Second, a brief introduction to Nantong University
Nantong University, located in Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, is an open coastal city with the reputation of "Pearl of the Rivers and Seas" and "the first city in modern China". It is a comprehensive university jointly established by the People's Government of Jiangsu Province and the Ministry of Transport, and the first batch of high-level universities in Jiangsu are built and cultivated.
The school was founded in the private Nantong Medical College and Nantong Textile College founded by Mr. Zhang Jian, a famous industrialist and educator in modern times, in 19 12. In 2004, the former Nantong Medical College, Nantong Institute of Technology and Nantong Teachers College merged to form the new Nantong University. For more than a century, the school has been adhering to the motto spirit of "linking China and the West, striving for perfection" and the school-running philosophy of "using what you learn when it is needed, using it in the right place" and "moral beauty, academic purity" and is determined to forge ahead. At present, a local comprehensive university with reasonable scale structure, complete disciplines, excellent teaching quality and obvious school-running benefits has been built. In the "20 18 Evaluation of China University" by Chinese Academy of Management Sciences, the school ranked130; ESI ranks domestic universities, and the school ranking is 1 17.
The school has four campuses: main campus, Qixiu campus, Zhongxiu campus and Qidong campus, covering an area of more than 3,700 mu, with a construction area of nearly 6,543,800 square meters. The total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment is about 8,654,380,800 yuan, and there are more than 2.7 million paper books. There are 24 colleges in the school, with 4 undergraduate majors (85 enrollment majors in 20/0/8), covering arts, science, engineering, medicine, art, economy, law, education, history and management. There are more than 38,000 full-time undergraduates, more than 2,300 graduate students and more than 750 international students. There are also Xinglin College of Nantong University (independent college), College of International Education, College of Continuing Education, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University (directly under a large comprehensive third-class first-class hospital).
The school has always adhered to the central position of talent training and comprehensively deepened the reform of education and teaching. In 2007, it passed the evaluation of undergraduate teaching level by the Ministry of Education with excellent results, and passed the inspection and evaluation of undergraduate teaching work by the Ministry of Education in 20 17. The school has a large number of high-quality teaching resources, such as national majors, the first batch of comprehensive reform pilots of undergraduate majors by the Ministry of Education, Jiangsu brand majors, Jiangsu characteristic majors, and Jiangsu key majors (categories), as well as national teaching teams, national teaching achievement awards, national excellent courses, national excellent resource sharing courses, national excellent teaching materials, national experimental teaching demonstration centers, national virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, and national off-campus practical education bases for college students. The school is the first batch of advanced universities and the first batch of innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration universities in Jiangsu Province.
The school is a doctoral degree awarding unit approved by the State Council. At present, there are 2 post-doctoral mobile stations for basic medicine and clinical medicine, 3 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points for basic medicine, clinical medicine and information and communication engineering, 22 first-level discipline master degree authorization points and 10 master degree authorization points. Three disciplines entered the top of the global ranking of ESI disciplines 1%. A relatively complete discipline system and a long-term mechanism for discipline construction have been established, including the cultivation of national key disciplines and the construction sites of provincial universities, key disciplines in Jiangsu Province, dominant disciplines in Jiangsu universities, key clinical medical colleges in Jiangsu Province, and excellent discipline echelons in provincial universities.
The school insists on strengthening the school through science and technology and independent innovation, and has a number of high-end scientific and technological innovation carriers, such as national local joint engineering research center, national key laboratory cultivation and construction site, key laboratory of Ministry of Education, provincial key laboratory, collaborative innovation center of Jiangsu universities, provincial public technical service platform, provincial engineering center, provincial engineering laboratory, provincial key research base of philosophy and social sciences, and outstanding scientific and technological innovation team of provincial universities. In the past five years, it has undertaken 486 projects including "973" Plan, "863" Plan, national science and technology support projects, national major science and technology projects and national natural science and social science fund projects, and won 867 invention patents, including National Technological Invention Award, National Innovation Award, He Liang Heli Fund Science and Technology Progress Award, Chinese Medical Achievement Award, Outstanding Achievement Award of Scientific Research in Colleges and Universities, and Jiangsu Province. The school has been rated as an advanced university of science and technology in Jiangsu Province for many years.
The school has a strong faculty, with 3 180 faculty members, including senior titles 15, 2 1 person, doctoral and master's tutor 1 106 person. Academician of China Academy of Engineering, national candidate of "Hundred Million Talents Project in the New Century", * national famous teacher, national expert, winner of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, * candidate of China Academy of Sciences, young and middle-aged expert with outstanding national contributions, Olympic champion, outstanding backbone teacher of Ministry of Education, young and middle-aged expert with outstanding contributions in Jiangsu Province, distinguished professor of Jiangsu Province, Dr. Shuangchuang, six talent peaks in the province, and provincial "333".
The school has extensively carried out overseas exchanges and cooperation, established friendly cooperative relations with 88 universities and scientific research institutions in the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Ukraine, Australia, Argentina, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Province Province, and carried out a number of international exchange projects.
The school is an advanced unit of national spiritual civilization construction, the birthplace of the typical "Mo Wensui" spirit of national spiritual civilization construction, an outstanding unit of ideological and political work in Jiangsu Province, a model of civilized units in Jiangsu Province, an advanced collective of graduates' employment in ordinary colleges and universities, an advanced unit of entrepreneurship education research and practice in colleges and universities, and an outstanding unit of graduate enrollment management in Jiangsu Province. The Party Committee of our school was awarded the title of "Advanced Grass-roots Party Organization in Jiangsu Universities" and the Party School of our school was awarded the title of "Hongqi Grass-roots Party School in Jiangsu Province".