comprehensive Chengdu University Affiliated Hospital, Chengdu University Affiliated Primary School, and Chengdu University Affiliated Kindergarten. Looking to the future, all faculty and staff of the school will work together, work together, adhere to the leadership of the Party, adhere to moral education, and run universities rooted in China. Accelerate the construction of Chengdu's innovative university, open university, and window university, and show the image of Chengdu's governance with the results of Chengdu University's governance, and make unremitting efforts to build a distinctive, domestically first-class, and internationally renowned applied urban university as soon as possible! (Data updated in January 2022)
Tianshui Normal University was founded in 1959. In 2000, it was upgraded from Tianshui Normal College to Tianshui Normal University. In 2013, it began to train master's degree students in education. In 2015, it was listed as the first batch of pilot colleges for transformation and development by Gansu Province. In 2018, it was listed as a master's degree awarding institution by the State Council Degree Office. 【School-running ideas and goals】The school adheres to the spirit of "survival in adversity and development in struggle", based on its own reality, keeps pace with the development of higher education in the new era, and has initially formed four major application-oriented professional groups: teacher education, engineering technology, business management, and culture, sports and art. It has clarified the school-running positioning of being based in southeastern Gansu, serving Gansu Province, and going to the whole of China, and the school-running ideas of actively serving national strategies and local needs, actively accepting the leadership of local party committees and governments, and actively serving regional economic and social development. It has determined the school-running goal of building a first-class, domestically well-known, and high-level application-oriented university with distinctive normal characteristics in the west. 【Department Settings】The school has 1 college, 17 secondary colleges, and 64 teaching departments (departments). 【School-running conditions】The school covers an area of 670 acres, with a school building area of 460,000 square meters; the library has 2.4 million books, 1,331 Chinese and foreign periodicals, and 40 databases; the teaching equipment is worth 241 million yuan, and the fixed assets are 1.069 billion yuan. 【Faculty】The school currently has 1,384 faculty members (including 740 full-time teachers), 111 professors (researchers), 306 teachers with associate senior professional titles, 210 teachers with doctoral degrees (including those currently studying), and more than 690 teachers with master's degrees. Among the faculty, there is one Huang Danian-style teaching team in national universities, 10 provincial teaching teams, 11 national outstanding teachers, national advanced workers, experts enjoying special allowances from the State Council, "Baosteel Education Fund Outstanding Teachers", and candidates for the New Century Outstanding Talents Support Program of the Ministry of Education; there are more than 100 leading talents in Gansu Province, outstanding experts, Feitian scholars, model teachers, winners of the Gardener Award, famous teachers, 4 batches of talents, winners of the Young Teachers' Talent Award, and candidates for the Longyuan Youth Innovation Talent Support Program. 【Talent Training】The school recruits students from 26 provinces (cities and regions) across the country, and currently has more than 17,000 students of all types, including more than 15,000 undergraduates and nearly 800 graduate students. It has trained hundreds of thousands of high-quality applied talents, mainly basic education teachers, for the society, and has been widely recognized by the society. The school was commended and rewarded by the State Education Commission for "training qualified teachers for basic education, with clear direction and remarkable achievements". The school has built one Gansu Province Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture Inheritance Base, one University Student Science and Technology Park, and six Gansu University Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centers. In the past three years, students have won more than 100 national awards and more than 800 provincial awards in various professional competitions, especially in the National College Student Mathematics Competition (Gansu Division), ranking first among provincial universities for six consecutive years; the pass rate of the National Legal Professional Qualification Examination for law majors has been among the top universities in the province for three consecutive years; the women's hockey team has won the "Hongao Cup" National College Student Hockey Championship for six consecutive terms; the postgraduate entrance examination rate ranks among the top among similar provincial universities. 【Disciplines and Majors】The school currently has two first-class characteristic disciplines in Gansu Province, namely Chinese history and ecology, and eight provincial key disciplines, namely Chinese language and literature, Chinese history, ecology, electronic science and technology, chemistry, Marxist theory, education and mathematics. There are three first-level disciplines authorized to grant master's degrees (Chinese language and literature, Marxist theory, and chemistry), and six professional master's degree authorization points (Master of Education, Master of Electronic Information, Master of Machinery, Master of Sports, Master of Biology and Medicine, and Master of Cultural Relics and Museums). There are 61 undergraduate majors (including 2 national first-class majors, 2 national characteristic majors, 16 provincial first-class undergraduate majors, and 11 provincial characteristic majors). There are currently 12 provincial first-class undergraduate courses, 22 quality courses, and 2 quality resource sharing courses. 【Scientific Research】The school currently has 1 country and regional research center registered with the Ministry of Education, 12 provincial scientific research institutions, and 1 academician workstation. In the past five years, the school has won more than 800 scientific research projects of various types, including 46 national projects and more than 190 provincial (ministerial) projects; more than 170 scientific research results have won awards, including 43 provincial (ministerial) awards; 6 provincial social science outstanding achievements first prizes; published 146 academic monographs (textbooks); published more than 2,100 scientific research papers in domestic and foreign academic journals, including more than 300 SCI and CSSCI source journals. The academic journal "Journal of Tianshui Normal University" sponsored by the school has won the title of "National Excellent Social Science Journal" many times, and the "Longyou Cultural Research" column has won the title of "National Excellent Column of Social Science Journal" many times. [Exchange and Cooperation] The school adheres to open education and has established cooperative relations with more than 120 well-known domestic and foreign universities, enterprises, institutions and local governments. It has established counterpart assistance and cooperation relationships with more than 10 universities such as Xi'an Jiaotong University, Lanzhou University, and Shaanxi Normal University; jointly established more than 10 platforms such as "Gansu University Integrated Circuit Industry Development Research Institute", "Optoelectronic Display Materials Research Institute", and "Academician Workstation" with Tianshui Huatian Electronics Group, Dongxu Group, Tianrui Heavy Industry and other enterprises and institutions to jointly tackle technical bottlenecks and serve industrial development; built two international cooperation platforms, "Caucasus Research Center" and "China-Belarus Ecological Environment Research Institute", to carry out research in the fields of culture, ecology, and environment of the "Belt and Road"; established friendly and cooperative relations with more than 20 universities in the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany and other countries, and carried out various forms of exchanges and cooperation; since 2003, it has recruited foreign students and has trained more than 200 international students from 21 countries. Relying on the Gansu Rural Talent Education and Training Base, it has trained more than 6,000 new rural skilled talents for the region. [Campus Culture] The school closely focuses on the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, and deeply practices the core values of socialism. The red gene is continued with the red culture education experience hall, the Tianshui whirling drum dance and Tianshui lacquerware are used as the starting point to promote and develop regional culture, the moral education culture is cultivated with the teacher ethics model such as Zhang Hongxun, the Hanhaichao Literature Society, one of the top 100 humanities societies in the country, as a model to enrich the club culture, and the school history museum, museum, Huo Songlin Art Museum, Radar Literature Museum, and school art museum are used as carriers to highlight the characteristics of aesthetic education, and build a "five-in-one" cultural education system. In 2005, it was awarded the honorary title of "National Civilized Unit" by the Central Civilization Committee, and in 2018 it was awarded the honorary title of the first batch of provincial civilized campuses, and in 2021 it was approved as a red gene inheritance demonstration school in Gansu Province. (Updated in September 2021)
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