Between Luojia Mountain and East Lake, there is a university of higher learning, Wuhan University, which has a long history of 110 years.
Wuhan University enjoys rich and prolific land and outstanding people. This university is not only known for its beautiful campus, but also for the strong strength of running a school and preeminent school achievements at home and abroad.
One of the most outstanding universities in China
Wuhan University is a key comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. It is located in Wuhan, Hubei Province, which is located in the central part of nine provinces. The school is surrounded by the mountains and surrounds the East Lake. The terrain is undulating and patchy. The four seasons are green and the flowers are flowing. The building is unique and beautiful. It is regarded as one of the most beautiful universities in the world. Wuhan University ranked first in China's university campus landscape rankings of "Phoenix" News Weekly.
The history of Wuhan University is traced back to the self-strength school founded by the Qing government in 1893 in the late Qing Dynasty. In the late Qing Dynasty, it was named the National Wuhan University in July 1928. It is one of the first batch of national comprehensive universities in modern China.
The 110-year-old Wuhan University brought together many wonderful Chinese chapters in the modern history of the Chinese nation. Zhou Enlai, Dong Biwu, Chen Tanqiu, Luo Ronghuan, Qi Hongming, Zhu Kezhen, Li Siguang, Wen Yiduo, Yu Dafu, Ye Shengtao and so on had visited the school. After the founding of New China, Wuhan University was highly valued by the party and the government. In 1958, Mao Zedong visited Wuhan University to inspect Professor Li Da, a "big" representative of the Communist Party of China, a famous philosopher and economist, and a member of the former Chinese Academy of Sciences, served as the principal for 14 years. On the occasion of the centennial celebration of Wuhan University, Jiang Zemin and Li Peng and other inscriptions congratulated.
Over a hundred years of construction and development have laid a solid foundation for the foundation of Wuhan University and outstanding academic reputation. In the 1930s, the famous scholar Hu Shi said: "If you want to see how China is progressing, you can see Wuhan University in Wuchang Mountain." By 1946, the school had realized the text, law, science, and work. The six major colleges of agriculture and medicine have been working together to achieve the goal of grand school. At that time, Wuhan University and Peking University, Tsinghua University and other universities have been hailed as “China Six University Office”. In the 1980s, Wuhan University dared to be the first in the world and became the "special zone for China's higher education reform." In the 1990s, the presidents of world-renowned universities such as Harvard University, Yale University, and the University of Tokyo praised Wuhan University for its "achievement" and was a " World-class university." In 1995, the authoritative journal Science of the international scientific community listed Wuhan University as one of the most outstanding universities in China.
‘Aircraft carrier’ of higher education
On August 2nd, 2000, with the approval of the State Council, the former Wuhan University merged with the former Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electric Engineering, Wuhan Surveying and Mapping University of Science and Technology, and Hubei Medical University to form a new Wuhan University. The new Wuhan University, with strong alliances and complementary advantages, has complete disciplines, comprehensive and distinctive features, covering 11 categories including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine and management. It has 30 colleges (faculties) in the humanities, social sciences, science, engineering, information science and medicine. There are 105 undergraduate majors, 217 majors have master's degrees, 22 first-level disciplines and 143 secondary disciplines which have obtained doctoral degrees and 23 postdoctoral research stations.
The school has 20 national key disciplines, ranking seventh in the nation's universities; 20 disciplines are listed as the second batch of key discipline construction projects of the National “211 Project”, and 22 disciplines have special professor positions in the ‘Yangtze River Scholars Award Scheme’. There are 3 national key laboratories, 2 national engineering technology research centers, 6 humanities and social sciences key research bases, 8 national basic scientific research and teaching talent training bases, and 1 national university student cultural quality education base.
The school campus covers an area of 5,508 acres and a building area of 2.42 million square meters. Modern architecture is listed as a national key cultural relic. There are large modern teaching buildings, experimental buildings, gymnasiums, track and field, swimming pools, archives and a specimen building with more than 200,000 precious animal and plant specimens. The library has a collection of more than 5.2 million books, ranking second in the nation's universities, and more than 10,000 Chinese and foreign journals. It is the center of the national "211 Project" national university document security system in Central China.
Wuhan University enjoys a wide international reputation and international exchanges and cooperation are increasingly frequent. The school has established cooperation and exchanges with more than 300 universities and research institutions in more than 60 countries and regions. The cooperation and exchange agreement was signed with 239 universities.
