The University in Wuzhou
A Brief Introduction
This University is a general comprehensive institute, founded in 1985 with approval of the People’s Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It has both a three-year and a four-year school systems with the help of Gx University before. It has provided 13,000 competent graduates and associate graduates for W and its neighborhoods ever since. Up to Oct.2005, there are 9050 full-time students ( 3,081 students of four-year programs and 5430 students of three-year programs). In the past 20 years, more than 20 Party and State leaders, over 30 well-known experts and professors have visited the campus and advised on the running of the school. Li Zhaozhuo, vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, inscribed in his own handwriting the school motto of “becoming a famous university, and developing high-level talent”. Fei Xiaotong, former vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the NPC, encouraged the University to apply for setting up an independent four-year-school-system college saying in a letter: “I will try my best to help with the application, and would like to be an honorary advisor of your school”. Xian Dingchang，member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, once made a special trip to the University to make an academic report. With the efforts of the faculties, the school has won the following honorary titles: An Advanced Unit for Material and Spiritual Civilizations Development in Wuzhou, An Advanced Party Organization at the Basic Level, one of the Civic Virtues Units in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, An Advanced Unit of Military Training for University Students in Guangxi, one of Grade A Units for Food Hygiene Supervision, Quantification and Selective Inventory Control in Guangxi, An Award for Excellence in Organization of the First National Artistic Performance for University Students, An Award for Excellence in Organization of Guangxi Artistic Performance for University Students, A Provincial Scientific and Public Institution for Managing Archives.
Subjects and Majors
At present, the school offers five disciplines: business, engineering, liberal arts, sociology, science, covering 31 specialties.
Six Majors for Four-year Undergraduates
In order to meet the need for talent of the economic development of Wuzhou and the neighborhood areas and provinces, the school began to enroll students for four-year program study in1998. We have set up 6 majors for undergraduates: Business Administration, International Economy and Trade, Computer Science and Technology, Electronic Information Engineering, Chinese Language and Culture, English. There are 3081 bachelor candidates, accounting for 36% of the full-time students in school. The University awards the certificates and the bachelor degree for undergraduates.
Twenty-five Majors for Three-year Undergraduates:
Marketing, Accounting Computerization, Financial Management, Tourism and Hotel Management, Goods and Materials Management, Stock Investment and Management, Investment and Money Managing, International Economy and Trade, Electronic Business, Financial Insurance, Computer Application and Technology, Applied Electronic Technology, Advertising Design and Making, Product Modeling Design, Cartoon Design and Making, Environmental Art Design, Fashion Design, Business English, Secretarial Affairs, Chinese Education, English Education, Maths Education, Physics Education, Primary School Education and Law Affairs
Beautiful Campus Environment
The University is situated in Wuzhou, a city in the east of Guangxi with a long history. Wuzhou is rich in cultural relics, and has always enjoyed the reputation of an ancient city with a history of more than 2000 years, a trading port with a history of more than 100 years, a city named as a palace on the waters in Lingnan area, a city honored as a brightly-shining pearl on the Xijiang River, a city known as little Hong Kong, and so on. Su Dongpo, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, visited Wuzhou twice and left a very beautiful line for the city, reading “the clear waters of the Yuanyang River eclipse those elsewhere”. The campus is crisscrossed with main roads of 18 meters wide. The symbolic buildings, i.e. the comprehensive teaching building, the library, the gymnasium, and the sports ground with shelter, etc. are among the best of their kinds in the institutions of higher education in Guangxi. Areas with different functions are naturally separated by the geological arrangement of small hills, and linked with each other by the tunnel and the main roads. The campus is quiet and arranged in good taste and it has a peculiar charm with green hills and clear waters, with willow trees and bright flowers, with snaking paths here and there.
