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Yunnan West Science and Technology Normal University
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Official website: http://www.wynu.edu.cn/
Tel：0883-8882659,0883-3088255
Address：No. 2 Xuefu Road, Linxiang District, Lincang City, Yunnan Province
Western Yunnan has beautiful trees and a rich cultural heritage; universities gather talents and students are hardworking and brave. Western Yunnan Science and Technology Normal University was born and grew up in the spring breeze of reform and opening up. It has developed and grown with the pace of the new era. It is an applied national university rooted in frontier ethnic areas, serving and integrating into national strategies and local economic and social development. The college is located in Lincang City, Yunnan Province, which has a pleasant climate, beautiful ecology, rich cultural heritage and abundant products. Lincang is adjacent to Myanmar and spans the two major water systems of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is one of the five major exit channels in Yunnan and the most convenient land channel for China to enter the Indian Ocean. Lincang has a forest coverage rate of more than 70%, an excellent air quality rate of 100%, and an average annual temperature of 18.8℃. It is the origin of the world's tea culture, the hometown of "Yunnan Black Tea", and the permanent venue for the Asian Microfilm Art Festival and the "Golden Begonia" Award Ceremony. As one of the few cities in China that is suitable for summer and winter vacations and suitable for living and traveling, Lincang has been named "China's Top Ten Green Cities" and "China's Hengchun Capital". The Yunling Mountains are vast, the sun and the moon are far away, the Cangjiang River is sailing for thousands of miles; the Qishan Mountain is towering, spring and autumn meet, and the Tinghe River is open and singing all the way. History and school overview. The history of Yunnan West Science and Technology Normal College can be traced back to the Shunning Prefecture Primary Normal School founded in 1907. In 1978, the Lincang Teachers College was opened, which was the first higher education in southwest Yunnan. After several development stages such as Lincang Education College and Lincang Teachers College, it was upgraded to Yunnan West Science and Technology Normal College in 2015 with the approval of the Ministry of Education, becoming one of the youngest provincial public undergraduate colleges in Yunnan Province. The total land area of the school is 724,900 m2, the total building area of the school is 320,000 m2, and the total area of teaching and administrative buildings is 154,300 m2; the total value of teaching and scientific research equipment assets is 76.2413 million yuan, there are 1.1151 million paper books, 5.5039 million electronic books, 70.6729 million electronic journals, 6.976 million dissertations, 13 databases such as China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Renmin University of China, and Super Star Books, and 23 available databases such as Baidu Library and Red Lecture Hall; there are 152 on-campus experimental training rooms and 311 off-campus internship practice training bases. It has 14 secondary colleges, including the School of Marxism, the School of Literature, the School of Teacher Education, the School of Political Science, Law and Public Administration, the School of Management and Economics, the School of Foreign Languages, the School of Mathematics and Physics, the School of Intelligence and Information Engineering, the School of Biotechnology and Engineering, the School of Art, the School of Physical Education, the School of Asian Microfilm, the School of Aviation and Rail Transportation, and the School of Continuing Education. It has 14 secondary party organizations and 51 party branches. There are 33 undergraduate majors. There are 10,474 full-time students, and the students come from 23 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government), including Yunnan, Shandong, Hunan, Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou, and Guangxi. There are more than 900 faculty and staff, including 477 full-time teachers, 199 senior professional titles, 404 doctors and masters, and 145 "double-qualified" teachers. The school has hired a group of cultural celebrities and senior professors, including the famous artist Siqin Gaowa, and researcher Zhang Jianguo, who was selected for the "Hundred Talents Program" of London South Bank University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to teach at the school; 82 professors and flexible talents from the "Silver Age Program" of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Southwest University, Renmin University of China and other schools have been introduced to serve at the school, and the flexible introduction of high-level talents has become a model for similar colleges and universities in the province. Many teachers have won the honorary titles of National Excellent Teachers, Yunnan Province's "Xingdian Talents" Support Plan Teaching Master, "Provincial Outstanding" Expert, "Provincial Post" Expert, Yunnan Province's High-level Talent Training Support Plan "Young Top Talent", Yunnan Province's Young and Middle-aged Academic and Technical Leader Reserve Talent, and Provincial Excellent Teachers. There are 6 provincial teaching teams, 1 provincial high-level research team, 1 Yunnan University Science and Technology Innovation Team, 1 Huang Danian-style teacher team, 2 national outstanding teachers and national model teachers, 7 provincial high-level talents, 1 provincial and ministerial outstanding contribution expert, 3 Yunnan Province "Xingdian Talents" teaching masters, 10 members of the Yunnan Higher Education Teaching Steering Committee, and 28 part-time doctoral (master) supervisors employed by Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Southwest University, Kunming University of Science and Technology and other schools. The school has successively won honors or titles such as "Yunnan Civilized Campus", "Yunnan University Advanced Grassroots Party Organization", "Advanced Collective to Encourage University Graduates to Innovate and Start Businesses", "Yunnan University Top Ten Entrepreneurship Parks", and "Yunnan May Fourth Red Flag Youth League Committee". There is 1 "National Party Building Model Branch" cultivation and creation unit and 11 "First-class Party Building" demonstration party organizations in Yunnan universities. Find the right school positioning and establish development goals. