Two. Introduction of Yangzhou University
Yangzhou University is located in Yangzhou, the first historical and cultural city in China. It is a university jointly established by the People's Government of Jiangsu Province and the Ministry of Education, a key comprehensive university in Jiangsu Province and one of the top 100 provincial universities in Jiangsu Province. It is the first batch of doctoral and master's degree awarding units in China, and it is also the first merged university in China. The school's predecessor was Tongzhou Normal School and Tonghai Agricultural School, which were founded on 1902 by Mr. Zhang Jian, a famous industrialist and educator in modern times. 1952, the departments of colleges and universities in China were adjusted, and their majors in agriculture, literature and history moved westward to Yangzhou to form Subei Agricultural College and Subei Normal College. At the same time, four other universities were established or moved to Yangzhou. 1992, the school was formed by the merger of six universities, including Yangzhou Normal University, Jiangsu Agricultural College, Yangzhou Institute of Science and Technology, Yangzhou Medical College, Jiangsu Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Jiangsu Business School.
This school has a full range of disciplines. At present, there are 29 secondary colleges, 1 independent colleges and 1 undergraduate majors, covering philosophy, economics, law, education, literature and history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, art, etc. 12 disciplines, with more than 26,000 ordinary full-time undergraduates, doctors and doctors. At present, there are 22 authorized points for doctoral degrees in first-class disciplines, 48 authorized points for master's degrees in first-class disciplines, 2 categories for doctoral degrees, 27 categories for master's degrees, and 4 postdoctoral mobile stations/kloc-0. It has 2 national key disciplines, 1 national key disciplines, 7 provincial dominant disciplines, 6 provincial key disciplines in the 13th Five-Year Plan and 3 provincial key disciplines, and 7 disciplines including chemistry, animal and plant science, engineering, agricultural science, clinical medicine, materials science and computer science rank among the top 65,400 universities and scientific research institutions in the world.
The ability of the school to train talents has been continuously improved. The school has six national majors, six brand majors in Jiangsu universities, two national experimental zones for innovation of talent training mode, nine provincial-level excellent graduate workstations and eight outstanding talent training projects of the Ministry of Education. It has 14 national excellent courses, 13 national excellent resources, 2 national excellent video open courses, 1 national bilingual teaching demonstration courses, 5 national excellent online open courses, 3 national teaching teams, 2 agricultural cooperative education training bases of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Agriculture, and 1 national off-campus practice teaching bases. National experimental teaching demonstration center 1 each, national virtual simulation experimental teaching center 1 each, national demonstration virtual simulation experimental project 1 each, and won 4 second prizes for national teaching achievements, 5 special prizes for provincial higher education teaching achievements, and 2 second prizes for national postgraduate education achievements 1 item. The school strives to improve the level of specialty construction, implements the upgrading project of undergraduate specialty brand construction in Yangzhou University, vigorously promotes the reform of general education, deepens innovation and entrepreneurship education, strengthens practical education, actively creates "one hospital with one product", implements the credit system for the second classroom, and promotes the integrated development of the first classroom and the second classroom. The case of mixed teaching reform in schools was included in UNESCO's White Paper on Mixed Learning, and won the "Winning Cup" in the national "Challenge Cup" extracurricular academic and scientific works competition for college students for five times in a row. It was rated as the first batch of demonstration universities in China to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, the national practical education innovation and entrepreneurship base, and the national typical experience university of innovation and entrepreneurship. In 2004, it passed the evaluation of undergraduate teaching level by the Ministry of Education with excellent results, and 20 16 successfully passed the inspection and evaluation of undergraduate teaching work by the Ministry of Education.
International exchanges and cooperation between schools continued to advance. Relying on the 20+20 cooperation plan of Chinese and African universities, China-Arab Higher Education Cooperation 10+ 1, China-ASEAN Education and Training Center, Jiangsu-Macau-Portuguese-speaking Countries University Cooperation Alliance, Jiangsu? Projects and platforms such as the UK 20+20 High-level University Cooperation Alliance have successively established inter-school exchanges and cooperation with 266 universities and research institutions in 56 countries (regions). The school has been approved as the first overseas Chinese project Chinese food prosperity base, two national innovative talents international cooperation training programs, 44 national excellent undergraduate international exchange programs,11discipline innovation and intelligence introduction bases, and 24 national high-end foreign expert programs. The school has the qualifications to recruit foreign students (including those who have won government scholarships) and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and has extensively carried out the action plan of strengthening the country by studying abroad. More than 2,200 international students from 64 countries of origin, 2 Confucius Institutes and/kloc-0 Confucius Classrooms have won the advanced collective of Confucius Institutes in the world for four times.