Hunan University of Arts and Sciences is a full-time general undergraduate institution sponsored by the People's Government of Hunan Province. It is located in Changde City, Hunan Province, the "City in the Land of Peach Blossoms". The school began as Changde Normal College founded in 1958 (named the National Excellent Teachers College in 1988). In 1999, it was upgraded to an undergraduate college and named Changde Normal College. In 2003, it changed its name to its current name. The school has brought together the subject and professional advantages of six schools, including Changde Normal College, Changde College, Changde Branch of Hunan Agricultural College, Changde Education College, Changde Art School, and Changde Urban and Rural Construction Vocational and Technical School. So far, it has 66 Years of higher education history. The school has distinctive features in normal education and agricultural sciences, and is known as the "cradle of teachers and agricultural wisdom bank in northwestern Hunan". It has provided a large number of famous basic education experts and core teachers to northwestern Hunan, and trained a large number of agricultural and rural administration managers for Hunan Province and surrounding areas. Backbone and technical talents provide important high-quality talents and technical support for Hunan's basic education and high-quality development of agriculture and rural areas. In 2016, the school was identified as a national “Industry-education Integration Engineering Applied Undergraduate Planning University”. In 2017, it was identified as a new master’s degree awarding project construction unit. In 2018, it was identified as a “Double First-Class” high-level applied characteristic college in Hunan Province. It is a "National Model Employees' Home", "Hunan Province Civilized Model Unit", Hunan Province "Three Whole Education" comprehensive reform pilot university, "Hunan Province Advanced University in the Construction of Modern University System", etc. Starting from 2020, the school will be transferred to a batch of undergraduate colleges and universities in Hunan Province. The school is rich in educational resources. It covers an area of more than 2,000 acres, with a total school building area of more than 683,300 square meters, a teaching space of more than 297,500 square meters, and a laboratory area of more than 152,500 square meters. At present, the total value of teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment is 348 million yuan, and the library has a collection of more than 2.53 million paper books and 2.26 million kinds of electronic books (more than 3.05 million volumes). The school has a complete range of disciplines, covering eleven major disciplines: liberal arts, science, engineering, agriculture, history, law, economics, management, teaching, arts, and medicine. It currently has 18 teaching colleges, 1 independent college, and 69 undergraduate majors. The school recruits students from 31 provinces and municipalities across the country, and currently has more than 28,000 full-time undergraduate students (including independent colleges). There are many highlights in the school’s party building work. In the evaluation and evaluation of the work report of party committee secretaries of colleges and universities across the province to focus on grassroots party building, the comprehensive evaluation received "good" grades for two consecutive years in 2021 and 2022. At present, one national-level party-building "benchmark department" and "model branch" have been cultivated and created; three provincial-level party-building "benchmark departments" and "model branches" each; four school-level party-building "benchmark departments" and "model branches" have been cultivated and created. There are 13 branches, forming a three-level linkage cultivation mechanism of “national-provincial-school”. The school party committee implemented the strategic deployment of rural revitalization and took the lead in completing the blue book of the "China Education Poverty Alleviation Report (2020-2021)" (Hunan Volume) and the "China Education Development and Rural Revitalization Report (2022)" (Hunan Volume) blue book, and was awarded "Outstanding Contribution Award". The school has a strong teaching staff. There are currently 1,550 faculty members, including 1,205 full-time teachers, 149 professors, and 470 doctors. It has more than 120 provincial and ministerial talent project candidates such as National Outstanding Youth, State Council Government Special Allowance Experts, National Ten Thousand Talents Plan Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Leading Talents, Ministry of Education New Century Excellent Talent Support Program, Furong Scholars, etc.; it has 1 national-level teaching team , 10 provincial teaching and scientific research teams, with 1 deputy director of the National Educational Steering Committee and 2 deputy directors of the Hunan Provincial Educational Steering Committee. The school’s talent training has achieved remarkable results. In recent years, it has won 1 "New Liberal Arts" project from the Ministry of Education, 5 provincial "New Liberal Arts", "New Engineering" and "New Agricultural Sciences" projects; it has won 23 provincial teaching achievement awards, including 3 first prizes, 6 second prizes; more than 280 teaching reform projects of the Provincial Department of Education were established. There are currently 5 national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 2 national reform pilot majors and 24 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites. There are 7 provincial-level applied specialty disciplines. 