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the university focuses on serving the national strategy and Yunnan's "3815" strategic development goals, closely focuses on the goal of building a well-known applied national university at home and abroad, and combines the actual situation of the school to establish the school-running positioning and development ideas of "three characteristics, four groups, and five projects", adheres to the school-running philosophy of "establishing morality and cultivating people, integrating science and technology with humanities", and upholds the school motto of "establishing morality and cultivating oneself, and learning and practicing", and constantly highlights the school-running characteristics of "locality, application, and openness". Rooted in Lincang, based in western Yunnan, facing Yunnan, serving the whole country, radiating South Asia and Southeast Asia, it has become a beautiful landscape of higher education in the red soil plateau. "Three characteristics" means highlighting the school-running characteristics of "locality, application, and openness"; "four groups" means focusing on building four major professional clusters serving the construction of the China-Myanmar channel, plateau-specific biological industries, teacher education, and new media, new engineering, and new agriculture; "five projects" means implementing the five major projects of "one, ten, one, one, and ... The school actively serves and integrates into the national strategy, actively adapts to the development needs of new industries, new formats, and new technologies, actively connects with the needs of local economic and social development, optimizes the professional structure, highlights the role of professional construction in serving social development, and cultivates and adds new majors required by strategic emerging industries and modern service industries. It has been approved for 4 first-class professional construction sites in Yunnan Province, and 3 first-class majors (Class B) in Yunnan Province have been registered for construction. In the fifth round of comprehensive professional evaluation in Yunnan Province in 2022, 15 majors reached the domestic average level (Class C). Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System Engineering and New Media Art are the only majors in Yunnan Province. The construction of the "Four Major Professional Clusters" has achieved remarkable results. Give full play to the school's scientific and educational advantages, carry out activities such as science and technology going to the countryside and rural teacher training, strengthen poverty alleviation and intellectual support, help poverty alleviation, and continue to promote rural revitalization. Deepen the integration of industry and education and improve the quality of application-oriented talent training. The school continues to deepen the reform of the applied talent training model, deepen school-enterprise cooperation, industry-education integration, and collaborative education, and has established strategic cooperative relations with COSCO Group, China Film Group, Tsinghua TusPark, Hong Kong Jackie Chan International Group, Super Star Group, Oracle, Danai Group, DJI, Yunnan Airport Group, Lincang Industrial Park, etc. All-round, multi-level, and wide-ranging cooperation to cultivate talents, and actively explore new paths for the cultivation of applied talents. Won 1 national teaching achievement award and 4 provincial teaching achievement awards; 2 provincial first-class undergraduate courses and 8 provincial curriculum ideological and political construction projects; approved by the Ministry of Education for 19 school-enterprise cooperation, industry-education integration and collaborative education projects, and 9 supply-demand docking employment education projects of the Ministry of Education; co-built the "Artificial Intelligence College" with Danai Group, and the School of Intelligent and Information Engineering was approved as a pilot college for the transformation and development of undergraduate colleges in Yunnan Province. In 2020, it was rated as one of only five "universities with the most development potential and innovation in artificial intelligence majors" in the country; Yunnan Black Tea Engineering Technology Research Center, Yunnan Black Tea Science and Technology Innovation Base, Lincang Minority Traditional Sports Training Base, etc. Since its establishment, the university has provided more than 70,000 professionals of various types to the society, and the level of high-quality application-oriented talent training has been increasing. Since its upgrade to a university, it has provided five classes of undergraduate graduates with 10,780 graduates, and the employment placement rate of graduates has continued to be higher than the provincial average. Third-party survey data show that the average relevance between the employment positions of the last three classes of undergraduate graduates and their majors is 74.48%, the average employment satisfaction of graduates is 85.25%, and the satisfaction of graduates with their alma mater is 97.83%. In the past three academic years, our students have won 713 international, national and provincial awards in various competitions at all levels. The school has been awarded the provincial youth entrepreneurship demonstration park, provincial maker space, and provincial innovation and entrepreneurship practice base. Taking advantage of the location, scientific research has emerged. Since the school was upgraded to a university, the school has approved 414 scientific research projects, including 23 national projects (20 National Social Science Fund projects, 2 National Natural Science Fund projects, and 1 National Art Fund, including 1 major bidding project and 1 key project), 66 provincial and ministerial