Fujian Ship Administration School, founded in 1866, is the first modern naval school in China and the birthplace of modern maritime education and naval education in China. The school was founded by Zuo and was established in Fuzhou on 1866 under the auspices of Shen Baozhen, Minister of Shipping. When it was first built, it was called Qiushitang Art Bureau.
1866 65438+On February 23rd, the main project of ship administration started in an all-round way, and the ship administration school (Qiushitang Art Bureau) began to recruit students. The name of Fujian Ship Administration School has been used until 19 13. A ship administration college studies shipbuilding for the former college and navigation for the latter college; The other is the Painting Academy and the Art Garden, which was later renamed as the Painting Academy, Apprenticeship School and the First Craftsman School.
The purpose is to train talents in shipbuilding and design, and the main specialty is shipbuilding. Courses include French, basic mathematics, analytic geometry, calculus, physics, mechanics, shipbuilding, steam engine manufacturing and so on. Top students were sent to France for further study. The post-school is a driving school, also called "English school". Its goal is to train maritime pilots and naval captains.
The most important thing in ship management:
1, the birthplace of modern maritime education in China.
Fujian Ship Administration established the first technical college (Fujian Ship Administration School) and the first technical school (Art Garden) in China, advocating "middle school as the body, western learning as the application", adopting a new educational model of entrance examination, borrowing foreign talents, learning foreign talents and combining learning with application, which is different from the old ones in the imperial examination, and has trained a large number of useful talents for the country and promoted the rise of modern education in China.
2. The largest shipbuilding industrial base in the modern Far East.
"Ship Administration is the foundry of China shipbuilding", which has created several firsts in China shipbuilding: the first thousand-ton warship "Evergreen"; Wu Yang, the largest cruiser in the Far East; The first armored threat ship "Weiyuan"; The first armored ship "Pingyuan" and so on.
China is the birthplace of manufacturing industry.
The earliest practical steam engines, cranes, lathes, boilers, new water pumps, machine-made copper coins, precision instruments (clocks, theodolite, compass, barometer, telescope, sight, etc. ), artillery, mines, torpedoes.