49 years! !
Guangzhou University is a comprehensive university established in 2000 with the approval of the Ministry of Education through the merger of Guangzhou Normal University, South China Institute of Construction (Western Campus), the former Guangzhou University and Guangzhou Higher Normal College. Implement a management system jointly established by Guangdong Province and Guangzhou City and dominated by the city. The school began to recruit ordinary undergraduate students in 1958, and was authorized to confer master's degrees in 1983 and doctoral degrees in 2006.
Guangzhou Normal University was founded in 1958; South China Construction College (Western Campus) was founded in 1984; Guangzhou Institute of Education was founded in 1953; Guangzhou Higher Normal College was founded in 1985; the original Guangzhou University was founded in 1983 Year.
The school currently has two campuses, University Town and Guihuagang, covering an area of ??2,127.28 acres and a construction area of ??862,718.14 square meters. A total investment of 2.06 billion yuan was invested in the construction of the new campus in University Town. It has teaching buildings, laboratory buildings, performing arts centers, gymnasiums, libraries, network centers, student apartments, etc. with complete functions and advanced facilities.
The school library has a collection of 2.21 million books, 500,000 e-books, and 3,655 Chinese and foreign newspapers and periodicals. The school has established a relatively complete campus network system, with 41,381 network information points, fully covering the teaching area, office area and living area. The construction of the digital campus has begun to take shape. The school has 41 laboratories of various types, with a total value of teaching instruments and equipment reaching 250 million yuan.
The school currently has 22 colleges, 62 undergraduate majors, 42 master’s programs, 2 doctoral programs, and has two professional degree programs: Master of Education and Master of Engineering. It covers nine disciplines: philosophy, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, economics, and management. There are currently 19,280 full-time undergraduate students and 588 graduate students. The school has 11 provincial key disciplines; 1 Ministry of Education key laboratory, 4 provincial and municipal key laboratories, 3 provincial and municipal humanities and social science research bases, 3 provincial and municipal experimental teaching demonstration centers; 11 provincial and municipal famous majors. ; 11 provincial and municipal quality courses; the school has been approved as a national college English teaching reform demonstration site and a national college student cultural quality education base (joint).
The school currently has 2,398 faculty members, including 1,335 full-time teachers, 177 professors, and 556 associate professors. Those with senior professional titles account for 54.91% of the total number of full-time teachers; 206 have doctoral degrees, and 206 have master's degrees. There are 591 degree holders, and those under the age of 40 with doctorate and master's degrees account for 71.3% of the total number of full-time teachers; the average age of full-time teachers is 40.34 years old. The school currently has 2 academicians of the two academies, 3 young and middle-aged experts who have made outstanding contributions to the country, 2 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, winners of the first National University Teaching Teacher Award, and the first and second prizes of the National “Hundreds and Thousands of Talents Project”. There are 1 candidates for each level, 13 members of the National Higher Education Teaching Steering Committee, 30 experts enjoying special government allowances from the State Council, 24 doctoral supervisors, 294 master's supervisors, 15 provincial and municipal outstanding experts, and the provincial "Thousands and Hundreds of Ten" Project" has 1 national-level candidate, 11 provincial-level candidates, 95 school-level candidates, 43 provincial and municipal "outstanding talents on the propaganda and ideological front", and 61 outstanding returnees from overseas studies.
Since 2003, the school has obtained 1,722 scientific research projects at all levels and of various types, with more than 200 million yuan in scientific research funding in place. He has won 78 scientific research awards at provincial and municipal levels, including 1 second-class National Science and Technology Progress Award. Published 5,784 academic papers, 437 of which were included in SCI, EI, and ISTP, and published 192 academic books. The school has obtained 54 patent authorizations, including 19 invention patents.
For a long time, the school has established educational and scientific and technological cooperation relationships with more than 50 universities and research institutes in 17 countries and regions. For example, in 2002, with the active support of the Chinese and French ministries of education and the Guangzhou Municipal Government, the country’s first Sino-French Tourism College was founded in our school, creating a new model of talent training for Sino-foreign cooperative education; the school also has It has launched cooperation projects such as the China-Australia International Accounting Master's Program, the Mechanical and Electrical Maintenance Engineering and Management Undergraduate Program, and Mandarin Teacher Training. In the past three years, nearly a hundred foreign experts have been hired or invited to our school to give lectures or lectures, and more than a thousand foreign experts and scholars have been received; 246 teachers or administrative cadres have been sent abroad to study and further their studies, and nearly 300 people have gone abroad for academic exchanges and inspections. , executing more than 20 international cooperation projects of various types.
Since 2004, the first-time passing rate of College English Test Band 4 in our school has exceeded the national average passing rate of general colleges and universities by about 20 percentage points. From 2003 to 2005, school students won 566 awards in subject competitions at or above the provincial level. In the 8th and 9th National "Challenge Cup" College Student Extracurricular Science and Technology Works Competition, *** won 2 first prizes, 4 second prizes, and 4 third prizes. Among them, in the 9th National "Challenge Cup" Cup" competition, our school ranked first in Guangdong and 12th among universities nationwide. Students have participated in 123 sports competitions at the provincial level and above and won 123 awards. Among them, the shuttlecock team has represented the country in world championships many times, winning 1 world champion and 4 world runners-up. Guangzhou University's "Mingsheng Student Art Troupe" won the first prize in the National College Student Art Song Singing Competition. Yang Jing and Yang Li, students from the School of Music and Dance, won the Latin dance championship at the 53rd International Youth International Dance Championship; Chen Zhuo, a 2003 student from the School of Civil Engineering, was approved for 3 patents; Feng Guiming, a 2001 student majoring in chemical education, won the 2nd China Youth International Dance Championship. Science and Technology Innovation Award; Pan Shuhua, a disabled classmate of the 2003 class, won one first and second prize each in the Provincial Mathematical Analog Competition and one second prize in the National Mathematical Analog Competition. He was one of the 100 candidates for the 2006 National College Student Person of the Year. , one of the 10 Guangzhou Advanced Youth Models in 2007, etc. These fully demonstrate the comprehensive quality and style of our school students.
Based on the objective needs of comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development of the regional economy and society, our school proposed in the development strategic plan "based on Guangzhou, facing Guangdong, radiating at home and abroad, and serving the society; focusing on undergraduate education , actively develop graduate education and international student education; build a discipline and professional structure system that combines science and engineering, penetrates liberal arts and sciences, and coordinates development; cultivates high-quality applied talents with broad knowledge, solid foundation, strong sense of innovation and adaptability; through unremitting efforts, The overall goal of our school is to gradually build it into a teaching and research-oriented comprehensive university with distinctive characteristics that is adapted to Guangzhou's economic and social development, whose comprehensive strength ranks among the advanced ranks of similar universities in the country, and whose several disciplines have a certain influence at home and abroad.