Baoding University is a full-time general undergraduate college approved by the Ministry of Education. The school is located in Baoding City, Hebei Province, 30 kilometers away from Xiong'an New Area, with convenient transportation, beautiful environment and good location advantages. It has won the honorary titles of National Civilized Unit, Advanced Collective of Party Building Work in Higher Education Institutions of Hebei Province, Party Building Demonstration School of Higher Education Institutions of Hebei Province, and Demonstration University of Transformation and Development in Hebei Province. In 2016, the school was listed as a pilot college of the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" Industry-Education Integration Development Project Planning Project by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Education, and ranked among the first echelon of local applied undergraduate colleges in the country. The school has a history of more than 100 years. Its predecessor was the "Baoding Primary Normal School" founded in 1904. In 1910, it was renamed "Zhili Second Primary Normal School", and in 1928, it was renamed "Hebei Provincial Second Normal School" along with the province. In 1978, it was rebuilt into "Baoding Normal College", merged with Baoding Education College in 1998, Hebei Baoding Normal School was incorporated in 1999, and upgraded to Baoding College in 2007. The school has a glorious revolutionary tradition and has trained a large number of outstanding talents for China's revolution and construction. There are more than 60 leading cadres at the provincial and military level, as well as a group of celebrities in education, science and technology, and culture. Shi Changxu, winner of the 2010 National Highest Science and Technology Award, academician of the two academies, former vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Wang Heshou, former second secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Tie Ying, former first secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, Yang Shijie, former deputy minister of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, Zang Boping, former deputy minister of the Ministry of Education, Liang Bin, a famous writer, and Ding Haochuan, former president of Northeast Normal University, are outstanding representatives among them. At present, the school graduates have become the backbone of various industries such as Baoding's basic education, and have made important contributions to local education and economic and social development. The campus covers an area of 920.2 acres and a building area of 343,900 square meters. There are 9 types of laboratories, including biological experimental center, chemical experimental center, physical and electronic engineering experimental center, teacher education experimental center, resource and environment laboratory, information technology laboratory, mathematics and computer laboratory, foreign language laboratory, public computer room, etc., and 89 various training rooms. The total value of teaching equipment with a unit price of more than 1,000 yuan is 147.7981 million yuan. A data center based on off-site active-active storage has been built, and the campus 10G backbone network has achieved wired and wireless dual network coverage. The library has more than 1.442 million paper documents, more than 4.31 million digital resources, and more than 1,200 journals. It has more than 10,000 thread-bound ancient books such as the "Twenty-Four Histories" printed during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, including 16 rare books, and 3 of them were selected into the first batch of precious ancient books in Hebei Province. There are more than a thousand precious photocopied materials such as Shenbao and Ta Kung Pao from its founding to before the founding of the People's Republic of China. The library currently has 19 full-text databases such as CNKI Academic Literature Database and VIP Science and Technology Journal Database. The school currently has 15,453 full-time students. There are 999 faculty members (609 full-time teachers), including 96 senior professional titles and 271 associate senior professional titles; 2 doctoral supervisors and 3 master supervisors. There is 1 national model teacher, 1 expert enjoying special allowance from the State Council, 1 national candidate for the "Hundred Thousand Talents Project" in the new century, 2 experts enjoying special allowances from the provincial government, 1 provincial advanced worker, 1 first-level candidate for the provincial "Three Three Three" talent project, 2 provincial outstanding experts in social sciences, 2 provincial model teachers, 2 provincial teaching masters, 5 provincial model teachers, 6 provincial outstanding teachers, and 5 provincial "three-education" advanced individuals. Wang Zikun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Cao Aocheng, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, were hired as distinguished professors. 95 experts and scholars from well-known universities and research institutes such as Peking University, Beijing Normal University, and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences were invited as visiting professors. The school closely combines the national Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development strategy and the needs of Xiong'an New Area construction, and strives to promote the construction of an applied university. Five characteristic professional clusters have been formed, namely automobile services, modern logistics, regional ecology, culture and art, and teacher education, which are oriented to Baoding's leading industries and social development, and a high-quality applied talent training system has been established to serve local economic construction and social development. There are 52 undergraduate majors and 3 junior college majors, covering 9 disciplines including science, literature, engineering, education, history, law, art, management, and economics. The course "Art Education" was successfully selected as the first batch of national online open courses. There are 3 provincial key development disciplines, 1 national boutique course, 3 provincial boutique courses, 2 provincial boutique resource sharing courses, 7 first-class undergraduate courses in Hebei Province, 1 provincial professional comprehensive reform pilot project, and 3 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers. There are 8 national-level industry-education integration platforms such as the "Baoding College Modern Training Center". It has carried out in-depth cooperation with more than 130 enterprises. The "Water-Rich Xiong'an" cultural website, which was built with the backbone forces, was listed as one of the eight major projects of Xiong'an Ideological and Cultural. The school attaches great importance to scientific research. In recent years, it has undertaken 5 national projects, 79 provincial and ministerial projects, established 19 scientific research teams, 9 achievements have won provincial and ministerial awards, and 18 achievements have won municipal and departmental awards. The school attaches great importance to the comprehensive quality training of students. Through the college students' science, culture and art festivals, club activities, social practice, volunteer services and other carriers, it creates a rich, elegant and positive campus cultural atmosphere for students to grow and become talents. In the fourth and fifth national college students' art performances, it won 1 first prize, 7 second prizes and 3 third prizes, and the number of awards ranked first in the province. The school has won the "National College Students' Art Performance Excellent Organization Award" for four consecutive sessions. The original one-act drama "Cai Hesen's Buri Dream" was selected for the 2014 National Art Fund Project. At the 14th Beijing International Chorus Festival, the school choir won the gold medal, and 200 students were invited to participate in CCTV's "Chinese Dream, Ode to the Motherland" 2018 National Day special program, and undertook the performance of 5 programs. In the "Internet +" College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the "Challenge Cup" College Student Extracurricular Academic and Scientific Works Competition, and the "Chuang Qingchun" College Student Entrepreneurship Competition, the school has repeatedly won outstanding results. In recent years, 13 teams of the school have been selected for the special social practice plan of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League. The school won the 2017 National College and Technical School Student Volunteer Service Summer "Three Going to the Countryside" Social Practice Activity Outstanding Unit. The school's "Western Teaching" volunteer service project was rated as a national Lei Feng volunteer service "Four 100" advanced model. The "Wheat Waves Flying" rural summer camp project won the silver medal in the 4th China Youth Volunteer Service Project Competition. The school won the 11th "China Youth Volunteer Outstanding Organization Award" of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League. The school actively carries out foreign academic exchanges and cooperation, and has established long-term friendly cooperation relations with more than 20 foreign institutions, including the University of New South Wales in Australia, Eastern Kentucky University in the United States, University of Malaya in Malaysia, and Sapporo International University in Japan. More than 100 students have gone to foreign institutions for exchange studies or to study for degrees, more than ten key teachers have been sent to overseas universities for visiting studies or to study for doctoral degrees, and more than 20 teachers and students have been selected by the National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language to teach Chinese in the United States, Ghana, Samoa, Thailand, and the Philippines. In 2015, commissioned by the Ministry of Culture, our school choir represented the country in the 4th Estonian Pop Music Chorus Festival. In 2018, two groups of international students from the United States came to the school to study professional courses and Chinese culture. In 2020, we jointly built the first "HSK Study in China Base" in the country with Hankao International to recruit international students. At present, nearly 300 Japanese students have been trained online in two sessions, which have been well received by project partners and trainees. The school adheres to the principle of cultivating morality and educating people, creates a moral education model of "three-in-one, educating people with culture", implements the "seven major education projects", and forms a long-term mechanism of circular upward and cultural education. Since 2000, in line with the major strategic deployment of the Party and the country, 287 graduates of the school have taken root in the western region and made positive contributions to the stability of the border areas, social development and national unity and progress. On the eve of the May 4th Youth Day in 2014, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, wrote back to the representatives of the group of graduates of Baoding College who taught in the western region, which aroused strong social repercussions. In the letter, Xi Jinping praised them for responding to the call of the country, carrying their persistent ideals, rushing to the western and border areas with difficult conditions, taking root in the grassroots to teach and educate people, and writing a life journey full of passion and struggle for more than ten years. Xi Jinping emphasized that working hard with the people, advancing with the motherland, serving the people and dedicating to the motherland is the correct direction for contemporary Chinese youth. It is hoped that more and more young people will follow their example, go to the grassroots and the people to make achievements, let the flowers of youth bloom in the places where the motherland needs them most, and write a different and wonderful life in the great practice of realizing the Chinese dream. In 2017, General Secretary Xi Jinping's reply was specially exhibited in the large-scale achievement exhibition "Five Years of Hard Work and Progress" jointly sponsored by the Central Propaganda Department and other ministries and commissions. The group of graduates who taught in the western region have successively won honorary titles such as "China May Fourth Youth Medal Group", "Chinese Children of the Year", "'China Good People' Dedicated and Dedicated Good People Group", and "Yanzhao Model". On October 5, 2018, CCTV's "Focus Interview" National Day series "Struggle in the New Era" told the touching deeds of the representatives of the graduates who taught in the western region, praising this group as "a major example of striving for a new era, they are role models and calls". All teachers and students of the school have deeply studied and practiced the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's reply, and continuously deepened the teaching work in the western region. In 2018 and 2019, the school and the Hebei Provincial Aid to Xinjiang Front Command jointly held a series of activities, "Revisiting the reply letter, where the dream sets sail" and "Reply letter guides the road to aid Xinjiang, and teaching inspires dreamers", which received widespread attention from media at all levels. In 2020, the school held the theme event "Twenty Years of Educating People in the West and Watering the Flower of National Unity", and continuously launched the 20-episode series of micro-videos "Blooming" of "Salute to the Road of Teaching", which were simultaneously pushed by People's Daily, the "Study Strong Country" national platform and the Hebei platform, and received strong responses from all walks of life and netizens. Entering the "14th Five-Year Plan", the school will uphold the school motto of "cultivating both morality and career, and paying equal attention to knowledge and action", adhere to the socialist direction of running schools, adhere to educating people for the party and cultivating talents for the country, and unswervingly implement the new development concept. With the theme of promoting high-quality development and the fundamental task of cultivating people with morality, the school will connect with Baoding's leading industries, serve the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, and serve the new pattern of integrated development of Beijing, Xiong'an and Baoding. With the integration of industry and education, school-enterprise cooperation, and school-local cooperation as the main paths, the school will actively promote the reform of talent training models, build an open school-running model of "collaborative education and collaborative innovation", and earnestly undertake the important task of cultivating socialist builders and reliable successors with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor, and gather strong forces to build a local high-level applied university that meets the requirements of the new era, is respected, and has distinctive characteristics! (Data updated as of May 2021)
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Shandong University is a key comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education with a long history, complete disciplines, strong strength and distinctive characteristics. It has an important influence at home and abroad. In 2017, it successfully entered the ranks of world-class universities (Class A). Shandong University was formerly Shandong University Hall founded in 1901, and is known as the origin university of modern higher education in China. Its medical discipline originated in 1864, opening the precedent of modern higher medical education in China. Since its birth, the school has gone through several historical development periods, including Shandong University Hall, National Qingdao University, National Shandong University, Shandong University, and the new Shandong University formed by the merger of the original Shandong University, Shandong Medical University, and Shandong University of Technology. Over the past 120 years, Shandong University has always adhered to the school motto of "training talents for the world and striving for prosperity for the country", deeply practiced the school motto of "endless learning and great spirit", worked hard and passed on the torch, and formed a school spirit of "respecting reality and seeking innovation", cultivating more than 600,000 talents of various types, and made important contributions to the national and regional economic and social development. The school covers a total area of more than 8,000 acres, forming a school-running pattern of one school in three locations (Jinan, Weihai, and Qingdao). It is one of the universities with the most complete disciplines in China at present, and is representative among comprehensive universities. It has 44 first-level disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees, 1 second-level discipline authorized to confer doctoral degrees, 51 first-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees, 93 undergraduate enrollment majors, and 42 postdoctoral research mobile stations, covering all disciplines except military science. The university has nearly 70,000 students and more than 4,600 full-time teachers, including 21 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (including dual appointments), 42 Changjiang Scholars, 13 Changjiang Youths, 55 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, 42 winners of the Excellent Youth Science Fund, 32 leading talents of the National Special Support Program, 16 young top talents, and 39 selected candidates of the National Hundred Thousand Talents Project; 26 national-level platform bases of various types, 4 key research bases of the Ministry of Education for humanities and social sciences, 51 ministerial-level platforms, and a large number of provincial key laboratories and engineering technology research centers; it has a number of directly affiliated hospitals; and has signed inter-school cooperation agreements with more than 200 schools in more than 30 countries and regions. Since the entry of socialism with Chinese characteristics into a new era, the university has deeply understood the essence of "running a university rooted in the land of China", adhered to and strengthened the party's overall leadership over the university, and vigorously implemented the "six major strategies" with the spirit of pursuing excellence and seizing the day, accelerating the realization of the historic transformation from "big to strong". The overall strength and international influence of the university have been significantly enhanced. The academic influence and contribution capacity of 18 disciplines have entered the top 1% of the ESI world ranking, and 5 disciplines have entered the top 1‰ of ESI. Disciplines such as financial mathematics, crystal materials, condensed matter physics, colloidal interface chemistry, microbiology, mechanics, materials science, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular function repair, new drug manufacturing, and Chinese classical philosophy have all reached the domestic first-class level. Some directions and fields are already at the world level. The "Shandong University gene" of patriotism, responsibility, practical character, and innovative literacy is widely praised. On May 9, 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping wrote back to all editors of the Editorial Department of Literature, History and Philosophy of Shandong University, fully affirming the positive contributions made by several generations of editors of the Editorial Department of Literature, History and Philosophy under the leadership of the Party over the past 70 years to promote Chinese civilization and flourish academic research, and placed high hopes on the success of the Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy. He also put forward clear requirements for the vast number of philosophy and social science workers, including teachers of Shandong University, which reflected his cordial care for Shandong University. All Shandong University people were greatly encouraged and felt a great sense of responsibility. On the new journey, under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the school will earnestly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech on July 1 and the spirit of his important reply to all editors of the Editorial Department of Literature, History and Philosophy, gather momentum and plan for the long term, adhere to the right path and innovate, pursue excellence, seize the day, fully implement the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, deeply implement the "Seven Strategies", accelerate the construction of a world-class university with Chinese characteristics, and contribute Shandong University's strength to the comprehensive construction of a socialist modern power and the early realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!
