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Zhaoqing College
China

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Official website: https://www.zqu.edu.cn/
Tel：0758-2716043
Address：Main campus: Zhaoqing Avenue, Duanzhou District, Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province; Xinghu Campus: Xinghu Avenue, Duanzhou District, Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province
Zhaoqing University is a public full-time general college with the right to confer master's degrees, sponsored by the People's Government of Guangdong Province and supervised by the Provincial Department of Education. It is located in Zhaoqing, a city in the Pearl River Delta of Guangdong Province (90 kilometers from Guangzhou). The school is located in the Xinghu Scenic Area of Zhaoqing, which echoes the mountains and waters of Xinghu Lake, showing its beautiful scenery and is a good place for studying and studying. The school was formerly the Zhaoqing Normal School founded in 1970, renamed Zhaoqing May 7th Normal College in 1975, and renamed Zhaoqing Normal College in 1977. In 1985, Xijiang University and Zhaoqing Normal College implemented the "two schools in one" school-running model, opening the comprehensive higher education school-running process. In 1990, Zhaoqing Normal College abolished its independent system and school name and became the Normal Department of Xijiang University. In 2000, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, Xijiang University and Zhaoqing Education College merged to form Zhaoqing College, a provincial and municipal undergraduate college. In 2006, it passed the undergraduate teaching work level evaluation of the Ministry of Education. In 2016, it accepted the undergraduate teaching review and evaluation of the Ministry of Education. In 2017, it became a master's degree granting project construction unit. In 2021, it became a master's degree granting unit with the approval of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. Over the past 50 years, Zhaoqing College has not forgotten its original intention, forged ahead, and written a chapter of the transformation of Chinese local universities from small to large and from weak to strong. It has trained more than 220,000 outstanding talents of various types and made positive contributions to the popularization of higher education in China. The school has a strong local historical and cultural heritage, and has not forgotten its original intention of running a school in the local area, and its various undertakings have flourished. The long Xijiang River has witnessed the vicissitudes and great changes of Lingnan, precipitated the unique Lingnan culture, and achieved the glory of the Xijiang River Basin for two thousand years. It is precisely because of the profound cultural heritage of the Xijiang River Basin, under the nurturing of Lingnan culture, Zhaoqing College has continued to sing and pursue persistently, and has embarked on a tortuous and accessible development path. The school strives to govern and pursue excellence, forming the school motto of "virtue, wisdom, erudition, and action", inheriting the spirit of "unity, forge ahead, truth-seeking, and innovation" of Zhaoqing College, adhering to the school-running philosophy of "respecting teachers and respecting the way, educating people, improving scientific and technological innovation, and applying it to the world", focusing on the "application-oriented, ability-based" talent training positioning and the goal of building a high-level application-oriented university with distinctive characteristics in the new era, and establishing the development ideas of "upgrading, expanding capacity, adjusting structure, strengthening characteristics, improving quality, and increasing efficiency". The school has won the titles of National University with Typical Experience in Graduate Employment, National University with Typical Experience in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, National Model Unit for Greening, the Fourth Batch of Chinese Arts and Crafts Masters Inheritance and Innovation Base Colleges, Guangdong Civilized Units, Provincial Party Building Demonstration Colleges, Guangdong Province Law-based School Demonstration Schools, Guangdong Province Safe and Civilized Campuses, Guangdong Province University Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Demonstration Schools, Guangdong Province Green Schools, and Guangdong Province Water-saving Colleges. The school closely follows the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, adheres to the socialist direction of running schools, and comprehensively strengthens party building and ideological and political work. We thoroughly studied and implemented the "Regulations on the Work of Grassroots Organizations of the Communist Party of China in Ordinary Colleges and Universities", conscientiously implemented the new round of Guangdong Province's three-year action plan to strengthen the construction of grassroots party organizations, continuously improved the grassroots organization system, and focused on enhancing the political and organizational functions of grassroots party organizations. The school vigorously built a party building brand, promoted the "double innovation" work of party building in colleges and universities, and established