Panzhihua University is the only comprehensive undergraduate college with engineering as its main focus in southwest Sichuan and northwest Yunnan, which is located by the Ministry of Education. It is one of the first 100 national-level innovation and entrepreneurship colleges in the country. The school is located in the urban area of Panzhihua City, a famous vanadium and titanium capital, a sunny flower city, a health resort, and the only city in the country named after a flower. Historical evolution: The school was advocated by the older generation of revolutionaries such as Fang Yi and Song Renqiong. It was founded in 1983. Party and state leaders Fang Yi and Fei Xiaotong successively wrote the name of "Panzhihua University". It was upgraded to a general higher vocational college in 1995, upgraded to an undergraduate college in 2001 and renamed "Panzhihua University". It obtained the right to award bachelor's degrees in 2005, began to jointly train graduate students in 2007, began to organize international student education in 2017, and was approved to become a master's degree awarding institution in 2021. School Goals: Since its establishment nearly 40 years ago, the school has adhered to the service positioning of "based on Panxi, facing the west, and radiating the whole country", adhered to the school philosophy of "establishing morality and cultivating people, integrating industry and education, and putting application first", and upheld the school motto of "Mingde, Lizhi, Erudition, and Practice", nurturing the school spirit, teaching style, and learning style of "self-discipline, self-consciousness, self-improvement, great virtue, great love, and sunshine, health, and beauty". It is student-oriented and cultivates high-level application-oriented talents with "family and country feelings, modern civilized personality, innovative spirit, and practical ability", and is committed to building a first-class application-oriented university with distinctive characteristics, outstanding advantages, and outstanding reputation. School conditions: The school has a beautiful environment and four seasons like spring. It strives to create an integrated "campus, park, and garden", and build a new pattern of green ecological campus with "university like park" and "park with university". It has won the "National Civilized Unit", "National Model Advanced Unit for Greening", and "Sichuan Excellent Civilized Campus". It covers a total area of about 1,450 acres, and the school building area is 574,200 square meters. It has 21 teaching units, 1 scientific research unit, 8 teaching auxiliary units and 1 directly-managed tertiary hospital, with fixed assets of 1.124 billion yuan. The library has 5.09 million documents and is a national reading demonstration base in Sichuan Province. The school has a team of teachers who are loyal to the party's education cause, devoted to teaching and loving students. There are 1,189 faculty members (excluding affiliated hospitals), including 919 full-time teachers, 133 experts at all levels and types, including experts enjoying special allowances from the State Council, Tianfu Scholars, Tianfu Emei Plan entrepreneurial leaders and young talents, and academic and technical leaders and reserve candidates in Sichuan Province. Among the full-time teachers, 434 have senior professional and technical titles, including 132 senior professional and technical titles; 790 teachers have master's degrees or above, including 253 with doctoral degrees. Disciplines and majors: The school has a complete range of disciplines and distinctive characteristics. There are 62 undergraduate majors and 2 professional master's degree authorization points. It has 1 national first-class major, 1 featured major, and 1 pilot project for comprehensive reform of majors. It has 15 provincial and ministerial-level advantageous majors, 11 provincial first-class undergraduate majors, 6 featured majors, 5 application-oriented demonstration majors, 3 provincial comprehensive reform pilot projects, 12 provincial outstanding talent training plans, 3 national first-class undergraduate courses, and 33 provincial first-class undergraduate courses. It has formed a school-running feature with vanadium titanium +, health care + professional clusters as advantages, new engineering, new medicine, new agriculture, and new liberal arts compatible, coordinated development of 9 major disciplines of science, engineering, liberal arts, law, economics, management, medicine, art, and agriculture, and joint promotion of general higher education, higher vocational education, and adult higher education. Talent training: The school is in the third line and benchmarks first-class. The school currently has 15,351 full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students and international students, and 6,757 students in the School of Continuing Education. The school is one of the 100 universities in the country that are involved in the construction of the application-oriented undergraduate industry-education integration development project, a national-level innovation and entrepreneurship college construction unit, one of the first batch of Sichuan Province's dual innovation demonstration bases, and a national defense education characteristic school of the Ministry of Education. It has been selected into the "Double Hundred Plan for School-Enterprise Cooperation" of the China Higher Education Expo. It has 7 practical training platforms such as the provincial college student innovation and entrepreneurship club and the provincial university science and technology park, and has built special classes such as "Fang Yi Titanium Class" and "Fang Yi Red Class" that are highly connected with industry needs. In recent years, students have won a total of 1 national silver medal, 14 national bronze medals, 19 provincial gold medals, 59 provincial silver medals, and 98 provincial bronze medals in the "Internet +" College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. The employment rate of undergraduates has remained above 90%, ranking among the top universities in the province. The satisfaction of employers has remained above 96%, and the pass rate of postgraduate entrance examinations has been increasing year by year. For many consecutive years, it has been rated as "Sichuan Province's Advanced Unit for Graduate Employment", "Sichuan Province's Advanced Unit for Talent Development", "Sichuan Province's Advanced Unit for Ideological and Political Work", and "Sichuan