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In order to optimize the development layout of higher education in Shandong Province, the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government implemented the reform of integrating science and education, integrating the resources of the former Taishan Medical College, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Shandong Provincial Hospital, Shandong Qianfoshan Hospital and other resources to establish Shandong First Medical University. With the approval of the Ministry of Education, Shandong First Medical University was officially established in February 2019, and the name of Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences was also hung. Shandong First Medical University (Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences) is a key university in Shandong Province and the largest medical science research institution in Shandong Province. In 2020, it was selected as a "first-class" university in Shandong Province's high-level university construction project. The school (institute) has campuses in Jinan and Tai'an. The main campus is located in the core area of Jinan International Medical Science Center (No. 6699, Qingdao Road, Jinan City). There are research institutions in Jinan, Qingdao, Jining and other places, with a total area of more than 6,000 acres. The school (institute) has 19,198 employees (including affiliated hospitals), including 8 academicians of the two academies (including 5 dual-appointed academicians), 1 overseas academician, 64 national talents such as the National Overseas Key Talent Project, the National High-level Talent Special Support Program, the New Century Hundred Thousand Talents Project, the National Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions, the National Outstanding Youth, the Yangtze River Scholars, the National Excellent Youth, the experts enjoying the special allowance of the State Council, and the National Excellent Teachers, and 238 provincial and ministerial talents such as the Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions of the National Health Commission, the Taishan Scholars Climbing Program Experts, the Taishan Scholars Distinguished Experts, the Taishan Scholars Young Experts, the Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions in Shandong Province, and the Qilu Health and Health Leading Talents; 4,338 people with senior professional titles and 2,727 people with doctoral degrees. The school (institute) has a complete talent training system for undergraduate, master and doctoral degrees. At present, it has 1 first-level discipline authorized for doctoral degrees, 7 first-level disciplines authorized for master's degrees, 7 master's professional degree authorization categories, and 85 master's degree authorization points. There are 47 undergraduate majors, including 4 national first-class undergraduate major construction sites and 16 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites; 4 national characteristic majors and 8 provincial characteristic majors; 5 provincial high-level application-oriented construction majors (groups), 1 Shandong Province old and new kinetic energy conversion docking industry major group, and 3 provincial outstanding engineer education and training program pilot majors. 27 courses have been approved as national and provincial first-class undergraduate courses, and 1 course has been selected as a provincial ideological and political course "Golden Course". At present, there are more than 25,000 full-time students in the school, including 22,333 undergraduates, 2,670 postgraduates, and 457 international students. Seven disciplines, including clinical medicine, pharmacology and toxicology, biology and biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics, neuroscience and behavior, chemistry, and immunology, are ranked in the top 1% of the ESI global ranking, and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences ranks 10th among independent medical universities in the country in terms of science and technology value. 1 discipline was selected as a high-level discipline in Shandong Province, 1 discipline was selected as a high-level discipline in Shandong Province, and 6 disciplines were selected as key disciplines in Shandong Province. There are more than 50 high-level innovation platforms at the provincial and ministerial level, including the National Key Laboratory Cultivation Base, the National Health Commission Key Laboratory, and the Provincial Key Laboratory; there is 1 postdoctoral research workstation. In the past five years, it has won 1 second prize in the National Natural Science Award, 3 second prizes in the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 Science and Technology Progress Award from the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation, 2 Shandong Province Science and Technology Highest Awards, and 9 first prizes in Shandong Province Science and Technology Awards. It has many affiliated hospitals and has formed a medical system in Shandong University, directly serving more than 10 million people each year. Among them, the affiliated provincial hospital and the affiliated tumor hospital are among the top 100 in the country. There are 16 national key clinical specialties and 7 national drug clinical trial institutions. It was the first in the country to basically eliminate kala-azar, filariasis, malaria, and leprosy on a provincial basis, winning the "four consecutive championships" in the history of disease elimination in New China. It currently guides the province to carry out prevention and treatment of occupational diseases, skin diseases, parasitic diseases, early diagnosis and treatment of tumors, radiation protection, blindness prevention and treatment, rare diseases, etc.; it has a World Health Organization Cooperation Center. The school (institute) is one of the first institutions to award Shandong Provincial Government Scholarships for Foreign Students. Since 2004, it has recruited undergraduate and master's students from more than 20 countries and regions such as the United States, South Korea, and India, and has a good reputation for international education. It has established good cooperative relations with universities and medical and scientific research institutions in more than 30 countries and regions such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia, as well as Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the school (institute) will vigorously implement the "three-step" strategy and the "135 Project" in accordance with the development blueprint outlined by the first party congress of the school (institute). The "135 Project" is to adhere to the core of strengthening the party building of the school (institute), consolidate the "three major constructions of talents, disciplines, and culture", and implement the "five improvement plans for education, scientific research, medical care, internationalization, and school (institute) governance". The goal is to build a first-class applied research university that is leading in China and has important international influence, comprehensively promote the development of connotation, innovation, characteristics, and openness, and make new and greater contributions to higher medical education and medical science. (The above data is as of April 28, 2022)
Shanghai Ocean University is a multidisciplinary applied research university, jointly established by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, the State Oceanic Administration, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. In September 2017, it was selected as a national "world-class discipline construction university". School motto: Diligence, simplicity and loyalty, established on September 1, 1914. The original intention of the school: Wherever the fishing community goes, the sea power is also there. School tradition: Write papers on the world's oceans and the rivers and lakes of the motherland. The predecessor of the school was the Jiangsu Provincial Fisheries School founded by Zhang Jian and Huang Yanpei in 1912. It has gone through the names of the National Central University Agricultural College Fisheries School, Shanghai Municipal Wusong Fisheries College, and Shanghai Fisheries College. In 1952, it was upgraded to Shanghai Fisheries College, the first undergraduate fishery college in China. In 1972, it moved south to Jimei, Xiamen, and was renamed Xiamen Fisheries College. In 1979, it moved back to Shanghai, restored Shanghai Fisheries College, and retained Xiamen Fisheries College. In 1985, it was renamed Shanghai Fisheries University. In 2008, it was renamed Shanghai Ocean University. The school has 14 colleges (departments), with nearly 12,000 full-time undergraduates and more than 3,600 full-time graduate students. In 2019, there were a total of 802 international students from 83 countries and regions. There are more than 1,500 faculty and staff, including 900 teaching and research personnel, more than 520 with senior professional and technical positions, and more than 500 doctoral and master's supervisors on campus. There are 28 national talents, 212 provincial and ministerial talents, 9 recipients of the State Council Special Allowance (in service), and 2 members of the 8th Discipline Evaluation Group of the State Council Academic Degree Committee. The school currently has 44 undergraduate majors, 7 national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 7 municipal-level, 5 national specialty majors, 1 major with IFT food professional international certification, 1 major with European ASIIN undergraduate engineering certification, and 1 major with China Engineering Education Certification. There are 5 national first-class courses, 21 Shanghai first-class courses, 3 national quality courses, 45 Shanghai quality courses, and demonstration courses, 1 national teaching team, and 4 municipal teaching teams. There are 2 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 Shanghai experimental teaching demonstration center (project construction), 163 undergraduate teaching practice bases, including 2 overseas practice bases, 3 national virtual simulation experimental teaching projects, and 13 Shanghai-level projects. Since 2013, it has won 6 first prizes and 12 second prizes in Shanghai Teaching Achievements. The school is one of the first batch of pilot schools for the overall reform of ideological and political education and teaching in Shanghai, one of the first batch of demonstration universities for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, and one of the demonstration schools for the rule of law in Shanghai. It was selected as the pilot college for the key ideological and political reform of Shanghai universities, the first batch of model branches for party building work in national universities, and the first batch of "double leaders" teacher party branch secretary studios in national universities. The school is one of the first batch of "E-class" pilot units in the country, and has won the special prize for outstanding achievements in campus culture construction in national universities and the first prize of Shanghai Education Reform Experiment Award. The school's college student mental health research and education center has been named "Shanghai University Mental Health Education and Consultation Demonstration Center" by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission for three consecutive rounds. The school's campus culture is rich and colorful, with more than 90 cultural, sports, and scientific and technological student clubs such as college student art troupes; it won the gold medal of the "Chuang Qingchun" National College Student Entrepreneurship Competition and the first prize of the "Challenge Cup" National College Student Extracurricular Academic and Scientific Works Competition. From 2017 to 2019, the student representative team won the silver medal in the World Brain Olympics Finals for three consecutive times, and won the gold and silver medals in the National College Student Art Exhibition for many times. It has been rated as an "Advanced Unit for College Students' Summer Social Practice" for 10 consecutive years. There are cultural and educational venues such as the school history museum (including the three history museums and the campus cultural exhibition hall for college students), museums (including the aquatic biological science and technology museum, whale museum, offshore fishery exhibition hall, "Rainbow Fish" deep-sea science experience base, and "China Fisheries 206"). The school currently has 4 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 13 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, 1 second-level discipline master's degree authorization point, 7 professional degree master's degree authorization points, and 3 postdoctoral research mobile stations. It has 1 national first-class construction discipline, 1 national key discipline, 3 peak and plateau disciplines of Shanghai universities, 3 first-class disciplines of Shanghai universities, and 9 provincial and ministerial key disciplines. The three disciplines of plant and animal science, agricultural science, and environment/ecology entered the top 1% of the ESI international discipline rankings in the world, and the fishery discipline received an A+ rating in the fourth round of national discipline evaluation. It has 1 National Engineering Technology Research Center, 1 National Engineering Laboratory, 1 International Joint Research Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology, 1 National University Science and Technology Park; more than 30 provincial and ministerial key laboratories and platforms such as the Ministry of Education. It has a number of school-level scientific research platforms, including the International Marine Research Center, the China-Australia International Cooperation Research Center, the International Compliance Research Center for Offshore Fisheries, and the Institute of Marine Sciences. It has the "Songhang", my country's first offshore fishery resource survey ship, and the only ship ballast water laboratory in my country with CNAS, CMA, DNV GL and USCG qualifications. It has built the largest dynamic water tank in Asia and the third largest in the world. It has developed a 10,000-meter-class lander that successfully reached a depth of 10,918 meters. It is the guiding unit of the Shanghai Fisheries Society, the Shanghai Food Society, and the Shanghai Fisheries Economic Research Association. Since 2011, it has achieved a number of breakthrough research results in natural sciences and humanities and social sciences, and won 1 national science and technology progress award and 36 provincial and ministerial awards as the first completing unit. The school has played its disciplinary and scientific research advantages and achieved remarkable results in serving the society. Since 2011, the school has assisted farmers in Miaoli County, Taiwan in breeding hairy crabs, creating a model for cross-strait agricultural cooperation; it has established a "Fishery Science and Technology Professor and Doctor Service Team" to carry out scientific and technological services throughout the country, helping Tibet, Xinjiang, Shaanxi, Guizhou and other places with targeted poverty alleviation, with remarkable results. The project was selected as a typical project of the second provincial college targeted poverty alleviation and targeted poverty alleviation by the Ministry of Education; the offshore fishery international compliance team has been fully responsible for fulfilling the regional fisheries management convention on behalf of the country since the 1990s, and has made important contributions to safeguarding the rights and interests of my country's offshore fisheries, and was selected as the first batch of "National College Huang Danian-style Teacher Team". The school currently has two campuses, Shanghai Pudong New Area Hucheng Ring Road Campus and Yangpu District Jungong Road Campus, as well as a 386-acre Binhai Base and a 56.7-acre Xiangshan Science and Education Base. Among them, the main campus Hucheng Ring Road Campus covers an area of about 1,600 acres, with a planned construction area of 586,000 square meters. It has a modern campus network, and has built a Chinese offshore fishery data center and a marine science supercomputing center. There are more than 1.54 million paper books, nearly 1.12 million electronic books, and more than 50 databases. The collection resources highlight the school's marine, aquatic, and food characteristics. In 2016, it hosted the first English journal Aquaculture and Fisheries in mainland China, which was included in Scopus, the American Life Science Abstracts Index Database (BP), and the Biological Abstracts (BA) database. The "Journal of Fisheries of China" and "Journal of Shanghai Ocean University" hosted by the school are Chinese core journals, Chinese science and technology core journals, and source journals of the Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD). Among them, "Journal of Fisheries of China" has won the titles of "Top 100 Chinese Newspapers and Periodicals", "Chinese Fine Periodicals", and "100 Outstanding Chinese Academic Journals". The school has close exchanges and cooperation with universities in the United States, Japan, South Korea, Portugal, Australia, Ghana and other countries (regions) and international organizations such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Asian Fisheries Society (AFS), and has signed cooperation agreements with 139 universities and research institutions in 35 countries and regions. Since 2011, more than 4,440 students have been sent through study tours and exchange programs; the two phases of the "Asian Campus" "Joint Education Program in the Field of Marine Science and Technology Based on the 'China-Japan-Korea Education Integration'" with Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology and Korea Maritime and Ocean University, the short-term and double degree study programs such as the Erasmus program with Spain and Portugal, and the China Scholarship Council's international cooperation training program for innovative talents, etc., have provided a platform for Chinese and foreign teachers and students to further expand their international vision, cultivate international communication skills, and enhance international competitiveness. The development goal of the school in the new era is: by 2035, it will become a high-level characteristic university with important international influence. By the middle of this century, the school will be built into a world-class characteristic university. (Revised in January 2022)
