Jiangnan University is located in Wuxi, a famous Jiangnan city on the coast of Taihu Lake. It is a key construction university under the national "2 1 1 Project" directly under the Ministry of Education.
Jiangnan University, which enjoys the reputation of "Pearl of Light Industry Higher Education", has a long history and profound cultural background. From Sanjiang Normal School founded by 1902 to National Central University; From 1952, the food industry department of Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University) was established when the departments of colleges and universities in China were adjusted, and from 1958, the whole department moved eastward to Wuxi to establish Wuxi Institute of Light Industry. 1995 changed its name to Wuxi Institute of Light Industry. 200 1 1 With the approval of the Ministry of Education, Wuxi University of Light Industry, Jiangnan College and Wuxi Institute of Education merged to form Jiangnan University. After a hundred years of hard work and nearly 50 years of construction and development, Jiangnan University has become a multidisciplinary university with reasonable scale and structure, excellent teaching quality, remarkable school-running benefits, social recognition for scientific research, teaching and service, and a certain reputation at home and abroad.
The school disciplines cover nine categories, including economics, law, teaching, literature, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine and management. 18 colleges (departments) and 60 undergraduate majors. At present, there are more than 365,438 doctoral and master students (including engineering master students), and there are full-time undergraduates 10. The school also has International Education College, Lymton College approved by the Ministry of Education, and Taihu College of Jiangnan University in cooperation with social forces. The school is a provincial civilized school and a provincial civilized unit.
The school has two postdoctoral mobile stations in light industry technology and engineering, food science and engineering, two first-class doctoral authorization points, 265,438+0 doctoral specialty points, 59 master specialty points and 8 engineering master specialty points. Of the 18 departments in the whole school, 15 department is qualified to train master students. The school has four national and provincial key disciplines, and has the "National Life Science and Technology Talent Training Base" approved by the Ministry of Education and the State Planning Commission to train high-level talents with postgraduate and doctoral degrees. The school has 1 1 national, provincial and ministerial research centers and laboratories approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the State Planning Commission. Two national key disciplines, such as food science and fermentation engineering, have unique advantages and strong strength, and have a leading position and certain influence in the world.
The school has a strong faculty, with full-time teachers 1.548, including 3 academicians of China Academy of Engineering (2 double-hired academicians), 7 Taihu scholars, 84 professors 1.84, and 490 teachers with professional and technical positions above the subtropical high school. The academic leadership team consisting of more than 350 doctoral tutors and master tutors has laid a solid foundation for scientific and technological innovation and high-level personnel training.
The school is one of the cradles and supporting units of light industry, food and biotechnology in China. During the Tenth Five-Year Plan period, the school undertook and completed a large number of national, provincial and ministerial key scientific and technological projects and applied basic research projects, including the national "973" project, major national projects, the national "Tenth Five-Year Plan" project, the national "863" project, the natural science foundation project, the agricultural achievements transformation fund project of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the key research projects of Jiangsu Province in the Tenth Five-Year Plan, with more than 200 research results. Among them, more than 80 achievements have filled the domestic gap and reached the international advanced level. More than 70 scientific research achievements have won national, ministerial and provincial scientific and technological progress awards, and won the second prize of national technological invention and the second prize of scientific and technological progress in 2003 and 2005 respectively. From 200 1 to 2004, the school applied for 1056 patents and granted 30 1 patents. In 2005, the number of university patent applications ranked fifth among universities in China and first among universities in Jiangsu.
The school attaches importance to facing the main battlefield of economic construction, speeding up scientific and technological innovation and promoting the industrialization of scientific and technological achievements. Actively participate in the national western development and the economic construction along the Yangtze River in Jiangsu Province, and give full play to the scientific and technological advantages of the school in light industry, food, textile, environment, chemical industry, biomedicine and so on. , closely combined with social needs, and enterprises in scientific research and development, technical services, personnel training and other aspects to carry out comprehensive cooperation. To promote technological transformation and product upgrading of enterprises and make contributions to national economic and social development. The provincial university science park established by joint venture with the local government has become an important incubation base for high-tech research projects.
