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School profile of Soochow University
Suzhou University is located in Suzhou, an ancient city known as "paradise on earth". It is a national "2 1 1 project" key construction university and a provincial-level key comprehensive university in Jiangsu Province. Its predecessor was Soochow University, which was founded in 1900. 1952 During the adjustment of national colleges and departments, Soochow University merged with Sunan Institute of Culture and Education and the Department of Mathematics and Science of Jiangnan University to form Sunan Normal College, which was named Jiangsu Normal College in the same year and ran in the former site of Soochow University. 1982 was transformed into Suzhou University with the approval of the State Council. With the approval of the Ministry of Education and the Jiangsu Provincial Government, Suzhou Sericulture Institute, Suzhou Silk Institute and Suzhou Medical College were merged into Suzhou University in 1995, 1997 and 2000 respectively. At present, Suzhou University has developed into a local comprehensive university with considerable scale, solid foundation, remarkable school-running benefits and certain popularity at home and abroad.

/kloc-In the past 0/00 years, Suzhou University has sent more than 250,000 college students and graduate students to the society, many of whom have become famous scholars and celebrities in science, education and culture. Fei Xiaotong, Sun Qimeng and Lei Jieqiong, former vice chairmen of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC); Zhao Puchu and Dong Yinchu, former vice-chairmen of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; Li Zhengdao, a famous scientist and Nobel Prize winner; Ni Zhengri (Austria), a famous legal expert; Zheng Pijiang, a famous sericulture educator; Famous brain surgeon and medical educator Du; Tie Yang (Mu Liang), Cha Liang Yong (Jin Yong), a famous Hong Kong celebrity; Zhang Weiguo, currently Vice Governor of Jiangsu Province; And Lu Jun, Vice Chairman of CPPCC Provincial Committee; Former Deputy Secretary of Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, Vice Governor, former Vice Chairman of Jiangsu Provincial Political Consultative Conference, Zhou Sangyi, Tan, Liu Jiankang, Song and more than 30 academicians of the two academies are alumni of our school.

Suzhou University now has postdoctoral mobile stations 12, six doctoral degree authorization points for first-class disciplines, 84 doctoral degree authorization points (including self-established majors), one doctoral degree authorization point for first-class disciplines 1, two master degree authorization points1(including self-established majors) and professional master degree authorization points1. There are 4 national key disciplines, 24 provincial and ministerial-level key disciplines (including 6 national key disciplines cultivation and construction sites), National Engineering Laboratory 1, National Key Laboratory cultivation and construction sites 1, Provincial and ministerial-level key laboratories 1, 3 provincial and ministerial-level engineering centers, and National Liberal Arts Basic Discipline Talent Training Base1. 1 National Base for Training Basic Scientific Research and Teaching Talents, 1 Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, 1 Key Research Base of Social Sciences of the State Sports General Administration. At present, there are about 50,000 students, including graduate students12,602, undergraduates1472 and adult students/97 10. At present, there are 465,438+065,438+02 faculty members, 4 academicians (including 3 academicians of China Academy of Engineering, 65,438+0 academicians of China Academy of Sciences and Third World Academy of Sciences), 6 dual-employed academicians and 65,438 professors and associate professors. A team of teachers with strong strength and reasonable structure has taken shape.

In recent years, Suzhou University has adhered to the two centers of teaching and scientific research, and continuously improved the quality of personnel training under the guidance of strengthening basic reserves, broadening caliber, strengthening application and attaching importance to practice. About 40 students in the school win national and above awards every year. At the 29th Beijing Olympic Games, Chinese athletes achieved excellent results of "two golds and one bronze". While paying attention to the basic theoretical research, the school has strengthened the applied and developmental research oriented to the main battlefield of local economic construction, and achieved fruitful scientific research results, winning more than 430 scientific research awards at or above the provincial and ministerial levels, such as the National Natural Science Award, the National Science and Technology Progress Award and the National Invention Award. In 2007, there were 75 state-level scientific research projects, and the funds for scientific research activities exceeded 205 million yuan, and the Scientific Citation Index (SCI) ranked 23rd among national scientific research institutions. The pace of the combination of school and Industry-University-Research is also accelerating, and many scientific research achievements have been widely used in various fields of social life, achieving good economic and social benefits.

Suzhou University has five campuses, covering an area of 3 1 18 mu and a building area of 1.467 million square meters. The school is rich in books and materials, with nearly 4 million books in the library and more than 2,800 Chinese and foreign periodicals. Advanced equipment such as analysis and testing center, clothing center and computer network center; Suzhou University Press, which serves teaching and scientific research, is owned by it. The school also edited and published four editions of journals in humanities, science, engineering and medicine, and academic journals such as Foreign Silk, and exchanged views with universities and scientific research institutions at home and abroad.

China's reform and opening-up policy has opened up a broad road for schools to carry out international exchanges and cooperation. Suzhou University actively expanded its opening to the outside world, established inter-school exchange relations with nearly 100 universities in Japan, France, South Korea, Singapore, Germany, the United States, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong and Taiwan Province Province, and accepted nearly 2,000 foreign students and advanced students to study Chinese language and literature and other related majors.

In recent years, Suzhou University has paid attention to relying on its strong economic strength and superior humanistic location conditions, especially in southern Jiangsu, and actively explored effective ways to serve economic construction and social development, taking it as its distinctive school-running characteristics and motivation. At present, Suzhou University, a paradise-like university, is forging ahead with unprecedented boldness and courage, closely centering on the established goal of creating a "domestic first-class and internationally renowned high-level university".