Chuzhou University is located between Jianghuai in eastern Anhui. Chuzhou City, where the school is located, is the central city of Nanjing Metropolitan Circle and Hefei Economic Circle, and is also one of the core cities of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta. It is known as the "key to Jinling and the guarantee of Jianghuai". It has beautiful mountains and rivers and rich cultural heritage. Ouyang Xiu of the Northern Song Dynasty left behind the famous "Drunken Pavilion". Xiaogang Village in Fengyang County under its jurisdiction is one of the important birthplaces of China's rural reform. The predecessor of the school was Chuzhou Normal School in Northern Anhui, which was founded in 1950. It has gone through the stages of Chuxian Normal School and Chuxian Teaching Point (branch) of Anhui Normal University; in 1980, it was renamed Chuzhou Normal College, and in 2004, it was upgraded and named Chuzhou University with the approval of the Ministry of Education. In 2014, it was identified as a construction school of "Anhui Provincial Local Applied High-level University". In 2017, it accepted the review and evaluation of undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education in a good state. In 2021, it was listed as a key project construction master's degree awarding unit in Anhui Province. The university currently has two campuses, Huifeng and Langya, both of which are adjacent to the Langya Mountain Scenic Area, a national 5A-level scenic spot, and integrated with the Langya Mountain National Forest Park. The mountains and rivers are interdependent and the environment is beautiful. It is an ideal place for teaching and scientific research. The school covers an area of 1,647.8 acres, with a school building area of 484,000 square meters. The teaching and scientific research equipment is worth 380 million yuan, and the library has 1.4005 million paper books and 1.5751 million electronic books. There are 15 secondary colleges and 62 undergraduate majors. There are 17,301 full-time undergraduate students, 282 full-time master's students in joint training, and 20,196 students in adult higher education and continuing education. There are 1,371 faculty and staff, including 1,058 full-time teachers, 350 senior professional titles, and 389 doctors. There are 60 teachers, including members of the Professional Teaching Guidance Committee of Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education, experts with special allowances from the State Council, national outstanding teachers, advanced workers in Anhui Province, academic and technical leaders in Anhui Province, and the most beautiful teachers in Anhui Province. In the practice of running schools for many years, the school has established the school motto of "cultivating morality and seeking truth, being erudite and practicing", accumulated the university spirit of "thinking about change and advocating innovation, being pragmatic and seeking truth", and forged a quality culture of "pursuing excellence and striving for excellence", formed a school spirit of "loving the country and honoring the school, respecting learning and respecting the truth", a teaching style of "being erudite and good at guiding, being dedicated to work and loving students", and a style of study of "diligent learning and thinking, unity of knowledge and action", adhered to the school-running positioning of "local, application-oriented, open, and information-based", and explored a development path of "transforming from a normal college to a multi-disciplinary application-oriented undergraduate". The school is a "National Civilized Campus", "National Model Unit for Greening", "National University with Typical Experience in Innovation and Entrepreneurship", "National Demonstration University for Deepening Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform", "National College Graduate Employment Capacity Training Base", the first batch of party building demonstration universities in Anhui Province, the first batch of law-based school demonstration schools, "three-dimensional education" comprehensive reform pilot universities, curriculum ideological and political construction pioneer universities, education informatization pilot universities, employment advanced collectives, conscription advanced units, foreign affairs advanced units, etc. The Central Propaganda Department's "Party Building" magazine and "China Education Daily" reported on the school's party building and career development achievements. The school strengthens the party's overall leadership, fully implements the party's education policy, adheres to the socialist direction of running schools, implements the fundamental task of cultivating people with moral integrity, and adheres to educating people for the party and the country. It has been approved as "National Party Building Model Branch", "Anhui Province Party Building Benchmarking Colleges and Departments", "Anhui Province Party Building Model Branch", "Anhui Province Grassroots Ideological and Political Work Demonstration Point", and won the title of "National Model Workers' Home", "National Education System Caring for the Next Generation Work Advanced Collective", "National Outstanding Overseas Chinese Home" and other titles. Summer social practice work has been recognized nationwide for nine consecutive years, and advanced models such as "National Outstanding Communist Youth League Cadre", "China University Student Self-improvement Star", "China University Student Annual Person Finalist Award", "Moving China Candidate", "National Rural Moral Model", "China Good People", "Anhui Good People", and "Anhui Youth May Fourth Medal" have emerged. Focusing on local pillar industries and strategic emerging industries, the school has formed an applied discipline and professional system with "industry management as the main, multi-disciplinary coordination, application-oriented, and information-oriented". Three majors, Internet of Things Engineering, Geographic Information Science, and Food Quality and Safety, have been successfully selected as national first-class undergraduate professional construction sites. 17 majors, including surveying and mapping engineering, have been identified as provincial first-class undergraduate professional construction sites. There are 11 provincial characteristic (brand) majors and 12 provincial professional comprehensive reform pilots. The number of first-class undergraduate professional construction sites ranks among the top similar universities in the province. Starting from 2023, 17 national and provincial first-class majors will be included in the first batch of undergraduate admissions. 