1985, Wuyi University, a full-time undergraduate comprehensive university, came into being in Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, the first hometown of overseas Chinese in China. Jiangmen city governs Xinhui, Taishan, Kaiping, Enping and Heshan, which are known as Wuyi at home and abroad, hence the name of the school.
The school covers an area of about 1000 mu, with Tiansha River winding through, one river and two districts. Surrounded by the lake, the campus is elegant and quiet, which can be described as "a scenic spot for teaching and studying in distant mountains and a beauty for smoking and learning near the lake". Since its establishment, the school has adhered to the school-running policy of "facing the local area and serving the society", and has formed "four major" school-running characteristics in personnel training, scientific research and social services, foreign exchange and cooperation, and internal management, and is known as a university with distinctive school-running characteristics. The school's professional setting is closely integrated with economic and social development, and now there are two colleges: School of Management and School of Information. There are 16 teaching departments in China, including language and literature department, foreign language and literature department, management science and engineering department, business administration department, public administration department, applied economics department, communication and electronic engineering department, computer and network engineering department, information and control engineering department, mathematical physics department, chemical and environmental engineering department, mechanical and electrical engineering department, civil engineering department, textile and clothing department, political science and law department and sports department. The school recruits undergraduates from Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi, Hubei, Fujian, Anhui and other provinces and cities, and recruits postgraduates from all over the country (including Hong Kong and Macao). There are more than 4000 students/kloc-0, including full-time students 10000.
Wuyi University has a strong faculty, with more than 600 faculty members, including 60% full-time teachers with senior titles and 77% full-time teachers with doctoral and master's degrees. The school has also hired many foreign teachers to teach, and many famous scholars at home and abroad are honorary professors. While doing a good job in teaching, teachers actively carry out scientific research and scientific and technological development and strive to serve local economic construction and social development. Since the Ninth Five-Year Plan, nearly 2,000 papers have been published at home and abroad, and more than 0/00 volumes of monographs and teaching materials have been published. He has undertaken more than 20 national natural science foundation projects, more than 60 provincial and ministerial research projects and more than 200 horizontal cooperative research projects, and achieved a number of influential results. Key disciplines such as management science and engineering, applied chemistry, signal and information processing, applied mathematics, Marxist theory and ideological and political education, software engineering environment and database technology, textile engineering, pattern recognition and intelligent system, electromechanical control and automation, and material science have been established, and key support disciplines and support directions have been established. Among them, the discipline of management science and engineering was also selected as the key supporting discipline in Guangdong Province, and textile engineering was rated as a provincial famous brand specialty.
The school insists on strict management and teaching, attaches importance to the cultivation of students' ability and comprehensive quality, and emphasizes that "quality is life". With the continuous improvement of teaching quality, the students of Wuyi University have achieved good results in all kinds of unified examinations and competitions organized by the whole country and the whole province. In 2000, 5438+0 in 2006 and 2002, the pass rate of Grade 4 was above 9 1%, which was 2 1 percentage point higher than the national average. In 2004, the passing rate was as high as 96.9%, which was 34 percentage points higher than the national average. In 2003, the National Mathematical Modeling Competition for College Students won two national second prizes, two first prizes in Guangdong Division and four second prizes. In 2004, he won the first prize, two second prizes, four first prizes and nine third prizes in Guangdong Division 1 individual. In 2000, the Academic Affairs Office was awarded the title of Advanced Academic Affairs Office of national and provincial universities respectively. The employment rate of students has remained above 90% for many years. Up to now, more than 20,000 undergraduate and junior college graduates have been sent to all walks of life, and more than 30,000 trainees have been trained in the short term.
Since its establishment, Wuyi University has received enthusiastic care and full support from overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao. They donated nearly 50 buildings, a large number of teaching and research equipment, books and materials, and set up a number of scholarships. Give full play to the advantages of hometown of overseas Chinese, strengthen substantive exchanges and cooperation with overseas high-level universities, and establish substantive cooperative relations with more than 30 universities in the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macao and other countries and regions. Every year, more than 20 outstanding teachers are sent to Britain and the United States for further study and exchange. 10 More than 0 students go abroad for long-term and short-term study in various forms, with a total of 65,430 students. As one of the first units approved by the Ministry of Education, the school has enrolled more than 600 long-term and short-term international students from the United States, Mexico, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Croatia and other countries.