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Donghua University

Introduction to Donghua University

Donghua University (website) is directly under the Ministry of Education, the national “211 Project”, and the country’s “double-class” first-class disciplines. After nearly 70 years of construction and development, the school has developed from a textile and academy college at the beginning of the school to a national key with a focus on work, coordinated development of engineering, management, management, literature and art. the University. Guided by Xi Jinping’s new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the school firmly implements the party’s and state’s educational policies, thoroughly implements the spirit of the National Education Conference, and bases on the virtues of the people, and independently carries out personnel training, scientific research, social services, and cultural heritage. Innovation, international cooperation and exchanges provide talent and technology support for the economic construction and social development of the country and Shanghai.

Campus

The university is located in Shanghai, China, and currently has Songjiang Campus, Yan’an Road Campus and Xinhua Road Campus. It covers an area of nearly 2,000 acres and has a total construction area of 780,000 square meters. The campus environment is pleasant and it is the “Shanghai Garden Unit”. Founded in 1951, the school was named East China Textile Engineering Institute and the first textile higher education institution in New China. In 1960, it was identified as a national key university by the Ministry of Education. It is one of the first universities in China to have a doctoral, master’s or bachelor’s degree. In 1985, the school was renamed China Textile University. In 1995, it entered the national “211 Project” key construction ranks. In 1999, it was renamed Donghua University.

The University now has a textile academy, academy of clothing and art design, Rising Sun Business School, School of Mechanical Engineering, School of Information Science and Technology, School of Computer Science and Technology, School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Environmental Science and School of Engineering, School of Humanities, School of Science, School of Foreign Languages, School of Marxism, Shanghai International Fashion and Creative College, International Cultural Exchange College, College of Continuing Education and Sports Department. The school has 6 post-doctoral mobile stations, 10 first-level doctoral programs, 2 doctoral degree authorization categories, 28 first-level master’s degree programs, 17 professional degree master’s degree programs, 55 undergraduate majors, and subjects related to engineering and science. Wait for nine subject categories. There are 1 national key disciplines of first-level disciplines, 5 national key disciplines of secondary disciplines, 1 national key (cultivation) discipline, 7 Shanghai first-class disciplines, 1 Shanghai university college-class peak discipline, and 1 national key. Laboratory, 1 national engineering technology research center, 19 provincial and ministerial level scientific research platforms, 2 national “111” intelligence bases and National University Science Park. There are nearly 30,000 students in the school, including 14,204 undergraduates and 6,822 graduate students, including 1045 doctoral students, 2,023 adult education students, and 4,827 international students (1,141 international students). The school has a total of 2,209 faculty members and 1,336 full-time teachers, including more than 900 senior professional titles such as full-time academicians, thousands of people, Changjiang scholars (including lecture professors), and national outstanding youth fund winners.

The university adheres to the school-running philosophy of “taking the students’ all-round development and talents as the center”, adhering to the motto of “Chongde erudition, ambition and truthfulness” and the excellent school spirit of “rigorous, diligent, realistic and innovative”. “Three-round education”, cultivate high-quality talents with broad foundation, strong practical ability, innovative spirit and social responsibility. Guided by quality improvement, the school deepens the reform of education and teaching, innovates the talent training model, builds an experimental class of top-notch innovative talents, and builds a training system for undergraduates’ “layered teaching, diversion training, multi-talented talents, and talented people”. The school has established three national-level engineering practice education centers, and has been selected into more than 50 national-level projects such as national teaching masters, teaching teams, and specialty majors. In 2018, he won 4 national teaching achievement awards and was selected into the first batch of “National University Huangdaian Teacher Team”. He was selected into 4 new engineering construction projects of the Ministry of Education. 6 majors passed the national engineering education professional certification and carried out professional independent certification. Postgraduate education implements a multi-selection system such as “long-term training, master-study, application-assessment, and open recruitment”, adheres to the “integration of talents in this masterpiece”, and vigorously develops professional degree graduate education. The Engineer Education and Training Program was awarded the “National Engineering Master’s Degree Education Innovation Institution”, and was awarded 2 national joint ventures for graduate students in engineering engineering and 4 outstanding masters in engineering practice. Donghua students have achieved great success in major international competitions such as the International College Student Programming Competition, the IF and Red Dot International Design Competition, the World Wearable Art Design Competition, the Challenge Cup Chinese College Students Business Plan Competition, and the World University Games. Since 2015, students have won 41 national championships in men’s and women’s football, track and field, rock climbing, sports dance, shooting and other competitions. The school has entered the top 20 of the “China University Sports Competition List”. The women’s football team won the qualification of the Chinese college women’s football team in the World University Games, and in 2018 won the first Chinese University Football League championship and the first Asian College Sports Federation Asian Cup football runner-up. For two consecutive years, the school has held a sports cultural exchange activity between Chinese and French under the Sino-French senior exchange of other people. The school promoted the dual-innovation education in an all-round way. The first batch was selected by the Ministry of Education for the “National College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Activity Plan”, which was selected into the national university practice education innovation and entrepreneurship base, the national deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform characteristic typical experience colleges and universities, “Shang Chuanghui” Into the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2017, the national-level creation space, won the “national advanced college graduate employment advanced collective”, “national graduate employment typical experience colleges and universities”, the national innovation and entrepreneurship typical experience of the top 50 universities and other honorary titles. Yiban workstation was selected as one of the top ten easy-to-work workstations in colleges and universities nationwide.