projects (including 1 major project and 3 key projects), 244 municipal and departmental projects, and 72 school-level scientific research projects. It has won four provincial and ministerial scientific research platforms, including the Yunnan Black Tea Engineering Technology Research Center, the Think Tank for the Unity and Progress of Nationalities with Chinese Characteristics, the Yunnan Zengliang Expert Workstation, and the Research Base for the Unity and Progress of Nationalities with Chinese Characteristics; there are 1 Yunnan Philosophy and Social Sciences Innovation Team and 1 Yunnan University Science and Technology Innovation Team. One national folk art training center in the Lancang River Basin has been built, and the China-Myanmar Channel and Indian Ocean Rim Research Center and the Belt and Road Research Institute are set up. In the past three years, teachers of the school have published 596 academic papers (including 70 papers in core journals such as SCI, EI, CSCD, CSSCI, and Peking University Core), published more than 49 academic works such as the "Chinese National Unity and Progress Series", obtained more than 127 national patents, and won 2 provincial and ministerial scientific research awards and 12 municipal and departmental scientific research awards. Expand communication channels and achieve significant results in foreign cooperation. Under the direct concern of the Ministry of Education, Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Southwest University have provided counterpart support to our school since 2019. The two schools have provided all-round support and assistance to our school in terms of curriculum construction, talent training, faculty team, scientific research, and teaching and scientific research resource construction. At present, a total of 64 young teachers have gone to counterpart assistance universities to study for a doctorate degree, 28 teachers have been selected as part-time doctoral and master supervisors at universities such as Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Southwest University, and 53 outstanding students have been selected to study in Southwest University. The school has signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with the Lincang Municipal People's Government, and cooperation agreements with the People's Governments of Yun County, Shuangjiang County, and Cangyuan County, and the school-local and school-government cooperation has reached a new level. The school fully integrates the advantageous resources of international friendly groups and organizations, maintains friendly exchanges and cooperation with higher education institutions in South Korea, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and other countries, and selects a certain number of outstanding students to exchange studies at cooperative institutions every year. In 2002 and 2012, the school was approved as "the key Chinese education base in Yunnan Province" and "the first batch of Chinese education base schools in Yunnan Province", and established the "Friendly City Scholarship" of the Lincang Municipal People's Government. It has successively recruited and trained 473 foreign students (including 338 Burmese overseas Chinese); hosted the "Myanmar Chinese Youth's Root-Seeking Journey" activities of the Yunnan Provincial Overseas Chinese Affairs Office for many times, with 1,595 participants; held "Lincang City Burmese Key Training Class", "Myanmar Chinese Teacher Training Class", "Myanmar North Chinese School Micro-Video Production Technology Training Class", etc., trained 671 people, and effectively promoted the people-to-people exchanges between China and Myanmar. Focusing on teachers and students, strengthen comprehensive service guarantees. The stock of books has increased steadily, the renovation and upgrading of student dormitories has been completed, and the "6T" management of canteen safety and sanitation has been implemented; the first phase of the "shortcomings" project of education and health has been completed, and individual projects and ancillary facilities such as gymnasiums, comprehensive training halls, art teaching training buildings, and student canteens have been put into use; a vocational and technical education training building with a total construction area of 29,980m2 has been built, and a loan of US$20 million from Israel has been approved. It is planned to build artificial intelligence experimental training centers, aviation service training rooms and other experimental training rooms required for professional development; the transformation of the national second-class track and field stadium has been completed, and the greening, beautification and lighting construction of the campus has been continuously improved. A modern university campus with a reasonable layout, complete functions and beautiful environment has been initially built. An applied national university surrounded by mountains and waters, with spring and bright scenery, thriving and rich in humanities stands in the southwest border of the motherland, becoming Lincang's cultural business card as "the world's tea master, the world's Wa hometown, and the capital of Hengchun". Draw a new blueprint and promote new development. In the next step, the school will continue to adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and under the strong leadership of the Provincial Party Committee, Provincial Government, Provincial Party Committee Education Working Committee, and Provincial Department of Education, unite and lead all teachers and students, not forgetting the original intention of cultivating morality and educating people, keeping in mind the mission of educating people for the Party and cultivating talents for the country, and taking high-quality development as the theme, strive to provide education that satisfies the people. Strive to initially form the basic framework of an applied university by the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan", strive to build an applied undergraduate university with high quality of talent training, strong local service capabilities, and distinctive characteristics, and fully build a well-known applied national university at home and abroad by 2035.