a four-dimensional party building "double innovation" work and education matrix of "national-provincial-municipal-school". The school was selected as a "provincial party building demonstration university", with a total of 25 "double innovation" brands at all levels, including "national party building model branch", "provincial party building benchmarking college", "provincial party building model branch", "provincial colleges and universities' double leaders' teacher party branch secretary studio", 1 grassroots party building brand of "Xijiang Party Flag Red" in Zhaoqing City, and 2 demonstration sites of the third batch of grassroots party building work in the education system of Zhaoqing City. The school has increased the intensity of ideological and political construction of courses, constructed a "big pattern" of ideological and political education, and built seven colleges in accordance with the idea of "discipline and professional college system, life community college system", creating a "one-stop" student community comprehensive management model, and continuously improving the quality of student community education. Constructing a new pattern of "three-dimensional education", the "Yanyuan Program" of ideological and political education with two-way interaction, innovation-driven, cultural immersion, and practice-based education has been formed, which is committed to guiding young students to set great ambitions, be virtuous, become talented, and take on great responsibilities, and become new people of the era who are capable of shouldering the heavy responsibility of national rejuvenation. The school vigorously implements the strategy of strengthening the school with talents, continuously optimizes the structure of the teaching staff, and continuously improves the overall level. The school currently has 1,128 full-time teachers. Among the full-time teachers, the proportion of teachers with master's and doctoral degrees is 89.98%, the proportion of doctoral teachers is 41.05%, the proportion of teachers with senior professional titles is 42.29%, and the proportion of "dual-teacher and dual-ability" teachers is 18%. There are 1 Yangtze River Scholar, 2 New Century Outstanding Talents, 14 provincial high-level talents, and 2 provincial teaching masters. The talent team represented by Yangtze River Scholars, recipients of the State Council Special Allowance, New Century Excellent Talents of the Ministry of Education, National Excellent Educators, Provincial Teaching Masters, Excellent Teachers of South Guangdong, and High-level Talents of Zhaoqing City has continued to grow. A group of experts and scholars renowned at home and abroad have been hired as honorary deans and visiting professors of the school. The school has formed a high-level teaching staff, providing a solid talent foundation and teacher guarantee to meet the needs of talent training, scientific research, and serving the society. The school attaches great importance to the construction of a "dual-teacher and dual-ability" teaching staff. In recent years, more than 300 teachers have been selected and sent to enterprises and industries for training, temporary positions and practical training, which has improved the application ability of teachers. The school continues to strengthen the construction of disciplines and majors to promote the high-quality connotation development of higher education. The school covers ten disciplines, including economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, management, and art. There are 2 provincial key disciplines, 1 key discipline, 1 key discipline, 1 key discipline, 3 key disciplines for "strengthening" improvement plan, 3 key disciplines for provincial and municipal co-construction, 3 key disciplines for municipality, and mechanical engineering is a post-setting discipline for Pearl River Scholars. It has three professional master's degree authorization points in education, electronic information, and design. The school builds a discipline and professional system in accordance with the construction idea of "strengthening new engineering, improving new normal education, specializing in new arts, improving new liberal arts, and developing new agricultural sciences". There are currently 60 undergraduate majors in enrollment, including 19 engineering, 10 science, 9 art, 6 education, 6 literature, 5 management, 3 law, 1 economics, and 1 history. There are 26,268 full-time undergraduate students. The school continues to improve its conditions for running schools and strives to lay a solid foundation for the development of the school's cause. The university has two campuses, the main campus and the Xinghu campus, with 20 colleges, covering an area of about 1,279 mu (about 850,000 square meters), a total construction area of 622,300 square meters, and an average value of 11,800 yuan per student for teaching and research equipment. The library consists of three library areas: Fuhui Library, Yan Kuanhu Library, and Xinghu Campus Library. The total area of the library is 27,000 square meters, with 1.8381 million paper books, 3.1821 million electronic books, 28,600 electronic journals, and 32,324 audio and video.5 hours. The new campus construction project, which currently covers an area of about 1,124 acres (about 750,000 square meters), will start construction in the