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Hebei University of Science and Technology

Hebei University of Science and Technology

Hebei Vocational University of Technology and Engineering (Hebei Vocational University of Technology and Engineering), referred to as "Hebei Vocational University of Technology and Engineering", is affiliated to the People's Government of Hebei Province. It is a full-time undergraduate university with engineering as its main discipline and a pilot school for undergraduate vocational education established by the state in the new era. The school is located in Xingtai City, Hebei Province, a provincial historical and cultural city in Hebei, a national garden city, a node city of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration, an advanced manufacturing base in central and southern Hebei, and a logistics hub. It is the ancient capital of the Five Dynasties and the hometown of Yuan Dynasty scientist Guo Shoujing. It has a profound cultural heritage, beautiful environment, convenient transportation, and developed information. The school's predecessor, Xingtai Agricultural Machinery School, was founded in 1979 and belongs to the Ministry of Agricultural Machinery of the State. In 1982, it was renamed Xingtai Mechanical Industry School of the Ministry of Machinery Industry, and in 1983 it was renamed the Military Industry School of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, which is affiliated to the General Logistics Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. In 1991, with the approval of the former State Education Commission, Xingtai Higher Vocational and Technical School was established based on the Military Industry School to carry out a pilot reform of higher vocational education; in 1994, the school was renamed the Military Industry College of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. In 1997, the Ministry of Education approved the school to take the lead in changing its name to Xingtai Vocational and Technical College with the standard of "Vocational and Technical College". In the same year, the General Logistics Department approved the school to be renamed the Military Industry College of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. In 2002, the school was transferred from the General Logistics Department to Hebei Province and became a provincial university. In 2021, the Ministry of Education approved Xingtai Vocational and Technical College as the main body of the school, and merged with the School of Science and Technology of North China Electric Power University to establish Hebei Science and Technology Engineering Vocational and Technical University. The school thoroughly implements the party's education policy, firmly adheres to the socialist direction of running schools, implements the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, and promotes the comprehensive and sustainable development of students. In the process of running the school, the school has always inherited and carried forward the military style of running schools, followed the school motto of "combining virtue and ability, and taking responsibility", adhered to the school spirit of "vigorous and resolute action, unity and dedication, practical innovation, and pursuit of excellence", and maintained a good development trend in all fields. In 1991, it undertook the pilot task of higher vocational education of the former State Education Commission. In 2000, it became a key construction unit of the first batch of national exemplary vocational and technical colleges. In December 2006, the school was established by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance as one of the first 28 "National Demonstration Higher Vocational College Construction Plan" project construction colleges. In 2009, it passed the acceptance with excellent results and became the first national demonstrative higher vocational college in Hebei Province in the first batch of the country. In 2010, it was awarded the "Top 50 Typical Experiences of National College Graduates in Employment". In 2016, it became the first batch of " It is a project construction unit of "National High-quality Higher Vocational Colleges" and the first batch of apprenticeship construction units of the Ministry of Education. In 2017, it was selected as a "National Demonstration University for Deepening Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform", in 2018 it was selected as one of the "Top 50 National Universities with Typical Experience in Innovation and Entrepreneurship", and in 2019 it was selected as one of the "Top 50 Teaching Management", "Top 50 Teaching Resources", "Top 50 Service Contributions", and "Top 50 Education Results" of national higher vocational colleges. It was approved as the first batch of national high-quality schools and was selected into the national "Chinese Characteristic High-level Vocational Schools and Majors Construction Plan" ("Double High Plan") sequence. The school serves the national development strategy, deepens the service to the national military-civilian integration and the construction of Xiongan New Area, connects with the leading industries in Hebei Province, constructs a "one body and two wings" professional layout, and builds a main professional group. It has 10 departments including automotive engineering, clothing engineering, electromechanical engineering, electrical engineering, construction engineering, information engineering, art and media, economic management, accounting, resources and environmental engineering, etc. It offers 10 undergraduate majors including