Wenzhou University is the only comprehensive university in the southern Zhejiang, northern Fujian and eastern Jiangxi region, a key university in Zhejiang Province, and a doctoral degree-granting institution. It is located in Wenzhou, a famous historical and cultural city in China, known as "the best landscape in the southeast". The school was formed by the merger of Wenzhou Normal College and the former Wenzhou University in 2004. It has a history of 89 years. Academician Gu Chaohao, winner of the National Highest Science and Technology Award, was the president. During his work in Zhejiang, General Secretary Xi Jinping once pointed out earnestly: "We must attach great importance to education and talent work, especially to run Wenzhou University and other colleges and universities well" (excerpted from "Working in the Real Places and Walking in the Forefront", published by the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China). Wenzhou University has now formed a multi-level and multi-form education pattern, including undergraduate education, postgraduate education, continuing education, education for international students, and international cooperation education. The disciplines cover 11 major categories, including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, management, art, and interdisciplinary disciplines, and there are 20 colleges. The school currently has two campuses, Chashan and Xueyuan Road. The school property covers an area of 1,973.43 acres, the school building area is 1,060,600 square meters, the total value of teaching and scientific research equipment is 961 million yuan, the library has 2.4902 million paper books, 1.8843 million electronic books, and 97 Chinese and foreign electronic journals and data databases. The school currently has 20,895 full-time students and 2,135 faculty and staff, including 1,353 full-time teachers (880 doctors, accounting for 65.04%; 744 senior titles, accounting for 54.99%). There are 32 national talents including full-time academicians, Yangtze River Scholars, National Outstanding Young Scholars, young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions, national candidates for the National "Million Talents Project", National Outstanding Young Scholars, cultural celebrities of the Central Propaganda Department and "Four Ones" talents, and 159 high-level talents above the provincial level. The school has 1 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization point, 18 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, and 17 master's professional degree authorization points. It has established the Ruian Graduate School of Wenzhou University and the Zhejiang Provincial Postdoctoral Work Station, and jointly trains doctoral and postdoctoral fellows with 24 well-known universities and research institutions at home and abroad. Ecology is a "provincial and municipal co-construction" advantageous and characteristic discipline in Zhejiang Province. Chemistry, Chinese language and literature, electrical engineering, law, Marxist theory, applied economics, mechanical engineering, ecology, civil engineering and other 9 disciplines are first-class disciplines in Zhejiang Province, and chemistry, materials science, engineering, and computer science are among the top 1% of ESI in the world. The school implements the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, and strives to cultivate high-quality talents who "emphasize practice, strengthen innovation, can start a business, are good at management, and dare to take responsibility." The school was rated as "excellent" in the undergraduate teaching work evaluation of the Ministry of Education in 2008, and was among the first to pass the undergraduate teaching review and evaluation of the Ministry of Education in 2015. It has 15 national first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 15 provincial first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 18 national courses, 4 engineering education professional certifications and 6 teacher training professional certifications from the Ministry of Education. It has won 1 first prize and 1 second prize in the national teaching achievement awards for higher education, and 11 provincial first prizes for teaching achievements. The school has been established as a national entrepreneurial talent training Wenzhou model innovation experimental zone, the first batch of national demonstration universities for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, and a Zhejiang Provincial Teacher Education Base. In the past five years, students have won 49 international awards and 1,285 national awards. In 2019, the school ranked 16th in the country in the "Challenge Cup" competition, won the "Champion Cup" and won the sponsorship unit again; won 6 first prizes in the most recent national "Great Art Exhibition", the number of first prizes ranked first in the country, and the total number of awards ranked first among Zhejiang universities; in 2021, in the China International "Internet +" College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, won 2 gold and 2 silver. The school adheres to the "top-to-bottom" principle, realizes the coordinated development of basic research and applied research, and promotes the research of humanities and social sciences, natural sciences and engineering technology simultaneously. The school has been established as a national intellectual property pilot university, with 3 national scientific research platforms and 35 provincial and ministerial scientific research platforms, 4 Zhejiang Provincial Key Innovation Teams, and 4 Zhejiang Provincial University High-level Innovation Teams. It has presided over 10 major national projects such as the National Science and Technology Major Project, 2 National Outstanding Youth Science Funds, 2 National Excellent Youth Science Funds, 36 national natural science and social science key projects, and 730 other national projects. Published 368 books of various types. The school has won 164 national and provincial awards, including the second prize of the National Technological Invention Award as the first completion unit, the first prize of the Ministry of Education's Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award for Higher Education Institutions (Humanities and Social Sciences), and the China Patent Gold Award, and the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award as the main completion unit. The school insists on combining "going out" with "inviting in" to vigorously serve economic and social development. The school and local governments have jointly built 10 local research institutes, of which 4 are responsible for operating provincial industrial innovation service complexes. The school's research in the fields of ecological environmental protection, laser optoelectronic technology, low-voltage electrical appliances, etc. has vigorously promoted the transformation and upgrading of regional industries, and actively cultivated innovation advantages around strategic emerging industries such as intelligent equipment, digital economy, and new materials. The national science and technology major project "decentralized sewage treatment technology" has established national demonstration projects in 8 places across the country; relying on the international key project of the national key R&D plan, China's first blue algae bloom physical jet treatment ship has been developed to contribute to overcoming the difficulties in blue algae bloom management; the China Patent Gold Award "Island Special Power Supply System" has promoted the rapid development of national islands, port construction and shipbuilding; Zhejiang Province Low Voltage Electrical Appliance Technology Innovation Service Platform provides talent and technical support for the 100 billion-level electrical appliance industry cluster. Strengthening political consultation and advice, it has achieved remarkable results in regional characteristic research such as comprehensive financial reform, social governance, and public policy. It has successively founded 2 independent colleges, of which Wenzhou University City College was successfully converted to Wenzhou Business School in 2016, and Wenzhou University Oujiang College was successfully converted to Wenzhou Institute of Technology in 2021. Give full play to the advantages of teacher education resources, run 11 affiliated schools, and effectively serve the development of local basic education. The school adheres to the guidance of the core socialist values and actively promotes the comprehensive prosperity of cultural construction. We continue to strengthen the publicity of traditional culture and the education of school history and school conditions, build a reasonable and orderly new media publicity matrix, and have won the "Zhejiang Province Education New Media Innovation Award" for three consecutive years. We promote the patriotic spirit of Zeng Liansong, the designer of the national flag of the People's Republic of China and alumnus, create the opera "Five-Star Red Flag", build the first national flag education theme square in domestic universities, and form "three-dimensional education" brands such as the "National Flag Cultural Project". We have built the Wenzhou Mathematicians' Long Gallery and the Su Buqinggu Chaohao Memorial Hall to vigorously promote the culture of mathematicians. We continue to deepen the research on Nanxi Opera, overseas Chinese literature, basic literary issues, Wenzhou Studies, etc. "General Theory of the History of Ancient Chinese Opera Theory" is the first general history of ancient Chinese opera theory, which promotes the inheritance and innovation of China's excellent traditional culture. The school adheres to "internal and external connectivity" and continuously improves the level of open education. The school is one of the first "Zhejiang Province International Characteristic Universities" construction units. So far, it has established exchanges and cooperation relations with 131 colleges and universities in 27 countries and regions, opened a Confucius Institute at the Eastern University of Thailand, and opened the Wenzhou University Italy Branch in Italy. Wenzhou-Kean University is co-organized with Kean University in the United States. The "International Water Ecological Environment Research Center" and "International Water Resources and Water Ecology Research Center" were jointly established with the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University in Japan. The school is one of the first Chinese language education bases of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, the Chinese Overseas Chinese Research (Wenzhou University) Base, and the Chinese Overseas Chinese International Cultural Exchange Base. It hosts the "Zhejiang Overseas Chinese Network College" with significant characteristics of overseas Chinese education, and strives to build it into a spiritual home for Wenzhou people all over the world. The school adheres to the overall leadership of the Party and continuously strengthens Party building. Innovating ideological and political education, teacher representatives were invited to participate in the National School Ideological and Political Teachers Symposium hosted by General Secretary Xi Jinping. The comprehensive reform of Internet + ideological and political "one transformation and six systems" was selected into the "Selective Promotion Plan for the Reform of Ideological and Political Courses in Colleges and Universities" of the Ministry of Education, and built the Marxist Theory Education Base of Wenzhou University. Strengthen the construction of ideological positions, keep the bottom line of campus safety and stability, and have been rated as an excellent unit in the ideological work assessment of the Wenzhou Municipal Party Committee for two consecutive years. To consolidate the construction of grassroots organizations, the school party committee has won the title of Zhejiang Province's advanced grassroots party organization for three consecutive times and was selected as a model school for party building work in Zhejiang Province's colleges and universities in 2021. One college party committee was selected as a benchmark college for party building work in colleges and universities across the country, and three party branches were selected as model branches for party building work in colleges and universities across the country. 9 grassroots party organizations were selected as "double innovation" construction units for party building work in colleges and universities in Zhejiang Province. The school's Youth League Committee was rated as the National May Fourth Red Flag Youth League Committee. It was the first in the country's colleges and universities to issue the "Four Responsibility Lists" for comprehensive and strict party governance, forming a new situation of strict party governance with "four responsibilities coordinated and implemented as one", and won the 2020 Wenzhou City Excellent Unit for the Implementation of the Main Responsibility for Comprehensive and Strict Party Governance. The school adheres to the school-running tradition of "cultivating moral foundation, deepening wisdom, glorifying the nation, and benefiting the people", promotes the school motto of "seeking knowledge and truth, and daring to be the first", takes root in Wenzhou, serves Zhejiang, radiates across the country, and faces the world. It implements the eight major strategies of quality-based school, talent-driven school, discipline-driven school, scientific research-driven school, university-city linkage, international development, rule of law, and party building-led. It strives to enter the ranks of high-level universities in Zhejiang Province and first-class universities in the country during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, and strives to build a high-level teaching and research university with distinctive characteristics.