second half of the year. The school continues to deepen education and teaching reforms, and create the "Zhaoqing Model" of teacher education and an innovative and entrepreneurial education brand. The school has strong teaching strength and a high level of teaching, strict and standardized teaching management, and professors and doctors teach students at the forefront of teaching; the school vigorously advocates and encourages undergraduates to take postgraduate entrance examinations, and has achieved remarkable results. The school has established a teacher education reform and innovation pilot zone, and has been approved to establish a national teacher education innovation experimental zone. In February 2019, the Ministry of Education specially invited our school to participate in the press conference to introduce the experience and highlights in revitalizing Guangdong teacher education and promoting the construction of "new normal". In September 2020, the website of the Ministry of Education published an article about our school as a local teacher education university, bravely becoming the main force in the construction of rural teacher teams. In November 2020, the experience and practices of our school's rural teacher education were called the "Zhaoqing Model" by the Teacher Work Department of the Ministry of Education. The construction of the practical teaching system and the practical teaching platform has made important progress. There are currently 12 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 17 provincial off-campus practical teaching bases for college students, more than 580 industry-university-research cooperation bases, and more than 600 off-campus practical teaching bases. The school attaches great importance to employment and entrepreneurship. Xinhua News Agency and Guangming Daily have interviewed and reported on the school's innovation and entrepreneurship education experience. The school has been awarded the Guangdong Provincial College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Demonstration School, the National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Typical Experience University, and the Guangdong Provincial College Employment and Entrepreneurship Collective Typical Experience Award and other honors and awards. The school's employment guidance course was rated as the Guangdong Provincial College Employment and Entrepreneurship Gold Course, and the "Qihang Career Consulting Studio" was rated as a "College Career Characteristic Studio" by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education. "The Construction and Practice of the '531' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education System of Local Undergraduate Colleges" won the second prize of the 9th Guangdong Provincial Education and Teaching Achievement. The school attaches great importance to scientific and technological innovation and continuously expands the scope of social services and development space. At present, the school has built 45 scientific research platforms at or above the municipal (department) level, including 23 provincial scientific research platforms. The University Science and Technology Park of Zhaoqing College has been recognized as a national university science and technology park, a national science and technology enterprise incubator, a national makerspace, a Guangdong Province small and micro enterprise entrepreneurship and innovation demonstration base, a Guangdong Province patent technology entrepreneurship incubator, a Guangdong Province copyright business demonstration base, the fifth batch of Guangdong Province provincial entrepreneurship incubation demonstration bases, Guangdong Province female college students entrepreneurship practice base and employment internship base, and the first batch of Guangdong Province cultural and technological integration demonstration bases. There are 12 new research and development institutions and think tanks such as Zhaoqing Xiechuang Auto Parts Industry Research Institute Co., Ltd. and Zhaoqing High-tech Zone Innovation Research Institute, and 7 public service platforms for advanced equipment manufacturing industry on the west bank of the Pearl River. Actively carry out the construction of innovative scientific research teams, and currently there are 4 innovation teams in ordinary colleges and universities in Guangdong Province. Fu Tingdong, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Third World Academy of Sciences, led the construction of the National Rapeseed Engineering Technology Center Achievement Transformation (Guangdong) Demonstration Base and the Xijiang River Basin Rapeseed Experimental Base at the school; the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs established the Zhaoqing Comprehensive Experimental Station of the National Modern Agriculture (Citrus) Industry Technology System at the school; the "Guangdong Provincial Environmental Health and Resource Utilization Laboratory" was approved as a provincial key laboratory; the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs approved the construction of an agricultural product quality and safety risk assessment laboratory at the school; and established strategic partnerships with Dinghu, Gaoyao, Sihui, Zhaoqing High-tech Zone Management Committee, Guangfozhao (Huaiji) Cooperation Zone Management