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Introduction to Henan University of Science and Technology
Henan University of Science and Technology is a provincial general undergraduate institution. Founded in 1949, it was formerly the Changzhi Branch of Beijing Agricultural University and Pingyuan Provincial Agricultural School, which originated from the Department of Biology of the Yan'an Academy of Natural Sciences. It has gone through the periods of Pingyuan Agricultural College, Baiquan Agricultural College, and Henan Vocational and Technical Normal College. In May 2004, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, it was renamed Henan University of Science and Technology.
The school is located in Xinxiang City, a famous city in the Central Plains, covering an area of ??1,365 acres and a school building area of ??620,000 square meters. The total number of various literature resources in the library reaches more than 1.53 million volumes, and there are more than 3,600 Chinese and foreign periodicals. There are currently 8 Henan Provincial Key Discipline Open Laboratories, Provincial Colleges and Universities Key Laboratory Cultivation Bases, Provincial Colleges and Universities Engineering Technology Research Center, Provincial Colleges and Universities Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, 5 Henan Province Science and Technology Innovation Teams, Provincial Colleges and Universities Science and Technology Innovation Team, provincial higher education teaching team, and a national-level modern bee industry technology comprehensive test station. The school is among the first batch of "National Key Vocational Teacher Training Bases", "National Higher Vocational College Teacher Training Bases", Henan Province's "Sunshine Project" Farmer Entrepreneurship Training Base and Agricultural New Technology Training Base identified by the Ministry of Education.
The school has 15 teaching colleges (departments) and 47 undergraduate majors, covering 8 major disciplines including agriculture, engineering, education, management, literature, science, economics, and law. There are 3 national-level specialty majors, 9 Henan Province specialty majors and famous brand majors. It has 2 key disciplines of Henan Province, 5 master's degree-authorized disciplines, and 3 independent enrollment and joint training master's degree-authorized disciplines. The school operates an adult education college and a private independent college - New Science College.
Currently, there are more than 28,000 students of various types, including 24,000 full-time students and more than 4,000 adult education students. It has formed a university with undergraduate education as the main body, graduate education, higher vocational education, and adult education. Higher education and other multi-level and multi-disciplinary school-running structures. Since the establishment of the school, *** has sent more than 60,000 professional and technical talents of various types to the society, making outstanding contributions to the economic construction and social development of our country, especially Henan Province.
The school vigorously implements the strategy of "strengthening the school with talents" and has a sufficient number of teachers with reasonable structure and excellent quality. There are currently 1,318 faculty members and 871 full-time teachers, including more than 70 doctoral and master's tutors, 102 professors, 337 associate professors and equivalent professional and technical positions; 635 doctors and masters; and 204 "double-qualified" teachers. There are 17 young and middle-aged science and technology management experts with outstanding contributions in the country, experts with outstanding contributions in the country, outstanding experts in Henan Province, 11 national model teachers, outstanding teachers, famous teaching teachers in Henan Province, academic and technical leaders in Henan Province, and outstanding young and middle-aged people in Henan Province There are 96 key teachers and 32 recipients of projects such as the Henan Provincial Outstanding Talent Innovation Fund, the Henan Provincial Outstanding Youth Science Fund, the Henan Provincial University Outstanding Scientific Research Talent Innovation Project, and the Henan Provincial College Science and Technology Innovation Talent Support Plan. More than 60 well-known experts and scholars at home and abroad, including Zhao Qiguo, Gai Junyi, and Cheng Zhuomin, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have been hired as part-time professors and visiting professors.
The school vigorously implements the "quality-based school" strategy, and the quality of education and teaching has steadily improved. According to the demand for talents due to economic and social development, the teaching content and curriculum system are reformed in a timely manner, highlighting the practical teaching links, and creatively constructing the "dual-qualification, dual-base construction, dual-skills training, and dual-certificate system" that is influential across the country. The "four pairs" engineering talent training model has implemented a new internship model of "dual-post internship and replacement training" for vocational teacher training, and carried out "professional + special + certificate" and "discipline + professional + base + company + farmers ( Enterprise)" innovative practice of talent training model. Since 2001, it has completed 8 education reform projects of the Ministry of Education and 38 education reform projects of Henan Province; it has won 2 second-class national teaching achievement awards and 33 provincial teaching achievement awards. Through the reform and innovation of the talent training model, students' comprehensive quality and innovation ability have been significantly enhanced. The employment rate of graduates has remained at a high level in recent years, reaching 96.09% in 2009. The employer satisfaction rate with graduates has reached over 95%.
The school vigorously implements the strategy of "revitalizing the school through science and technology", and its scientific and technological innovation capabilities have been significantly improved.
Since the reform and opening up, it has completed 1,070 scientific research projects such as international cooperation projects, national 863, 973, natural science foundations, major scientific and technological research, support plans, major scientific and technological projects on genetically modified organisms, etc., and won 415 scientific and technological achievement awards, including the second prize of the National Technology Invention Award. 2 awards, 6 National Science and Technology Progress Awards, and multiple national invention patents. The high-yield wheat variety "Bainong 3217" cultivated by the school won the second prize of the National Invention Award, creating social and economic benefits of 5 billion yuan; the new bivalent genetically modified insect-resistant cotton variety "Bainong No. 1" passed the national new crop variety approval and won the The National Agricultural Genetically Modified Organism Safety Certificate and the New Plant Variety Rights Certificate have been planted in large areas across the country and promoted to Kyrgyzstan and other Central Asian countries, with cumulative production benefits exceeding 2 billion yuan. The state has approved schools to establish "cotton varieties" in Kyrgyzstan based on cotton varieties. China-Kyrgyzstan Agricultural Science and Technology Demonstration Park”. The new wheat variety "Bainong Aikang 58" increased production by 1.6 billion kilograms during the summer harvest in Henan Province in 2009, making a huge contribution to the construction of the national grain core area; the autumn sowing area exceeded 30 million acres, becoming the first in the Huanghuai wheat area Large wheat varieties have a cumulative yield increase benefit of 1.5 billion yuan.
The school insists on operating an open school. Actively carry out international academic exchanges and cooperation, and have established friendly inter-school relations with many foreign universities such as Germany, Australia, Spain, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Canada, and exchanged agricultural students with Brenner University in the United States, Gangwon University in South Korea, and the Netherlands and the Study Visiting Foundation have carried out cooperative education, and foreign experts from the United States, Britain and other countries are hired to teach all year round.
The school’s educational achievements have been widely praised by all walks of life. In recent years, it has won the honors of National Advanced Unit for Social Practice of College Students, Henan Province Civilized Unit, Henan Province Advanced Group for Employment of College and Technical Secondary School Graduates, Henan Province Advanced Unit for Teaching Reform, Henan Province Advanced Unit for Teacher Training, and Henan Province Top Ten Scientific and Technological Innovation Units. , Henan Province Higher Education Digital Campus Demonstration Unit and more than 50 honorary titles.
In order to further improve the quality of education and teaching and build a university that satisfies the people, Henan University of Science and Technology will continue to uphold the fine tradition of "seeking truth and being pragmatic, dedicated and dedicated" and the school spirit of "hard work and constant self-improvement" to become more Full of enterprising spirit and more vigorous high morale, advancing with the times, reform and innovation, in order to establish the school as soon as possible, the characteristics of vocational teacher training will be more distinctive, the advantages of agricultural science will be more prominent, it will have an important influence in similar colleges and universities, and have a certain degree in the country. We strive to become a well-known multi-disciplinary teaching and research university!