Yangtze University is the largest comprehensive university in Hubei Province with the most comprehensive disciplines. It is a key university in Hubei Province, a university selected for the national "Basic Capacity Construction Project for Colleges and Universities in Central and Western China", and a "domestic first-class university construction university" in Hubei Province. It is also a university jointly built by the People's Government of Hubei Province and China National Petroleum Corporation, China Petrochemical Corporation, and China National Offshore Oil Corporation, and jointly built by the People's Government of Hubei Province and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China. History The school was approved by the Ministry of Education in April 2003 and was established by merging the former Jianghan Petroleum Institute, Hubei Agricultural College, Jingzhou Normal College, and Hubei Medical College for Health Workers. The predecessor of the former Jianghan Petroleum Institute was the Beijing Petroleum Industry College founded in 1950. In 1978, it began to offer general undergraduate education and was affiliated to China National Petroleum Corporation. Since 2000, it has been jointly built by the central and local governments and transferred to the management of Hubei Province; the predecessor of the former Hubei Agricultural College was the Jingzhou Branch of Huazhong Agricultural College, which was founded in 1977 and approved as a general undergraduate college by the State Education Commission in 1989; the predecessor of the former Jingzhou Normal College was the Hubei Fourth District Simple Normal School founded in 1936, and the Jingzhou Normal College was established in 1978. In 1999, it was approved by the Ministry of Education to be rebuilt into Jingzhou Normal College; the predecessor of the former Hubei Provincial Medical College for Health Workers was the Hubei Shashi Health School, which was founded in 1951 and renamed the Jingzhou Branch of Wuhan Medical College in 1977 and the Hubei Provincial Medical College for Health Workers in 1984. Geographical location The school headquarters is located in Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, a historical and cultural city in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and has a Wuhan campus. Jingzhou has a long history and splendid culture. It is the birthplace of Chu culture and the center of Three Kingdoms culture. It was the capital of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period and the hometown of the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. It has always been a battleground for military strategists. It is adjacent to the three towns of Wuhan, the thoroughfare of nine provinces, in the east, the world-renowned Three Gorges of the Yangtze River in the west, the vast and boundless Dongting Lake in the south, and the majestic and beautiful Wudang Mountains in the north. The campus environment is beautiful and the scenery is pleasant. It is a garden-style university in Hubei Province. School conditions The school campus covers an area of 5,118 acres, the school building area is 1.058 million square meters, and the fixed assets are 3.294 billion yuan. There are 108 laboratories and experimental centers of various types at the national and provincial and ministerial levels, 398 internship bases inside and outside the school, and the total value of teaching and scientific research equipment is 832 million yuan. The library has a paper collection of 4.33 million volumes, 39,000 full-text electronic journals, 1.51 million full-text electronic books, and 68 Chinese and foreign databases. There are gymnasiums, comprehensive training halls, swimming pools, football and tennis venues, and all kinds of sports venues are fully equipped. Faculty strength The school currently has 3,196 faculty members, 2,366 full-time teachers, and 656 external teachers. Among the full-time teachers, there are 320 professors and 862 associate professors; 2,107 teachers with doctoral and master's degrees, including 993 teachers with doctoral degrees. 276 candidates for provincial and ministerial talent projects and expert titles have been approved, including 45 national talents. There are 140 doctoral supervisors, 1,114 master's supervisors, 88 part-time doctoral supervisors, and 917 part-time master's supervisors. Disciplines and majors The school is a doctoral degree-granting institution with a complete range of talent training levels. There are three postdoctoral research mobile stations for "Geological Resources and Geological Engineering", "Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering", and "Crops". There are three first-level doctoral degree authorization points for "Geological Resources and Geological Engineering", "Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering", and "Crops"; 38 first-level master's degree authorization points. The university has the right to confer master's degrees to people with equivalent academic qualifications; it has 19 professional master's degree authorization categories, including electronic information, machinery, materials and chemical engineering, resources and environment, civil engineering and water conservancy, agriculture, sports, business administration, law, nursing, art, clinical medicine, landscape architecture, accounting, veterinary medicine, social work, translation, education, biology and medicine. There are 4 Hubei Provincial Advantages and Characteristics Disciplines in the "14th Five-Year Plan", namely oil and gas exploration, green and efficient production of agricultural products, green chemical engineering and clean energy, and intelligent oil and gas equipment; 2 Hubei Provincial Advantages and Characteristics Disciplines in the "13th Five-Year Plan", namely petroleum and natural gas, and green agriculture; 16 provincial key disciplines and key (cultivation) disciplines in the "12th Five-Year Plan". There are 107 undergraduate majors, including 6 national characteristic majors, namely "Resource Exploration Engineering", "Exploration Technology and Engineering", "Petroleum Engineering", "Agronomy", "Mechanical Design, Manufacturing and Automation", and "Chemical Engineering and Technology", and 11 Hubei Provincial Brand Majors, namely "Electronic Information Engineering" and "Civil Engineering". There are 14 national first-class undergraduate majors, including "Resource Exploration Engineering", "Agronomy", "Mechanical Design, Manufacturing and Automation", "Electronic Information Engineering", "Chinese Language and Literature", "Mathematics and Applied Mathematics", "Physics", and "Applied Chemistry", and 25 provincial first-class undergraduate majors, including "Finance", "Education", "Business English", "Geology", "Network Engineering", and "Chemical Engineering and Technology". Nine majors, including "Agronomy", "Mechanical Design, Manufacturing and Automation", "Electronic Information Engineering", "Biotechnology", "Chemical Engineering and Technology", "Plant Protection", "Applied Chemistry", "Automation", and "Geographic Information Science", have been selected into the talent training plan for strategic emerging (pillar) industries in Hubei Province, and 7 majors have been selected as pilot majors for comprehensive reform of national, provincial and ministerial majors. The undergraduate majors involve 11 major disciplines, including economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, and art. There are 32,777 full-time undergraduate and junior college students, 5,325 full-time doctoral and master's students, and more than 800 international students in China. Academic Platform: The university has 49 national and provincial key laboratories and engineering technology research centers, 17 national and provincial experimental demonstration centers, 2 Hubei key laboratories, 5 provincial 2011 collaborative innovation centers, 2 Hubei common technology R&D and promotion centers, 1 clinical medicine research center, 5 provincial humanities and social science research bases, 8 Hubei engineering (technology) research centers (laboratories), 6 provincial school-enterprise co-construction R&D centers, 15 Hubei school-enterprise joint innovation centers, 8 key laboratories of China National Petroleum Corporation, 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center, 9 Hubei experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 national off-campus practical education base for college students, 3 Hubei virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, 8 Hubei virtual simulation experimental teaching projects, and 4 Hubei internship training bases. The university has distinctive characteristics in the fields of petroleum science and technology, waterlogging and wetland agriculture, and Jingchu culture research. Scientific Research In the past three years, the school has hosted and undertaken 2,346 scientific research projects of various levels and types, including 115 National Natural Science Foundation projects, and has made zero breakthroughs in the Excellent Youth Science Foundation projects and key projects; 20 National Social Science Foundation and Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences projects, including 11 National Social Science Foundation projects. Won 70 national and provincial and ministerial scientific research achievement awards; won 26 national and provincial and ministerial excellent teaching achievement awards. Published 96 academic monographs and published 2,774 high-level papers. Education and Teaching In accordance with the needs of economic and social development, the school continuously innovates talent training models, strengthens basic teaching construction, and steadily improves the quality of education and teaching. Four national first-class undergraduate courses, namely "Principles of Seismic Exploration", "Virtual Experiment on Behavioral Studies of Cognitive Dysfunction in Epilepsy Model Mice", "Life Yangtze River" and "Advanced Mathematics A", three national high-quality resource sharing courses, namely "Sedimentary Petrology", "Principles of Production Logging" and "Principles of Seismic Exploration", "Mechanics", a national bilingual teaching demonstration course and two national high-quality video open courses, namely "Seeing Through Underground Reservoirs - Seismic Methods for Finding Oil" and "Talks on Chu Culture" have been completed; there are 35 provincial first-class undergraduate courses, 24 provincial high-quality courses, 10 provincial high-quality resource sharing courses, 4 provincial high-quality video open courses and 1 provincial high-quality online open course; the "Virtual Teaching and Research Section for Seismic Exploration Courses" has been approved as a national pilot project for the construction of a virtual teaching and research section. The teaching team of the excellent course "Sedimentary Petrology" and the teaching team of the basic electrical and electronic courses were rated as national teaching teams; the teaching team of resource exploration engineering, petroleum engineering, geophysical logging series courses, geophysical exploration series courses, clinical medicine, modern signal processing series courses, crop production science and technology, "Life Yangtze River" course teaching team, network engineering, oil and gas drilling and production series courses, alternating practice course teaching team, mechanical design, manufacturing and automation professional teaching team, horticulture series courses teaching team, physics professional teaching team were rated as Hubei Provincial Teaching Team. The University Physics Teaching Department, Civil Engineering Teaching and Research Section, Nursing Teaching and Research Section, Petroleum Geology Teaching and Research Section, Logging Information Engineering Teaching and Research Section, Basic Medicine Department, Organic Chemistry Course Group, Geophysical Exploration Teaching and Research Section, Business English Teaching and Research Section, Computer Science and Technology Teaching and Research Section, Logistics Management Teaching and Research Section, Plant Protection Teaching and Research Section were rated as Hubei Excellent Grassroots Teaching Organizations. The school attaches great importance to the cultivation of college students' innovative spirit and practical skills. It is an implementing university of the Ministry of Education's Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program, Excellent Agricultural and Forestry Talent Training Program, Excellent Doctor Education and Training Program, National College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program, Talent Training Model Innovation Experimental Zone and Undergraduate Major Comprehensive Reform Pilot Project, as well as Hubei Province's Top Innovative Talent Training Program and Strategic Emerging (Pillar) Industry Talent Training Program; the school implements the credit system, tutor system, major and minor system, double degree system and other training systems, and has more than 40 scholarships such as Yangtze University Outstanding Student Scholarship, Outstanding Freshman Scholarship, Sun Yueqi Science Education Fund Outstanding Student Scholarship, China Petroleum Scholarship, Wenhua Scholarship, "Belt and Road" International Student Scholarship, etc., to encourage students to study hard and strive to become talents. Talent Training Since its establishment, the school has cultivated more than 400,000 specialized talents of various types for the society. Graduates have spread all over China and overseas, and have quickly grown into the backbone of the unit and the elite of the society. In recent years, the initial employment rate of graduate and undergraduate students has reached more than 85%, and a large number of entrepreneurial and innovative high-quality talents represented by Zhao Chuanyu, a national moral model and a national three-good student model, have emerged. In 2007, the school passed the evaluation of undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education and was awarded excellent; in 2017, it passed the review and evaluation of undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education. In 2009, the school emerged a national heroic group of college students who bravely sacrificed themselves to save others - the "10.24" Yangtze River rescue college student heroic group, which was cordially received by the leaders of the Party and the country and highly praised by all sectors of society. Exchange and Cooperation The school adheres to open education and has established school-enterprise (local) cooperation relations with 55 large and extra-large petroleum and petrochemical enterprises and 160 county-level and above governments and local enterprises in China. It is a national demonstration unit for industry-university-research cooperation education and a graduate innovation base for petroleum disciplines in Hubei Province. The school initiated the establishment of the "Belt and Road" language service international talent training school-enterprise cooperation alliance, joined 11 university alliances such as the China-Central and Eastern European Countries University Association, and has established substantive cooperation relations with more than 80 institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Korea, Japan, Russia, Australia, the Czech Republic and other countries, and has carried out exchanges and cooperation such as student exchanges, scholar visits and joint scientific research all year round. The school cooperates with Shannon University of Technology in Ireland to organize undergraduate education programs in civil engineering, builds a joint toxicology laboratory with the University of Hradec Kralove in the Czech Republic, builds the China-Korea-Canada Garden Plant Resource Utilization and Germplasm Innovation Center with Seoul University in South Korea and the University of Calgary in Canada, and builds international joint scientific research platforms with the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Arid Areas of Egypt and the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Joint Research Center of the University of British Columbia in Canada. The school has been approved by the Ministry of Education to recruit high school graduates from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and is qualified to recruit Chinese government scholarship students (CSC). It has an HSK (New Chinese Proficiency Test) test site, and the international students on campus come from 69 countries in five continents, including the United States, France, Canada, Russia, Spain, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Vietnam, Pakistan, Nepal, Ghana, Papua New Guinea, etc. "The long road ahead is like iron, but now we start from the beginning." A new era, new goals and new actions. Standing at a new historical starting point, the teachers and students of Yangtze University take the "Double First-Class" construction as an opportunity, with the spirit of seizing the day and daring to be the first, strive to practice the school motto of "Growing and Renewing", actively create a fine school spirit of "seeking truth, progress, entrepreneurship and serving the country", seize opportunities, accelerate development, and strive to build the school into a high-level comprehensive university with outstanding advantages and distinctive characteristics as soon as possible.