automotive engineering technology, mechanical design, manufacturing and automation, electrical engineering and automation, clothing engineering technology, etc., and more than 40 higher vocational majors including construction engineering technology, computer network technology, architectural decoration engineering technology, marketing, accounting, and environmental engineering. The school-enterprise cooperation has built 11 on-campus training centers with advanced equipment, hardware and software matching, integrating teaching, training, vocational skills appraisal and technical research and development, 272 experimental training rooms, with a total area of ​​more than 149,000 square meters, and 557 off-campus practice bases; the school has been approved as a demonstration base for military-civilian integration of production, learning, research and application in Hebei Province, and has 14 provincial platforms such as the Hebei Valve Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment Engineering Research Center, Hebei Small and Medium-sized Non-standard Equipment Technology Innovation Center, and Hebei Clothing Personalized Customization Technology Innovation Center; Xingtai Internet of Things Application Technology Innovation Center, Xingtai Advanced Productive Service Industry Collaborative Innovation Center and other 9 municipal R&D platforms, and cooperated with district and county governments and enterprises to build technical service stations, enterprise-introduced R&D institutions, and 35 school-level key R&D platforms, implement school-local integration, carry out technological innovation, and promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. The output of applied technical achievements of teachers and students is outstanding, and the patents have long been ranked first among similar colleges in Hebei Province in the "China Higher Vocational College Patent Output Ranking". The school has always been at the forefront of education and teaching reform, adhering to the school-running philosophy of "establishing the school with technology and educating people with military style", creating the "Xingtai model" of higher vocational education, and forming the talent training characteristics of "military style + professionalism". The school has built 1 high-level A-level professional group with Chinese characteristics, 10 national-level majors, 6 provincial-level professional groups, and 9 provincial-level majors. It presided over 1 and participated in 8 national-level professional teaching resource libraries, 15 national-level quality courses, 12 national-level quality resource sharing courses, 1 national-level quality online open course, and 42 national planning textbooks. It has completed 7 research projects on higher vocational education of the Ministry of Education, 347 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects, and more than 100 horizontal scientific research projects per year. It has won 3 second prizes for national teaching achievements in higher education and 15 provincial and ministerial teaching achievement awards. The school adheres to the talent training model of "school-enterprise cooperation and integration of work and study", and jointly develops talent training programs with school-enterprise cooperation. It has established long-term cooperative relations with well-known enterprise groups, former military support enterprises and scientific research institutions, and constantly reshapes the new connotation of the "Xingtai Model" in the new era, innovates the "diversion training, classification talent" education model, implements the "enterprise R&D into the school, school station into the district" initiative, and builds a teacher-student collaboration "Shoujing Innovation Studio". The training of outstanding technical and skilled talents has achieved remarkable results. Graduates are welcomed by employers for their excellent business quality and professional ability, and the average employment rate remains above 98%. The school pays attention to absorbing advanced foreign education concepts and advanced education standards, and has successively carried out inter-school cooperation with Australia, Japan, Britain, the United States, Germany, Thailand, South Africa and other countries. In March 2015, the school jointly opened a degree education cooperative education project with the University of Applied Sciences Schmalkalden in Germany, including mechanical manufacturing and automation, mechatronics, automotive electronics technology, and electrical automation. The school established the first overseas internship base for college students and overseas teacher training base in Hebei Province at the University of Applied Sciences Schmalkalden, and continued to play a leading role in Sino-German vocational education cooperation. Cooperated with Thailand to establish the Sino-Thai Language and Technology Center, set up the "Shoujing Workshop" to promote overseas education, and successfully held three rounds of "Thai Vocational Education Teacher Advanced Training Course", becoming the first higher vocational college in Hebei Province to provide vocational education teachers for countries along the "Belt and Road". The Sino-German cooperative education project was selected as a case of Sino-foreign cooperative education in Hebei Province's high-level vocational education, and the Sino-Thai Language and Technology Center was selected as the first batch of cooperative colleges to be established in the "China-ASEAN Vocational College Characteristic Cooperation Project". The school integrates