Chengdu University

Chengdu University

 

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Introduction to Chengdu University

Chengdu University (成都大学, CDU) was established in 1978 with the approval of the Ministry of Education. It is an undergraduate university co-established by Sichuan Province and Chengdu, and a key urban university in Chengdu. The university where the athletes’ village of the 31st World University Summer Games will be held in 2021. It has a century-old third-level general affiliated hospital, and the Sichuan Institute of Antibacterial Industry, a national antibiotic research and development base. The school has the right to grant bachelor and master degrees, and has a post-doctoral practice base. The school is the Ministry of Education “Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan” college, the Ministry of Education ’s national defense education characteristic college, the Ministry of Education ’s “Double Ten Thousand Plan” first-class undergraduate professional construction project establishment unit, and Sichuan Province ’s doctorate project construction establishment unit.

Over the past 40 years, the university has taken root in Chengdu, is based in Sichuan, serves the whole country, and faces the world. Following the major development strategies of the country and region, especially Chengdu, it is determined to reform and develop rapidly. Adhering to the Chengda school motto of “Self-love, self-study, self-respect, self-improvement”, the Chengda school spirit of “Practical and pragmatic, self-improvement”, the Chengda school spirit of “Yacheng Dade, Hengcheng Daqi”, “Learn to learn and understand life “Chengdu style”, “a trinity of modernization, world-oriented, future-oriented education, aesthetics, and innovation” university culture, focusing on the positioning of high-level urban comprehensive universities, implementing the “talent strategy, characteristic strategy and internationalization strategy” three Great development strategy, focusing on the talent training characteristics of “school-city integration, open coordination, regional application”. The school has trained more than 150,000 talents for the country’s economic construction and social development.

Chengdu University is located in the national center city of Chengdu. The new layout of the “Western Triangle” link of Chinese higher education has obvious advantages in terms of location. The school is adjacent to more than 30,000 acres of Qinglong Lake Wetland Park, with beautiful surroundings. Chengdu University Station on Metro Line 4 has convenient transportation. The school building covers an area of 765,200 square meters, of which the teaching and scientific research administrative area is 437,000 square meters. The total value of teaching and scientific research equipment is 217 million yuan, and the library’s paper books total more than 2.23 million volumes. It owns the First Class Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu University and Chengdu University Middle School, Primary School, and Children. The stadiums are equipped with advanced facilities and complete functions. More than 200,000 square meters of the 31st World University Summer Games Athlete Village project and 180,000 square meters of China-ASEAN Art Academy new park are under construction.

Chengdu University focuses on the core literacy of high-quality applied talents, the development of science and technology, and the needs of industrial progress. It plans to set up disciplines and disciplines, and constantly promotes integration between disciplines. Currently, there are 10 disciplines in arts, literature, management, education, economics, law, engineering, medicine, science, and agronomy, 60 undergraduate majors, 9 master’s degree (category) authorized master’s degrees, and 2 secondary disciplines. There are 24 (fields) with post-doctoral innovation practice bases.

Chengdu University continues to increase the introduction of outstanding talents, improve the teacher management and development mechanism, promote high moral standards, and continue to stimulate the vitality of teacher professional development. At present, there are more than 1,400 full-time teachers, including more than 190 senior professional titles, more than 450 deputy senior professional titles, and nearly 500 PhDs. The honorary president of the school is Academician Fan Daiming, former vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He has national candidates for talent engineering in the new century, a recipient of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, and the leader of the innovation team of the “Cheung Kong Scholars and Innovation Team Development Plan” of the Ministry of Education. More than 20 experts including experts from the State Council special government allowances. There are more than 50 people including highly cited Chinese scholars, academic and technical leaders in Sichuan Province and their backup candidates, outstanding experts with outstanding contributions in Sichuan Province, famous teaching teachers in Sichuan Province, and experts in the Sichuan Province “Thousand Talents Program”. Ten high-end talents including Nobel Prize winners and academicians are honorary presidents and honorary professors, one New Zealand academician (academician of the Royal Academy of Sciences, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering), five Yangtze River scholars, and one thousand national experts and one hundred experts There are nearly 40 Ph.D. supervisors / professors, more than 40 high-end foreign experts, and more than 80 special researchers (deputy researchers).