1 national quality course and 1 quality resource sharing course, and 14 provincial quality courses have been established; 5 national first-class undergraduate courses and 67 provincial first-class courses have been established; 1 provincial-level ideological and political teaching research demonstration center has been established, and 1 provincial-level ideological and political teaching research demonstration center has been established. There is one “golden course” on ideological and political education and two provincial-level ideological and political demonstration courses. It has been awarded by the Ministry of Education as "National University with Typical Experience in Graduate Employment", "National Advanced Unit for Entrepreneurship Education Research and Practice in Colleges and Universities", "National University with Characteristic Typical Experience in Deepening Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform", and has been rated as "Hunan Province College Graduate" many times. "Excellent engineering unit with top job in employment". The school reform experience "Hunan University of Arts and Sciences: Cultivating Applied Talents for Market Demand" was selected into the "Education System Reform Brief" edited by the National Education System Reform Leading Group, and was promoted to national experience. The number of school platform bases is sufficient. It has been approved as a national university student cultural quality education base, a national school-enterprise cooperation talent training base, a national meteorological science popularization education base, and a fish health breeding sub-center of the National Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fish Developmental Biology. It has two provincial-level "2011" collaborative innovation centers "Construction and Development of Dongting Lake Ecological Economic Zone" and "Efficient and Healthy Production of Aquatic Products", 7 provincial-level key laboratories including "Molecular Immunity Technology for Important Aquatic Animal Diseases", "Aquatic Biology 4 provincial engineering research centers such as "Resources and Environmental Ecology", 8 provincial social science research bases such as "Regional Development around Dongting Lake", as well as other provincial and ministerial level teaching and scientific research such as the Hunan Provincial Intellectual Property Center and the Provincial Demonstration Laboratory There are nearly 100 platforms. The scientific research level of the school has been steadily improved. In the past five years, it has undertaken more than 100 national-level scientific research projects, including major projects commissioned by the National Social Science Fund; published more than 5,000 scientific research papers, including nearly 1,200 included in SCI, SSCI, EI, CSSCI, and CSCD; and has published academic He has published more than 300 books, including 105 published by national publishing houses; he has won 28 scientific and technological achievement awards at the provincial and ministerial levels and above, including 1 International Platinum Award, 2 first-class provincial and ministerial-level awards, and the first-class China Invention and Entrepreneurship Award. 1 award; more than 1,500 authorized invention and software production patents. Adhere to the cooperation between schools, local schools and enterprises to serve the beautiful blueprint of "three highs and four new". The brand effect of "Professor and Doctor Yuanli" has been continuously highlighted, delivering technology and services to more than 200 local companies, creating a new model for universities to serve local areas. It has signed strategic cooperation agreements with more than 500 enterprises including local governments and CRRC Corporation, carried out extensive cooperation, accepted more than 1,000 commissioned projects, and solved many technical problems. The school’s international cooperation continues to expand. It has established cooperation and exchange relationships with 72 universities in 20 countries and regions, including the United States, Britain, Germany, Australia, Poland, Japan, and South Korea, to carry out teacher-student exchanges, teaching and scientific research cooperation, and has also cooperated with the University of Fraser Valley in Canada and Colorado State University Pueblo in the United States and Mowon University in South Korea hold three Sino-foreign cooperative education projects for undergraduate majors. Our school began recruiting international students in 2004 and has enrolled more than 400 international students from 35 countries. In May 2021, the school held its fourth Party Congress and determined its development ideas for the next five years, namely, focusing on one goal: building a domestic first-class application-oriented university with distinctive characteristics; based on two major strategies: "Strengthening the School with Talents" strategy, the strategy of “strengthening the school by disciplines”; achieving three major breakthroughs: breakthroughs in master’s degree-granting units, breakthroughs in national landmark achievements, and breakthroughs in the setting of medical majors; adhering to four major developments: “transformation development”, “connotation development” and “characteristic development” "Open Development"; implement five major projects: Party Building Leading Project, Governance System and Governance Capacity Modernization Project, Teachers and Students Comprehensive Quality Improvement Project, Social Service Capacity Improvement Project, Teachers and Students Happiness Improvement Project; create six liberal arts: "Demonstration Liberal Arts" "Vibrant Arts and Sciences", "First-class Arts and Sciences", "Excellent Arts and Sciences", "Open Arts and Sciences" and "Happy Arts and Sciences". After sixty-six years of development, the school has condensed the school motto of "Education and Promoting Literature, Understanding Reason and Seeking Truth" and formed a school spirit of "Advocating kindness, knowledge and practice, loving the country, loving the school and loving people". At present, the school is making steady progress towards the goal of building a first-class domestic application-oriented university with distinctive characteristics.
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