Nantong University
Introduction to Nantong University
Nantong University (website) is a comprehensive university with a history of 100 years. It provides a complete range of disciplines including literature, science, engineering, medicine, pedagogy, economics, law, history, and administration. It is composed of twenty-six schools, having in all 85 undergraduate programs, 105 master’s programs and 1 joint Ph. D program. The university is honored with the candidate for the national key discipline, provincial key disciplines, provincial key constructing disciplines, provincial service platform for public technology, provincial engineering center, provincial key medical discipline etc. The university presently has 34,000 full-time students, including over 1400 students studying for Ph.D. degree and Master’s degree and around 300 international students. The university now has around 2,200 full-time teachers, including more than 990 professors and associate professors. The university undertakes hundreds of research items under projects including National 973 Project, 863 Project, National Science and Social Science Fund Project.
The university is expanding its international academic exchange and cooperations, such as faculty and student exchange programs, research cooperation programs, joint education programs and so on, with many universities and research institutes in Britain, the USA, Germany, Canada, Australia, Japan, Korea and other countries. Each year, there are 20 foreign experts working in the university.
With four beautiful campuses, Nantong University offers an excellent study environment and convenient living facilities. The university places its emphasis on training applied talents. All specialties, especially clinical medicine, Chinese language and culture, and business and management, are available for international students with qualified teaching staff and facilities. NTU is one of the excellent universities which can recruit MBBS students taught in English approved by Ministry of Education of P.R.C.. In the field of Chinese language and culture, the master and bachelor degree programs are available. The university has cooperated with different international organizations to open training courses for international students, who always give high praise to the excellent teaching and high-quality services of the university. The university also welcomes international student to join in the business and management program of the university. The relevant colleges have many faculties who got their degrees from foreign universities and have established close links with some world famous companies.
Since 2010, excellent applicants from foreign countries can apply for “Jasmine Jiangsu Government Scholarship”. Close to Shanghai and located in Nantong, a beautiful coastal city with rich cultural heritage and plenty of humane scenery, Nantong University is a good place for international students to obtain knowledge and skills, a good place to learn Chinese language and culture, and a good place to fulfill their dreams.
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About Nantong
Nantong is a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu province, China. Located on the northern bank of the Yangtze River, near the river mouth. Nantong is a vital river port bordering Yancheng to the north, Taizhou to the west, Suzhou and Shanghai to the south across the river, and the East China Sea to the east. Its current population is 7,282,835 at the 2010 census, 1,994,708 of whom live in the built-up area made up of 3 urban districts.
In September 26, 2004, the first World Metropolitan Development Forum was held in Nantong. In 2005, Nantong had a GDP growth of 15.4%, the highest growth rate in Jiangsu province, and in 2016 Nantong’s GDP had a total of about 675 billion yuan, ranking the 21st in the whole country.
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The Hao River, known as the Emerald Necklace of Nantong, surrounds the city with a total length of 15 km (9.3 mi). Most city scenery lines this river. Popular tourist sites include Langshan (“Wolf hill”), which is around 110 meters high. On top of the hill is a Buddhist temple dedicated to a Song dynasty monk. Because of the monk’s legendary powers over water demons, sailors pray to him for protection on their voyages. The Cao Gong Zhu Memorial Temple commemorates a local hero who defended the city against Japanese pirates in 1557.
Shuihuiyuang Garden, meaning Water Garden, is unique of all Chinese classical gardens due its creation in the Hui style. It includes the tombs of several notable people, such as Luo Binwang, a famous poet of Tang Dynasty; Wen Tianxiang, the national hero of Nansong Dynasty; Zhangjian, the number one scholar of the late Qing Dynasty who was a modern industrialist and supporter of education.
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