The school is a comprehensive research-oriented national key university directly under the Ministry of Education jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the State Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, Fujian Province and Xiamen City. It is a national "double-first-class" world-class university construction university led by the national "201Plan" and the national "2 165438 Project".
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The campus of Xiamen University includes the headquarters, Zhangzhou Campus (which has been used by Tan Kah Kee College of Xiamen University), Haiyun Campus, Xiang 'an Campus and Malaysia Branch.
Headquartered at the southern tip of Xiamen Island, facing the mountains and the sea, it covers an area of nearly 2,500 mu, with Furong Lake as the center of the campus. There are a large number of Nanyang-style buildings in this department, which have the characteristics of combining Chinese and western, and have now been included in the national key cultural relics protection units.
The campus is long and narrow, stretching for several kilometers along the coastline. Bus stops passing through the campus include Xiamen University Station, Xiamen University West Village Station, Xiamen University Hospital Station, Xiamen University Baicheng Station, Battery Station, Xiamen University Art College Station (formerly known as Stone Station), pearl bay Station and Xiamen University Student Apartment Station, with a total of 1 * * 8 stops. The campus has complex terrain, lush vegetation and rich natural landscape.
Haiyun Campus, a part of the school headquarters, is located near pearl bay at the southern tip of Xiamen Island, next to Xiamen Software Park. Software College, Information Science and Technology College and Mathematics Science College are located in the park. There is a teaching building, an administrative office building, an experimental building and two scientific research buildings in the park.
The area from the existing building to the student apartment is Haiyun Park Phase II. Due to the complexity of the demolition work, the current construction is in a semi-stop state. When completed in the future, the whole park will be connected with the headquarters through the eastern coastal area.
Zhangzhou Campus is located in Zhangzhou Development Zone of China Merchants in Longhai, Zhangzhou, covering an area of about 2,568 mu, separated from the headquarters by a sea, only 3.5 nautical miles apart. Its architectural style comes down in one continuous line with the headquarters, and the overall planning is more scientific and reasonable.
On July 20 12, Zhangzhou Campus ceased to be used. 20 12 Students of Xiamen University who enrolled on or after September will live in the headquarters or Xiang 'an campus according to their major. The original Zhangzhou campus, dormitory and teaching building will be merged into Tan Kah Kee College.
Xiang' an Campus focuses on developing applied sciences such as medicine, life science and technology, with a final school scale of 30,000 students. Xiang 'an Campus will become a training base for innovative talents in applied disciplines, a high-level scientific and technological research base, a southern base for the headquarters of Confucius Institute in China, and a base for running schools in cooperation with foreign countries. 20 12 the first batch of teachers and students will settle in Xiang' an campus.
The school has a building area of 6.5438+0.35 million square meters, and the library has more than 4.6 million books (including 6.5438+0.5 million e-books). The total value of fixed assets is 2.5 billion yuan and the total value of equipment is 900 million yuan. The construction scale and level of campus high-speed information network ranks among the top universities in China and has become one of the main nodes of CERNET2.