Universities of Applied Sciences in western Yunnan is a full-time public undergraduate college jointly established by the Ministry of Education and the Yunnan Provincial People's Government, organized by the Yunnan Provincial People's Government and headed by the Yunnan Provincial Department of Education. The school aims at cultivating high-level technical and technical talents in regional characteristic industries. It was approved by the Ministry of Education in April 20 15, formally established and enrolled students in May 20 17.
Western Yunnan University is the first batch of Universities of Applied Sciences directly under the Ministry of Education, and it is one of the six precision assistance projects of the Ministry of Education. The school undertakes the historical mission of deepening the reform of higher education and vocational education, boosting the development of western Yunnan out of poverty and supporting industrial transformation and upgrading. The school fully draws lessons from the German and Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences models, adheres to the school-running tenet of "establishing colleges, promoting industries, benefiting people's livelihood and spreading culture", takes a number of characteristic colleges and applied technology research institutes at headquarters as an open school-running framework, and has an integrated model of "politics, production, learning, research and application", which is "hierarchical governance, integration of production and education, demand-driven, cooperative education, open connection and demand-driven". At present, the school is headquartered in Dali City, Yunnan Province, with two directly affiliated colleges, namely School of Management and College of Earth Science and Engineering, and five colleges, namely Dai Medicine College, Pu 'er College, Jewellery College, Nujiang College and Diqing College, which are located in Xishuangbanna, Pu 'er City, Tengchong City, Nujiang Prefecture and Diqing Prefecture, as well as two professional production-education integration training bases and seven applied technology research institutes in Dehong Prefecture and Lijiang City.
The school has fully grafted high-quality educational resources such as Beijing Normal University, Zhejiang University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, South China University of Technology, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Central University of Finance and Economics, Northeast Normal University, China Geo University (Wuhan) and Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. , 20 16-20 19, the Central Organization Department, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Ministry of Education, and provincial universities sent 34 cadres (365,438+0 affiliated universities and 3 provincial universities) to work in Yunnan University, serving as leaders of headquarters and characteristic colleges, heads of relevant departments and full-time teachers respectively. 20 19 the Ministry of education implements the plan of supporting the western region by silver-aged teachers in colleges and universities. Yunnan West University is listed as one of the first batch of aided universities in 2020. Seventy-four silver-aged teachers from 28 subordinate universities, including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Zhejiang University and Sun Yat-sen University, will carry out teaching and scientific research in the future.