Shaoguan University covers an area of 25 1, 1 mu, with a total campus area of 490,000 square meters. Campus trees, birds and flowers, beautiful environment. It integrates campus, forest garden and park, creating an excellent educational environment. The school won the honorary titles of "National Civilized Unit", "National Advanced Unit for College Students' Summer Social Practice in the Countryside", "National Founding Unit of the Red Flag Youth League Committee during the May 4th Movement", "National Greening Model Unit", "Guangdong Civilized Unit" and "Guangdong Civilized Campus". "Growth Forum" won the third prize of outstanding achievements in the construction of campus culture in colleges and universities nationwide. The school was also named as one of the "New Ten Scenes of Shaocheng" by Shaoguan Municipal People's Government, and the library building won the Luban Award, the highest national architectural award. The pictures of the school campus scenery were included in the large-scale album "Green Glory" published by the National Greening Committee.
Shaoguan University is the only undergraduate college in northern Guangdong. Its predecessor was Shaoguan Teachers College, which was founded in 1958. After 50 years of construction and development, the school has formed a distinctive school-running characteristics and comprehensive discipline pattern, and has become an important base for talent training and knowledge and technology innovation in northern Guangdong and even the "Red Triangle" region. At present, the school has the departments of biological sciences, agricultural sciences, food science and engineering, physics and electromechanical engineering, computer science, arts, foreign languages, chemistry and environmental engineering, physical education, economics and management, politics and public affairs management, law school, mathematics and information science, education, fine arts, music, tourism and geography, and music. In addition, the school also has 34 research institutions, such as Animal Disease Research Institute, Vegetable Research Institute, Chemical and Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Peyo Economic Research Institute, Peyo Biology Research Institute, Automation Research Institute, Electronic Technology Research Institute, Peyo Cultural Research Center and Tourism Culture Research Institute, with a large number of advanced experimental equipment and application software. The library has1870,400 paper books and 424,600 electronic books, and is equipped with computer circulation, CD-ROM retrieval and electronic literature information.
The school vigorously implements the strategy of "strengthening the school with talents". Teaching staff 1, 5 13, including 83 senior titles, 44 deputy senior titles, and 5 doctors and masters, which provide a strong guarantee for improving the strength and level of running schools. In recent years, teachers have presided over or participated in 22 national scientific research projects, including 4 national natural science foundation projects, 4 national social science foundation projects, and national spark plan project 1; He presided over 83 provincial and ministerial research projects, nearly 222 municipal and departmental research projects, and 63 horizontal projects closely related to local economic and social development; Published 6634 scientific research papers, including 2409 core journals and 223 papers included in SCI, EI, ISTP and CSSCI. Won the national, provincial and municipal science and technology awards 17, including the second prize of national science and technology progress 1; Won 2 gold medals in China Invention Patent Expo and 32 national patents. Presided over 2 1 century 1 national education reform project and Guangdong 12 education reform project, and won the second prize of 1 national excellent teaching achievement and1provincial teaching achievement award; Published 74 monographs, edited and edited textbooks 160 volumes. The school has made important contributions to the economic development and social progress of the local and even the whole province and surrounding provinces.
The scale of running a school has been steadily expanded, and the quality of personnel training has been continuously improved. Since its establishment 50 years ago, the school has trained more than 90,000 talents in various fields for the country. Full-time ordinary students 18539, and 8622 adult students. Students won more than 300 national and provincial first prizes in national and provincial mathematical modeling competitions, college students' English competitions, college students' mechanical innovation design competitions, college students' electronic design competitions and college students' visual art competitions. The graduates trained by the school are well received by the society, and the employment rate of graduates has increased year by year, reaching more than 98.9% for several consecutive years, ranking among the top universities in the province. The school was awarded the honorary titles of "National Advanced Collective for Employment of College Graduates" and "Guangdong Advanced Collective for Employment of College Graduates" by the Ministry of Education and the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education respectively. In 2007, the school successfully passed the undergraduate teaching level evaluation organized by the Ministry of Education and was well received by the expert group.
The school pays attention to foreign exchanges and cooperation, and has established friendly and cooperative relations with universities and academic and cultural groups in Japan, Australia, Russia, Ukraine, Britain, South Korea, Hong Kong, Macao and other countries and regions, which has effectively promoted the development of teaching and scientific research and the improvement of academic level.
The construction and development of the school has been strongly supported by provincial and municipal governments, all walks of life and enthusiastic people from Hong Kong and Macao. In July 2003, Zhang Dejiang, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Vice Premier of the State Council and then Secretary of Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, placed high hopes on the school and put forward the important instructions of "building a first-class campus, striving for first-class quality and cultivating first-class talents". At present, the school is taking "three first-class" as the goal, continuing to take Scientific Outlook on Development as the leader, adhering to the school motto of "determination, respect for morality, diligence and innovation", emancipating the mind, reforming and innovating, grasping the new opportunities of higher education development, deepening the connotation development, creating a good educational atmosphere and school-running environment, and increasing the education of biology, food and agriculture while continuing to run the normal education majors of undergraduate and junior colleges.