Wuhan University of Light Industry was founded in 1951 and is located in Wuhan, Hubei Province, which is known as the "crossroads of nine provinces". It is the earliest school in the country to train specialized talents in the grain industry. It was successively affiliated to the former Ministry of Grain, Ministry of Commerce, and Ministry of Domestic Trade. In 1998, it implemented a management system jointly built by the central and local governments and mainly managed by Hubei Province. It is a university jointly built by the State Administration of Grain and Material Reserves and the People's Government of Hubei Province, a domestic first-class discipline construction university in Hubei Province, and the first batch of undergraduate enrollment universities in Hubei Province. The school currently has two campuses, Changqing and Jinyinhu, covering an area of 1 million square meters; there are 17 teaching colleges (departments), including the International Education College and the Continuing Education College; there are more than 20,000 full-time undergraduate and graduate students; the school building area is 600,000 square meters; the total value of teaching and scientific research equipment is 368 million yuan; the library has a collection of more than 1.77 million paper documents, 53 databases, and more than 1.87 million electronic books. It is a research-level document collection unit in Hubei Province and an excellent library with automation level in Hubei Province. The school puts "moral education" first and vigorously implements the "quality-based school" strategy. Actively explore the reform and innovation of talent training models, focus on cultivating application-oriented innovative talents with solid theoretical foundation, reasonable knowledge structure, strong practical ability, high comprehensive quality, strong sense of social responsibility, innovative spirit and entrepreneurial awareness, and continuously strengthen the "four-in-one" talent training model of learning, application, exploration and innovation. The school has a large number of undergraduate teaching engineering construction projects, including national characteristic majors, national quality courses, national excellent agricultural and forestry talent education and training programs, and national off-campus practical education bases for college students; it has 27 experimental teaching (centers), including 7 Hubei Provincial Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centers. The school actively carries out educational and teaching research, and has won 27 excellent teaching achievement awards in the past three provincial teaching achievement selections, including 8 first prizes. Relying on the "Evergreen Science and Technology Culture and Art Festival" and the Entrepreneurship Competition, the school actively carries out students' extracurricular academic and scientific activities. Students have won a large number of national and provincial awards every year in various subject competitions such as the "Challenge Cup", mathematical modeling, electronic design, mechanical innovation design, and college English competitions. The school's graduates' one-time employment rate has been ranked among the top provincial universities for many years. They are widely praised by the society for their excellent qualities of "being able to endure hardships, do things, and start businesses". The school insists on taking discipline construction as the leader and vigorously implements the strategy of "promoting the school with characteristics". Focusing on the field of "big food, big nutrition and big health", it has formed a pattern of coordinated development of multiple disciplines such as engineering as the main body, agronomy and management as the two wings, and engineering, agriculture, management, science, literature, economics, medicine, art, and law. There are 70 undergraduate majors, including 4 national characteristic majors, 30 national and provincial first-class professional construction points, 6 majors in the "Jingchu Outstanding Talents" collaborative education plan project, and 3 national outstanding agricultural and forestry talent education and training plan reform pilot majors; there are 13 first-level discipline master's degree programs, 70 second-level discipline master's degree programs, and 11 categories (16 fields) of master's professional degree authorization points, including 1 "domestic first-class discipline", 4 Hubei Province's advantageous and characteristic discipline groups, and "Agricultural Science" has entered the top 1% of the ESI global ranking; the school has 55 national and provincial (ministerial) scientific and technological innovation platforms, including 2 national platforms and 4 provincial (ministerial) key laboratories. The school was listed as the Hubei Postdoctoral Innovation and Practice Base in 2019. The school attaches great importance to the construction of the teaching staff, vigorously implements the strategy of "strengthening the school with talents", and has formed a teaching staff with firm ideals and beliefs, noble moral sentiments, solid knowledge and benevolence. There are more than 1,200 full-time teachers, including more than 650 teachers with senior professional titles. Among the teaching staff, there are more than 70 experts and famous teachers, including leading talents of the National "Ten Thousand Talents Program", winners of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, candidates of the National Hundred Thousand Talents Project, young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions to the country, personnel enjoying special government allowances from the State Council, national outstanding teachers, national outstanding talents in agricultural scientific research, and outstanding talents in the new century of the Ministry of Education. The school has more than 60 high-end talents such as academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Changjiang Scholars, winners of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, Thousand Young People, National High-end Foreign Experts, Hubei Province's "Hundred Talents Program" and "Chutian Scholars Program" as distinguished professors. The school has strong scientific research, technology development and social service capabilities. It is an important research and development base in the national food, animal husbandry, feed and aquatic products industry, with obvious characteristics and advantages. In recent years, the university has undertaken more than 1,500 vertical scientific research projects of various types, including more than 260 national projects such as the National Key R&D Program, the National Science and Technology Major Project, the National Science and Technology Support Program, the National Natural Science Foundation, and the National Social Science Foundation; published more than 850 books and textbooks; and won more than 110 scientific research achievement awards at the provincial (ministerial) level and above, including 6 second prizes for national scientific and technological progress, 2 first prizes for provincial technological inventions, and 16 first prizes for provincial scientific and technological progress. It has obtained more than 1,360 authorized patents, including more than 520 invention patents. The school aims at the strategic needs of the national food security strategy, rural revitalization strategy, Healthy China strategy and the transformation and upgrading of Hubei's food pillar industry, and makes full use of the school's discipline and scientific research advantages to serve as an industry technology "incubator" and enterprise development "booster". It has cultivated a number of well-known grain, oil, food and feed brands in the province and even the country, and supported a number of domestic agricultural product leading enterprises and local pillar industries. It has made outstanding contributions to the industry's scientific and technological progress and local economic and social development. It has been rated as "Advanced Unit of Science and Technology Service Hubei", "Excellent Organization Unit for Transformation of Agricultural Science and Technology Achievements in Hubei Province", "The First Batch of Hubei Technology Transfer Demonstration Institutions" and "Advanced University Serving Hubei's Economic and Social Development". The school insists on facing the world and opening up schools. It has established international academic exchanges, talent training and scientific research cooperation with more than 20 universities and research institutes in more than a dozen countries such as the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Australia, Russia, Chile, Japan, South Korea, and India. The school insists on promoting internationalization of education, steadily developing Sino-foreign cooperative education projects, and has been approved as the "Excellent Undergraduate International Exchange Project", which has the qualifications to send outstanding undergraduates abroad to study; actively implement the Wuhan Forum where world-renowned scientists come to Hubei to give lectures, and build an international exchange platform; around the national "Belt and Road" cooperation initiative, implement international student academic education projects, recruit international students at both undergraduate and master's levels, and do a good job in the "Study Abroad Light Industry University" brand. The school comprehensively strengthens party building, and continuously creates a good environment for educating people by leading teaching style with party style, promoting learning style with teaching style, and forming a good school spirit. The school party committee has successively won the honorary titles of National Advanced Grassroots Party Organization, Hubei Province Advanced Grassroots Party Organization, Hubei Province Advanced Party Committee Central Group, etc.; the school has successively won dozens of honors such as National Civilized Unit, National Model Workers' Home, Hubei Province Advanced University for Ideological and Political Education of College Students, Hubei Province Advanced Unit for Employment of College Graduates, and Hubei Province Model School for Rule of Law. Through wind and rain, and composing a brilliant chapter, Wuhan University of Light Industry has always been forging ahead with the motherland. Standing at a new historical starting point in the new era, the school will adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the Party's education policy, put moral education first, uphold the school motto of "enlightenment, accumulation of learning, determination, and practice", carry forward the school-running tradition of "patriotism, hard work, unity and struggle, and pursuit of excellence", focus on the field of "big food, big nutrition, and big health", continue to reform and innovate, focus on connotation development, and strive to build a high-level university with distinctive characteristics. (Data updated to November 2021)
Henan University is a national "double first-class" university and a provincial and ministerial co-construction university. Founded in 1912, it was originally named Henan Preparatory School for Studying in Europe and America. It was built on the site of the former Henan Gongyuan, the final place of the Chinese imperial examination. The last two national examinations in 1903 and 1904 were held here, and the imperial examination system that lasted for thousands of years came to an end here. In 1912, a group of Henan benevolent people represented by Lin Boxiang founded the Henan Preparatory School for Studying in Europe and America in the dawn of the victory of the Revolution of 1911, which became one of the three major training bases for studying abroad in China at that time. After going through the stages of Zhongzhou University, National Fifth Sun Yat-sen University, and Provincial Henan University, it was renamed National Henan University in 1942, becoming a comprehensive university with six colleges including liberal arts, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, and law. It was one of the national universities with strong academic strength and a good reputation at home and abroad at that time. After the founding of New China, after the adjustment of colleges and departments, the Agricultural College, Medical College, and Administrative College of Henan University were independently set up as Henan Agricultural College, Henan Medical College, and Henan Administrative College respectively. The water conservancy, finance and economics departments were also transferred to Wuhan University, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law and other universities, and the school headquarters was renamed Henan Normal College. After going through the stages of Kaifeng Normal College and Henan Normal University, the name of Henan University was restored in 1984. In October 2008, the People's Government of Henan Province and the Ministry of Education signed a co-construction agreement, and Henan University officially entered the ranks of provincial and ministerial co-construction universities. In September 2016, the school was selected into the national "111 Plan". In September 2017, it was selected into the national "Double First-Class" construction university. Over the past 100 years since its founding, Henan University has strictly adhered to the school motto of "Enlightening the people with virtue and striving for perfection". Under the careful casting of generations of scholars, it has gradually formed the excellent school spirit of "unity, diligence, rigor and simplicity" and the spirit of Henan University, which is forward-looking, open, facing the world, adhering to truth, pursuing progress, unyielding, self-improvement, inclusive, tolerant, not flashy, rigorous and simple, and has realized its own value in the process of promoting social development, scientific and technological progress, economic construction and educational revitalization. Under the guidance of a large number of experts, scholars and academicians, such as Fan Wenlan, Feng Youlan, Dong Zuobin, Feng Jinglan, Luo Zhanglong, Guo Shaoyu, Luo Tingguang, Xiao Yishan, Fan Yingchuan, Mao Lirui, Jiang Liangfu, Ji Wenfu, Ren Fangqiu, and Dang Hongxin, Henan University has trained nearly 600,000 talents of various types. Among the alumni of Henan University, there are 57 academicians and members of the academic department, and nearly 150 leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial levels or above. Many alumni such as Hou Jingru, Yuan Baohua, Wang Guoquan, Zhao Yimin, Yin Da, Deng Tuo, Bai Shouyi, Yang Tingbao, Gao Jiyu, Yao Xueyin, Zhou Erfu, Wu Qiang, Ma Ke, Zhao Jiuzhang, Liang Guanglie, etc. have become famous social figures at home and abroad. At present, Henan University mainly has three campuses, namely Kaifeng Minglun Campus, Jinming Campus and Zhengzhou Campus, with a total area of more than 5,500 acres. Among them, the modern building complex of Minglun Campus is a national key cultural relic protection unit. Henan University is a comprehensive university with 12 disciplines including literature, history, philosophy, economics, management, law, science, engineering, medicine, agriculture, education, and art. The school currently has 37 colleges (teaching and research departments), 98 undergraduate majors, 43 first-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees, 20 first-level disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees, and 19 postdoctoral research mobile stations. Biology has been selected as a national first-class discipline, and seven disciplines including chemistry, materials science, clinical medicine, engineering, botany and zoology, pharmacology and toxicology, environmental science and ecology have entered the top 1% of the ESI world ranking. The school currently has more than 4,400 faculty and staff, including 21 full-time and part-time academicians, 42 leading talents such as Yangtze River Scholars, National Outstanding Young Scholars, and "Ten Thousand Talents Program". There are nearly 50,000 full-time students, including nearly 11,000 graduate students and more than 800 international students. The university has two national key laboratories, including the National Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology and the National Key Laboratory of Crop Adaptation and Improvement, one National Field Scientific Observation and Research Station for Forest Ecosystem in Dabie Mountain, Henan, three national and local joint engineering research centers (engineering laboratories), including the National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Nanohybrid Material Application Technology, the National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for High-efficiency Display and Lighting Technology, and the National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Antibody Drug Development Technology, one National Edible Fungus Processing Technology Research and Development Professional Center, four key laboratories (engineering centers) of the Ministry of Education, 11 provincial key laboratories (research institutes) of Henan Province, and two national key social science research platforms, including the Yellow River Civilization Provincial and Ministry Co-construction Collaborative Innovation Center and the Yellow River Civilization and Sustainable Development Research Center. In addition, there are national-level education, research and training bases, including the National Ministry of Education Sports and Art Teacher Training Base, the State Sports General Administration Social Science Research Base, the National College Students Cultural Quality Education Base, and the National Chinese Excellent Culture and Art Inheritance Base. Henan University Press is established, and academic journals such as "Historical Monthly" and "Journal of Henan University" have a great influence in the academic community. The library has 5.2 million paper books and more than 7 million electronic books. The university has established friendly cooperative relations with more than 170 universities in more than 40 countries and regions, and is a member of the World Association of Universities and the Association of Asia-Pacific Universities. In recent years, leaders such as Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Jiang Zemin, Jia Qinglin, Li Lanqing, Wu Guanzheng, and Li Changchun have visited the university and placed high hopes on the development of Henan University. In July 2004, when Comrade Jiang Zemin visited, he personally wrote the inscription "Keep pace with the times, pioneer and innovate, and make Henan University a first-class university in the country." In September 2012, Comrade Wen Jiabao, then member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, wrote the inscription "Run Henan University well and revitalize the education in the Central Plains" for the 100th anniversary of the founding of Henan University. The Henan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government have always attached great importance to the construction of Henan University, and have always given key support to Henan University as a key university in Henan Province. Since entering the ranks of national "double first-class" universities, the school has adhered to the development positioning of "Chinese characteristics, world-class, and Central Plains style", and in accordance with the development ideas of "one main line, three fundamentals, six first-class, and six projects" proposed at the 11th Party Congress of the school, adhered to the connotation development, continued reform and innovation, and strived to become a comprehensive, research-oriented, and world-class university with great international influence by the middle of this century. (September 7, 2021)
