The school is a vice-ministerial university directly under the Ministry of Education, a comprehensive research-oriented national key university, and a university jointly established by the Ministry of Education, Fujian Province and Xiamen City. It is a national "double-first-class" world-class university construction university, a leading university in the national "20 1 1 Plan" and selected as "21/Project" and "985".
The first batch of 20 universities independently audit degrees, excellent engineer education and training programs, excellent legal talents education and training programs, excellent doctoral education and training programs, overseas high-level talent introduction programs, national high-level university public graduate programs, and China government scholarship receiving institutions for foreign students in China.
Historical Development-1919 In August, Chen Jiageng hired Cai Yuanpei, Huang Yanpei, Wang Jingwei, Guo Bingwen, Hu Dunfu, Huang Wan, Deng, etc. 10 as the organizer in Shanghai.
19 19 10 The first meeting of the preparatory committee for private Xiamen University was held in 10, and the outline of Xiamen University was drawn up. Deng was elected as the first president of Xiamen University, Zheng as the provost and He Gonggan as the general manager.
April 6th 192 1 Xiamen University was founded by Jimei School, which was initially private and consisted of two departments: Normal School (including arts and sciences) and Business School.
On July 4th, Lin Wenqing accepted the invitation of Mr. Chen Jiageng and took over the post of President of Xiamen University. During President Lin Wenqing's administration, departments of engineering, journalism, law and medicine were added one after another, and a multidisciplinary comprehensive university was initially established.
Hardware facilities-As of June 5438+February, 2020, the school covers an area of more than 9,700 mu, of which Siming Campus at the southern end of Xiamen Island covers an area of nearly 2,600 mu, Zhangzhou Campus covers an area of more than 2,500 mu, Xiang 'an Campus covers an area of more than 3,600 mu, and Malaysia Campus covers an area of about 900 mu.
The total construction area of the school building is more than 2.2 million square meters. There are 45 1 000 paper books and 8.85 million electronic books in the library. Total fixed assets are 654.38+0.26 billion yuan, and total equipment is 4.6 billion yuan. Affiliated hospital 10. Campus high-speed information network is one of the core nodes of CERNET2.
Item 985 and item 211-item 985, 1998. 1On May 4th, 1998, it was put forward at the conference celebrating the 0/00th anniversary of the founding of Peking University that "China should have a number of world-class universities to realize modernization", and the first phase of the 985 Project was first implemented in Peking University and Tsinghua University.
The "2 1 1" project, that is, to build about 100 colleges and universities and a number of key disciplines in 2 1 century, is the largest and highest-level key construction work initiated by the state in the field of higher education since the founding of New China, and it is an important measure for the China government to implement the strategy of "rejuvenating the country through science and education".