Scientific research is remarkable
Wuhan University's discipline construction and scientific research focus on characteristics and highlight innovation. Tracking the international frontier and accelerating cross-infiltration, a number of high-level superiority and distinctive disciplines are well-known at home and abroad. A large number of scientific research achievements with significant influence have produced significant social benefits and far-reaching academic influence.
Basic research has made outstanding progress in the fields of life sciences, chemistry and molecular sciences, physics, surveying science, computer science and applications. The school has participated in the scientific research and engineering construction of national key projects such as the three Gorges Project and the South-to-North Water Diversion Project; it has made new breakthroughs and major achievements in scientific research on anti-SARS peptide drugs in the Arctic and Arctic; Ma Xing hybrid rice, GPS global Applied scientific and technological achievements such as satellite positioning systems not only have great scientific and theoretical value, but also produce huge social and economic benefits.
Experts and scholars in humanities and social sciences give full play to the role of "think tanks", whichi actively explore major theoretical and practical issues concerning national economic construction, social development and human progress, and provide theoretical basis and implementation for scientific decision-making for relevant departments. The program has achieved a number of scientific research results with great theoretical significance and application value. The large-scale Chinese reference book "Career Training" and interdisciplinary SARS countermeasure research have become the landmark achievements of the school's humanities and social sciences serving society.
In recent years, in the field of natural sciences, the school has won 34 national natural science awards, national invention awards and national scientific and technological progress awards. The number of SCI papers and the number of papers of the National Natural Science Foundation are among the highest in the country; in the humanities and social sciences, the third session of the Ministry of Education's Humanities and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Awards ranked second among the nation's universities. The National Social Science Fund Project, the Ministry of Education's Social Science Project and the SSCI Papers ranked the third in the nation's universities, with many achievements, and won the national "five one" project award, national book award, Chinese book award.
Through the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and industrialization, the school has established more than 70 high-tech enterprises in cooperation with enterprises and scientific research institutions, and has achieved good economic and social benefits, and promoted the development of teaching, scientific research, discipline construction and high-tech industries. . The school has won the Shenzhen International High-tech Achievements Fair Excellent Deal Award and Outstanding Organization Award for four consecutive years.
Outstanding achievements in personal training
Wuhan University is a place for both exploring knowledge and becoming a useful person, Wuhan University is known as the "cradle of innovative talents." Over the past 100 years, the school has formed an excellent school spirit of ‘self-improvement, ambition, seeking truth, and newness’.
In the national colleges and universities, the school took the lead in implementing the credit system, tutor system, main and auxiliary system, double-degree system and transfer program, early graduation, exemption from recommending master students and master's degree, and graduate student mid-term diversion.
In the face of the talent demand in the new era, the school took the lead in proposing a new concept of ‘three innovations’, focusing on cultivating students' ability of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship, aiming at cultivating talents with ‘thick foundation, wide caliber, high quality and innovation’. Actively explore talent training models that adapt to economic and social development. Focusing on the construction of research-oriented universities, focusing on cultivating high-level talents, vigorously developing postgraduate education, gradually expanding the enrollment of postgraduates, especially doctoral students, and emphasizing the cultivation of independent research capabilities and practical work ability of graduate students.
There are more than 47,000 students in the school, including more than 15,000 graduate students. Students won a number of laurels in national competitions, and 7 of them won 100 national outstanding doctoral thesis awards. Over the past 100 years, the school has trained nearly 300,000 senior professionals of various types. Among the graduates and alumni, there are more than 70 academicians of the two academies. Generations of graduates have become the pillars of society and have made tremendous contributions to national construction and social progress.
The famous teachers of Wuhan University gather together, and the talents of the mountains are gathered. There are more than 3,400 teachers in the school, including more than 2,100 associate professors and 655 doctoral supervisors. There are a group of well-known experts, scholars and professors at home and abroad including 7 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 5 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and many famous humanities and social sciences. The young and middle-aged academic leaders have revealed their talents in academic circles at home and abroad.
Enjoy the spring of new century and cultivate talented person all over the world. Facing new development opportunities and challenges, Wuhan University has set a general goal of building a high-level university at home and abroad’ as soon as possible, and put forward a new idea of leap-forward development, clarifying the development of disciplines as the leader, talent cultivation, and science. Focusing on the research and the construction of the teaching staff, the road of reform and development based on the management system reform and campus infrastructure construction, all work is developing in stability and progressing in innovation. Standing at the starting point of the new century, Wuhan University is full of confidence and has a bright future.
