Jishou University is a university founded by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the Hunan Provincial People's Government. It is a counterpart support school of Sun Yat-sen University, Tsinghua University and Central South University.
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Jishou University was founded in September, 1958. It runs schools in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture and Zhangjiajie City, Hunan Province. Its headquarters is located in Jishou, the capital of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture. It is a comprehensive university in Hunan Province and the only comprehensive university in Wuling Mountain area.
The school is a university jointly established by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the Hunan Provincial People's Government. It is a national "Basic Capacity Building Project for Universities in the Midwest", a national "Doctor Training Project for Special Needs", a key university for regional development and poverty alleviation planning in Wuling Mountain area, an excellent school for undergraduate teaching level evaluation by the Ministry of Education, and an excellent school for quality evaluation of postgraduate training process in Hunan Province.
The school is an ordinary university that recommends excellent fresh graduates to study for a master's degree without examination. In 20 18, it was approved as a national doctoral degree authorized unit, and Hunan Province was admitted to colleges and universities in batches.
Conditions for running a school: the area where the school is located has convenient transportation and beautiful scenery, and it has world natural heritage-Wulingyuan Natural Scenic Area in Zhangjiajie, Yongshun Laosicheng, a world cultural heritage, and Fenghuang Ancient City, a famous historical and cultural city in China. The school is adjacent to Zhangjiajie Lotus Airport and Tongren Phoenix Airport, five expressway and three railways intersect around the campus, and the construction of Jill Zhang Huai High-speed Railway and Xiangxi Airport has started.
The campus has beautiful scenery, with a total area of more than 2,900 mu and a construction area of nearly 600,000 square meters. The total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment is 330 million yuan, and there are more than 6 million kinds of paper and electronic documents.