Panzhihua university is the only comprehensive undergraduate college approved by the Ministry of Education in southwest Sichuan and northwest Yunnan. The school is located in the center of Panzhihua, the largest iron and steel industrial base in western China and the world-famous capital of vanadium and titanium.
The school covers an area of 1260 mu, with a school building area of 355,000 square meters, total fixed assets of 4180,000 yuan, 830,600 books, and teaching and research instruments and equipment assets of 7 1.87 million yuan; There are 9 17 faculty members, 672 full-time teachers, 2 10 full-time teachers with the title of associate professor or above, and 204 teachers with master's degree or above. The school consists of 16 teaching units, such as School of Electrical and Information Engineering, School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, School of Computer Science, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Foreign Languages, School of Economics and Management, School of Art, School of Engineering and Technology, Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Department of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Physical Education, Department of Ideological and Political Education, and College of Continuing Education. It has 27 undergraduate majors and 32. The total number of students in the school is10.4 million, including more than 10,000 ordinary college students10.0 million and more than 3,000 adult students. Students cover more than 20 provinces (cities, autonomous regions) in China, forming a school-running pattern oriented to the coordinated development of industries, multidisciplinary, general higher education, higher vocational education and adult higher education.
In the practice of running a school for many years, the school has gradually established the principle of educating people and putting quality first. Orientation of running a school, adapting to the school-running concept of the market, paying attention to educating people according to the law of education, running a school according to the law of the market, combining the demand of regional economic and social development for high-level talents, aiming at serving the regional economic and social development, deepening the education and teaching reform, actively promoting quality education, establishing and perfecting the curriculum system, adapting to the curriculum content system, practical teaching system and student academic evaluation system of undergraduate education and teaching, and strengthening the cultivation of students' innovative spirit and entrepreneurial ability. Since its establishment more than 20 years ago, the school has trained nearly 20,000 graduates for the society. The graduates have strong comprehensive quality and are widely praised and welcomed by employers. The school has also been rated as an advanced unit for the employment of college graduates in Sichuan Province.
The guarantee system of school practice teaching is perfect. There are more than 70 basic courses laboratories, 7 specialized technical laboratories, provincial key laboratories 1 one, and nearly 100 practice bases. Major enterprises of the same scale set up schools and enterprises * * * enjoy 7 professional technical laboratories and 24 practice bases, and * * * enjoy experimental equipment worth more than 26 million yuan. The school also built 16 specialized laboratories, 7 engineering training centers and 6 engineering technology centers with a loan of 4.98 million euros from the Austrian government, which ensured that the opening rate of basic courses was 100% and that of specialized courses was over 9 1%. Modern teaching methods are fully introduced in the teaching process, and a complete modern teaching system is established, including experimental practice center, multimedia teaching center, language teaching center, CAI courseware making center and 20 multimedia classrooms. The campus network has two-way access to China Education and Research Network (CERNET) and the Internet, covering the study, office and living places on campus, and fully realizing the modernization of teaching methods and the automation of teaching management and administrative office.
The reform of education and teaching has achieved remarkable results, and scientific research and technology have developed rapidly. The school has 2 national-level teaching reform pilot majors, 3 provincial-level teaching reform pilot majors, 9 national-level teaching reform projects (2 1 century), 9 provincial-level teaching reform projects and 2 provincial-level key curriculum construction projects 12, and has won more than 40 provincial and school-level teaching achievement awards. The school has completed more than 100 scientific research projects at all levels, including 5 at the provincial and ministerial levels, 27 at the prefectural and municipal levels, and 1 1 for enterprise cooperation. Teachers' SCIentific research achievements have won 95 scientific research projects at or above the provincial level and 7 national invention patents, and more than 900 academic papers have been published at home and abroad, including more than 10 included by sci, EI and ISTP, and nearly 100 academic monographs and teaching materials have been published.
The school attaches importance to foreign exchange and cooperation. In China, it has cooperated with Sichuan University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu University of Technology, North Sichuan Medical College, West China Normal University, Southwest Normal University and other institutions in running schools and postgraduate education.
The school has established a five-in-one incentive and guarantee mechanism, including award, loan, supplement, assistance and exemption. All kinds of special scholarships cover all majors of the college and give special rewards to freshmen with high scores, which provides favorable guarantee for students from poor families to successfully complete their studies.
The school has a good reputation and extensive social influence inside and outside the province, and has been awarded honorary titles such as civilized unit, excellent civilized campus, advanced unit of ideological and political work, top 100 greening units in departments, advanced garden school, advanced health unit and advanced unit of talent development by Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and provincial government.