The school has set up a board of directors with the participation of more than 100 enterprises and institutions such as Haier Group, Maotai Liquor Group, Tsingtao Brewery Group, Beijing Yanjing Beer Group, Shaoxing Yellow Wine Group and Jiangsu Little Swan Group, which pays attention to the relationship between the school and enterprises and society, promotes the integration of Industry-University-Research and serves all aspects of society. Each college (department) also has a secondary board of directors attended by more than 400 enterprises and institutions. China Telecom, Dennis (China) Co., Ltd., Kerry Grain and Oil (Shenzhen) Commercial Development Co., Ltd., Donghai Grain and Oil Industry (Zhangjiagang) Co., Ltd., National Starch Shanghai Chemical Co., Ltd., Seagate Electronics, Suntory (China) Investment Co., Ltd., Tsingtao Brewery Group, Chongqing Beer Group, Genenco Bioengineering Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Tianci High-tech Materials Technology Co., Ltd., International Professional (ISP) (Hong Kong).
The school has frequent exchanges and cooperation with teaching and scientific research at home and abroad, and is the first batch of universities approved by the Ministry of Education to receive foreign students and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Since the 1960s, we have accepted and trained international students from all over the world. At present, the school has established close inter-school exchange relations with 44 universities in more than 20 countries and regions, and carried out scientific research cooperation with universities and institutions in nearly 20 countries, including the United States, Canada and Japan. The school has hired more than 50 famous foreign scholars and professors as honorary professors or visiting professors, held international and bilateral academic exchange activities every year, and gradually became an international exchange center in the fields of textiles, food and art design.
The school motto is "Keep learning and stop at perfection", which is the code of conduct and value pursuit of teachers and students of Jiangnan University. She fully explained that the school not only pays attention to imparting knowledge to students, but also pays attention to cultivating students' practical ability; Pay attention to both the formation of scientific literacy and the improvement of humanistic quality; It not only emphasizes the pragmatic and persistent style of study, but also emphasizes the enterprising spirit of pioneering, innovating and pursuing Excellence. The school's philosophy is: "highlight the characteristics of light industry;" Pay attention to the national economy and people's livelihood; Expand the subject field; Promote the integration of arts and sciences. "After years of hard work, the school has formed a scientific talent training system and a teaching quality guarantee system, focusing on cultivating high-quality innovative professionals with solid foundation, wide knowledge, strong practical ability and high comprehensive quality that are urgently needed by the economy and society.
The school library has a collection of 6.5438+0.7 million books, 85,600 e-books, and more than 365,438+0.000 Chinese and foreign periodicals, and is equipped with the sci-tech novelty retrieval workstation of the Ministry of Education. Journal of Jiangnan University (Natural Science Edition), Journal of Jiangnan University (Humanities and Social Sciences Edition), Food and Biotechnology, Journal of Wuxi Institute of Education, Cold Drink and Frozen Food Industry, Battery Industry, etc. It has been edited and published by the school and distributed to the public at home and abroad.
With the full support of the Ministry of Education and the provincial and municipal governments, the new campus of the school has stood on the shore of Taihu Lake, between mountains and rivers. The new campus covers an area of 3 1.25 mu. With the design concept of "an ecological campus with flowing meandering water", the Jiangnan architectural style with blue tiles and white walls is integrated with the multi-level garden space of streams, Woods and lawns, showing green, water town and cultural charm. Modern campus with advanced facilities, complete functions and beautiful environment provides good conditions for students to study and research.
Entering the new century, the school has ushered in a good opportunity for reform and development. The second phase of the national "2 1 1 project" focuses on the development of six disciplines with obvious advantages, such as industrial biotechnology, food science engineering and safety, industrial design innovation system, modern processing technology of fiber products, management and development of small and medium-sized enterprises, and light industrial process information science and engineering, which further enhances the school's work in textiles, food, art design and management.
A hundred years later, Genesis was brilliant. During the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period, Jiangnan University will be built into a cradle for cultivating high-quality innovative talents, a base for knowledge innovation, a center for promoting the transformation of achievements, a window for serving the society and a position for the construction of socialist spiritual civilization through the full implementation of the development strategy of "strengthening the school with quality, strengthening the school with talents and serving famous schools through mechanisms". A high-level university with distinctive features will stand in the south of China!
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School address:No. 1800, Lihu Avenue, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, with zip code of 2 14 122.
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