Chengdu University focuses on adapting to the needs of 21st-century learners who have grown up with new technologies. It has established a learner-centered concept, stepped up teaching reforms, built a more open and flexible curriculum system and learning support system, and constantly promoted the transformation from knowledge transfer to Guide and support students towards broad, deep, and arduous learning goals. The school currently has more than 23,000 full-time students (including more than 1,000 graduate students and more than 800 international students). The quality of the school’s student resources has continued to improve, and 12 majors have recruited a batch of undergraduates in Sichuan Province. The school’s food science and engineering majors and automation majors have passed China Education Professional Certification. There are 7 national specialty majors, comprehensive reform pilot majors, and excellence plan pilot majors. 13 of the “Double Ten Thousand Plan” national and provincial first-class majors are excellent resources. 1 shared course, 2 engineering practice education centers, 2 out-of-school practical education bases for colleges, 64 Ministry of Education-industry cooperation collaborative education programs, 181 college students innovation and entrepreneurship training programs; provincial specialties, comprehensive reform pilot programs, There are 27 pilot programs of excellence plan, 27 application-oriented demonstration programs, 13 first-class professional construction sites, 42 excellent courses (excellent open courses, excellent resource sharing courses, and excellent online open courses), 6 innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration courses, and application-oriented demonstration courses. There are 5 courses, 3 out-of-school practical education bases for college students, 4 teaching teams, 2 experimental areas for talent training model innovation, and 495 innovative training programs for college students. In the past two sessions, he has won 5 first prizes in education and teaching achievements in Sichuan Province. In the past five years, students have won 861 national discipline competition awards and 1,283 provincial awards. The average employment rate of school graduates is more than 95%. The student apartment work has won the first prize in the country. The student affairs service has formed a demonstration in the country. The school has established Zhanglan College, a top-notch training base for innovative talents. The School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship is the first batch of “Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship Course Experimental Centers” in the country. The school ranked 93rd in the list of China’s colleges and universities’ entrepreneurial competitiveness in 2019.

Chengdu University focuses on the strategic layout of major economic and social developments in the region, focusing on adapting to regional industrial clusters, key pillar industries and emerging industries, and continuously improving the level of scientific research services and support capabilities. There are currently 13 provincial and ministerial-level technology platforms. In the past five years, it has undertaken 12 national key R & D plans and major special projects, 125 other national projects, and 519 provincial and ministerial projects. In the past five years, the National Natural Science Foundation of China has established 85 projects, ranking among the top ten in Sichuan universities; in 2017, the National Social Science Foundation of China has established 10 projects, ranking in the sixth among Sichuan universities; in 2018, the National Arts Foundation of China has established 4 projects, ranking in the third among Sichuan universities. . From 2017 to 2018, the research funding for two consecutive years exceeded 100 million yuan. He obtained 92 provincial and ministerial level scientific research awards, including 2 national science and technology awards, 6 provincial and ministerial science and technology first prizes, and 1 National Philosophy and Social Science Achievement Library. SCI 1006 articles, CSSCI 407 articles, published 501 monographs, and obtained 797 patent authorizations. In the latest ranking of the Natural Index in 2019, it ranked 162th in universities nationwide and 823th in universities worldwide. Since 2014, Professor Wang Qingyuan has been included in the list of “Highly Cited Scholars” in China for five consecutive years, and he was awarded the second prize of the National Natural Science Award in 2018.

Chengdu University plans development with international standards and world perspectives, comprehensively promotes opening up to the outside world, fully deepens the integration of production, education, science and education, promotes the effective connection of talent training with the industrial chain and the innovation chain, and continuously improves the level of deep integration and coordinated development with the regional economy and society . The school has signed memorandums of cooperation with more than 80 colleges and universities abroad. A total of nearly 2,000 international students have been recruited, and nearly 40 students have come from the country of origin. There are more than 2,000 students in Chinese-foreign cooperative education programs, overseas joint training programs, and inter-school exchange programs. 34 overseas joint training programs covering multiple levels including undergraduate and master degree programs were launched. More than 300 foreign experts have come to work or give lectures, and have hired Princess Sirindhorn of Thailand as an honorary professor. The Confucius Institute was co-established with the University of New Hampshire in the United States to actively promote Chinese education and Chinese culture. It is the second university in the province to establish a Confucius Institute overseas. The third five-year agreement of the Confucius Institute was renewed in advance in July 2019, and was awarded the title of “Global Advanced Confucius Institute” in 2019. Through the cooperation and exchanges between the school and foreign universities, Chengdu has established an international sister city relationship with Chiang Mai, Thailand and Hamilton, New Zealand. In 2016, the school was elected as the Secretary-General of the “Chengdu International Sister Cities Universities Alliance”; in 2017, the “Thailand Research Center” was selected as the record list of the country and regional research centers of the Ministry of Education; in 2018, the specially-appointed Thai expert Guan Guoxing obtained a national foreign The highest honor award of experts-“Chinese Government Friendship Award”. The school has established strategic cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Xinhua III Group, and multiple districts (cities), counties, and municipal departments in Chengdu. It has established Chengdu Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Xinhua III IT College, and Chengdu. School of Journalism, Tianfu Cultural Research Institute, Chengdu Documentation Center, Chengdu Football Academy, Chengdu Research Institute, Chengdu Tourism Research Institute, Chengdu Metropolitan Exhibition Economic Development Research Institute, Chengdu Pharmaceutical Industry Technology Research Institute, etc. The school has the only child sports development research center in the country.

All faculty and staff of Chengdu University will be united and enterprising with full work enthusiasm and high spirits, adhere to the party’s leadership, adhere to the spirit of building people, implement the spirit of the National Education Conference, implement “based on” and accelerate the comprehensive reform. Further serve the construction of Chengdu’s world-famous city, accelerate the construction of Chengdu into an innovative university, an open university, and a window university, and make unremitting efforts for the early establishment of a distinctive and domestic first-class application-oriented city university!

 

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