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Yunnan University
China

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Official website: http://www.ynu.edu.cn/
Tel：0871-65033819,0871-65032173,0871-65939873
Address：Donglu Campus: No. 2, Cuihu North Road, Kunming, Yunnan Province; Chenggong Campus: South Outer Ring Road, University Town, Chenggong District, Kunming, Yunnan Province
Yunnan University was founded in 1922 and officially opened in 1923 as a private Donglu University. It was renamed Provincial Yunnan University in 1934 and National Yunnan University in 1938. It is one of the earliest comprehensive universities established in the western frontier of my country. In 1937, the famous mathematician and educator Xiong Qinglai became the president, and a large number of famous scholars were hired to teach at the school, which laid a high foundation for the school’s development and profound academic heritage, and ushered in the first glorious period in the history of Yunda University. In the 1940s, Yunnan University had developed into one of the famous Chinese universities with a large scale and international influence, including liberal arts, law, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine and other disciplines. In 1946, Encyclopedia Britannica listed Yunnan University as one of China's 15 most influential universities in the world. In the 1950s, the departments were restructured. Some important and distinctive departments of Yunnan University, such as aviation, civil engineering, law, and railways, were merged into the then Beijing Institute of Aeronautics, Sichuan University, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, and Changsha Railway Institute. ; Engineering, medicine, agriculture, etc. successively established independent schools, and gradually developed into today's Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming Medical University, Yunnan Agricultural University, Southwest Forestry University and other universities. In 1978, Yunnan University was designated by the State Council as one of the 88 key universities in the country. After the reform and opening up, Yunnan University has made great progress. In 1996, it was among the first batch of key construction universities listed in the national “211 Project”. In 2001, it was listed as a key construction university in the western development. In 2004, it became a key university jointly constructed by the Ministry of Education and the Yunnan Provincial People’s Government. In 2006, the undergraduate teaching level evaluation totaled All 19 secondary indicators were rated A, and it was rated as an excellent undergraduate teaching school by the Ministry of Education. In 2012, it became an implementation institution of the national "Basic Capacity Building Project of Central and Western Universities" and "Comprehensive Strength Improvement Project of Central and Western Universities". In 2017, it became a One of the first batch of 42 “first-class universities” construction universities in the country. In 2018, it ranked among the 14 universities in the central and western regions that were “mainly built by ministries and jointly built by ministries and provinces”. In 2022, it will continue to be selected into the second round of national “double first-class” construction universities. . On April 20, 2023, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, sent a letter to congratulate Yunnan University on its 100th anniversary. The congratulatory letter pointed out: Over the past 100 years, Yunnan University has adhered to the school-running spirit of "husbanding hundreds of schools of thought and serving the whole world", taking root in the ethnic minority areas in the southwestern border areas of the motherland, cultivating a large number of outstanding talents, and making positive contributions to promoting ethnic unity and progress and serving regional economic and social development. contribute. Yunnan University has 28 colleges, 10 research institutions, 1 affiliated hospital, and a graduate school. Yunnan University currently has more than 3,000 faculty and staff (excluding affiliated hospitals), including more than 2,700 in professional and technical positions, nearly 1,300 with senior professional titles, and nearly 1,500 with doctoral degrees. The school has nearly 17,000 full-time undergraduate students, nearly 12,000 full-time master's students, more than 1,500 doctoral students, and nearly 1,500 international students in academic education. The school covers an area of 4,367 acres, with Chenggong campus and Donglu campus. The public school building area is more than 1.33 million square meters. The total assets of teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment are more than 1.5 billion yuan. The library has more than 4 million paper books. The school is the Yunnan master node unit of China Education and Research Computer Network (CERNET). The school has 84 undergraduate majors, including 68 national and provincial first-class undergraduate construction majors. There are 12 national specialty majors, 7 professional "elite classes", 10 professional "excellence classes", and 27 "national first-class undergraduate courses"; there are 22 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, and 1 professional doctoral degree Authorized, 42 first-level subject master's degrees are authorized, and 26 professional master's degrees are authorized, forming a group focusing on ethnology, ecology, statistics, biology and biomedicine, characteristic resource development and environmental protection, as well as border issues and regional country studies. It is a professional system with advantages and characteristics, relatively complete disciplines and intensive talent. The school vigorously implements the strategy of "strengthening the school with talents", and high-level talents continue to grow. There are currently 12 academicians (including dual-employment), nearly 80 national high-level talents such as Yangtze River, Distinguished Youth, and Excellent Youth, 8 chief scientists of the National Key Basic Research and Development Program, and 16 candidates for the National "Hundreds and Thousands of Talents Project" , 16 people were selected for the "Hundred Talents Plan" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 4 members of the subject evaluation group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, 2 national model teachers, 2 cultural celebrities and "four batches" talents of the Central Propaganda Department, and "New Century Outstanding Talents" of the Ministry of Education There are 14 candidates selected for the "Cultivation Plan", "Cross-century Excellent Talents Training Plan" and "Backbone Teacher Funding Plan for Colleges and Universities", 6 young talents in publicity, ideology and culture from the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, 4 national-level teaching teams, and 1 innovation team in key areas of the Ministry of Science and Technology. , and 1 innovation team from the Ministry of Education. The school vigorously implements the strategy of “academic development” and has achieved remarkable results in scientific research. The school has hosted 6 national "973 Plan" and "863 Plan" projects, 2 major national water projects, 6 national key R&D plans, 2 national science and technology support plans, 28 major National Social Science Fund bidding projects, and the National Social Science Foundation of China. 