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Qiqihar Engineering College
China

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Official website: https://www.qqhrit.com/
Tel：0452-6186020,0452-6186022
Address：No. 1, Xiqing Road, Nanyuan High-tech Industrial Development Zone, Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province
In 1991, Cao Yongan, then deputy director of the Education Department of Qiqihar No. 1 Machine Tool Factory, founded the private Heilongjiang East Asia University. After Heilongjiang East Asia University merged with the Factory Workers' University in 1993, it signed a separation contract with the factory on December 25, 1993, and embarked on a path of private education development of "self-run, self-funded, self-improving, and self-developing", opening the precedent of the national "public-to-private" school system reform. In March 2001, the school became one of the first batch of higher vocational colleges in Heilongjiang, and its name was Qiqihar Vocational College. In 2011, the school was upgraded to a general undergraduate college with the approval of the Ministry of Education, and was renamed Qiqihar Engineering College, becoming the first municipal undergraduate university in Qiqihar. In 2019, the school successfully passed the national undergraduate teaching qualification assessment. The school has always adhered to the socialist direction of running schools, fully implemented the party's education policy, adhered to public welfare and non-profit education, and insisted on cultivating applied talents. It has created two cases that have influenced the development of private education in China ("mixed ownership school running" and "school entrusted management", the latter of which was written into the "Outline of the National Medium- and Long-Term Education Reform and Development Plan (2010-2020)"), and explored the "government-school-enterprise cooperation, industry-university-research integration, and teaching-practice integration" school-running model, highlighting the advantages and characteristics of school running, and promoting the rapid and healthy development of various undertakings of the school. At present, the school has developed into a full-time applied undergraduate college with engineering disciplines as the main subject, and moderate development of management, medicine, art and other disciplines. The school is the only private university in the country with administrative level and institutional establishment. The school covers a total area of 867,000 square meters, with a building area of more than 330,000 square meters; there are 121 undergraduate experimental sites on campus; the total value of teaching and scientific research equipment is 78.6543 million yuan; the collection of paper books is 944,900, and the electronic books are 424,000; the total area of indoor and outdoor sports venues is more than 70,000 square meters; the campus environment is beautiful and the cultural atmosphere is strong. Guided by the needs of local economic and social development, the school continuously optimizes the professional layout, and has 9 secondary teaching units including the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, the Department of Architectural Engineering, the Department of Information Engineering, the Department of Management Engineering, the Department of Health and Nursing, the School of Marxism, the Basic Department, the Student Development Center, and the Department of Continuing Education; 25 undergraduate majors are offered; there are more than 8,400 full-time students. "Hard work to establish the school, the curriculum to establish the school, the culture to govern the school, the spirit to prosper the school, and the faith to pass on the school", the school has always adhered to the "student-centered" education concept, established the working principle of "party building leading the three-dimensional education, and the party and government work together to implement it", implemented the "career mentor system" for all employees, innovated and practiced the "three-dimensional education" concept, and established the education quality award. In October 2015, the school was selected as the first "National Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation Week" as a "grassroots entrepreneurship education incubation platform" and was the only local university to participate in the exhibition. The school insists on applied undergraduate education research, strengthens curriculum construction, adheres to results orientation, explores new talent training models, improves the adaptability of majors to regional economic and social development, and comprehensively improves the quality of talent training. Two majors, mechanical design, manufacturing and automation, and vehicle engineering, have been established as provincial first-class undergraduate major construction points. Four courses, including "Ideology, Morality and Rule of Law", "Management Communication", "Civil Engineering Materials", and "Cost and Management Accounting I", have been rated as first-class courses in Heilongjiang Province. Three provincial teaching achievement awards have been approved, and six school-level industrial colleges, including the Construction Industry College, have been built. Among them, the Machine Tool Industry College was approved as the first batch of provincial modern industrial colleges. School-enterprise cooperation and dual education. Relying on the industrial college, the school is guided by serving job needs and improving professional ability, exploring the establishment of "nursing", "equipment manufacturing" and "construction" off-campus classrooms, expanding the time and space for education, and innovating the application-oriented talent training model. The school adheres to the demand-oriented curriculum concept and has developed the "Four Truths and Three Transformations" (FT) curriculum construction paradigm to provide solutions to the urgent curriculum construction problems of colleges and universities. The research results of this curriculum reform won the first prize of the 2020 Heilongjiang Province Higher Education Teaching Achievement. Since 2021, more than 40 "Four Truths and Three Transformations" (FT) curriculum development workshops have been held, attracting more than 4,000 teachers from more than 200 colleges and universities across the country to participate. Developed a curriculum development smart system (Course Pass) with a Shenzhen company, developed the corporate standard "Course Development Guide", and the "Four Truths and Three Transformations" (FT) Curriculum Construction Model and Practice" course was included in the graduate training courses of higher education at Lanzhou University and Xiamen University. Professor Cao Yongan, the founding principal of the school, was named "China's Outstanding Educator in the New Era in 2022" for "devoting himself to running schools, deepening courses, taking root in the local area, facing the future, and pioneering the 'Four Truths and Three Transformations' (FT) curriculum development model"; the "Application-oriented Curriculum Development Innovation Studio" won the title of "Heilongjiang Province Education, Science, Culture, Health and Sports System Model Worker and Craftsman Talent Innovation Studio". In January 2015, the school initiated the establishment of a national applied curriculum construction alliance; in April 2016, the alliance and the School Planning, Construction and Development Center of the Ministry of Education jointly established the Curriculum Construction Research Institute (now renamed the Curriculum Construction Collaborative Innovation Center). The Curriculum Construction Collaborative Innovation Center has played an active role in promoting the construction of applied college courses across the country by organizing activities such as industry-education integration curriculum reform experiments, teacher-led curriculum reform, and applied curriculum construction classrooms. The school attaches great importance to international exchanges and cooperation, and has established friendly cooperative relations with more than ten foreign universities in the United States, Russia, South Korea, Japan and other countries. It actively carries out exchanges and cooperation in teaching and scientific research, selects key teachers to visit the United States, and invites foreign professors to teach school students. The school has been invited to attend international conferences to exchange curriculum reform experiences many times, and has organized 5 batches of "applied curriculum overseas exchange inspection groups" to visit and exchange with relevant universities in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France and other countries. The school adheres to the principle of cultivating people with moral integrity and upholds the school motto of "being moderate but mediocre, harmonious but different". It strives to cultivate applied and professional entrepreneurs with lofty ambitions, sound personalities, solid foundations, obvious specialties, courage to innovate and good at practice. It actively explores effective ways for applied undergraduate colleges to serve the local economic and social development. It has trained and supplied more than 50,000 graduates to the society, and a group of outstanding graduates represented by "great country craftsman" - "Hualong One" main operator Wang Gang has emerged. The rate of graduates' employment placement ranks among the top in the province's universities.