Wenzhou University

University Description

Wenzhou University is the only comprehensive university in southern Zhejiang, northern Fujian and eastern Jiangxi and a key university in Zhejiang Province. It is located in Wenzhou city, a famous historical and cultural city in China and known as “the best landscape in southeast China”. The university was founded by the merger of Wenzhou Normal University and wenzhou University in 2004. The school can be traced back to wenzhou Normal School founded in 1933. It has 88 years of history and academician Gu Chaohao, winner of the National Highest Science and Technology Award, was once the president of the university. Xi Jinping, general Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Party School Press, has pointed out that “we should attach great importance to education and talent work, especially to run wenzhou University and other institutions of higher learning”.

Wenzhou University has formed a multi-level and multi-form running pattern of undergraduate education, graduate education, continuing education, international education and international cooperation education. Its disciplines cover ten disciplines including philosophy, economics, law, pedagogy, literature, history, science, engineering, management and art. It has 20 schools.

The university now has two campuses, Chashan and Xueji Road, covering an area of 1,973.43 mu and covering an area of 993,200 square meters. The total value of teaching and research equipment is 858 million YUAN. The university has a collection of 2,315,700 printed books, 1,844,800 electronic books and 104 electronic periodicals and data databases in Both Chinese and foreign languages. The university has 1273 full-time teachers (820 doctors, accounting for 64.4%; Senior titles, 698 people, accounting for 54.83%), with full-time academicians, changjiang scholars, country all, countries have made outstanding contribution to the middle-aged and young experts, “pacesetter project” national choice, the state optimal green, culture department of the famous and “four of a batch of” talents such as national talent 31 people, all kinds of existing at or above the provincial level high level personnel 158 people.

In 2003, the university became a master’s degree awarding unit, and in 2017, it was listed as a doctoral degree awarding unit of Zhejiang Province. There are 17 master’s degree authorization centers in first-level disciplines and 12 professional master’s degree authorization centers. Ruian Graduate School of Wenzhou University and Post-doctoral workstation of Zhejiang Province have been established to jointly train doctors and post-doctoral students with 24 well-known universities and scientific research institutions at home and abroad. The university is characterized by distinctive disciplines, with excellent basic disciplines of liberal arts and science and strong applied disciplines of engineering, economics, management, law and business. It is the university with the most comprehensive strength in southern Zhejiang, northern Fujian and eastern Jiangxi. Ecology subject for zhejiang province key advantages of the construction of characteristic disciplines, chemistry and Chinese language and literature, electrical engineering, law, marxist theory, applied economics, mechanical engineering, ecology, nine of zhejiang province first-class disciplines such as civil engineering, chemistry, material science, engineering, computer science into four disciplines ESI global top 1%.

The university adheres to the principle of “quality is the foundation of the university”, fully implements the fundamental task of moral cultivation, and focuses on cultivating high-quality applied talents with “emphasis on practice, strong innovation, entrepreneurship, good management, and dare to take responsibility”. In 2008, the university was evaluated as “excellent” by the Ministry of Education for undergraduate teaching, and in 2015, it was one of the first batch to pass the evaluation of undergraduate teaching by the Ministry of Education. It has 15 state-level first-class undergraduate programs, 15 provincial-level first-class undergraduate programs, 18 state-level courses, among which 8 are the first batch of first-class undergraduate courses, 4 have passed the engineering education certification of the Ministry of Education, and 3 have passed the teacher education certification. It has won one first prize and one second prize for national teaching achievements in higher education, and seven first prizes for provincial teaching achievements. The university has been established as wenzhou Model Innovation Experimental Zone for national entrepreneurship talent training, one of the first national demonstration universities for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, and the teacher education base of Zhejiang Province. The students have won 40 international awards and 1153 national awards in the past five years. In 2019, the school ranked 16th in the “Challenge Cup” competition in China, won the “Victory Cup” and won the sponsor for two consecutive years. In the recent national “big art Exhibition” won 6 first prizes, the number of first prizes ranked first in the country, the total number of awards ranked first in Zhejiang universities.

The university adheres to the principle of “revitalizing the University through scientific research”, carries out the project of “Facing local and first-class”, insists on the coordinated development of basic research and applied research, and promotes the simultaneous development of humanities and social sciences, natural sciences and engineering technology research. The university has been designated as the national intellectual property rights pilot university. The university now has 3 state-level scientific research platforms, 29 provincial-level scientific research platforms, 4 zhejiang provincial key innovation teams and 5 Zhejiang Provincial high-level innovation teams. He has presided over 10 major national science and technology projects, 2 National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars, 2 National Science Foundation for Outstanding Young Scholars, 34 key projects of the National Natural Science and Social Science Foundation, and 723 other national projects. He has published 275 works of various kinds. His research achievements have won 150 national, provincial and ministerial awards, such as the Second Prize of National Technological Invention, the second prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress, the first prize of The Ministry of Education Scientific Research Outstanding Achievement Award (Humanities and Social Sciences), and China Patent Gold Award.