The school is located in Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province, a famous historical and cultural city in the south of the Yangtze River with beautiful scenery, covering an area of 3,045 mu. There are more than 4,500 faculty members, including 2 distinguished academicians of China Academy of Sciences, 5 academicians of China Academy of Engineering, doctoral supervisor 104, more than 300 full-time higher vocational staff such as professors, and more than 850 associate professors. There are more than 35,000 full-time students, including more than 6,000 graduate students. There are 24 colleges and 73 undergraduate majors, covering 9 disciplines including engineering, science, medicine, literature, economics, law, management, education and history. There are 6 mobile stations for postdoctoral research, 5 first-class disciplines authorized for doctoral degrees, 33 doctoral programs, master's degree authorization points 100, 2 national key disciplines 1, 4 national key disciplines and national key laboratories in Jiangsu Province, and 65438+ key laboratories of the Ministry of Education 1.
The school has distinctive characteristics and obvious advantages in engineering. In the long-term practice of running a school, it has formed a distinctive feature of "adhering to the tradition of agriculture and adhering to the road of agriculture in engineering colleges", and has built five disciplines: engineering, life medicine, science, economics and management, and humanities, forming a comprehensive university discipline pattern with prominent focus, cross-infiltration, plate linkage and complementary advantages.
Adhering to the motto of "erudite, realistic and wise", the school has always adhered to the fundamental goal of cultivating innovative talents with all-round quality, firmly established the central position of teaching work, continuously deepened the reform of education and teaching, optimized the talent training mode, and strived to improve college students' innovative thinking, scientific spirit, cultural quality and practical ability. Previous graduates are generally welcomed by employers for their solid foundation, wide knowledge, high quality and strong ability. The school has achieved good results in the national English, mathematics, physics, mechanics and computer competitions and the "Challenge Cup" national extracurricular academic and scientific works competition for college students. The school was awarded "National Excellent Undergraduate Teaching School" by the Ministry of Education, "Civilized Unit of Jiangsu Province" by the Jiangsu Provincial Government and "National May 4th Red Flag Youth League Committee" by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League.
The school attaches great importance to scientific and technological work. In recent years, * * * has won more than 400 national and provincial scientific research achievement awards, and nearly 200 achievements have won national patents. The total amount of scientific and technological funds obtained in that year ranked among the top 50 universities in China, and the number of patent applications and authorizations ranked among the top 43 universities in China. In 2003, our school ranked 44th in the list of national scientific and technological institutions' independent intellectual property competitiveness, and ranked among the "China Jiangsu Patent Institutions 10 Top".
At present, all teachers, students and staff of the school firmly grasp the important strategic opportunity period of economic, social and higher education development, take Deng Xiaoping Theory and Theory of Three Represents as the guidance and Scientific Outlook on Development as the guidance, adhere to the priority of teaching quality, top-notch talents, strong disciplines and independent innovation, enhance the connotation, strengthen the characteristics, concentrate on innovation, and strive to build the school into a domestic first-class high-level, open teaching and research-oriented comprehensive university featuring engineering and coordinated development of multiple disciplines.
In 2008, China University ranked 79th, China University ranked 59th in Engineering 100, and China University ranked 84th in Management 100.