Two. Introduction of Yellow River Institute of Science and Technology 1984, Hu Dabai, who was burned on business, learned from his hospital bed that Henan, as a populous province, is extremely short of higher education resources, and the children of ordinary people have a strong desire to go to college. Social development is in urgent need of a large number of specialized applied talents. With the lofty ideal of "sharing worries for the country, solving worries for the people and serving the people", she took out the only 30 yuan money at home and started a tutorial class for Zhengzhou higher education self-study exam. 1985, with the approval of Zhengzhou Municipal Education Commission, Zhengzhou Higher Education Self-taught Examination Tutorial Class was renamed Yellow River Institute of Science and Technology. 1989, approved by Henan Provincial Education Commission, Huanghe Science and Technology College was renamed Zhengzhou Huanghe Science and Technology College. From 65438 to 0994, the private Yellow River Institute of Science and Technology was established with the approval of the State Education Commission, becoming the first private university in China to implement specialized education. In 2000, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, it became the first private university in China to implement undergraduate education. In 2004, the school was awarded the right of bachelor's degree; When Li Keqiang, then secretary of the Henan Provincial Party Committee, inspected the school, he praised the school for "covering the history that many schools could not cover for many years in a short time".
In 2008, the school passed the evaluation of undergraduate teaching level of ordinary colleges and universities of the Ministry of Education with "good" grade. In 20 13, it was approved by the Ministry of Education as the first batch of "pilot strategic research units for the reform of applied science and technology universities" in China, and became the first member of China Universities of Applied Sciences League. The history of school development was called "the miracle in the history of world education" by UNESCO officials, and was written into the case twice by the Business School of University of Virginia. The achievements of running a school have been reported many times by famous Chinese and foreign media such as CCTV, People's Daily and Washington Post. Professor Hu Dabai, the chairman of the school, was awarded the first "China Contemporary Famous Educator", the deputy of the 10th National People's Congress, and concurrently served as the supervisor of China Private Education Association and the president of Henan Private Education Association. President Professor Yang Xuemei won the honorary titles of "National May 1st Labor Medal" and "National May 1st Women's Medal", and was elected as the representative of the 12th and 13th National People's Congress, serving as the vice president of China Private Education Association and the president of Henan University Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Association.
The school has four campuses, covering an area of more than 2,300 mu, with a school building area of 1 10,000 square meters. It has been rated as "Advanced Greening Unit in Henan Province", "Standardized Student Dining Hall in Henan Province" and "Pilot Unit for Smart Campus Construction in Henan Province". There are 24,674 full-time undergraduates. There are 0/805 faculty members/kloc-0, including 377 full-time teachers/kloc-0, 46.48% teachers with senior titles, 79.67% young teachers with graduate education or above, and 373 teachers with dual qualifications and abilities. At present, there are more than 50 honorary teachers/kloc-0, including academicians of China Academy of Engineering, experts enjoying special government allowance of the State Council, outstanding talents of the Ministry of Education in the new century, winners of national teaching achievement awards, national and provincial famous teachers, the first batch of 10,000 outstanding innovation and entrepreneurship instructors of the Ministry of Education, provincial academic and technical leaders, "Zhongyuan *" experts and outstanding teachers in Henan Province. Five teachers are presidents of Henan Electronics Society and Provincial Engineering Graphics Society. The school has more than 50 high-level teaching and research platforms, including Henan academician workstation, postdoctoral research and development base, key laboratory, international joint laboratory, engineering technology research center and experimental teaching demonstration center. There are 27 laboratories10, 4 laboratories10 and 224 off-campus training bases. The total value of teaching and research instruments is 329 million yuan; There are 3.556 million books.
The school has always regarded upholding the leadership of the Party and strengthening Party building as the political guarantee and source of strength for reform and development, discipline construction and personnel training, and has formed a distinctive feature and brand. As the first private university in China to establish a party committee, it actively sought to establish a party organization at the early stage of its establishment, and the story of founder Hu Dabai's "ten-year search for the party" became a much-told story. In the exploration and practice, the working mechanism of "Party Committee plays a political core role and participates in major school decisions" has been formed, the ideological and political model of "taking Party building as the core and comprehensively strengthening ideological and political work" has been put forward, and the organizational structure of "actively cultivating and developing student party member with Party school and school guards as the starting point" has been established. In recent years, the school has thoroughly implemented the spirit of the 18th and 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, adhered to the fundamental problem of "who to train, how to train people and for whom", conscientiously implemented the fundamental task of "educating people by moral education", built a professional and professional ideological and political work team, adhered to the main position of ideological and political courses, and tapped the educational function of various courses, thus forming a joint force of ideological and political work. The school won the titles of "National May 4th Red Flag Youth League Committee", "Advanced Grass-roots Party Organization in Henan Province", "Civilized Unit in Henan Province" and "Advanced Unit of Ideological and Political Work in Colleges and Universities in Henan Province".
The school is close to the needs of economic and social development, forming the advantages of outstanding engineering, high correlation between discipline chain and industrial chain, and strong support of discipline layout for local leading industries. The school has nine disciplines, including engineering, science, literature, medicine, management, economics, law, education, and art. There are 67 undergraduate majors and 35 specialist majors. A number of advantageous disciplines such as artificial intelligence, materials, machinery, automation and cultural creativity. , highlighting the supporting role of regional and Henan economic transformation and industrial upgrading. The school focuses on the construction of characteristic professional clusters such as electronic information and computer, machinery and materials, biomedicine, cultural creativity and economic management. At present, there are 5 provincial key disciplines, 6 Henan specialty specialties, 9 Henan private education brand specialties, 8 Henan professional comprehensive reform pilot specialties, 1 Henan undergraduate engineering education training mode reform pilot specialty. The number of provincial key disciplines and characteristic brands owned by the school ranks first among private universities in the province.