resources from multiple parties and actively builds a platform to serve vocational education with its unique advantages and contribute to vocational education with high-quality resources. It took the lead in establishing the Military-Civilian Integration Vocational Education Industry-University-Research Collaborative Development Alliance, the Hebei Higher Vocational Education Teaching Alliance, the Hebei Garment Vocational Education Group, the Hebei Automobile Vocational Education Group and the Hebei Higher Vocational Colleges Ideological and Political Theory Course Construction Alliance, and jointly established the Marxism College with the Xingtai Municipal Party School. At present, the school covers an area of ​​more than 1,600 acres, with a building area of ​​476,000 square meters. The total value of teaching equipment is 260 million yuan, with a collection of 1.28 million books, a large library, a gymnasium, a standard sports field, and a gigabit campus network. There are more than 16,000 full-time students, including more than 1,000 full-time undergraduate students, and more than 100 international students from Thailand, Cameroon and other countries. The school has a strong faculty and more than 1,100 faculty and staff, including more than 70 professors, more than 230 associate professors, 45 famous teachers at all levels, and more than 20 teachers serving on teaching guidance committees at all levels. More than 70% of the teachers have master's or doctoral degrees, and "double-qualified" teachers account for 89.45% of professional teachers. More than 220 part-time teachers are employed as backbones of enterprises and industry talents. There is 1 national outstanding teacher, 1 national advanced individual in teacher ethics, 22 famous teachers of various types in Hebei Province, 12 provincial outstanding experts and provincial "three-three-three talents", and 75 national awards for teachers in various competitions. There are 1 national professional teaching team, 2 national vocational education teacher teaching innovation teams, and 4 provincial vocational education teacher teaching innovation teams. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the school will be based in Xingtai, facing Hebei, radiating Beijing and Tianjin, serving the regional economic and social development, and unswervingly build the school into a high-level technical skills talent training base and scientific and technological research and development service base for regional economic development, focusing on solidly promoting the high-quality development of the school, and building a high-level vocational and technical university with remarkable results in undergraduate vocational education reform, strong support for regional development, and significantly improved internationalization.

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Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine was established in 1956. It is one of the first Chinese medicine colleges and universities established after the founding of New China. It is a Chinese medicine college jointly built by the Ministry of Education and local governments, and a high-level university that Shanghai focuses on building. The school is located in the scientific research and education area of ​​Zhangjiang High-tech Park in Pudong New Area, covering an area of ​​more than 500 acres, with complete teaching facilities and beautiful environment. As a university located in the core area of ​​Zhangjiang Science City, it takes the initiative to connect with national strategies and serve the construction of a science and technology innovation center with global influence as its mission, and takes advantage of its existing disciplines and comprehensive advantages to bravely undertake the important task of deepening the reform of higher education in traditional Chinese medicine, promoting independent innovation in traditional Chinese medicine, and leading the development of traditional Chinese medicine. The school has more than 1,300 faculty and staff, including 4 academicians of the two academies, 2 national medical masters, 2 national famous Chinese medicine doctors, 69 Shanghai famous Chinese medicine doctors, and more than 700 senior experts and professors. It has trained and delivered Chinese medicine professionals of all levels and types for the country. There are nearly 8,000 full-time students and alumni in more than 60 countries and regions. The school is a university under the construction of "Talent Training Model Innovation Experimental Zone" and "Characteristic Professional Point" of the Ministry of Education of China. It has three first-level disciplines of Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine, and integrated Chinese and Western medicine, and one professional degree category (field) doctoral degree authorization point in Chinese medicine, six first-level disciplines of Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine, integrated Chinese and Western medicine, history of science and technology, medical technology, and Marxist theory, and five professional degree categories (fields) master's degree authorization points in Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine, nursing, translation, and public health, 3 postdoctoral mobile stations, and doctoral degree-granting majors covering all Chinese medicine disciplines; there is 1 There are 5 undergraduate and junior college majors. In addition to undergraduate majors in Chinese medicine, Chinese pharmacy, and clinical Chinese and Western medicine, there are also majors in nursing, food hygiene and