2. Introduction of Yunnan University
Yunnan University was founded in 1922 as a private Donglu University, 1934 changed its name to provincial Yunnan University, and 1938 changed its name to national Yunnan University. It is one of the earliest comprehensive universities in the western frontier of China. From 65438 to 0937, Xiong Qinglai, a famous mathematician and educator, became the president, and a large number of famous scholars were employed to teach at the school, which laid a high development foundation and a profound academic foundation for the school and created the first glorious period in the history of Yunnan University. In the 1940s, Yunnan University has developed into one of the large-scale and internationally influential multidisciplinary universities in literature, law, science, engineering, agriculture and medicine. 1946, Encyclopedia Britannica listed Yunnan University as one of the most influential universities in the world in 15.
In 1950s, the departments were adjusted, and some important and distinctive departments such as aviation, civil engineering, law and railway under Yunnan University were set aside and merged into Beijing Aviation Institute, Sichuan University, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Changsha Railway Institute and other universities. Industry, medicine, agriculture, etc. have independently established schools, and gradually developed into today's Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming Medical University, Yunnan Agricultural University, Southwest Forestry University and other universities. From 65438 to 0958, Yunnan University was placed under the management of Yunnan Province by the Central Ministry of Higher Education. 65438-0978 Yunnan University was identified as one of the 88 key universities in China by the State Council.
After the reform and opening up, Yunnan University has made great progress. 1996 was included in the first batch of national "2 1 1 project" key construction universities, in 2006, 5438+0 was included in the key construction universities of western development, in 2004, it became the key construction universities of the Ministry of Education and the Yunnan Provincial People's Government, and in 2006, the undergraduate teaching level was evaluated * * *1. 20 12 became the implementing agency of "the basic capacity building project of central and western universities" and "the comprehensive strength improvement project of central and western universities", 20 16 became the implementing agency of "one province, one school", 20 17 became one of the first batch of 42 "first-class universities" in China, and 20 18.
In the new historical period, Yunnan University will closely focus on the goal of building a world-class university, actively integrate into the national strategy, actively serve Yunnan's economic and social development, follow the development concept of "open cooperation, integrated innovation, coordinated progress, and characteristic development", follow the school-running idea of basing itself on Yunnan, serving the whole country, radiating Asia, and going global, take "first-class party building" as the guide, focus on connotation construction, and take institutional mechanism reform as the driving force. Vigorously implement the strategy of "invigorating the school with learning" and "strengthening the school with talents", vigorously promote the "Tree Cultivation Plan" and "Yunnan University Service Yunnan Action Plan", comprehensively improve the strength and level of running a school, and make contributions to regional economic and social development.
Yunnan University has 27 colleges, 14 research institutions, 1 public teaching department, 2 independent colleges, 1 affiliated hospitals and graduate schools. Yunnan University has 297 faculty members1person, including 2497 in professional and technical positions. There are 1930 teaching and research personnel in professional and technical posts, of which 445 have full senior titles, accounting for 23. 1% of teaching and research personnel, and 845 have associate senior titles, accounting for 43.8% of teaching and research personnel. At present, there are 1 136 teaching and research personnel, accounting for 58.9% of the teaching staff, and 6 14 masters, accounting for 3 1.8% of the teaching staff. The school has full-time undergraduates 16976, master students 7595 and doctoral students 1 108. The school covers an area of 4,363.64 mu, distributed in Chenggong Campus and Donglu Campus, with a public school building area of 6,543.8+0,000 square meters. The total assets of teaching and research instruments and information equipment are more than 938 million yuan, and the library has more than 3.7 million books. The school is the main node unit of CERNET in China.
Yunnan University has 86 undergraduate majors, 12 national characteristic majors. It has four national key disciplines, including ethnology, ecology, special history and microbiology, and 52 provincial key disciplines. There are 2/kloc-0 first-class doctoral degrees, 42 first-class master's degrees and 22 professional master's degrees. In the fourth round of discipline evaluation by the Ministry of Education, 30 disciplines in our school have entered the top 70% in China, including 2 disciplines A (A+ for ethnology and A- for ecology), and discipline B 14. Microbiology, chemistry, botany and zoology are among the top 1% in the global ESI ranking. The school has formed a comprehensive university featuring ethnology, biology, development of characteristic resources and environmental protection, as well as research on frontier issues and international issues in Southeast Asia and South Asia, with relatively complete disciplines and intensive talents.
The school has vigorously implemented the strategy of strengthening the school with talents, and the number of high-level talents has increased rapidly. At present, there are academicians 10 (including double-employment and special-employment), selected into various projects of the national high-level talent introduction plan10/person, distinguished professor 12 person, lecture professor and winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of the Ministry of Education. All kinds of national "*" projects were selected 12, 4 chief scientists of national key basic research and development plan, 1 1 person of national "100 million talents project", Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China cultural experts and "four groups" talents project 1 person, and 2 national model teachers. 16 people were selected from the "New Century Excellent Talents Training Plan", "Cross-century Excellent Talents Training Plan" and "University Backbone Teachers Funding Plan" of the Ministry of Education, 1 person won the "Outstanding Young Teachers Award in Colleges and Universities" of the Ministry of Education, 4 people served as members of the the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, and1person was selected to the China Academy of Sciences. There are 5 "Yunling teaching masters", the winner of the 10th China Young Female Scientist Award 1 person, the winner of the introduction plan of high-end scientific and technological talents in Yunnan Province 13, the young and middle-aged academic and technological leaders and innovative talents in Yunnan Province 123, the young and middle-aged academic and technological leaders reserve talents in Yunnan Province 4 1 person, and the teaching and research leaders in Yunnan Province 65438. There are 25 famous teachers in Yunnan Province, 8 high-level talents in Yunnan Province, 60 young talents in Yunnan Province, 8 top-notch young talents in Yunnan Province, 20 famous teacher studios in Yunnan Province, 4 national teaching teams, provincial teaching teams 1 1 person, and innovation teams of the Ministry of Education 1 person.
With academic development as the core, the school has made remarkable achievements in scientific research and platform construction. The school has successively presided over 2 national "973 Plan" projects, 4 national "863 Plan" projects, 2 national major water projects, 2 national key R&D plans 1 projects, 2 national science and technology support plans, 4 national social science fund major bidding projects 18 projects, 4 major research projects of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, 2 projects of Marxist theoretical research and construction, and 2 projects. Won the first prize of national natural science, the first prize of outstanding achievements in humanities and social sciences in universities and the second prize of national scientific and technological progress. Won 3 outstanding contribution awards and 3 special awards of Yunnan Science and Technology Award. There are 14 papers published in the world famous academic journals Nature and Science. The school hosts academic journals such as Ideological Front, Journal of Yunnan University and Science Edition. Among them, "Ideological Front" was selected as the first batch of eleven periodicals in the "Famous Publications Project" of the Ministry of Education.