Shanxi University, located in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province, is an institution of higher learning with a long history and profound cultural heritage. On May 8th, 1902, Shanxi University Hall was officially opened, which, together with Shi Jing University Hall (Peking University) and Beiyang University Hall (Tianjin University), initiated a new era of modern higher education in China. In May 2005, Shanxi University became a provincial university jointly established by Shanxi Provincial People's Government and Ministry of Education. In the course of running a school for more than 100 years, Shanxi University has formed a cultural tradition of "integrating Chinese and Western cultures, seeking truth from facts, worshiping goodness and serving the country, and constantly striving for self-improvement" and an excellent school spirit of "diligence, preciseness, loyalty and innovation".

Shanxi University is the only comprehensive university with complete disciplines in Shanxi. The school has philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management and other disciplines. There are 67 undergraduate majors, 18 double-degree majors, 137 master's degree programs (19 first-class master's degree programs), 6 professional master's degree programs, 48 doctoral degree programs (6 first-class doctoral degree programs) and 5 post-doctoral mobile stations. It has two national key disciplines of optics and philosophy of science and technology, the State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Optical Quantum Devices, the Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, the Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Molecular Engineering, the Key Laboratory of Computational Intelligence and Chinese Information Processing, and the Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education of Fine Chemicals. It has 20 provincial key disciplines and key construction disciplines, 3 provincial key laboratories and 5 provincial key research bases of humanities and social sciences. There are 2 national experimental teaching demonstration centers and 4 provincial basic course demonstration laboratories. The school also has a national scientific basic research and teaching talent training base, a national college student cultural quality education base, a national language education base and a national vocational education teacher training base set up by the Ministry of Education.

Shanxi University has a strong faculty and a collection of famous teachers and celebrities. The school has 962 full-time teachers 1 person, including China Academy of Sciences1person, 2 double-employed academicians and 949 teachers with senior titles. Among the full-time teachers, there are 1 18 doctoral tutors, 649 master tutors, 4 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions at the national level, 7 experts enjoying special government allowance, He Liang Heli Fund Award winner 1 person, Changjiang Scholar Lecturer 1 person, and winner of the National Outstanding Youth Fund. There are 5 backbone teachers of the Ministry of Education, 8 people from the Cross-century Talents Training Program of the Ministry of Education 1 person, 8 people from the New Century Outstanding Talents Support Program of the Ministry of Education, 3 national model teachers, 2 winners of "Fok Ying Tung Award", 3 people from distinguished professor, Shanxi Province, 8 young and middle-aged innovative talents from Shanxi Province, and 0/6 young academic leaders from Shanxi Province. It has three provincial excellent innovation teams, namely, the innovation team of the Ministry of Education of Quantum Optics and Optical Quantum Devices Research, the optical discipline team, the philosophy of science and technology team and the computer application technology team. The school also hired 330 famous scholars at home and abroad as visiting professors, part-time professors or honorary professors.

Shanxi University has excellent school conditions and elegant academic environment. The school covers an area of 225 1 mu, with a building area of10.09 million square meters. The library has a collection of 3140,000 volumes (pieces), 654,380+006,000 e-books, and the total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment is more than 200 million yuan. The school is the earliest university in Shanxi Province to provide Internet access services, and has realized the network management and online teaching of some courses. The school has gradually formed a north campus dominated by traditional patterns and a south campus dominated by modern architecture, and has become a "garden-style" college with "tree-lined avenues, flowers around the building, flowers in three seasons and evergreen in four seasons". It is a "garden unit" and a "green school" named by the provincial government.

Shanxi University attaches great importance to the quality of personnel training, and has always been committed to "teaching profound knowledge and cultivating talents needed by masters and the country", and has trained 6.5438+0.2 million talents for the country and society. Sun Jianchu, the founder of petroleum geology in China, Wang Yuelun, a geologist and academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wang Shou, the main founder of biostatistics and crop breeding in China, Xiao Yishan, president and academician of Taiwan Academia Sinica, was once known as Shi Jinmo, one of the four famous doctors in China, and Chuan Dao, a close friend and famous essayist of Lu Xun, who was an outstanding representative of many outstanding students. Since the reform and opening up, a group of graduates have been quite influential in academic circles. For example, Zhu Rixiang, who graduated from the Department of Physics, is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wu, who graduated from the Department of Biology, is a Changjiang Scholar of China Agricultural University, and Yao Pengfei, who graduated from the Department of Mathematics, is a winner of the National Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.

The school has gradually improved the student-centered education system. The quality of students is good, the overall quality of students is high, and the education level is obviously improved. Successfully passed the undergraduate teaching level evaluation of the Ministry of Education and won a good social reputation. Full-time undergraduate students 15822, graduate students 5265. The undergraduate enrollment rate has been maintained at around 20%, the admission score of freshmen ranks first in the province continuously, and the one-time employment rate of students ranks among the top in the province. Modern physics experiments were rated as national excellent courses, and 9 courses including ancient Chinese were rated as provincial excellent courses. Seven textbooks, such as Philosophy of Science and Technology and Introduction to Modern Social History of China, have been included in the "Eleventh Five-Year" national planning textbooks. In the ninth "Challenge Cup" competition, our school won the special prize and the first prize, ranking 13 among universities in China. The 2000 National University Games represented universities in Shanxi Province and was one of the 10 universities that won the "President's Cup". In recent two years, students won the first prize of 13 in the national mathematical modeling competition, electronic design competition, English competition and aerobics competition. Yin Jie's doctoral thesis in philosophy of science and technology won the National Award for 100 Excellent Doctoral Thesis.

The scientific research level of Shanxi University is constantly improving. In the past four years, the number and quality of SCI, EI and CSSCI papers in our school have been improved year by year, and 297 national scientific research projects have been obtained, including 35 major scientific research projects such as the National 973 Plan, the National 863 Plan, the National Key Scientific Research Projects, the National Natural Science Foundation Key Projects, the National Science Fund for Outstanding Young Scholars, the National Torch Plan and the National Industrialization Project. There are 3 15 scientific research achievements awarded at or above the provincial and ministerial level, among which "fully solidified single-mode single-frequency green laser" won the second prize of national technological invention in 2002, and "postmodern philosophy of science" won the second prize of "outstanding achievements in humanities and social sciences research in China universities" by the Ministry of Education. In 2003, "Research and Application of Stability of Low-alcohol Blended Liquor" and "Research and Application of Key Technologies for Producing Potassium Sulfate by Glauber's Salt Method" won the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award. In 2004, "Research and Application of New Photosensitive Hydrolytic Fading Materials" won the second prize of national technological invention. In 2005, the research on "periodic instantons and high-energy quantum tunneling" won the second prize of natural science of the Ministry of Education. In 2006, "Methodological Defense of Scientific Realism" won the first prize of outstanding achievements in humanities and social sciences in the 4th China University, and "Research on quantum communication between entangled light fields and continuous variables" won the second prize of National Natural Science.

According to the ranking data of China University in 2007, Shanxi University ranked 53rd in comprehensive school-running strength. The school will inherit the century-old tradition, adhere to the school-running ideas of survival by quality, development by characteristics, vitality by reform and efficiency by opening up, and strive to promote the coordinated development of high-level and high-efficiency school-running, and build itself into a high-quality talent training, high-level scientific research, high-tech achievements transformation and high-level decision-making consultation center in Shanxi Province, and become a domestic high-level research and teaching university with international influence.