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Xiamen University was founded in 192 1 by Mr. Chen Jiageng, a famous patriotic overseas Chinese leader. It is the first university founded by overseas Chinese in the history of modern education in China, and also a high-level university under the national "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Project".
Since its establishment, the school has been adhering to the motto of "self-improvement and perfection", accumulated rich experience in running a school, and formed a distinctive school-running feature. Become a comprehensive university with complete disciplines, strong faculty, first-class domestic and wide international influence. Since its establishment, it has trained more than 200,000 undergraduates and postgraduates for the country, and more than 60 academicians of the two academies have studied and worked in Xiamen University.
The school has established inter-school cooperative relations with more than 270 universities in Britain, the United States, Japan, France, Russia and other countries and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The school actively participated in the international promotion of Chinese, and established 15 Confucius Institutes in cooperation with universities in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. In 2008, the South Base for Chinese Promotion of Xiamen University was approved and started construction, which provided strong support for the international promotion of Chinese.
In 20 13, the school won the title of "Advanced Chinese Cooperative College" of Confucius Institute, and the state decided to build the Dean College of Confucius Institute based on the school. In terms of exchanges with Taiwan, the school has unique geographical conditions and irreplaceable humanistic advantages, and has become an important academic center in Taiwan Province and an important university for cross-strait academic exchanges.
The school has perfect teaching and research equipment and public service system. At present, the school covers an area of nearly 9,000 mu, of which Siming Campus is located at the southern tip of Xiamen Island, covering an area of more than 2,500 mu, Zhangzhou Campus covers an area of 2,568 mu, and Xiang 'an Campus has a planned construction land of 3,645 mu (in September 1965, Xiang 'an Campus completed the first phase of construction and put it into use in 438+2002).
The total construction area of the school building is 6.5438+0.99 million square meters, the total number of paper books in the library is 4.48 million (plus 39204GB of electronic books), the total value of fixed assets is 4.2 billion yuan, and the total value of instruments and equipment exceeds 65.438+0.53 billion yuan. The construction scale and level of campus high-speed information network ranks among the top universities in China and has become one of the core nodes of CERNET2.
The campus is surrounded by mountains and seas with beautiful scenery, which has become one of the most beautiful campuses of China University. At present, Xiamen University is striding forward towards the goal of "a world-renowned high-level research university".
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Xiamen University