nutrition, rehabilitation therapy, pharmacy, biomedical engineering, and preventive medicine; there are 8 undergraduate and junior college majors for continuing education; it has established scientific research, teaching, and medical cooperation with nearly 50 overseas colleges, medical research institutions, and international organizations in 20 countries and regions, and established the first Confucius Institute of Chinese Medicine in the United States. There are two Sino-foreign cooperative education projects, namely Sino-British cooperative pharmacy and Sino-British cooperative nursing projects. The school has 4 national key disciplines: Chinese medicine surgery, Chinese pharmacy, Chinese medicine internal medicine, and Chinese medicine orthopedics; 2 national key disciplines (cultivation): Chinese medicine history and literature, acupuncture and massage; 38 key disciplines of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine; 4 Shanghai peak and plateau disciplines. There is 1 Ministry of Education Modern Preparation Technology Engineering Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, 3 Ministry of Education Key Laboratories, 3 Shanghai Key Laboratories, 8 State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine Key Research Offices, and 2 National TCM Clinical Research Bases; the two disciplines of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine were successfully selected into the list of national "Double First-Class" construction disciplines. In the fourth round of discipline evaluation results announced by the Ministry of Education, our school's three disciplines of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine all entered the highest level of A+, and it is the only university in the country with 3 A+ disciplines among TCM schools. The school's medical scale and medical service capabilities are constantly improving. There are 8 affiliated hospitals, which basically cover all tertiary TCM and integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine hospitals in Shanghai. The total construction area of ​​the affiliated hospitals is about 670,000 square meters, the total number of beds is about 6,300, and it serves about 17 million patients from all over the world each year. The school actively responds to the national "Belt and Road" initiative and has established overseas TCM centers in the Czech Republic, Malta, Morocco, the United States and other countries to continuously promote the internationalization of TCM. The school aims to build a world-class university of Chinese medicine, and adheres to the school-running philosophy of "not focusing on completeness but on excellence, not focusing on size but on uniqueness, not focusing on name but on substance". After more than 60 years of construction and development, it has become a Chinese medicine university with leading teaching and scientific research strength and national rankings in major disciplines.

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South China Agricultural University

South China Agricultural University

Founded in 1909, South China Agricultural University is a teaching and research university with advantages in agricultural science and life science, specializing in tropical and subtropical regional agricultural research, and coordinated development of multiple disciplines such as agriculture, engineering, liberal arts, science, economics, management, and law. South China Agricultural University is a national "double first-class" university. The campus is located in Guangzhou, which is known as the "Flower City". The total land area is 8,261 acres, including 4,457 acres of Tianhe Wushan campus and 3,804 acres of Zengcheng teaching and research base. The total building area of ​​the school is 1.4 million square meters. The natural scenery and cultural landscape complement each other, forming a beautiful environment of "five lakes and four seas with a forest". The history of the school can be traced back to the Guangdong Provincial Agricultural Experiment Station and the attached Agricultural Training Institute, which was founded in 1909. In 1952, during the adjustment of colleges and departments in colleges across the country, the Agricultural College of Sun Yat-sen University, the Agricultural College of Lingnan University and the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Department and part of the Pest Control Department of the Agricultural College of Guangxi University were merged to form the South China Agricultural College, which was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Agriculture; Chairman Mao Zedong personally wrote the name of the school. In 1984, it was renamed South China Agricultural University. In 2000, the state deepened the reform of the management system of colleges and universities, and the school was transferred from the Ministry of Agriculture to the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province. The current party secretary of the school is Wang Binwei and the president is Liu Yahong. Today, South China Agricultural University has developed into a comprehensive university with advantages in agricultural science and life science, and coordinated development of multiple disciplines such as agriculture, industry, literature, science, economics, management, law, and art. The school has a complete range of disciplines, with 101 undergraduate majors, 14 first-level disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees, 1 doctoral professional degree category, 30 first-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees, and 19 master's professional degree