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Yellow River Institute of Science and Technology was born and grew up in the tide of reform and opening up. In 1984, Hu Dabai, who was severely burned on duty, was thinking on his sickbed that Henan, as a populous province, had extremely scarce higher education resources, and the children of ordinary people had a strong desire to go to college, and social development urgently needed a large number of specialized talents; with the lofty ideal of "sharing the country's worries, solving the people's worries, and serving the socialist modernization construction", he thought about what the country thought, what the country was anxious about, and what the country needed, and took out only 30 yuan to establish the Zhengzhou Higher Education Self-study Examination Tutorial Class. In 1985, with the approval of the Zhengzhou Municipal Education Commission, the Zhengzhou Higher Education Self-study Examination Tutorial Class was renamed the Yellow River Science and Technology College. In 1989, with the approval of the Henan Provincial Education Commission, the Yellow River Science and Technology College was renamed the Zhengzhou Yellow River Science and Technology University. In 1994, the private Yellow River Institute of Science and Technology was established with the approval of the State Education Commission, and the school became the first private college in China to implement college education. In 1997, the Party Committee was established, becoming the first private college in China to establish a Party Committee. In 2000, it was approved by the Ministry of Education to become the first private college in China to implement undergraduate education. In 2008, the school successfully passed the evaluation of the undergraduate teaching level of ordinary colleges and universities of the Ministry of Education, and the expert group called it "shocked and shocked". In 2013, the school was approved by the Ministry of Education as the first batch of "Applied Science and Technology University Reform Pilot Strategic Research Units" in the country. In 2015, the school was approved as the first batch of demonstration applied technology undergraduate colleges in Henan Province. In 2017, the school was approved by the Henan Provincial Degree Committee as a master's degree awarding project construction unit. In 2018, it passed the review and evaluation of the undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education and was praised by the expert group as "big feelings, big pattern, big hand, and big deeds". The school's development history was called "a miracle in the history of world education" by UNESCO officials and was twice written into teaching cases by the School of Business at the University of Virginia in the United States. The school's achievements have been reported many times by CCTV, People's Daily, Guangming Daily and other famous domestic and foreign media. Professor Hu Dabai, the founder and chairman of the school, is the first "Chinese Contemporary Education Master", a representative of the 10th National People's Congress, and an expert enjoying the special allowance of the State Council. He was the chairman of the Supervisory Board of the China Private Education Association and the president of the Henan Private Education Association, and is currently the honorary president. Professor Yang Xuemei, the principal, is a doctoral supervisor, a postdoctoral fellow at Peking University, an expert enjoying the special allowance of the State Council, and an outstanding expert in Henan Province; a representative of the 12th and 13th National People's Congress, and has won honors such as the "National May 1st Labor Medal", "National March 8th Red Flag Bearer", and "China Youth May 4th Medal". The school firmly adheres to the socialist direction of running schools. The school has always regarded adhering to the leadership of the Party and strengthening Party building as the political guarantee and source of strength for reform and development, discipline and professional construction, and talent training, forming a distinctive feature and brand. As the first private university in the country to establish a party committee, it actively sought to establish a party organization in the early days of its establishment. The founder Hu Dabai's "Ten Years of Searching for the Party" has become a good story. In the exploration and practice, a working mechanism of "the Party Committee plays a political core role and participates in major school decisions" has been formed, an ideological and political model of "taking party building as the core and comprehensively strengthening ideological and political work" has been created, and an organizational pattern of "taking the party school and the school guard as the starting point to actively cultivate and develop student party members" has been created. In recent years, the school has adhered to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, focusing on the fundamental issues of "what kind of people to cultivate, how to cultivate people, and for whom to cultivate people", conscientiously implementing the fundamental task of cultivating people with moral integrity, creating a professional and professional ideological and political work team, sticking to the main position of ideological and political classrooms, tapping the educational functions of various courses, forming an ideological and political synergy, and cultivating socialist builders and successors with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor. The school has won the titles of "Model Party Branch of National Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education", "Double Leader Studio of Teachers' Party Branch of the Ministry of Education", "National May Fourth Red Flag Youth League Committee", "Advanced Grassroots Party Organization in Henan Province", "Civilized Campus in Henan Province", "Advanced Unit of Ideological and Political Work in Colleges and Universities in Henan Province", and "Model School of Rule of Law in Henan Province". The school continues to optimize the conditions for running schools. The school currently has four campuses, covering an area of more than 2,800 acres, with a building area of more than 1 million square meters. It has been rated as a "pilot unit for the construction of smart campuses in Henan Province's higher education institutions". There are more than 30,000 full-time undergraduate students. There are more than 2,200 faculty and staff, nearly 50% of teachers have senior professional titles, and 80% of young teachers have postgraduate degrees or above. There are more than 150 academicians of the two academies, Yangtze River Scholars, National Outstanding Youths, and National Teaching Masters. The school has built more than 50 high-level teaching and research platforms such as the Henan Provincial Academician Workstation, Postdoctoral Research and Development Base, Key Laboratory, International Joint Laboratory, Engineering Technology Research Center, and Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center. There are 138 laboratories of various disciplines, 441 experimental sub-rooms, and 226 off-campus training bases; the total value of teaching and research instruments is 428 million yuan; the collection of books is 3.628 million volumes. The school focuses on the construction of advantageous and distinctive disciplines. The school strives to make good use of the "catalyst" of interdisciplinary integration, break down the barriers between disciplines and majors, adjust and upgrade the existing discipline and major system, aim at the forefront of science and technology and key areas, promote the construction of new engineering, new medicine, new agriculture, and new liberal arts, and form the advantages of outstanding engineering advantages, high correlation between discipline chain and industrial chain, and strong support for local leading industries in discipline layout. The school currently has 10 secondary colleges (departments) including the School of Engineering, the Department of Arts and Sports, the School of Business, the School of Medicine, and the School of Applied Technology. It has opened a number of advantageous disciplines and majors such as data science and big data technology, artificial intelligence, materials, machinery, and automation, highlighting the supporting role for regional economic transformation and industrial upgrading. Focus on building 6 characteristic professional clusters such as information engineering and cultural creativity and 8 modern industrial colleges. There are 5 provincial key disciplines, 6 Henan provincial characteristic majors, 9 Henan provincial first-class undergraduate majors, and 14 Henan provincial brand majors. The number of provincial key disciplines and characteristic brand majors owned by the school ranks first among private universities in the province. Henan Province Undergraduate College Professional Construction Management Service Center is located in our school. It hosted the Henan Province Undergraduate Professional Digital Management Service Platform and Online Conference, which was highly praised by the society and highly recognized by the Provincial Department of Education. The school continues to innovate the talent training model of applied talents. The school continues to innovate the talent training model of "combining undergraduate education with vocational skills training", actively promotes digital reform, promotes the reform of flipped English, flipped sports and other core courses, and builds a "smart campus". Many talent training model reform results won the second prize of national teaching achievements and the special prize of Henan Province Higher Education Teaching Achievements. Students have won more than 6,000 awards at the provincial and regional levels, including more than 800 national awards. They won 2 silver and 5 bronze in the China International "Internet +" College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and were ranked in the "National General College Competition Evaluation Results (Undergraduate) TOP300". The school has provided more than 200,000 high-quality applied talents to the country and society. The employment rate of graduates has remained above 97% in the past three years, which is very popular among employers. A number of outstanding students have emerged, including "China's Self-improvement Star Model for College Students", "National Outstanding Communist Youth League Members", "Henan's Most Beautiful College Students", and a number of outstanding graduates, including "National Outstanding County Party Secretary", "National Outstanding Rural Doctor", and "National Outstanding College Student Village Official". The school was rated as "National University with Typical Experience in Graduate Employment" (Top 50 National College Graduate Employment); won the first batch of "Henan Province Demonstration Applied Technology Type Undergraduate Colleges" and "National General College Competition Evaluation (Undergraduate) TOP300" list; the school has ranked first in Wu Shulian's China Private University Comprehensive Strength Ranking for four consecutive years, and ranked first in private universities in the Guangzhou Daily National Applied University Ranking for four consecutive years, and ranked 87th in the comprehensive ranking of 872 undergraduate universities (non-doctoral training units) in the country. The school has carried out extensive in-depth cooperation between schools, enterprises and government around innovation and entrepreneurship, formed a distinctive education model for innovative and entrepreneurial talents that combines industry, academia and research, built a diversified innovation and entrepreneurship service platform, and established a three-dimensional innovation and entrepreneurship support system. The school's "Yellow River Innovation Space" has been registered by the Ministry of Science and Technology as the first batch of innovation spaces in the country, and has been included in the management system of national science and technology enterprise incubators; the university science and technology park has been recognized by the Ministry of Science and Technology as an excellent (Class A) national science and technology enterprise incubator, and the Entrepreneurship Park has been selected as the first batch of "National University Student Entrepreneurship Demonstration Park" by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and the University Student Entrepreneurship Incubation Park has been approved as a national entrepreneurship incubation demonstration base. The school was selected as a construction college for the Ministry of Education's "Internet + Made in China 2025" industry-education integration promotion plan, and won the first batch of "National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Typical Experience Colleges", "National First Batch of Deepening Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform Demonstration Colleges", "Henan Province Credit System Reform Pilot Colleges" and so on. The school pays attention to the construction of a scientific and technological innovation system. The university closely focuses on the needs of regional economic and social development and industrial structure transformation and upgrading, takes applied scientific research as the leading factor, and carries out close cooperation with the Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongguancun Software Park, Huawei, HP and other units; it has established 7 provincial and municipal applied scientific research innovation teams, 8 provincial science and technology innovation platforms, 27 prefecture-level science and technology innovation platforms, and 29 school-level scientific research platforms; it is the first private university in Henan Province to be approved for provincial key laboratories and provincial international joint laboratories, promoting the deep integration of industry, academia and research, and promoting the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. Up to now, it has undertaken 15 national projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation, and more than 400 provincial and ministerial projects; it has won more than 200 provincial and ministerial awards such as the Henan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award and the Henan Provincial Government Development Research Award; it has published 12,000 academic papers with the highest impact factor of 27.398; it has obtained nearly 5,000 patents, and has ranked second in the number of patent authorizations among universities in the province for four consecutive years, and has been selected as one of the "Top Ten and Fastest Universities in the Special Action to Improve the Comprehensive Capacity of Intellectual Property Rights in Henan Universities", ranking fourth in the list of invention patents of newly built (applied) undergraduate universities in China and first among private universities. The school has established more than 20 research institutions, including the China (Henan) Innovation and Development Research Institute, the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, the Modern Agricultural Engineering Research Institute, and the Private Education Research Institute. It has continuously published the "Henan Double Innovation Blue Book" and the "Henan Private Education Blue Book", etc., and provided consultation for the government to formulate policies, which has been specially instructed by provincial leaders. The school pays attention to international exchanges and cooperation. The school actively builds a cooperative platform for friendly exchanges between Chinese and foreign education and culture, actively carries out foreign talent training, academic, scientific and cultural exchanges, and has established long-term friendly cooperative relations with many well-known universities or scientific research institutions in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, achieving resource sharing and win-win cooperation. The school cooperates with Georgia State University in the United States to launch Sino-foreign undergraduate course cooperation projects such as finance, software engineering, and social work; and conducts summer study tours and exchange students with Stony Brook University of the State University of New York, Tokyo Welfare University, and Gray Sports Academy in Denmark, recruiting foreign students from 14 countries including the United States, South Korea, and Japan; more than 200 foreign experts have been hired to teach at the school and conduct academic exchanges. The school actively carries out social services. The school makes full use of its educational advantages and talent resources to perform its social service functions. It initiated the establishment of the Henan University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Association, which has been participated by nearly 100 universities, to promote universities, enterprises and the whole society to pay attention to, support and participate in innovation and entrepreneurship; co-built the "U Chuanggang" innovation and entrepreneurship complex with the Erqi District Government, and created a full-chain innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem of "maker studio-mass innovation space-incubator-accelerator-industrial park" to meet the needs of college student entrepreneurial teams and start-ups; raised 150 million yuan on its own to design and build the Smart Dream Chasing Experience Hall, which was recognized as the "Henan Province Science Popularization Education Base" and the "Henan Province Network Security Education Base"; played the role of the school as a Chinese private education museum, and received more than 120,000 visitors for free. ; Free training for laid-off workers, college village officials, innovation and entrepreneurship for more than 10,000 people; Passed the performance evaluation of Henan Province's open sharing of scientific research facilities and instruments and received two-way subsidies for two consecutive years. It is the only university that has enjoyed subsidies for two consecutive years; Participated in the ancestral worship ceremony for 18 consecutive years, built a modern non-profit tertiary comprehensive hospital, adhered to the combination of medical education and research, and medical care; Organized and hosted the Fourth (GAUC) World Private Higher Education Development International Forum, two China (Henan) New Drug R&D Exchange and Technology Transfer Matchmaking Conferences, 2016 China Maker Conference and the Third China Maker Competition, Central Plains Innovation Development Forum and more than 100 other important activities. In the past three years, more than 300 units from higher-level departments, well-known enterprises, and brother colleges and universities have visited the school for more than 25,000 visits, forming a good demonstration and driving role. Do not forget the original intention of cultivating morality and educating people, and keep in mind the mission of cultivating talents for the country. The school will be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, implement the spirit of the national and provincial education conferences, fully implement the spirit of the Ministry of Education's "Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of High-level Undergraduate Education and Comprehensively Improving Talent Training Capabilities", actively connect with the national innovation-driven development strategy, Made in China 2025 and Henan Province's "Five Districts and One Group" national major strategic needs, unswervingly follow the connotation-oriented development path with improving quality and strengthening characteristics as the core, and work tirelessly to build the school into a first-class domestic applied science and technology university as soon as possible!
