Xiamen University, referred to as Xiamen University for short, is located in Xiamen City, Fujian Province. It is a comprehensive research-oriented national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), and a key university jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the State Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, Fujian Province and Xiamen City. It ranks among the national "double first-class", "2 1 1 project" and "985 project".
Xiamen University was founded in 192 1 by Mr. Chen Jiageng, a famous patriotic overseas Chinese leader. 1937 the school was changed from private to public. 1949 after the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the school entered a new stage of development. 2065438+In July 2004, Xiamen University Malaysian Branch laid the foundation stone, becoming the first university in China to build an independent campus overseas. In 2022, six disciplines including education, chemistry, marine science, biology, ecology and statistics were selected into the list of world-class disciplines published by the state.
Fuzhou University, founded in 1958, is a national "2 1 1 project" key construction university, a national "double-class" construction university, a university jointly established by the National Defense Science and Technology Industry Bureau, the Ministry of Education and the Fujian Provincial People's Government, the first batch of demonstration universities in China to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, and the first batch of pilot universities in the "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan" of the Ministry of Education.
As one of the three key high-level universities in Fujian Province, the national pilot unit for comprehensive reform of professional degree postgraduate education has implemented the national postgraduate high-level university construction project, the national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training plan and the Hundred Schools Project.
Fujian province has a high terrain in the northwest and a low terrain in the southeast, which is "close to the mountains and the sea", and the hilly area accounts for about 90% of the total area of the province. It spans the Minjiang River, Jinjiang River, Jiulong River and Tingjiang River, and has a subtropical maritime monsoon climate.