categories. Crop science was selected as a national "first-class construction discipline" and 10 key construction disciplines of Guangdong Province's high-level university construction plan were approved. Botany and zoology entered the top 1‰ of the ESI global ranking; 10 disciplines including botany and zoology, chemistry, agricultural science, materials science, microbiology, biology and biochemistry, environmental science and ecology, engineering, immunology, pharmacology and toxicology entered the top 1% of the ESI global ranking. The school has a strong faculty. There are 3,387 faculty members, including 2,363 full-time teachers (487 senior and 868 associate senior); 3 academicians, 55 national talents, 107 provincial talents; 3 national teaching masters, 4 national teaching teams; 320 doctoral supervisors, 895 academic master supervisors, and 1,314 professional master supervisors. The school adheres to educating people for the Party and cultivating talents for the country, and strives to enhance students' sense of historical mission, social responsibility, innovative spirit and practical ability, and strives to cultivate socialist builders and successors with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor. The school has 25 colleges (departments), with more than 48,000 students (including international students), including more than 38,000 undergraduates and more than 10,000 postgraduates. There are 22 national first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 12 national characteristic majors, 2 professional comprehensive reform pilots, 8 pilot majors for the reform of the excellent agricultural and forestry talent education and training plan, 21 national first-class undergraduate courses and many national quality courses, quality video open courses, quality resource sharing courses, and quality online open courses. In the past two sessions, it has won 5 national teaching achievement awards (including 1 first prize and 3 second prizes). The school has been identified by the Ministry of Education as a "national graduate employment typical experience university" and a "three-dimensional education" comprehensive reform pilot university. The school has strong scientific research and innovation capabilities. There are 9 national scientific research platforms, including the National Key Laboratory for the Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agricultural Biological Resources, the National Plant Space Breeding Engineering Technology Research Center, the National Pig Seed Industry Engineering Technology Research Center, the National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Zoonotic Disease Prevention and Control Preparations, the National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Livestock and Poultry Breeding (Guangdong), the National Veterinary Microbial Resistance Risk Assessment Laboratory, the National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Precision Processing and Safety Control Technology of Livestock and Poultry Products (Guangdong), the National International Joint Research Center for Precision Agriculture Aerial Application Technology, and the National African Swine Fever Regional Laboratory (Guangzhou), 104 provincial and ministerial scientific research platforms, and 3 Guangdong Province University Characteristic New Think Tanks. Adhere to the "four orientations" and serve to achieve high-level scientific and technological self-reliance. In the past five years, it has won 12 national science and technology awards, achieving full coverage of the three national science and technology progress, technological inventions and natural science awards. The school attaches great importance to industry-university-research cooperation and social services, and has established the Rural Revitalization Research Institute and the New Rural Development Research Institute. The school actively builds a new pattern of opening up to the outside world. At present, it has signed 222 cooperation agreements or memoranda with 140 universities and research institutions in 41 countries and regions, and established the Guangzhou Dublin International School of Life Sciences and Technology. Approved 2 national higher education discipline innovation and intelligence introduction bases (referred to as the "111 Plan"); joined the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao University Alliance, and academic exchanges with universities in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan are increasingly strengthened. Take the lead in initiating the establishment of the China-Latin America Agricultural Education, Science and Technology Innovation Alliance. On the new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, the school will adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, take moral education as the foundation, take strengthening agriculture and promoting agriculture as its own responsibility, uphold the school motto of "cultivating morality, erudition, truth-seeking, and innovation", promote the Ding Ying spirit of "diligent learning, enlightening morality, and practicing in person", adhere to "agriculture as the basis must not be forgotten, agricultural characteristics must be promoted, and comprehensive choices must be made", adhere to the right path of innovation, strive to be the first, and make every effort to promote the construction of "Double First-Class" and move forward courageously towards the goal of building a world-class university with agricultural characteristics. (Data as of March 2022)

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