In 2017, the university was selected as a “double-class” building university, and the discipline of construction was textile science and engineering. In recent years, the school has continued to build a new pattern of disciplines with textiles as “one body”, materials and design as “two wings” and innovative disciplines as “engines”. In the fourth round of national assessments in 2017, textile science and engineering were awarded A+, which continued to be among the best, with 8 disciplines in the top 30%. The Textile Science and Engineering Class I peak discipline was well received in the performance evaluation of the first phase of the Shanghai University’s peak plateau discipline. Ranked 4 (1 engineering, chemistry, materials science, computer science) in the top 1% of ESI World. The MBA education passed the AMBA certification and ranked 11th in the “China’s Most Influential MBA Ranking”. Since the new century, it has won 28 National Natural Science Awards, National Invention Awards and National Science and Technology Progress Awards. In recent years, it has undertaken 8 national key R&D projects, more than 5,000 production, research and research cooperation projects, and the number of international patent grants and university invention patents. The amount of patents and effective invention patents ranks among the best in higher education institutions. A large number of scientific research results are widely used in aerospace, defense and military, major construction projects, environmental protection and other fields to contribute to the service of major national strategies.

International Cooperation

The school actively promotes the opening up of education in the new era and has established good cooperative relations with more than 100 well-known universities, research institutions and enterprises around the world. In 2010, the school was approved by the Ministry of Education “20+20 Cooperation Program for Chinese and African Universities”, and established the first Confucius Institute at Moi University with Moi University in Kenya. The school continued to carry out Chinese-English cultural exchanges, and the Shanghai Fashion Cheongsam was unveiled for three consecutive years at the Edinburgh Festival. The school cooperates with Carleton University of Canada, Lauterlingen University of Applied Sciences, and Japanese-Japanese Chemical Park. Among them, the undergraduate education program of art design held in cooperation with Nikko Chemical Park was awarded “Shanghai Model Sino-foreign Cooperation School”. Project”; signed a student exchange agreement with 35 schools including Columbia University. The school actively promoted international academic exchanges and held high-level international academic conferences such as the China-UK Fashion Forum, the 20th International Federation of Fashion Colleges (IFFTI) and the first big data-driven intelligent manufacturing academic forum, striving to create a “global vision”. Multicultural” campus environment. In 2018, the school successfully hosted the World Textile and Apparel Education Conference, and established the “Belt and Road” World Textile University Alliance with 33 textile universities in 18 countries. It is currently the country with the highest number of participating universities and the highest coverage rate along the “Belt and Road” countries. World Textile University Joint Organization. The school actively promotes the construction of alumni associations, foundations and school councils, and gathers strength to promote development.

Facing the future, Donghua University will thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, aiming at the strategic needs of the country and Shanghai, “rooting China, blending Chinese and foreign, basing on the times and facing the future”, and comprehensively strengthening the “double first-class” construction, to achieve The goal of “a domestic first-class, internationally influential, high-level university with characteristics” is unremitting struggle!

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