Schooling Conditions
In 2001, the Municipal Party Committee of Wuzhou and the Municipal Government officially submitted an application for upgrading G University Wuzhou Branch into the University. It was then that we started to seek for development based on the application for running a University with a four-year school system. And now all work has been carried on smoothly. With the great support from the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government, RMB0.28 billion was invested in the construction of software and hardware of the University. After the hard work of more than four years , the school has realized its rapid development with an occupation area of 779.96 mu, among which 233,200 square meters are for students dormitory buildings and 128,800 square meters for teaching and administration buildings. What’s more, the value of the equipment for teaching instruments amounts to 34.56 million yuan (RMB) . The library has a collection of 55,300 books. In respect of human resources, there are 376 professional teachers, among whom 108 have advanced professional titles and 140 have master degrees.
Academic & Scientific Research
As far as academic and scientific research is concerned, we have our own characteristics, and have found our own way. In the field of basic theory research, the project of Studying the Lower Bounds for Ramsney Numbers, in which Su Wenlong, a research fellow, is the first participant, is a project of National Natural Science Foundation of China. Its serial research achievements have been included in the summary report of the international academic conference as the latest international record by the foreign experts. In the field of applied research to serve for Wuzhou, we have gained a great many influential achievements. The four projects, which were carried out jointly by our college, Wuzhou Science & Technology Bureau and enterprises and institutions of Wuzhou, won the advanced prizes in science and technology. Up to September 2005, 150 research projects have been authorized; 14 projects have won advanced scientific and technological prizes; 30 monographs and 10 textbooks as well as 1024 papers have been published, among which 214 papers (works) won prizes.
International Exchange
The establishment of the International Exchange Office of the University in 2004 marks the beginning of international education cooperation and exchange between our college and South-East Asian countries with the development of the China-ASEAN Trade Zone. Now, we have signed contracts of educational cooperation and exchange with more than 10 universities in Thailand and Vietnam. Led by GuangXi Education Department, the college delegation paid a visit to the Vietnam Education Exhibition in May, 2005, which came to a good result of enrolling our first 10 Vietnamese students in the autumn of 2005. We are doing our utmost to accommodate 200 foreign exchange students in 2010.
Students’ Quality
In order to enhance the students’ quality, our college is making great efforts to effect quality education with a focus on improving the student’s all-round quality. In recent years, our representative teams have made striking achievements in all kinds of undergraduate competitions held in Guangxi or nationwide. In 2002, our university won one first prize in Guangxi Zone and one national third prize of 2002 China Callisthenic Contest with 10000 participants; In 2003, three first prizes and two third prizes in Guangxi Zone of 2003 CCTV Cup English Speaking Contest and English Composition Contest; one special prize and one first prize in Guangxi Zone of FLEP Cup English Composition Contest; In 2004, the mascot designed by two students from the Art Department was adopted by the 14th National Book Fair and it was the only design adopted by the fair; In 2005, three first prizes in Guangxi Zone and two national second prizes and one national third prize in the 1st China Undergraduate Art Show; one first prize and two third prizes in Guangxi Zone of 2005 China Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest; one first prize in Guangxi Zone of China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
The graduates from our university enjoy great popularity in our society. In the past two years, the employment rate of our three-year-schooling graduates exceeds 85%, and quite a lot of our graduates have become the heads or key members of their units.
Bright Future
The prospect of this University is to become a multidisciplinary all-day regular university under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education, meeting the needs of the economy and social development of Wuzhou and its neighboring regions as well, with intention to keep ahead in Guangxi, even in China on cultivating economic talent with the abilities of innovation, practical operation and doing scientific research, especially the economic talents capable of developing the Southeast Asian markets. According to the plan for 2010, the university will enroll 10,000 full-time students, of whom 8,000 four-year program undergraduates and 2,000 are three-year program undergraduates. The campus will cover an area of 1,660 mu with a building area of 250,000 square meters. The library collection will run to 100,000 volumes and the value of teaching equipment worth more than 50 million RMBYuan. The whole specialty system will consist of 18 undergraduate specialties and 10 vocational training specialties. There will be 560 full-time teachers, among whom 210 have master degrees and 190 have advanced professional titles.