Province's Demonstration Base for Strategic Talents to Strengthen the Province". Scientific research: The school focuses on the main battlefield of the economy and regional development strategies to carry out scientific research. It is a unit for cultivating intellectual property advantages in Sichuan Province, one of the first pilot universities in Sichuan Province to encourage scientific and technological personnel to innovate and start businesses, and a pilot unit for the mixed ownership reform of the ownership of scientific and technological achievements in Sichuan Province. There are 2 provincial modern industrial colleges, and four provincial bases for health care industry research, vanadium titanium culture popularization, clean government culture education, and three-line cultural inheritance. There are 1 national key laboratory for vanadium titanium testing, 1 national Panzhihua vanadium titanium incubator, 32 provincial key laboratories, and 35 municipal scientific research platforms. In the past five years, various scientific research projects at all levels have received 128 million yuan in funds, and a total of 1,647 scientific research projects have been undertaken, including 8 national projects and 127 provincial projects. 1,407 patents have been authorized, including 156 invention patents; 4,901 high-level papers have been published, including 653 SCI/SSCI, CPCI, and EI papers; 8 provincial science and technology progress awards, 6 provincial philosophy and social science awards, and 19 national first-level industry association awards have been won. Foreign Exchange: The school adheres to the principle of open education and continuously deepens domestic and international exchanges and cooperation. The school has established in-depth cooperative relations with domestic universities and large enterprises such as Sichuan University, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, China Steel Group, Panzhihua Steel City Group, etc. in scientific research cooperation and graduate education. It has carried out extensive talent training, academic and scientific research cooperation with more than 10 universities and research institutes in the United States, Britain, France, Sweden, Ukraine, Belarus, Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea and other countries. In recent years, more than 300 students have gone abroad for exchange and study, and more than 200 teachers have gone abroad for academic exchanges and visiting studies; established the "Belt and Road" Language Research Center with Assumption University in Thailand, and joined the CIS Titanium Association; since 2017, it has started to carry out international student education in China, and the source of students mainly comes from countries along the "Belt and Road". Serving the society: The school actively serves the regional economic and social development, gathers wisdom and strength to enhance service capabilities. Focusing on the creation of Sichuan Province's "Second Granary of Tianfu", the Agricultural College was established, and the "Vanadium Titanium +" was deeply cultivated. The first Vanadium Titanium College and the International Vanadium Titanium Research Institute in the country were established. The "3+3" Vanadium Titanium Collaborative Innovation Key Team for the upstream, midstream and downstream of vanadium titanium was established, and the "9+1+1" Vanadium Titanium Neck Technology Research Team was established. The vanadium titanium collaborative innovation platform for colleges and universities in Sichuan and the Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory for Innovation, Development and Intelligent Decision-making of Vanadium Titanium Strategic Resources were established. More than 200 scientific research projects involving vanadium and titanium at the municipal level or above were undertaken, more than 100 patents and more than 30 research achievement awards in the field of vanadium and titanium were obtained, and the province ranked first in the field of vanadium and titanium material research. Accurately docking with China's health resort city development strategy, the first health and wellness college and health and wellness industry technology research institute in the country were innovatively established, and more than 100 projects of various levels and types in the field of health and wellness were undertaken. Focusing on the "dual carbon" goal, it has built a solar energy utilization technology integrated engineering laboratory, the province's first inverter step-down photovoltaic water pumping system with a head of 620 meters, the province's first annual production of 120,000 tons of industrial coal solar and air source heat pump joint drying production line and the province's first 110KW rooftop distributed photovoltaic experimental power station. High-level talents have carried out expert service activities at the grassroots level for 460 people; poverty alleviation and rural revitalization assistance are seamlessly connected, with more than 4.5 million yuan in assistance funds invested, more than 60 assistance projects implemented, a total of 16 assistance cadres stationed, more than 900 assistance work carried out in the assistance areas, and more than 2,000 assistance objects were trained. It won the honor of "meritorious collective" for poverty alleviation in Panzhihua City, 1 person won the advanced individual for poverty alleviation in Sichuan Province, and 9 people won the advanced individual for poverty alleviation in Panzhihua City. Forge ahead on a new journey: stand on a new position and embark on a new journey. All Panda people are full of confidence and determination, and they work hard and move forward courageously, shouldering the dual missions of providing education that satisfies the people and building a first-class applied university with high-quality development. They actively serve the national strategy, actively integrate into local development, and continuously improve the level of school management. They promote reform and development while practicing "self-discipline, self-awareness, and self-reliance", implement moral education while promoting "masters with great virtue and love", spread knowledge, shape souls, and cultivate new people while firmly adhering to "sunshine, health, and beauty", and contribute Panda's strength to accelerate the construction of a strong country in education, science and technology, and talents.
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