The conditions for running schools are improving day by day. Teaching buildings, science and technology buildings, libraries, museums, student apartments, air-conditioned student canteens, cultural squares, sports grounds, standard swimming pools and other basic teaching and living facilities are readily available. The school building has a total construction area of 636,000 square meters, the library has a collection of 6.5438+0.54 million books, the value of teaching and research equipment is nearly 65.438+0.6 billion yuan, and the value of fixed assets is about 65.438+0.3 billion yuan. There are 63 teaching laboratories in the school, including 1 national accreditation institution, 6 provincial key laboratories and 1 provincial experimental teaching demonstration center. There are 20 1 practice bases inside and outside the school, including the Museum of Aquatic Biology. The Museum of Aquatic Biology exhibits nearly 3,000 kinds of specimens, which is the museum with the largest number of preserved aquatic specimens in domestic universities. The school has teachers 1009, including 93 professors, 258 associate professors, 65,438 doctors +0 17 masters. Six people were trained in the "Thousand Hundred Projects" in Guangdong Province, 13 people received special government allowance, and seven people were awarded the titles of "National Model Worker", "National Advanced Individual with Professional Ethics", "National Model Teacher" and "National Excellent Teacher". Full-time college students *** 1790 1 (excluding Cunjin College), including undergraduates 1549 1 and junior college students 24 10 (higher vocational colleges); 304 graduate students; 9 international students; There are 6468 students in adult higher education. In the long-term practice of running a school, the school has gradually formed a school spirit of "diligence, truth-seeking, dedication and innovation" and a fine tradition of attaching importance to applied research and technology promotion. The school adheres to the school-running philosophy of "strengthening the school with talents, establishing the school with quality, developing the school with academics and characteristics" and "combining scale expansion with quality improvement, paying attention to quality improvement; Extensional expansion is combined with connotation enrichment, mainly with connotation enrichment; Combining comprehensive development with strengthening characteristics and paying attention to strengthening characteristics, the teaching quality has been steadily improved by optimizing the discipline structure, strengthening specialty construction and implementing quality education. The school enrolls students from more than 20 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government. The teaching level and the quality of personnel training have been widely recognized and fully affirmed by the society. In recent years, the employment rate of college graduates has exceeded the provincial average.