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Nantong University
China

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Official website: http://www.ntu.edu.cn
Tel：0513-85012170
Address：No. 9, Seyuan Road, Chongchuan District, Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, No. 19, Qixiu Road, Chongchuan District, Nantong City, Jiangsu Province
Nantong University was founded in 1912. It originated from the private Nantong Medical School and Nantong Textile School founded by Mr. Zhang Jian, a famous modern industrialist and educator. In 2004, the former Nantong Medical College, Nantong Institute of Technology and Nantong Normal College merged to form the new Nantong University. The school is a comprehensive university jointly built by the People's Government of Jiangsu Province and the Ministry of Transport, and is a university under the Jiangsu High-level University Construction Peak Plan. The school's comprehensive strength ranks 102nd in the "2023 China University Evaluation", 76th in the Nature Index ranking among mainland universities, and 113th in the ESI ranking of mainland universities. For more than a century, the school has been adhering to the school motto of "praying for the integration of Chinese and Western cultures and striving for excellence", the school philosophy of "learning must be used, and use must be suitable for the local area", and the value pursuit of "moral excellence and academic purity". It has been forging ahead and forging ahead. It has now become a local comprehensive university with a reasonable scale and structure, a complete range of disciplines, excellent teaching quality and obvious school benefits. Since the resumption of the college entrance examination in 1977, a total of 3 undergraduate graduates have been selected as academicians of the two academies, ranking 35th among universities in China. The school has 24 colleges, 1 independent college (Xinglin College), 1 directly affiliated large-scale comprehensive tertiary-level Class A hospital (Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University), International Education College, and Continuing Education College. It has 3 postdoctoral mobile stations in basic medicine, clinical medicine, and information and communication engineering, 5 first-level doctoral programs in basic medicine, clinical medicine, information and communication engineering, public health and preventive medicine, and special medicine, 22 first-level master's programs, and 22 master's professional degree programs. 9 disciplines including clinical medicine, neuroscience and behavior, engineering, pharmacology and toxicology, biology and biochemistry, chemistry, materials science, molecular biology and genetics, and computer science are among the top 1% of ESI disciplines in the world. It has 2 advantageous disciplines in Jiangsu universities, 8 key disciplines in Jiangsu Province, and 30 key specialties in clinical medicine in Jiangsu Province. The school currently has 3,285 faculty members (including Xinglin College), including 1,730 with senior professional titles and above, and 1,619 doctoral and master's supervisors. There are more than 100 outstanding talents, including academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, distinguished professors of the "Changjiang Scholars Program" of the Ministry of Education, Class B leading talents of the National Major Talent Program, cultural celebrities and "Four Batches" talents of the Central Propaganda Department, national candidates of the "Million Talent Project", winners of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, winners of the National Excellent Youth Science Fund, selected candidates of the "Hundred Talents Program" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, chief scientists of national key R&D program projects, chief experts of major projects of the National Social Science Fund, Olympic champions, selected candidates of the "New Century Excellent Talent Support Program" of the Ministry of Education, innovative talents of universities in Jiangsu's "Double Entrepreneurship Program", distinguished professors of Jiangsu, high-level talents of Jiangsu Province's "333 Project", etc. The school has 101 undergraduate majors, covering 10 disciplines including literature, science, engineering, medicine, art, economics, law, education, history, and management. There are more than 42,000 full-time undergraduate students (including Xinglin College), more than 5,600 full-time graduate students, and more than 1,000 international students. In 2007, the school passed the undergraduate teaching work level assessment of the Ministry of Education with excellent results, and in 2017, it passed the undergraduate teaching work review and assessment of the Ministry of Education with high quality. In recent years, the school has won three first and second prizes for national teaching achievements, and has formed a number of high-quality teaching resources represented by national first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, national first-class undergraduate courses, national characteristic majors, national teaching teams, national quality courses, national quality resource sharing courses, national quality teaching materials, national experimental teaching demonstration centers, national virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, Jiangsu Province's first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, Jiangsu Province's brand majors, etc. The school is an advanced collective for graduate employment work in ordinary colleges and universities across the country, an advanced unit for research and practice of entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities across the country, the first batch of innovative and entrepreneurial demonstration colleges in Jiangsu Province, and the first batch of advanced teaching work colleges in Jiangsu Province. The average annual total employment rate of students remains above 98%. The university has a number of high-end scientific research platforms, including the National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center, the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, the Key Laboratory of Sinopec, the Key Laboratory of China National Textile and Apparel Council, the Provincial Key Laboratory and Engineering Center, the Provincial Military-Civilian Integration Innovation Platform, the Provincial Key High-end Think Tank, the Jiangsu University Collaborative Innovation Center, the Key Laboratory of the State Drug Administration, and the Provincial University Philosophy and Social Science Key Research Base. The university has been approved as the National Intellectual Property Information Service Center, and has innovation and entrepreneurship service platforms such as the National University Science and Technology Park, the National Mass Innovation Space, the National Technology Transfer Demonstration Institution, the Provincial Mass Innovation Demonstration Base, the Provincial Internet Mass Innovation Park, and the Provincial Intellectual Property Operation Center. Over the past five years, the university has undertaken more than 600 projects including national key R&D program projects, National Natural Science Foundation projects (516 projects) and National Social Science Foundation projects (102 projects), obtained more than 2,100 patent authorizations, and won a number of high-level awards including the National Technological Invention Award, the National Innovation Award, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Progress Award, the Ministry of Education Higher Education Scientific Research Outstanding Achievement Award (Science and Technology), the Provincial Science and Technology Award, the National Industry Association Science and Technology Award, and the Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award. It has been rated as an advanced university in science and technology in Jiangsu Province for many consecutive years. The university has carried out extensive overseas exchanges and cooperation, and has established friendly cooperative relations with 137 universities and research institutes in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Australia, Japan, South Korea and other countries and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and carried out cooperation and exchange projects such as cooperative education, cooperative research, teacher-student exchanges, and teacher training. The university has jointly organized a number of Sino-foreign cooperative education projects with universities such as the University of Queensland, the University of Adelaide and Macquarie University in Australia, the University of North Alabama in the United States, and the "R. Franzi" Conservatory of Music in Siena, Italy. The school currently has three campuses, covering an area of more than 3,300 acres and a building area of more than 1.2 million square meters. The library is an ancient book protection unit in Jiangsu Province, with a total collection of about 2.96 million paper documents and 60 electronic databases. There are 5 academic journals, among which the Journal of Nantong University (Social Science Edition) is a CSSCI source journal and a national university social science boutique journal. The school is an advanced unit for the construction of spiritual civilization in the country, the birthplace of the typical "Mo Wensui" spirit of the national spiritual civilization construction, an excellent unit of ideological and political work in Jiangsu Province, a model of civilized units in Jiangsu Province, a civilized campus in Jiangsu Province, and a demonstration point for the theoretical study center group of the county-level party committee (party group) in Jiangsu Province in 2018-2019. New ideas lead the new era, and new blueprints open a new journey. At present, the school is guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, closely focusing on the goals and tasks established by the Fourth Party Congress of the school, vigorously implementing the five development strategies of "respecting teachers and talents, building original peaks, reform-driven, open integration, and cultural guidance", and focusing on promoting the "Ten Actions". We will unite our hearts and minds, move forward courageously, and strive to build a first-class domestic university with distinctive characteristics in an all-round way!