Shantou University

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Shantou University

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Introduction to Shantou University

Shantou University (website) is a comprehensive university established in 1981 by the State Council. It is a high-school institution jointly established by the Ministry of Education, Guangdong Province and Li Ka Shing Foundation. It is also the only public university funded by private foundation in the world by the Li Ka Shing Foundation.

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The university has two campuses, the school headquarters and the medical school. The school headquarters is located in the North Road University Road, Shantou, a scenic coastal city; the medical school district is located in Xinling Road, Shantou City. The school covers an area of ??1991.55 acres and a building area of ??566,100 square meters. The campus is surrounded by mountains and waters, and its architectural style is elegant. It is known as the “flower of college buildings”. With the opportunity of the medical school to relocate the headquarters, the school will cooperate with the construction of the “Central Park” of the future university campus, actively promote the construction of new stadiums, and create a campus environment suitable for research, study and life.

The construction and development of the school has been greatly supported by the central and local governments and the internationally renowned entrepreneur and charity philanthropist Mr. Li Ka-shing. Comrade Jiang Zemin visited the two major inspectors and personally wrote the inscription “Right and Long Way” to Jiayu; Hu Jintao, Li Peng, Qiao Shi, Li Ruihuan, Li Lanqing and other party and state leaders also visited the school to guide the school. The Li Ka Shing Foundation’s support for Shantou University exceeded HK$10 billion. Not only that, Mr. Li Ka-shing also devoted a lot of efforts to the construction and development of Shantou University, fully demonstrating Li Ka-shing’s noble feelings of “blessing the mulberry” and his firm belief in the importance of the national education cause. The adults have lived up to the ardent expectations of the leaders at the central and local levels and Mr. Li Ka-shing. After 30 years of hard work, they have laid a good foundation for sustainable development, achieved rapid development by leaps and bounds, and created a good environment for cultivating quality talents.

There are 1 national key disciplines, and there are special positions for “Changjiang Scholars”, 5 post-doctoral research stations, 3 first-level doctoral degree programs, and 14 first-level master degree programs, including first-level disciplines. With the number of points covered, our school has a total of 39 doctoral degree programs for secondary disciplines and 94 master degree programs for secondary disciplines. There are 11 master’s degree programs. 4 key construction disciplines in high-level universities in Guangdong Province (clinical medicine, chemistry, marine science, mathematics); 8 key disciplines in Guangdong Province (including 1 key discipline of climbing peaks: basic mathematics; 5 key disciplines: chemical and mechanical design) And theory, clinical medicine, basic medicine, biology; 2 key disciplines: marine biology, pharmacology), 1 key laboratory of the Ministry of Education, 1 international cooperation laboratory of the Ministry of Education, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory 6 There are 3 international science and technology cooperation bases in Guangdong Province, 3 key laboratories of universities in Guangdong Province, 3 key laboratories of Guangdong Provincial Health Department, 1 science and technology innovation platform of key industries in Guangdong Province, and 8 engineering technology research centers in Guangdong Province. There are 4 demonstration bases for production, study and research in colleges and universities, 3 engineering technology research centers in Guangdong Province, 6 international cooperation platforms for Guangdong universities, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and 2 key research bases for humanities and social sciences in Guangdong Province. The Ministry of Education (national level) 1 experimental teaching demonstration center, 15 experimental teaching demonstration centers in Guangdong Province, and 2 innovative experimental areas in the Ministry of Education 2007 10 provincial-level talent training model innovation experimental areas, 7 national-level specialty construction points (business administration, art design, law, clinical medicine, mechanical design and manufacturing and automation, civil engineering, radio and television journalism), provincial level There are 14 specialty construction points, 4 quality courses of the Ministry of Education (national level), 2 bilingual education demonstration courses of the Ministry of Education (National), 1 teaching team of the Ministry of Education (national level), and 4 professional brand of Guangdong Province. Information Engineering, Computer Science and Technology, Clinical Medicine, Business Administration), 4 key disciplines in Guangdong Province (Clinical Medicine, Civil Engineering, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Mechanical Design, Manufacturing and Automation), and the establishment of “5+3” integration training The model of clinical medicine has formed a complete talent training system from undergraduate to doctoral students. There are 11,123 full-time students enrolled in the school, and more than 120,000 talents have been trained for the society. There are liberal arts colleges, science colleges, engineering colleges, medical schools, law schools, business schools, Yangtze River Art and Design College, Yangtze River News and Communication College, Marxism College, International College, Graduate School and Continuing Education College. (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions) recruiting doctors, masters and undergraduates.

Shantou University has established a number of scientific research institutions that can carry out basic scientific research and directly serve local economic construction, mainly including the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing Technology, the National Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, and the Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology. Key Laboratory of Digital Signal and Image Processing Technology, Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology, Key Laboratory of Structure and Wind Tunnel, Local Government Development Research Institute, and Guangdong-Taiwan Enterprise Cooperation Research Institute. The library is fully computerized and dedicated to building a modern digital library. The existing books are 167,055, and the e-books are 338,876.

Shantou University campus network was founded in 1990. After the special investment of 211 project construction, the campus network has been extended to every building in the school. Students can directly access the Internet from the dormitory. The medical school has five affiliated hospitals and five managed hospitals, with 6,491 beds, of which the first affiliated hospitals hosted 8 community health service centers, forming a “cross-administrative affiliation, cross-asset ownership, covering first-tier to third-level medical institutions. The close-knit medical association”; ranked eighth in the “2017 China Top-level City Hospital Competitiveness Top 100”, and was selected as the first batch of key construction units in the “Dengfeng Plan” for the construction of high-level hospitals in Guangdong Province; Hospitals and “three-level hospitals” provide good medical practice opportunities for medical students. The teaching and research laboratory equipment of the whole school is at the advanced level of domestic universities.

International Cooperation

The university made full use of the funds and overseas relations of the Li Ka Shing Foundation to strengthen academic exchanges and cooperation, and the academic exchange activities were active. Many well-known scholars from top universities at home and abroad visit schools to offer courses or lectures for undergraduate students and broaden their academic horizons. Nobel laureates Yang Zhenning, Li Zhengdao, Ding Yuzhong, James Morris, Mo Yan, and a group of world-class masters such as Qiu Chengtong and Pan Yigang, some famous scientists from world-class universities such as Cambridge University and Berkeley University of California were hired as honors of our school. , guest or part-time professor, and come to the school to give lectures. Our school has established close academic exchanges and cooperation with nearly 20 universities in the United States, Britain, France, Japan, Russia, Australia, Germany and other countries, and has developed and implemented undergraduate and postgraduate exchange programs.

Shantou University focuses on the goal of “achieving, knowledgeable, persevering and promising” and adheres to the student-centered approach, reforming the university management system and innovating the talent training model. Since 2001, the school has launched an internationalization-oriented reform project, hired foreign talents as vice presidents and deans, and promoted a series of reform projects. It was highly praised by Comrade Li Lanqing as “the experimental field of Chinese university reform.” In 2012, the Ministry of Education, Guangdong Province and Li Ka Shing Foundation decided to jointly build Shantou University, support Shantou University to continue to deepen reform, and build a school with excellent education quality, advanced system and mechanism, distinctive international characteristics, and serve the country and local economy and society. Demand, training high-level universities with distinctive innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurial talents.

Shantou University in the 21st century is committed to building a modern higher education institution with all characteristics, internationalization and attention. It continues to be at the forefront of higher education reform, opening up a “different road to school” for China and providing students with “different Learning experience”, giving the society a “different feelings of moving”

 

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