Sanya University was founded in 2005 and is located in Sanya City, Hainan Province. It was funded by Geely Holding Group, a Fortune 500 company. As China's fastest growing and most competitive comprehensive private university, Sanya University has always adhered to the leadership of the Party and fully implemented the Party's education policy.Adhering to the socialist direction of running schools, focusing on the fundamental question of "what kind of people to train, how to train people, and for whom to train people", we consciously shoulder the mission and historical responsibility of the university. In implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and continuously promoting the new journey of high-quality development of schools, Sanya College looks forward to the grand development prospects of the "Future Island" of Hainan Free Trade Port, sharing the environmental and ecological advantages of Hainan's healthy island and safe island, actively leading educational reform and innovation with the integration of industry and education, science and education, and digital empowerment of high-quality education to continue to move forward, and make unremitting efforts to output more high-level intellectual achievements and cultivate more high-quality talents for the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port. The beautiful campus of Sanya College is ecologically safe, suitable for learning and living. It has been rated as one of the top ten ecological buildings in Hainan. It covers an area of 3,000 acres, with a total construction area of more than 500,000 square meters, and a total investment of more than 3 billion yuan. It has 15 colleges and 64 undergraduate majors (including professional directions), covering 9 disciplines such as economics, management, law, literature, education, art, engineering, science, and medicine. The school has modern teaching and living facilities such as a high-performance supercomputing center, a financial innovation and multi-asset intelligent trading laboratory, an artificial intelligence laboratory, a national art hall, a national medical hall, a standard swimming pool, and a golf training ground. The school also has three high-tech libraries with a total of more than 2.75 million books. In 2022, Sanya College's master's degree-granting unit and related degree authorization points passed the verification of the Ministry of Education, becoming the first private university in Hainan to grant a master's degree. The three professional master's degree authorization points in social work, tourism management, and electronic information have officially enrolled students in 2023. In 2015, the school passed the undergraduate teaching work qualification assessment of the Ministry of Education at one time. The school was rated by the Ministry of Education as a rare "double top 50" university unit in China and the only one in Hainan for employment and innovation and entrepreneurship. So far, the school has trained 14 consecutive graduates, and the rate of placement has always remained at the forefront of undergraduate colleges in the province. Graduates are distributed in all walks of life, continuously supplying talents for the country and the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port. Outstanding graduates have been named the annual news figures of national college students' employment and entrepreneurship for two consecutive years. Since the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Overall Plan for the Construction of Hainan Free Trade Port" in 2020, Sanya College has made forward-looking arrangements and responded quickly, continuously promoting the integrated path of "production, learning, research and application" and focusing on the construction of key disciplines in the fields of "digitalization of financial industry", "digitalization of automobile industry", "modern service industry", "urban governance" and "health care industry". The school looks forward to the development of the financial industry in the construction of the free trade port, and co-establishes the Saxo Financial Technology Business School with Saxo Bank of Denmark. It has been successively rated as a financial education demonstration base in Hainan Province, a member of the China Financial Technology Education and Application Innovation Alliance, and the first batch of "digital RMB" pilot units in the country; the school also co-established key laboratories such as the Industrial Internet with the National Industrial Information Security Development Research Center to serve students' competitiveness with the results of discipline construction. Previously, Sanya College initiated the establishment of the Hainan Hotel Talent Training Innovation Alliance, and took the lead in establishing the two major industry talent training innovation alliances of exhibition economic management and tourism culture to accelerate the training of high-quality, application-oriented skilled talents at all levels in Hainan's key industries. Closely relying on the advantages of the industrial chain and education chain of Geely Holding Group and platform resources, the school has launched multi-level and all-round cooperation with Geely's enterprises, research institutes in the fields of new energy (methanol), "three electrics", automobile manufacturing, financial technology, artificial intelligence, and global strategic partners such as JD.com, Chuanhua, and Alibaba, and has successively established "Geely Industrial Internet Industry College", "New Energy and Intelligent Automobile Industry College", "Chuanhua Supply Chain Industry College", "JD Smart Logistics Industry College", "Saxo Financial Technology Industry College", "Health Care Industry College", "Fosun Tourism Culture Smart Tourism Industry College" and other ten modern industry colleges, which organically connect the real business scenarios and actual needs of enterprises with the teaching scenarios and talent supply of schools, and realize the mutual transformation of the education chain and the industrial chain. In 2021, the Hainan Provincial Department of Education will support the construction of Sanya College's modern industry college into the annual work points. Focusing on the future needs of economic and social development, Sanya College continues to strengthen the construction of discipline innovation platforms and the introduction of "master-level" talents. At present, three academician workstations (academician innovation platforms) have been established, including Zhai Mingguo, Chen Guoliang, and Rong Chunming. It is the only private university in China with three academician workstations (academician innovation platforms). The university invested 100 million yuan to build Hainan's first million-level supercomputer center, and its computing performance ranks among the top five universities in the country; the Financial Innovation and Multi-Asset Smart Trading Laboratory jointly built with Denmark's Saxo Bank was approved as the first batch of key laboratories of philosophy and social sciences in Hainan Province. The university also launched the "100 million yuan talent introduction plan" for the world, carried out the "double hundred plan" for doctoral students, the academic ability improvement plan for middle-level cadres, and the overseas study plan, etc., and continuously consolidated the foundation for career development. In recent years, relying on the academician workstation, supercomputing center and provincial key laboratories, the university has carried out high-level scientific research in marine science and technology, southern seed industry, environmental ecology, satellite remote sensing, health management, financial technology and other aspects, directly serving the national strategy and Hainan's development needs. Among them, the "Scientific Visualization Research on Multi-site Lander and Rover Submersible System" has been completed as a sub-project of the key R&D plan of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China. The "Free Trade Port In and Out of the Island Logistics Control Simulation System" project was successfully completed and delivered to the Hainan Provincial Big Data Administration for use. "Multi-mode-multi-model ensemble simulation of the impact of climate change on rice yield in tropical areas-taking Hainan Province as an example" and other projects have been approved as National Natural Science Foundation projects. "Accounting and Application of Ecosystem Gross Product in Hainan Province Based on Land-Sea Coordination" and other projects have been approved as key research and development projects in Hainan Province. At present, the school has become the private university with the largest number of National Social Science Fund projects for six consecutive years, and has achieved the first breakthrough in the key projects of the National Social Science Fund. The total number of projects has ranked among the top 10% in the country among the applicants, including all universities and research institutes in the country. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, Sanya College will continue to focus on research fields such as national governance, urban governance, big data and artificial intelligence, and financial technology, and become a regional scientific research highland with certain competitiveness. The college quickly responds to the iterative upgrade of digital social education and teaching models and the demand for higher-quality learning, and actively explores digital transformation and digital empowerment of education and teaching. By adding digital course teaching modules, building a virtual teaching and research room based on digital technology interdisciplinary majors, and making full use of high-quality online platforms such as Core Education, the school systematically carries out digital transformation of education, and cultivates digital professionals with digital skills teachers. In 2022, the school and the Central University of Finance and Economics will jointly build a virtual teaching and research room for financial technology majors to build a cross-regional and multi-level online teaching organization and realize the sharing of multi-form high-quality professional teaching and research resources. Based in Hainan Free Trade Port, the school highlights the socialization and internationalization of schooling and builds a multi-party collaborative platform. At present, the school has established high-level collaboration bodies with Peking University, Tsinghua University, Sanya Institute of Deep Sea Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China-Foreign Cultural Exchange Center of the Ministry of Education, China Law Society, Hainan Provincial Tourism and Culture Department, etc. The school has successfully joined hands with the School of Government Management of Peking University, and has successfully held three consecutive Luobifeng Global Urban Civilization and Urban Innovation Forums to jointly create an academic exchange brand with international influence. The school established the first public diplomacy research center in private universities, with former Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing as honorary director; the school also established the National Governance Research Institute, Hainan Tourism Consumption Research Institute, Hainan Rural Homestay Research Center, etc., actively playing the role of university think tanks. In 2016, the "Private University Quality Promotion Department" of the China Private Education Association was established in Sanya College, and was selected as the "China Applied Technology University Alliance" as the only university in Hainan Province. As the only private university in the country, the school's educational and teaching reform achievements and experiences were successfully selected as typical cases of the fifth national education reform and innovation together with the education reform cases of 13 other well-known domestic universities such as Fudan University and Beijing Normal University. The school's "circle of friends" for global collaboration in higher education continues to expand. So far, it has established exchanges and cooperation with more than 90 universities, educational institutions and international organizations in more than 30 countries and regions. Among them, it has successfully established sister schools with Ivy League universities in the United States, the University of Miami and Central Arkansas State University. In 2022, the China-Malaysia Future College, jointly established by Sanya College and SEGi University Malaysia, was unveiled simultaneously in China and Malaysia. The two sides integrated their advantageous resources, opened high-quality undergraduate, master's and doctoral degree courses, jointly built an international education platform, and explored a new talent training model that integrates undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees. From 2017 to 2022, the school successfully held four "China-ASEAN Private Higher Education Development and Cooperation Forums", launched the China-ASEAN Private University Alliance (ACAPHEI) with private universities in ASEAN countries, and was supported by the China-ASEAN Center and the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Regional Center for Higher Education and Development (SEAMEOWith the strong support of the RIHED and the China-ASEAN Education Exchange Week, the fourth forum also adopted the "Bangkok Declaration of the Alliance" and the "Five-Year Action Plan for the Next Five Years", and launched a flagship project for cross-border multi-campus exchanges. With the approval of the Ministry of Education and the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Hainan Province, the school also established the Indonesian Country Research Center and the Hainan Overseas Chinese Education Base, providing important support and favorable conditions for China-ASEAN cultural exchanges. In addition, several internationally influential academic forums such as the EU Erasmus Project Conference, the Humboldt Scholars Forum on Globalization, and the Global Enterprise China Forum were successfully held at the school. The school's fruitful results have won a good social reputation. In the latest ranking of the China Alumni Association, Sanya College has ranked first among comprehensive private universities for two consecutive years since 2022. In 2019, Sanya College, as the only private university in China and the only university in Hainan, was featured in a special program "Education Power" by CCTV, which caused a strong response. In 2022, Sanya College won many honors in the annual education festival of influential Chinese media organizations such as China National Radio, International Online Education, Tencent, Sohu, and NetEase. Among them, it was rated as the "Annual Comprehensive Competitive Brand University" and "Annual Entrepreneurship and Employment Star College" by China National Radio; in the annual education ceremonies of Tencent and NetEase, it was respectively awarded the honorary title of "Industry Industry-Education Integration Characteristic Education Brand" and the 2022 Competitive Industry-Education Integration Education Brand. The school's development has been highly valued by the leaders of the Party and the state and local governments. In November 2014, Li Keqiang, then Premier of the State Council, listened to the work report on school-enterprise collaborative innovation made by President Lu Dan, and encouraged the school to cultivate application-oriented talents with the spirit of excellence. Feng Fei, the current Secretary of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee, held talks with Chairman Li Shufu in October 2020 on further promoting cooperation in higher education and other fields. In the future, Sanya College will always adhere to its educational sentiments, keep its original mission in mind, insist on a high starting point and high position in running schools, gather high-quality educational resources, release the vitality of running schools, and strive unremittingly to become an outstanding representative and banner of modern private universities in China.
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