Hainan Normal University is located in Haikou, a beautiful coastal tourist city and a national historical and cultural city. It currently has two campuses, Longkun South and Guilinyang, covering an area of about 3,100 acres. It is a key university in Hainan Province and an important training base and scientific research base for excellent teachers and senior professionals in Hainan Province. Since its establishment, it has trained more than 180,000 basic education teachers and various senior talents for the society, and is known as "Qiongdao Famous School, Cradle of Teachers". It has a long history of running schools. The predecessor of the school can be traced back to the Qiongtai Academy with a history of more than 300 years. In the autumn of 1949, the National Hainan Normal College was officially established. It is the first public university in Hainan Province. In 1952, it was renamed Hainan Normal College in the adjustment of colleges and departments of higher education institutions. In 1986, the establishment of Hainan Normal College was restored. In 1999, it merged with Hainan Education College to form a new Hainan Normal College. In 2007, it was renamed Hainan Normal University. In 2013, it was approved to confer doctoral degrees. In 2015, it became a university jointly established by the Hainan Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Education. The training system is complete. The school currently has 24 colleges and more than 20,000 full-time students (including more than 19,000 undergraduates and more than 2,000 postgraduates). There are 67 undergraduate majors, 19 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, 13 master's professional degree authorization points, 5 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, and 2 postdoctoral research mobile stations, forming a complete higher education talent training system for bachelors, masters, and doctors. The faculty is strong. There are 1,342 full-time teachers and scientific researchers, including 254 senior professional titles, 417 associate senior professional titles, and 480 full-time teachers with doctoral degrees. There are 2 national "Ten Thousand Talents Plan" philosophy and social science leaders, 2 scientific and technological innovation leaders, 5 national candidates for the "New Century Hundred Thousand Talents Project", 1 national cultural celebrity and "Four Ones" talent, 2 young talents in propaganda, ideology and culture, 2 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions at the national level, 6 selected for the Ministry of Education's New Century Excellent Talent Support Program, 16 experts enjoying special government allowances from the State Council, 3 national outstanding science and technology workers, 3 national outstanding teachers, 1 national model teacher, 2 national May 1st Labor Medal winners, 8 outstanding talents in Hainan Province, 65 leading talents, 195 top talents, 254 other high-level talents, 15 outstanding experts with outstanding contributions in Hainan Province, and 6 candidates for Hainan Province's "Hundred Talents Project". The results of educating people are remarkable. The school adheres to the concept of student-centeredness, actively promotes the comprehensive reform of education and teaching of "enrollment in large categories and diversion training", vigorously carries out innovation and entrepreneurship education, and forms a high-quality education and teaching system that adapts to the sustainable development of local economy and society. The school is the first batch of journalism schools jointly built by the Central Propaganda Department and the school, the first batch of three-dimensional education pilot units of the Ministry of Education, the national key Marxist college cultivation unit, and the national innovation and entrepreneurship education reform demonstration university. It has been approved as one national experimental teaching demonstration center, one national talent training model innovation experimental zone, two national joint training demonstration bases for master's degree students in education, and the Ministry of Education's national general colleges and universities Chinese excellent traditional culture inheritance base. There are 15 national first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 6 national characteristic majors, 1 national first-class undergraduate course, and 1 national excellent teacher training program reform project. It has won 2 second prizes for national teaching achievements in higher education and 3 second prizes for national teaching achievements in basic education. It is the university with the most national teaching achievement awards in Hainan Province. In the past five years, students have won 575 national awards and 617 provincial awards in innovation and entrepreneurship competitions and subject competitions at or above the provincial and ministerial levels. The initial employment rate of graduates has ranked first among public undergraduate colleges in the province for six consecutive years. It is the only public undergraduate college that has received an A grade in the inspection and evaluation of employment and entrepreneurship work of college graduates in the province. The academic level is high. Focus on building the "three major disciplines" of liberal arts and sciences, characteristic applied disciplines and emerging interdisciplinary disciplines, give full play to the leading and exemplary role of advantageous disciplines such as Marxist theory, Chinese language and literature, education, chemistry, ecology, and mathematics, and continuously improve the overall level of discipline construction. The school currently has 2 ministerial-level country and regional research bases, 10 provincial-level key research bases for humanities and social sciences, 1 provincial-level key new think tank, and 4 other provincial and ministerial-level platforms. The first humanities academician workstation in Hainan Province has been established; 3 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 7 provincial-level key laboratories, 4 provincial-level engineering research centers, and 19 provincial-level academician innovation platforms have been built. In the past five years, the university has won nearly 200 national scientific research projects, and achieved a breakthrough in major national social science fund projects; it has won more than 120 national and provincial and ministerial awards for outstanding scientific research achievements, and the first prize of the Ministry of Education's Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award (Humanities and Social Sciences) and the first prize of the National Education Science Research Outstanding Achievement Award have achieved a breakthrough. A total of 3,365 academic papers have been published, including 1,050 papers included in SCI and CSSCI, and papers were published for the first time in "Chinese Social Sciences" (English version) and "Science" (letter form); 282 books have been published, 121 patents have been approved; many think tank reports have been instructed by party and state leaders and provincial and ministerial leaders. Solid service to local areas. The school takes serving basic education and regional economic and social development as its own responsibility. Since 2007, it has actively responded to the call of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, and carried out projects such as "Double 500 Normal Students and In-service Teachers Replacement Teaching Training" and "Weekend Mobile Teacher Training College", which have made important contributions to improving the level of basic education in Hainan Province and achieving balanced development of basic education. It has been affirmed by Comrade Liu Yandong, then State Councilor. One of the 20 universities in the country that have carried out the Sports and Aesthetic Education Immersion Action Plan, it has co-built the "Hainan Teacher Education Reform and Innovation Experimental Zone" with Danzhou City and Ding'an County. Facing the needs of Hainan's regional economic and social development, it has given full play to the advantages of multiple disciplines and made outstanding contributions in the development of the South China Sea, the construction of Hainan Ecological Province, Li culture education, education poverty alleviation, the protection and utilization of tropical plant resources, and the inheritance and innovation of Hainan's local culture. In the past three years, 103 new horizontal scientific research cooperation projects have been added. The school library has long focused on the collection of local documents such as the Hainan Li Nationality and the South China Sea region, and the historical documents of Southeast Asia. It is the library with the largest and richest collection of local documents in Hainan. The Hainan Biodiversity Museum created by the school fills the gap in the natural science museum in Hainan Province. The school also has a national university science and technology park, which has attracted 762 incubated enterprises, with a total output value of nearly 600 million yuan in 2021. Open education is effective. It has carried out academic exchange activities with more than 60 countries and more than 100 universities and educational institutions, and established cooperative relations with 82 universities and educational institutions such as the University of Hawaii in the United States, the University of Chester in the United Kingdom, the University of Bad Homburg in Germany, and Hiroshima University in Japan. It co-organizes the undergraduate education major of radio and television director with the St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television in Russia, co-organizes the undergraduate major of preschool education with DePaul University in the United States, and co-establishes the major of software engineering with the National Institute of Information Technology in India. It has the only preparatory college for international students in Hainan, which is qualified to recruit students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and has co-established a Confucius Institute with Century University in Malaysia. As a receiving institution for Chinese government scholarship students, there are currently more than 1,000 international students from 47 countries. The school has signed a counterpart support agreement with Shaanxi Normal University, established cooperative relations with many universities such as Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing Normal University, Northeast Normal University, Southwest University, Heilongjiang University, Changchun University of Science and Technology, and established strategic cooperative relations with local governments such as Haikou City, Sansha City, Danzhou City, Dongfang City, Ding'an County, Qiongzhong County, and Fushun County, Sichuan Province. The campus is harmonious and stable. Actively promote campus cultural construction, constantly explore new ways, methods and ideas for art education, and effectively improve the humanistic quality of college students. Won the title of "National Civilized Campus" in the second National Civilized Campus Selection, and is the only award-winning university in Hainan Province. Won more than 20 national awards such as gold medals in activities such as the China Youth Volunteer Service Project Competition, the College Student Beach Volleyball Championship, and the College Student Art Exhibition. In the new historical period, the school will be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, conscientiously implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's "4.13" important speech and the Central Document No. 12, keep the original intention in mind, continue to move forward, grasp the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, focus on the main business of teacher education, innovate talent training models, and make unremitting efforts to build a high-level exemplary normal university with distinctive characteristics of teacher education, cultivate more outstanding teachers and high-quality talents for the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port, and contribute to the realization of the "two centenary" goals and the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation! April 8, 2022
Northwest University of Political Science and Law is located in Xi'an, a world-famous ancient city with a glorious revolutionary tradition and rich cultural heritage. It is a multidisciplinary university with distinct legal characteristics, and philosophy, economics, management, literature and other disciplines support each other and develop in a coordinated manner. The school is a national base for the education and training of outstanding legal talents, and undertakes the task of cultivating outstanding legal talents of all three types, including applied, composite, foreign-related and western grassroots. The school is the center of legal research in the northwest region and an important base for humanities and social sciences research. It has the right to confer doctoral degrees and the first postdoctoral research mobile station for first-level legal disciplines in the northwest region. Northwest University of Political Science and Law is a multidisciplinary university with distinct legal characteristics, and philosophy, economics, management, literature and other disciplines support each other and develop in a coordinated manner. The school is a national training base for legal talents. It is one of the "five colleges and four departments" known as the national team for the training of political and legal talents. It is an important base for legal education, legal research center and humanities and social sciences research in the northwest region. It is a high-level university and first-class discipline construction university that Shaanxi Province focuses on building. It is a member unit of the "Lige Alliance" of national legal higher education and the "Chang'an Alliance" of high-level and distinctive universities in Xi'an. The predecessor of the school was the Shaanxi-Northern Public School founded by the Communist Party of China in Yan'an in 1937. After the periods of Yan'an University, Northwest People's Revolutionary University, Northwest Political and Legal Cadre School, and Northwest Branch of the Central Political and Legal Cadre School, in 1958, the Law Department of Northwest University was transferred to form the Xi'an Institute of Political Science and Law, which was later renamed Northwest Institute of Political Science and Law and Northwest University of Political Science and Law. Since its establishment, the school has taken root in the west, formed the fine tradition of the old Yanda University of "political firmness, seeking truth from facts, courage to innovate, and hard work", forged the school motto of "rigorous, realistic, civilized, and fair", condensed the educational concept of "belief in the rule of law, Chinese stance, international vision, and civilian sentiment", and cultivated more than 160,000 high-quality professionals with both moral integrity and ability, and both moral and legal. The school currently has 18 teaching units including the School of Philosophy and Social Development, the School of Economics, the School of Rule of Law, the School of Legal Master Education, the School of Administrative Law (School of Discipline Inspection and Supervision), the School of Criminal Law, the School of Civil and Commercial Law, the School of Economic Law (School of Intellectual Property), the School of International Law, the School of Anti-Terrorism Law (School of National Security), the School of Politics and Public Administration, the School of Marxism, the School of Public Security, the School of Foreign Languages, the School of Journalism and Communication, the School of Business (School of Management), the School of International Education, the School of Continuing Education, and the Department of Physical Education. The school currently has more than 1,000 full-time teachers, including more than 50 people selected for the national "Ten Thousand Talents Plan" leading talent project, "Yangtze River Scholars Award Program" distinguished professors, cultural celebrities and "four batches" talents of the Central Propaganda Department, young talents in propaganda, ideology and culture, Shaanxi Province Sanqin Scholars and other central and provincial talent projects, and more than 30 experts who enjoy special allowances from the State Council, national advanced individuals in teacher ethics, national model teachers, national outstanding teachers, Shaanxi Province teacher ethics model, and outstanding teachers. The school actively promotes the system of young teachers taking up positions in practical departments, which has been highly praised by the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, the Ministry of Education and other ministries and commissions. The school currently has 31 undergraduate majors and more than 12,700 undergraduate students. Journalism, philosophy, and investigation are national specialty majors. Law, English, journalism, e-commerce, and law majors are selected as national first-class undergraduate major construction sites. Philosophy, economics, finance, international economics and trade, political science and administration, investigation, criminal science and technology, administrative management, marketing, auditing, human resource management, editing and publishing, radio and television editing and directing, sociology and other majors are rated as provincial "first-class major" construction sites. The courses of "Administrative Law" and "Investigation Measures" are national "first-class courses". Nine courses such as "Criminal Law", "Private International Law", and "Principles of Marxist Philosophy" have been approved as provincial "first-class courses". The school is one of the first batch of universities implementing the "Excellent Legal Talent Education and Training Program" in the country, and undertakes the task of cultivating all three types of excellent legal talents. The innovation experimental zone for the training model of legal talents is a national innovation experimental zone. There are 7 experimental training centers, and the legal experimental training center is the first batch of national experimental teaching demonstration centers. The school implements the undergraduate tutor system and builds a high-level and distinctive second classroom activity system. The school began to recruit and train master's students in 1979. In 2012, it was approved as the first-level discipline of law "Doctoral Talent Project for Serving National Special Needs", and in 2014, it was approved as a postdoctoral research station for law. There are more than 3,700 master's students and more than 100 doctoral students. There are 7 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, 39 second-level discipline master's degree authorization points, 9 interdisciplinary master's degree authorization points, and 9 professional degree master's degree authorization points. There are 10 provincial key disciplines and 3 provincial advantageous disciplines. In the fourth round of national discipline evaluation, law was B+; philosophy was C, ranking fourth in the northwest region. In the first national professional degree level evaluation, the master of law professional degree was "B+". In 2018, the school was approved as a first-class discipline construction university in Shaanxi Province, and the law discipline was approved as a first-class construction discipline. The Human Rights Research Center of the University is a national human rights education and training base. It has co-built a national procuratorial public interest litigation research center with the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and co-built an education legislation research base with the Ministry of Education. There are currently two provincial key research bases of philosophy and social sciences, namely the "Collaborative Innovation Research Center for Social Policy and Public Opinion Evaluation" and the "Northwest Social Stability and National Security Rule of Law Research Center", and five Shaanxi (college) key research