4 courses have been approved as national first-class courses. It has 21 provincial scientific research platforms, including the National Excellent Traditional Chinese Culture (Fengyang Flower Drum) Inheritance Base for General Colleges and Universities, the Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Real Geographic Environment, the Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Philosophy and Social Sciences for Digital Technology and Rural Revitalization, and the Anhui Provincial New Industry Common Technology Research Center. "Geography" was approved as a domestic first-class discipline (Class B) in the "Double First-Class" construction of Anhui Province, and was selected as a Class III peak discipline in Anhui Province's colleges and universities. "Electronic Information" and "Biology and Medicine" were selected as applied peak cultivation disciplines in Anhui Province. It has won 24 provincial (ministerial) scientific and technological achievement awards. The school insists on talent training as the center, deeply implements the concept of "student-centered, output-oriented, and continuous improvement", explores the talent training model of "transformation as the basis, practice as the key, and dual innovation as the core", deepens the "three-in-one" education and teaching reform, and forms the characteristics of innovative and entrepreneurial education of "one line through, three points of effort". It has been approved for 1 second prize of national teaching achievements, 4 special prizes of Anhui Province teaching achievements, 29 "four new" projects of the Ministry of Education and Anhui Province, and 2 "101 Plan" projects. There are 7 provincial modern industrial colleges, 16 demonstration experimental training centers, virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, and college student maker laboratories. Since 2017, the school has been approved for 558 quality engineering projects at or above the provincial level; 497 national college student innovation and entrepreneurship training program projects; in various subject competitions and innovation and entrepreneurship competitions, it has won 708 national awards and 6,856 provincial awards; the school ranks 18th in the "2019-2023 National New Undergraduate College Student Competition Ranking" of the Higher Education Society. Outstanding alumni such as winners of the "National Outstanding Youth Science Fund" and the "National May 1st Labor Medal" have emerged. The school strengthens organized scientific research, innovates service mechanisms, and continuously improves its scientific and technological service capabilities. Deepen in-depth cooperation and integrated development with the Chuzhou Municipal People's Government. The Chuzhou Municipal People's Government and the school signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement to support Chuzhou College in establishing Chuzhou University, and established substantive cooperation with large and medium-sized enterprises such as Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Konka Group, and Quanchai Group. Since the 14th Five-Year Plan, 19 new national fund projects and 325 provincial (ministerial) scientific research projects have been added. 556 national patents have been approved and 26 invention patents have been transferred. The school has been selected in the top 100 invention patents in Anhui Province for seven consecutive years since 2017. Jointly build a sub-center for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, carry out "one institute and one town" pairing cooperation to promote school-local integration; select teachers to serve as "dual chain integration commissioners" in Anhui Province, serve as "deputy general managers of science and technology" in enterprises, and form a "deputy general group of science and technology" to help industrial development; and jointly build an agricultural "science and technology courtyard" with local governments to help rural revitalization. The funds received for science and technology continue to increase significantly, exceeding 80 million yuan in 2023, and the total amount ranks among the top universities of the same type in Anhui Province. The school adheres to open education and conducts exchanges and cooperation with 37 universities, enterprises and scientific research institutions in the United States, Britain, Germany, Russia, Serbia, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and other countries and Taiwan. Cooperate with Assumption University in Thailand to organize the Ministry of Education's Sino-foreign cooperative education "Electrical Engineering and Automation" undergraduate education project. The Anhui Provincial Bridge Structure Data Diagnosis and Intelligent Operation and Maintenance International Joint Research Center has been established. It has hosted the fourth "International Academic Seminar on Low-temperature Processing of Foods" and undertaken the online winter (summer) camp series of activities of the Chinese Overseas Chinese Federation "Family China·Telling Stories for You". It has held the tenth "Anhui-Taiwan Internet of Things Seminar" and has become a brand of educational exchange and cooperation between Anhui and Taiwan. The school was approved as the "Anhui Province Taiwan Exchange Base". Strengthen exchanges with well-known domestic applied universities and share resources with applied alliance universities in the province. The Chuzhou College Education Development Foundation was established to build a link and bridge for cooperation and exchanges between the school and all sectors of society. Forge ahead on a new journey and make contributions to the new era. The school adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implements the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, conscientiously implements the spirit of the Fourth Party Congress of the school, comprehensively strengthens connotation construction, deeply promotes transformation and upgrading, and strives to build the school into a well-known domestic, first-class provincial, distinctive local applied high-level university! (Updated in April 2024)
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