10 major projects of the Science Fund, 1 special team project of the National Social Science Fund for Unpopular Knowledge Research, 8 major projects of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, 2 projects of Marxist theoretical research and construction projects, 5 projects of the National Social Science Fund Achievements Library, 1 major project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Won the first prize of the National Natural Science Award, the second prize of the National Natural Science Award, the National Innovation Award, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Award, the first prize of the National University Humanities and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievements, the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, and the Whitaker Outstanding Ecologist Award, International Young Paleontologist "Hodson Award" and many other awards. Won 3 Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Awards for Outstanding Contribution and 3 Special Prizes. More than 20 papers were published in "Nature", "Science" and "Chinese Social Sciences". The school sponsors academic journals such as "Ideological Front" and "Journal of Yunnan University". "Ideological Front" is one of the first 11 journals selected for the construction of the Ministry of Education's "Famous Journal Project". The school has 1 national key laboratory co-constructed by the province and the ministry, 1 international joint research center, 1 national technology transfer center, 2 national-level maker spaces, 1 philosophy and social science laboratory of the Ministry of Education, and 1 four-ministerial laboratory. It is a research base for the consciousness of the Chinese nation’s community, a key research base for the humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, two collaborative innovation centers jointly established by the provinces and ministries, one international joint research center of the Ministry of Education, one engineering research center of the Ministry of Education, and one Ministry of Education Field scientific observation station, 2 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education co-constructed by the Ministry of Education, 1 National Linux Technology Training and Promotion Center, 1 Ministry of Education Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture Inheritance Base, 1 Ministry of Education National Textbook Construction Key Research Base, 1 A national college student cultural quality education base and a national scientific decision-making consulting and research center. There are 4 national-level talent training bases, 4 national-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, 3 national-level outstanding engineer training plan projects, 1 national-level applied and compound excellent legal professional talent education and training base, 4 national talent training Model Innovation Experimental Zone and National Demonstration Software Academy. It has an experimental animal center, an advanced computing center, an electron microscope center, 1.A number of major scientific research facilities platforms such as the 6-meter multi-channel photometric survey telescope. The school is one of the first batch of demonstration colleges and universities designated by the Ministry of Education to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education. The school takes advantage of its location adjacent to South Asia and Southeast Asia, actively integrates into serving the “Belt and Road Initiative” and the construction of China’s radiation center for South Asia and Southeast Asia, and builds a multi-faceted, multi-field, and multi-level international cooperation and exchange pattern. The school cooperates and exchanges with more than 100 universities and institutions in the world, including 29 first-class universities and international academic organizations such as the University of Cambridge, the European Southern Observatory, and Yale University to carry out scientific research, and 33 foreign high-level universities such as the University of Tokyo and the University of Windsor. Universities carry out joint training projects. There are 70 countries of origin for international students, basically covering all countries in South Asia and Southeast Asia. It is one of the first batch of "Innovative Practice Bases for High-Level International Talent Training" by the Ministry of Education. A "language + professional" compound talent training system based on 10 non-common languages and international Chinese has been established. It has established a relatively complete regional and country research system and a new characteristic think tank system covering Southeast Asia, South Asia, West Asia, Africa and countries along the “Belt and Road”. As the permanent secretary-general unit, it initiated the establishment of the "South Asia and Southeast Asia University Alliance" covering more than 120 universities in 16 South Asian and Southeast Asian countries. The school proactively serves national and regional economic and social development. Cooperated in the translation, publication and promotion of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" (Volume 1, 2 and 3) in five languages including Myanmar and Laos; "China-Myanmar Oil and Gas Pipeline and China's Energy Security" and "Southern Silk Road Economy" Achievements such as "Grand Corridor" have been elevated to major national decisions, such as "Research on Building a Strong Community Consciousness of the Chinese Nation", "Research on Arsenic Pollution in Yangzonghai", "Research on Cross-border Ecological Security and International Rivers", "Research on Plateau Lake Management", "Research on China's Neighboring Diplomacy" "Research on Political Science and Frontier Ethnic Issues" "Research on Paleontology and the Origin of Life" "Research on the Conservation and Utilization of Biodiversity Resources" "Dense Celestial Objects and High-Energy Phenomena" "The Milky Way and the Neighboring Universe" "Biological Control Technology of Root-knot Nematodes" "Perennial Rice "Technology" and other scientific research directions and results directly serve to solve major practical problems, create good benefits, have an important impact, and make important contributions to national strategies and local economic and social development. Standing at the starting point of a new century-old journey, the school will be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, comprehensively study and implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Party and the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s congratulatory letter to the 100th anniversary of the founding of Yunnan University, and comprehensively implement the Party’s The educational policy of Yunda University adheres to the original mission of educating people for the party and the country; adhering to the spirit of "gathering hundreds of schools of thought and serving the world", taking first-class party building as the guide, taking the construction of first-class universities as the center, and cultivating people with morality The fundamental task is to take high-quality development as the main line and reform and innovation as the driving force to comprehensively improve the school's education level and comprehensive strength, accelerate the construction of a comprehensive, international, and research-oriented world-class university based on the southwestern border of the motherland and facing South and Southeast Asia, and find a way The characteristic development path of building world-class universities in border areas with ethnic minorities will contribute greatly to building an educational power and comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.