The school is located in Datong, Shanxi, a famous historical and cultural city and the hometown of coal sea. The campus covers an area of 2,500 mu with a building area of 560,000 square meters. There are 0/0.3 million books in Chinese and foreign languages, 3,756 academic journals in Chinese and foreign languages, 5 databases, more than 50,000 e-books and more than 0.2 million electronic journals. The total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment reaches 654.38+0 billion yuan. The basic conditions for running a school meet or exceed the qualified standards stipulated by the Ministry of Education in the evaluation of undergraduate teaching level, with more than 20,000 students. Over the years, the school has been based on children's eyes, serving Shaanxi and radiating the whole country, and has trained a batch of applied teachers who are good at quality education, which has won unanimous praise from employers inside and outside the province. Entering the new century, the school keeps pace with the times and stands at a new starting point. Firmly grasp the historical opportunity of the great development of China's higher education, actively explore independent development, actively develop non-normal education required by local economic construction and social development while adhering to the priority of normal education and maintaining its advantages and characteristics, and strive to develop graduate education on the basis of adhering to undergraduate education and ensuring the quality of undergraduate education. In July, 2002, Datong Medical College, Datong Higher Vocational and Technical College and Shanxi Industrial Vocational and Technical College merged to form Shanxi Datong University with the approval of the Ministry of Education. At present, the integration of education and teaching resources and the expansion of campus are being carried out, and efforts are being made to move towards a local comprehensive university with relatively complete disciplines, diversified school-running levels and coordinated development of scale, quality and efficiency.

Discipline and specialty construction school regards discipline and specialty construction as the top priority of school's survival and sustainable development, and puts forward the construction policy of optimizing structure, concise direction, consolidating advantages, highlighting key points, cultivating characteristics and strengthening application, which successfully realizes the leap from normal to comprehensive, and the advantages and characteristics of the school are more prominent. There are 40 undergraduate majors in the school, including 25 first-class disciplines, 3 provincial key support disciplines and 10 school-level key advantage disciplines, covering science, engineering, literature, history, agriculture, medicine, economics, management, law and teaching.

Construction of Teaching Staff Building a high-level teaching staff is the key to improve the overall school-running ability and realize new development. The school insists on implementing the strategy of strengthening the school with talents, introducing and cultivating at the same time, and has formulated a series of measures to create an environment atmosphere of attracting, gathering and inspiring talents, and constantly improve the overall level of the teaching staff. The school has full-time teachers 1297, 89 professors, 337 associate professors, 473 doctors and masters (including those studying), 6 national young and middle-aged backbone teachers 1 person, 6 provincial discipline leaders, 57 provincial young and middle-aged backbone teachers, 2 provincial famous teachers, 2 national excellent doctoral dissertations and 2 foreign doctors. Thirty-eight professors were hired by East China Normal University, Tongji University, Nanchang University, Hebei University, Taiyuan University of Technology and Shanxi Normal University as masters or doctoral tutors respectively, and 64 masters were jointly recruited and trained. Six academicians of the two academies and 34 senior professors and scholars are part-time professors or honorary professors.

Scientific research level schools constantly enhance scientific research awareness, increase scientific research efforts, improve scientific research priority, and persist in promoting and promoting the improvement of teaching level through scientific research. There are 1 provincial research centers, 18 school-level research institutes, 3 school-level key laboratories, 1 affiliated hospitals, 95 laboratories of various types, 35 practice bases, 20 practice hospitals, 1 practice factories and 5,000 mu experimental field bases. After years of refining and accumulation, the school has formed certain advantages and characteristics in theoretical physics, condensed matter physics, analytical chemistry, basic mathematics, literature and art, educational technology, Liao and Jin literature, specialized history, Marxist theory, ideological and political education and so on. In the past five years, he has undertaken 4 national SCIentific research projects 14, 265 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects, won 55 provincial and ministerial awards, published 3,980 papers, and was included in 130 by sci, EI and ASTP, and published 375 academic monographs, translations and teaching materials.

The quality of education and teaching The school always adheres to the educational philosophy of student-oriented and educating people, firmly grasps the main theme of improving the quality of education and teaching, actively guides students to improve the knowledge and ability structure, cultivate good ideological quality and promote the formation of healthy personality. In the past five years, the school has actively organized and implemented the Undergraduate Teaching Level Evaluation Scheme (Trial) issued by the Ministry of Education, and adhered to the principle of "promoting reform by evaluation, promoting construction by evaluation, promoting management by evaluation, combining evaluation with construction, and focusing on construction". Six times of self-examination and self-assessment, invited evaluation experts from universities and the Ministry of Education inside and outside the province to come to the school for consultation and diagnosis. Schools continue to increase investment in teaching, strengthen teaching capital construction and scientific management, deepen teaching reform, and comprehensively improve the quality and level of education and teaching. In recent years, the admission rate of postgraduate students has reached 30%, the national pass rate of English Band 4 and Band 6 has reached 80%, and the one-time employment rate of graduates has reached 89%. In 2003 and 2004, the employment rate of school graduates and the admission rate of postgraduate entrance examination ranked fourth in the province 16 undergraduate colleges respectively. The follow-up survey of graduates shows that graduates have extensive basic knowledge, solid professional knowledge, skilled professional skills, simple work style, hard work and strong innovation ability, which are well received by employers and all walks of life. Since 2000, the school has won the provincial and ministerial excellent teaching achievement award 10, and has been rated as the advanced teaching unit of colleges and universities in the province for many years.

Management level Schools have embarked on the track of institutionalization, standardization, scientification and informationization in terms of students, teachers, teaching and equipment management, and the management level has steadily improved. At the same time, actively promote the comprehensive reform of organization and personnel distribution system and logistics socialization, promote the coordinated development of scale, structure, quality and benefit, and achieve good results in all work. Won the advanced unit of Party building work in colleges and universities in Shanxi Province, advanced unit of teaching management in colleges and universities in Shanxi Province, civilized unit of campus construction in colleges and universities in Shanxi Province, garden unit in Datong City and advanced unit of comprehensive management in colleges and universities in Shanxi Province. The school vigorously promotes the construction of modern university management mode, and has formed the teaching spirit of "being realistic, rigorous and enterprising", the academic spirit of "being independent, diligent and lively" and the school spirit of "loving teaching, being diligent, being realistic and innovative".