Committee, etc., and carried out comprehensive cooperation in science and technology, industry, education, rural revitalization and other fields; 2 liberal arts and 6 science and engineering industrial colleges have been established, achieving full coverage of science and engineering secondary colleges and industrial colleges, including 1 provincial demonstration industrial college, 2 provincial modern industrial college construction projects, and 3 school-level industrial colleges that have been included in project management. In recent years, the school has obtained 18 national scientific research projects and 163 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects. Relying on the local historical and cultural heritage of "China's Inkstone Capital", the school strives to create special majors such as arts and crafts, product design, and tourism management. The "Wangfu Silk Painting" team has obtained more than 150 patents and copyright protections, and was selected as a national gift at the G20 Summit. At the same time, it was selected as a special gift for more than 60 countries' consulates general in Guangzhou. It is the "leading brand of Zhaoqing's cultural and creative industry". The school strengthens the planning and guidance of campus cultural activities, and the construction of campus culture has yielded fruitful results. In recent years, our students have won thousands of national honors and provincial awards in the National College Student Electronic Design Competition, the National College Student Mathematical Modeling Competition, the "Challenge Cup" College Student Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition, the China "Internet +" College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the Guangdong Provincial College Student Mechanical Innovation Design Competition, the "Governor's Cup" Industrial Design Competition, and the Guangdong Provincial College Student Art Performance. In the 9th and 10th Guangdong Provincial College Students' Games, the total number of medals ranked among the top undergraduate colleges in the province. The school vigorously cultivates and practices the core socialist values, actively carries out volunteer service work, and has repeatedly won excellent grades in the performance evaluation of student aid work in colleges and universities across the province. In response to the national call, the school continued the spirit of teaching, and was awarded the title of "Outstanding Aid to Tibet Talent in Medog County". The school was awarded the title of "Meritorious Unit for Aid to Tibet". We continue to strengthen the construction of online ideological and political education and build a "new position" for online ideological and political education. The school's Yiban Development Center has won many honorary titles, including the national "Four-Star Yiban Student Workstation", "National Outstanding Yiban Counselor (Public Account)", Guangdong University's "Top Ten Yiban Development Centers", and "Top Ten Yiban Venue Construction". In the 13th National Art Exhibition, one work won the bronze medal (the only award in Guangdong). The large-scale original anti-corruption education musical "The End of the Blue Sky", created and produced by the school's teachers and students, was recommended by the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection to tour around the province and won the second prize of the 14th Guangdong Art Festival. The school was approved to build a base for the inheritance of China's excellent traditional culture; the school has been rated as an excellent unit for the national summer "Three Going to the Countryside" social practice activities for college and technical secondary school student volunteers for a total of 21 times, and has been identified as a demonstration point for schools in Guangdong Province to cultivate and practice the core socialist values. Many national advanced collectives and outstanding individuals have emerged in the school, such as the National Outstanding College Students' Chinese Studies Society, the Chinese College Students' Self-improvement Star, the National College Vitality League Branch, the National College Demonstration League Branch for Practicing the Core Socialist Values, the National Top 100 Theoretical Learning Societies and Top 100 Theoretical Articles for College Students, and the National College Youth League "Four Into Four Beliefs" Activity Grassroots Outstanding Projects. The school adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, takes moral education as the foundation, closely follows the goal of building a high-level applied university with distinctive characteristics in the new era, takes the political construction of the Party as the leader, takes discipline and professional construction, teacher team construction and structural adjustment as the main line, adheres to connotative development, comprehensively improves the quality of undergraduate education, starts graduate education from a high starting point, deeply integrates into the Bay Area's innovation-driven work, focuses on serving local economic and social development, and comprehensively launches the "Improvement of University and Application for Doctoral Degree" quality improvement project, striving to create a new situation of high-quality development of the school!