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Pingdingshan University
China

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Official website: https://www.pdsu.edu.cn/
Tel：0375-2657796,0375-2657677,0375-2657797
Address：Hubin Campus: South Section of Weilai Road, Xincheng District, Pingdingshan City, Henan Province; Chongwen Campus: Chongwen Road, Xincheng District, Pingdingshan City, Henan Province
Pingdingshan University is a full-time general undergraduate college approved by the Ministry of Education and sponsored by the People's Government of Henan Province. The school is located on the banks of Baigui Lake and Guoding Mountain in Xinhua District, Pingdingshan City. It is surrounded by mountains and rivers, has a beautiful natural environment and profound cultural heritage. The predecessor of Pingdingshan University was Pingdingshan Normal School, which was founded in October 1959. In August 1977, it was approved to set up a junior college class in Pingdingshan Normal School. In 1984, it was changed to Pingdingshan Normal College. In May 2004, it was approved by the Ministry of Education to be upgraded to an undergraduate college. In November 2012, it passed the undergraduate teaching qualification evaluation of the Ministry of Education. The school firmly adheres to the "local" and "application-oriented" school-running positioning, and is committed to building a "high-level application-oriented university with distinctive characteristics, outstanding advantages, and strong ability to serve regional economic and social development". It is a key project construction unit for the awarding of master's degrees in Henan Province, a pilot university for transformation and development in Henan Province, a demonstration undergraduate college of applied technology in Henan Province, a demonstration undergraduate college of applied technology in Henan Province, a pilot university for the "three-dimensional education" comprehensive reform in Henan Province, an advanced unit for the construction of grassroots party organizations in colleges and universities in Henan Province, a construction unit of international characteristic universities in Henan Province, and a construction unit of science popularization bases in Henan Province. Since its establishment, Pingdingshan College has adhered to the school motto of "virtue, erudition, truth-seeking, and innovation". Through the unremitting efforts of generations of college people, it has gradually formed a fine school spirit of "rigorous and realistic, harmonious and self-reliant" and a spirit of "hard work, self-improvement, unity and dedication", and has realized its own value in the process of talent training, scientific research, serving the society, cultural inheritance and innovation, and international exchanges and cooperation. The school currently has two campuses, Hubin and Chongwen, covering an area of 1.546 million square meters and a building area of more than 710,000 square meters. The total value of teaching and research equipment is 310 million yuan, and the library has 308.40,000 books. There are 21,349 full-time students and more than 1,700 faculty and staff, including more than 1,200 full-time teachers, more than 1,000 full-time teachers with doctoral and master's degrees (degrees), and nearly 500 teachers with senior professional titles. There are more than 200 second-level professors, experts enjoying special allowances from the State Council, provincial excellent experts, Henan Province specially appointed professors, Henan Province academic and technical leaders, Central Plains young top talents, Henan Province teaching teachers, doctoral supervisors, master supervisors, etc., and more than 300 outstanding talents from industry and enterprises are hired as part-time teachers. The school has built a sports training hall, concert hall, studio, etc., and cultural and sports facilities are complete. The school insists on being based on the local service industry, and has gradually formed a discipline and professional layout with engineering and other applied disciplines as the main and multi-disciplinary coordinated development. The school has 19 teaching units and 56 undergraduate majors, covering nine disciplines including engineering, management, science, literature, medicine, education, economics, law, and art. The university focuses on building disciplines and professional groups such as intelligent electrical and information, chemical engineering and new materials, cultural creation and communication, teacher education, medical care, modern services, biology and medicine. It has been approved to build 2 national first-class professional construction sites, 14 provincial first-class professional construction sites, 1 national first-class course, 44 provincial first-class courses and more than 100 provincial and above undergraduate teaching quality engineering projects. The university has a number of strong scientific research institutions and technology development bases. There are 5 provincial key disciplines, including digital economy, news and communication, energy and power, biology and medicine, and design. There are 2 Henan Provincial Key Laboratories, including Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Ancient Ceramics Research in Central Plains and Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Ecological and Economic Woody Plant Germplasm Innovation and Utilization, 1 Provincial Key Research Base for Humanities and Social Sciences, 1 Henan International Joint Laboratory, 1 Central Plains Scholar Workstation, 5 Provincial Engineering Technology Research Centers, 6 Provincial Engineering Research Centers, 1 Henan University New Brand Think Tank, 1 Postdoctoral Innovation Practice Base, and 1 Provincial Innovative Science and Technology Team; the school is China's Northern Ceramic Product Designer Training Base, Henan Cultural Reform and Development Talent Training Base, Henan Cultural Industry Development Research Base, Henan Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Base, and Henan All-Media Science Popularization Communication Center Creation Base. The school continues to deepen the integration of production and education, science and education, and carries out collaborative innovation around the needs of industries and enterprises, and has achieved remarkable results. The school has jointly carried out the research and development of high-voltage intelligent electrical appliances with Pinggao Group and others, and a large number of independent intellectual property rights have emerged. The results have been successfully applied in domestic and foreign enterprises and major projects such as PetroChina Shaanxi Changqing Oilfield, Pinggao Group, Eaton Electric, and Anhui Power East Transmission. The IST-701 wireless discharge positioning system developed by the company has replaced imported products. The multi-channel detection system for substation grounding grid developed by non-destructive testing technology has increased the efficiency of substation grounding grid corrosion detection by more than 10 times, and achieved accurate positioning of grounding grid corrosion branches without excavation, making the substation grounding grid corrosion detection technology reach the international leading