bases of philosophy and social sciences, namely the "Criminal Law Science Research Center", "International Law Research Center", "Local Government Rule of Law Construction Research Center", "Risk and Crisis Management Research Center", and "Military-Civilian Integration Rule of Law Guarantee and Veterans Affairs Governance Collaborative Innovation Research Center". The "Cooperative Innovation Center for the Construction of Rule of Law in Shaanxi" and the "Cooperative Innovation Center for Aviation Rule of Law Modernization" are the 2011 Collaborative Innovation Centers of the Shaanxi Provincial Education System. There are physical research institutions such as the Anti-Terrorism Research Institute, the National and Religious Research Institute, the Chinese Legal System and Rule of Law Civilization Research Institute, the Silk Road Regional Cooperation and Development Law Research Institute, the Cultural and Value Philosophy Research Institute, the Human Rights Research Center, the Military-Civilian Integration Development Research Institute, the Artificial Intelligence and Smart Rule of Law Research Institute, the Maple Bridge Experience and Social Governance Research Institute, and the Ma Xiwu Trial Method Research Institute. Among them, the Anti-Terrorism Research Institute was selected as the first batch of China Law Society Rule of Law Research Bases, and the Anti-Terrorism Research Institute and the National and Religious Research Institute were selected into the "Belt and Road" Think Tank Alliance. The academic journal "Legal Science" sponsored by the school was selected as one of the "Top 30" humanities and social sciences journals and one of the top 100 newspapers in China. The school integrates into the construction of the "Belt and Road" and is committed to building an innovative highland for the theoretical research of Silk Road law and an important position for the exchange and dissemination of rule of law culture. The school has created a think tank platform to serve the construction of the "Belt and Road". It has established the "Silk Road Regional Cooperation and Development Law Institute" and the "China-Eurasia High-end Legal Talent Training Base" of the Chinese Law Society, and the "Regional and Country Research Center-South Asia Research Center" of the Ministry of Education. High-level foreign-related legal research institutions and talent training bases, undertake the first batch of national master of law professional degree (foreign-related lawyers) postgraduate training projects, establish Shaanxi "Belt and Road" Law School, and hold a series of international academic seminars on the "Belt and Road" legal culture dialogue between Chang'an and Rome. The school vigorously expands students' international exchange channels and establishes cooperative relations with more than 70 famous universities in the United States, Britain, Germany and other countries. Actively carry out education for international students, encourage and support teachers and students to study abroad and participate in international conferences, and continuously improve the internationalization level of talent training and the ability to participate in international competition. The school has established the goal of building a "high-level teaching and research university with distinctive legal characteristics and coordinated development of multiple disciplines", and put forward a "three-step" strategic concept for the construction of a high-level university. At present, the school is closely focusing on the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, continuously promoting high-quality connotation-oriented development, continuously deepening comprehensive reforms, and striding towards the goal of building a high-level teaching and research university! (Data update as of April 8, 2022)
Xi'an International Studies University is one of the four earliest foreign language colleges established in New China, and is the only general university in Northwest China that offers a full range of major foreign languages. In 1951, with the approval of the Ministry of Education of the Central People's Government, the Russian Department of the School of Arts of Lanzhou University, the Russian Language Group of the Foreign Language Department of Northwest University, and the Russian Language Specialization Department were merged to form the predecessor of Xi'an International Studies University, the Northwest Russian Language College. In 1952, the Russian Language Class of the Party School of the Northwest Bureau of the Communist Party of China was merged into the Northwest Russian Language College, and began to train undergraduate foreign language talents for the country. In 1958, it was renamed Xi'an International Studies University. In 1979, it began to recruit graduate students, and in 1986, it was approved by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee to become a master's degree-granting institution. In 2006, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the school was renamed Xi'an International Studies University. In 2011, the Shaanxi Provincial People's Government listed it as a high-level university that is key to the construction during the "12th Five-Year Plan". In January 2013, it was approved by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee to become a doctoral degree-granting institution and obtained the right to confer doctoral degrees in the first-level discipline of foreign languages and literature. In 2014, it was approved as a postdoctoral research mobile station. After nearly 70 years of construction and development, the school has achieved the transformation from a single-discipline foreign language college to a multidisciplinary foreign language university that highlights foreign language education and humanities and social science research characteristics, with humanities as the main body and coordinated development of social sciences, management and science disciplines. It is an important foreign language talent training base in the western part of the country and plays an irreplaceable role in the field of foreign language education, teaching and research in the northwest region. The school covers a total area of 1,593 acres and a building area of 801,000 square meters. The school vigorously promotes the construction of a smart campus, with full coverage of wired and wireless networks, rich high-quality network teaching resources, and gradually built public service platforms such as digital campuses. It has modern laboratories such as smart classrooms, multilingual translation experimental teaching centers, international financial investment and business comprehensive simulation experimental teaching centers, Northeast Asian research multimodal laboratories, and collaborative innovation laboratories. The school's classrooms are equipped with multimedia facilities at a rate of 100%. The library has a collection of documents in 54 languages, 2,463 Chinese and foreign newspapers and periodicals, and 65 databases. The school has been awarded the honorary titles of "Safe Campus" and "Model Civilized Unit" in Shaanxi Province. The school currently has 20 colleges (departments) and other teaching institutions, with a first-level doctoral degree authorization point in foreign languages and literature, 13 second-level doctoral degree points and 1 postdoctoral research mobile station, and jointly trains doctoral students with 8 foreign universities. There are 7 first-level master's degree authorization points in foreign languages and literature, Chinese languages and literature, business administration, education, journalism and communication, Marxist theory, and applied economics, 74 second-level degree authorization points, and 9 master's professional degree authorization points in translation, Chinese international education, tourism management, accounting, journalism and communication, education, finance, international business, and art. There are 60 undergraduate majors and 4 minor majors, covering 7 disciplines including literature, economics, management, law, education, science, and art. The first-level discipline of foreign languages and literature is a characteristic discipline of philosophy and social sciences in Shaanxi Province's general colleges and universities. English language and literature, French language and literature, and German language and literature are key disciplines in Shaanxi Province. English, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, translation, business English, tourism management, Arabic, Hindi, and business administration are 12 national first-class undergraduate major construction sites. English and French majors are national comprehensive reform pilots, and 5 majors such as English, Russian, French, tourism management, and translation are national characteristic majors. The school currently has 7 provincial comprehensive reform pilot majors, 5 provincial famous majors, 9 provincial characteristic majors, and 13 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites. There is 1 national bilingual teaching demonstration course, 2 provincial bilingual teaching demonstration courses, 16 provincial quality courses, 19 provincial quality resource sharing courses, 10 provincial first-class courses, 10 provincial talent training model innovation experimental areas, and 15 provincial teaching teams. The school has been approved as one provincial innovation and entrepreneurship education training base, two provincial innovation and entrepreneurship education reform pilot colleges, three provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, and one provincial virtual simulation experimental teaching center. The school vigorously carries out the cultivation of outstanding talents in "double foreign languages + majors", and has opened five outstanding talent experimental classes such as outstanding diplomatic talents, outstanding news and communication talents, outstanding international trade talents, outstanding business management talents, and outstanding economics talents, as well as one English outstanding talent experimental class. "Research Innovation and Practice of Translation Professional Teaching Mode", "Innovation and Practice of International Business Talent Cultivation Mode", "Innovation and Practice of International Language Service Talent Collaborative Cultivation System", "Advantage-led, Regional Linkage, Serving Western Higher Foreign Language Education 20 Years of Exploration and Practice" won the Special Prize of Shaanxi Province Teaching Achievement Award, and "Innovation and Practice of Translation Professional Talent Collaborative Cultivation System" won the Second Prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award. The school cooperated with Global Times Online (Beijing) Cultural Communication Co., Ltd. to establish a literary practice education base, which was approved as a national and provincial off-campus practice education base for college students. The management practice education base established in cooperation with Xi'an Pepsi-Cola Beverage Co., Ltd. and the Management Committee of Xi'an Yanliang National Aviation High-tech Industrial Base was approved as a provincial off-campus practice education base for college students. "JD Cloud-Xi'an International Studies University Cross-border E-commerce Translation Innovation and Entrepreneurship Practice Education Base" and "Shaanxi Radio and Television Station-Xi'an International Studies University Social Media Innovation Practice Training Base" were approved as provincial off-campus innovation and entrepreneurship practice bases for college students. The school and Sichuan International Studies University jointly initiated the establishment of the Western Higher Education Foreign Language Education and Teaching Alliance by 31 western universities and 7 units including Foreign Language Research and Development Press and Foreign Language Education Press. The school is a university that recommends outstanding undergraduates to study for a master's degree without examination, a university that recruits non-common languages in advance, and a university that is qualified to accept recommended students. There are currently 20,000 doctoral students, master's students, undergraduates, foreign students and various training students. The school has strong scientific research capabilities. The Poland Research Center and the Northeast Asia Research Center have been registered as country and regional research centers by the Ministry of Education. The South Asia Research Center has been approved by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission as the "Belt and Road" country and regional research and cultivation center. The Belt and Road Language Service Collaborative Innovation Center is the 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center of Shaanxi Province. The European and American Literature Research Center, the Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Research Center, and the International Public Opinion and International Communication Research Institute are Shaanxi (colleges and universities) key research bases for philosophy and social sciences. It has five major research institutes, including the Institute of Foreign Languages and Literature, the Institute of Translation and Cross-Cultural Studies, the Institute of Regional and Country Studies, the Institute of International Public Opinion and International Communication, and the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences. It has 46 school-level scientific research institutions, forming a relatively complete and large-scale foreign language and interdisciplinary scientific research system, undertaking a number of scientific research projects funded by national, provincial and ministerial levels and foreign cultural ministries, and publishing high-quality large-scale dictionaries, monographs, translations, papers and textbooks. Academic journals such as Foreign Language Teaching, Human Geography, and Journal of Xi'an International Studies University are core journals of Chinese humanities and social sciences and Chinese geography with certain influence in the academic circles at home and abroad. Among them, Foreign Language Teaching and Human Geography have been selected as CSSCI source journals for many years, and Journal of Xi'an International Studies University is a CSSCI extended version source journal and Peking University's "Overview of Chinese Core Journals". Foreign Language Teaching and Human Geography have been rated as "China's Excellent Academic Journals with International Influence" and "China's Most Internationally Influential Academic Journals" for consecutive years. The school insists on giving full play to its own advantages and carrying out extensive international exchanges and cooperation. It has signed cooperation agreements with 270 colleges and universities and scientific research institutions in 49 countries and regions including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Russia, and implemented joint training programs for academic, master, and doctoral talents at different levels; carried out academic exchange and cooperation projects such as mutual dispatch of teachers and students, mutual recognition of credits, mutual award of degrees, and joint hosting of international conferences; and introduced overseas visiting and internship programs in the United States, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and Hong Kong. The school has been identified by the Ministry of Education as a cooperative institution for the overseas training program for young backbone teachers and the international exchange program for outstanding undergraduates. It is a commissioned training unit for receiving international students from the national government scholarship program, and the first HSK (written and computer-based test) and HSKK test center in Northwest China certified by the Ministry of Education. The school actively responded to the national "Belt and Road" construction initiative, established the Central Asia College to carry out the education of international students from Central Asian countries, established 9 "Belt and Road" country regional research centers, and obtained approval from the Ministry of Education to hold a Sino-foreign cooperative education project for undergraduate education in Arabic language and literature with the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. The school has established 3 Confucius Institutes in Kazakhstan, Argentina and France, and has been awarded the "Advanced Chinese Cooperation Institution Award" by the former National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language/Confucius Institute Headquarters, Shaanxi Provincial Government Departments, Education Departments and other units. In 2012, the National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language was approved to establish a multilingual base for the international promotion of Chinese (Xi'an). The school cooperates with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the Institute of Management Accountants to run ACCA reform classes, CIMA reform classes, and CFA reform classes. It also builds a Russian language and culture center with Novosibirsk State University of Technology in Russia and a Sino-German College with the University of Münster in Germany. The Korean Cultural Center, the Goethe Institute in Germany, and the Pucheng English Group in the United States have respectively established the "Sejong Academy", "Goethe Language Center", and "Susan Qin English Center" in the school. In addition, the school also has the Ministry of Education's Overseas Study Training Department, the China Scholarship Council's Overseas Study Preparatory Education Center, and the China (Ministry of Education) Overseas Study Service Center Overseas Study Training Base. The school adheres to the "five-in-one" development concept of student growth and talent, teacher development, discipline and professional development, college development, and school development, and strives to cultivate more compound and international talents for the country, especially the western region, who have mastered the policies of the Party and the country, have sound personality and professional knowledge, global vision and cultural confidence, innovative spirit and practical ability, are familiar with international rules, and are proficient in Sino-foreign negotiations and communications. The school's graduates are highly welcomed by employers for their "solid foreign language skills, strong communication skills, high comprehensive quality, quick adaptation to work, dedication to work, hard work, and development potential", and the employment rate of graduates has remained at a high level for many years. The school's volunteer groups actively serve the social, economic and cultural development. College students have participated in volunteer work in major events such as the Beijing Olympics, Shanghai World Expo, Xi'an World Horticultural Exposition, Shenzhen World University Games, Nanjing Youth Olympic Games, Eurasian Economic Forum, Rio Olympics, etc. The school's volunteer team has been awarded many honors such as "China's 100 Outstanding Volunteer Service Groups". In order to adapt to the needs of my country's social development and economic construction, the school will seize the historical opportunities of the great development of national higher education, the "Belt and Road" initiative and the strategy of opening up to the outside world, uphold the school motto of "patriotism, diligence, erudition and innovation", carry forward the spirit of "being knowledgeable about the past and the present, integrating China and foreign countries, combining virtue and kindness, and striving for self-improvement", "based in Shaanxi, serving the northwest, radiating the whole country, and facing the world", adhere to the open and internationalized path of running schools, continuously deepen comprehensive reforms, strive to create "four first-class", strive to catch up and surpass, and strive to build the school into a high-level teaching and research university with distinctive foreign language characteristics and coordinated development of multiple disciplines! (Statistics as of June 2021)