level. The Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Ecological and Economic Woody Plant Germplasm Innovation and Utilization is based on the construction of forest and flower germplasm resource bank, with the service of high-quality development of forestry as the core, and the solution of key breeding technology, new variety cultivation and promotion demonstration that restrict forestry as the main research direction. It carries out research with the goal of promoting the introduction and training of innovative application-oriented talents and supporting the coordinated development of economic and ecological economic woody plant industries. It has successively won the Henan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award and the Liang Xi Science and Technology Progress Award of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, and has undertaken more than 50 projects such as the Central Finance Forestry Science and Technology Promotion Special Project, the National Natural Science Foundation, the Henan Provincial Germplasm Resource Bank Construction, and the Henan Provincial Science and Technology Forestry Development Project, and has made contributions to the ecological environment protection, rational resource utilization and sustainable development in Henan Province. The Funiushan Cultural Circle Research Center conducts in-depth research on the inheritance and dissemination of cultural resources in the Central Plains Funiushan area and the development of characteristic cultural tourism and creative industries. It actively connects with local government departments and enterprises and institutions to provide theoretical and intellectual support for the development of local economic and cultural undertakings in terms of policy advice, theoretical innovation, public opinion guidance, and social services. The project of Tang Dynasty flower glaze porcelain reproduction and production technology undertaken by the Ceramics College has restored the Tang Dynasty flower glaze porcelain production technology that has been lost for thousands of years, filling the domestic gap; published the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" national key book "Complete Works of Chinese Ceramic Sculpture in the 20th Century" (12 volumes), which includes more than 4,000 works from representative kilns in various porcelain areas in mainland China and Taiwan in the 20th century, and conducted a relatively systematic and comprehensive study and analysis of the development of Chinese ceramic sculpture in the 20th century, filling a gap in the field of Chinese ceramic sculpture research; carried out research on ancient Chinese Chuiwan, demonstrated the unique ancient Chuiwan culture, and promoted the dynamic development of traditional sports. The school's dragon and lion dance and soft ball two characteristic projects have won gold medals in national competitions many times. The dragon and lion team has been invited to South Korea and Italy for cultural exchanges, and has received attention and reports from mainstream media at home and abroad. In 2023, the China Dragon and Lion Sports Academy was established, which strengthened the talent reserve of dragon and lion sports and promoted the development of dragon and lion sports in my country. The school's Yale Orchestra is the first Yale Orchestra in mainland China's colleges and universities. The special programs "Yinglong Fengyun" and "The Book of Songs" Yale" launched by the school have produced extensive and far-reaching influences. The school adheres to open education and has established cooperative relations with colleges and universities in more than 30 countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, and Spain. It has been approved as the first non-independent legal entity of Sino-foreign cooperative education at the undergraduate level jointly organized by Spanish universities, "Malaga Engineering College", and the first Sino-foreign cooperative education institution with Spanish as its feature in Henan Province, "Pingdingshan College Spanish Center". It has carried out industry-education integration and school-enterprise cooperation with governments, enterprises, and industry associations such as the Pingdingshan Municipal Government, Pingmei Shenma Group, Pinggao Group, Dahe.com, and China Building Sanitary Ceramics Association, and established 9 industrial colleges, among which Nylon New Materials College, Kunpeng Industrial College, Intelligent Power Equipment Industry College, Ceramic Industrial Design College, Biomedicine and Big Health Modern Industry College, and Energy Electronic Information Industry College are key industry (industry) colleges supported by Henan Province. In cooperation with the Henan Provincial Bureau of Letters and Calls, the Propaganda Department of the Pingdingshan Municipal Party Committee and other units, new think tanks such as the Henan People's Letters and Calls and Social Issues Research Institute and the Pingdingshan Cultural Industry Research Institute have been established to innovate talent training models and enhance the ability to serve regional economic and social development. The school attaches importance to the cultivation of students' comprehensive quality and innovation ability, and students' extracurricular scientific and academic activities and social practice activities are booming. Students have won more than 3,000 provincial and above awards in various college student subject competitions such as the China International "Internet +" College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the National College Student Mathematical Modeling Competition, the National College Student Chemical Engineering Design Competition, the National College Student Metallographic Skills Competition, and the National Software and Information Technology Professional Talent Competition. The school was selected as the first batch of "National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Practice Base" construction units in the country and the first batch of "Innovation and Entrepreneurship College Construction Units" in Henan Province. It has been repeatedly rated as the National May Fourth Red Flag Youth League Committee, the National "Three Going to the Countryside" Social Practice Excellent Unit, and the "Henan Province College Student Social Practice Activity Advanced Unit". It has won the titles of "Henan Province's Top Ten Demonstration Universities of Applied Technology Type", "Henan Province Safe Campus", "Henan Province Civilized Campus Model", "Henan Province's First New Era Law-based School Demonstration School", and "Henan Province's First Batch of National Defense Education Model Universities". Standing in the new era, forging ahead on a new journey. Under the strong leadership of the school party committee, Pingdingshan University will bear in mind its mission and responsibility, live up to the great era, strive to practice the school-running philosophy of "respecting morality and ability, and applying what you have learned", adhere to the strategy of "quality-based school, science and technology-based school, talent-based school, brand-name school, open and active school, and law-based school", and strive to write a new chapter in the construction of a distinctive high-level applied university!