Shenzhen University is not a 985 project university or a 211 project university. The school is located in Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province. It is a comprehensive university under the supervision of Guangdong Province and sponsored by the Shenzhen Municipal People's Government; it has been selected as a key high-level university in Guangdong Province. University, national talent training model innovation experimental zone, national civilized campus, the first batch of national demonstration universities to deepen innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, initiator of the National Local University UOOC Alliance, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao University Alliance, member unit, and a university with recommended postgraduate qualifications for exemption from examination.
School History
On March 8, 1983, the Guangdong Provincial Government approved the Shenzhen Municipal Government to “agree to establish Shenzhen University.” The meeting decided that the school would be located in the Kwai Temple area of ??Deep Bay, and one square kilometer (i.e. 1,500 acres) would be designated as the school site area.
On February 7, 1984, the first phase of the Shenzhen University construction project officially broke ground. From September 4th to 6th, all administrative departments and departments moved from the temporary campus site in the urban area to the new campus site at Guangdong Haimen.
On June 12, 1985, the Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Higher Education approved Shenzhen University to enroll students in six provinces and cities: Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian. Approved by Document No. 011 of the Department of Teaching and Research of the former State Education Commission, Shenzhen University began to "jointly train" graduate students in political economics and business management with South China Normal University, South China University of Technology and other universities.
In early July 1994, the Shenzhen Municipal People's Government officially approved the establishment of a board of directors of Shenzhen University. On September 1, with the approval of the People's Government of Guangdong Province and Shenzhen Municipality, the original Shenzhen Normal College was abolished and Shenzhen University Normal College was established.
In 2008, the Xuefu Hospital project under construction was officially transferred to Shenzhen University from the Municipal Health Bureau.
In November 2014, Shenzhen University officially issued a document to establish a graduate school. In the same year, Shenzhen University Golf College was merged into Shenzhen University Teachers College.
In November 2018, Shenzhen University entered the list of key high-level universities in Guangdong Province.
Teaching Staff
As of April 2022, the school has 4,001 faculty members, including 2,568 full-time teachers (602 professors, 751 associate professors), 601 technical staff, and management staff. 832 personnel. There are 1,426 postdoctoral fellows, 756 full-time researchers, and 99 visiting professors. There are 23 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering (including 9 short-term appointments), and 22 foreign academicians (including 9 short-term appointments). The full-time high-level talent team includes 3 chief scientists of the National “973 Program”, 20 winners of the National Science Fund for Outstanding Youth, 27 winners of the National Science Fund for Outstanding Youth, and 12 “New Century Excellent Talents” from the Ministry of Education.
Discipline Construction
As of April 2022, the school has 27 teaching colleges, 2 directly affiliated hospitals, and 100 undergraduate majors; 5 national-level specialty majors, There are 26 first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 17 provincial-level specialty majors, and 11 provincial-level first-class undergraduate major construction sites; there is 1 national-level undergraduate major comprehensive reform pilot.
National characteristic majors: electronic information engineering, architecture, business administration, computer science and technology, finance
National first-class undergraduate major construction sites: advertising, psychology, Electronic information engineering, communication engineering, optoelectronic information science and engineering, computer science and technology, software engineering, civil engineering, biomedical engineering, architecture, urban and rural planning, information management and information systems, engineering management, business management, administrative management, economics Science, finance, English, Internet and new media, biological science, biotechnology, materials science and engineering, clinical medicine, marketing, accounting, human resources management?
Guangdong Province’s characteristic major: Architecture , electronic information engineering, business administration, computer science and technology, finance, biotechnology, law, advertising, optical information science and technology, automation, accounting, biological science, administrative management, microelectronics science and engineering
Famous majors in Guangdong Province: electronic information engineering, computer science and technology, finance, architecture, biotechnology, electronic science and technology, business administration, law, mechanical design, manufacturing and automation
Guangdong Provincial key majors: civil engineering, human resource management, finance, engineering management
Guangdong Province’s first-class undergraduate major construction sites: finance, English, materials science and engineering, clinical medicine, philosophy, law, educational technology Science, journalism, polymer materials and engineering, environmental engineering, e-commerce
Guangdong Province’s characteristic key disciplines: philosophy, management
Guangdong Province’s characteristic key disciplines: law, foreign languages Literature, Journalism and Communication, Materials Science and Engineering, Architecture, Civil Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Management Science and Engineering, Design
Academic Research
As of April 2022, The school has 3 national engineering laboratories, 1 international cooperation base of the Ministry of Science and Technology, 1 national engineering technology research center, 3 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 1 joint laboratory of the Ministry of Education, and 1 collaborative innovation center of the Ministry of Education. There are 12 provincial key laboratories.
In 2017, there were 281 new National Natural Science Foundation projects, 2,280 papers included in SCI, and 202 papers included in SSCI. Received 2160 scientific research awards. 327 patents were authorized, including 211 invention patents.
The school has produced a number of outstanding scientific and technological achievements with great influence. For the first time, the key device "X-ray phase grating" developed by itself using a method different from that in the world can obtain high-quality X-ray phase contrast images, making China become both Japan and China. The third country after Switzerland to master this technology, it has successfully developed China's first teraflop high-performance computer "KD-90" based on the domestic "Loongson 3B" eight-core processor.
The number of papers included in the school's SCI increased from 398 in 2012 to 2,126 in 2017, with an average annual growth rate of nearly 40%. In 2017, the number of highly cited papers reached 107. He has published more than ten papers in sub-journals, special issues and affiliated journals of Nature and Science, and more than 50 papers in top journals in related fields. As of December 2017, the school had applied for 2,498 invention patents and 622 utility model applications, including 830 invention patent authorizations and 545 utility model authorizations. ***Participated in the 14th High-tech Achievements Trade Exhibition, with a total of more than 500 outstanding projects exhibited. ?
Academic resources
As of December 2021, the Shenzhen University Library has more than 4.421 million printed books and 2,418 newspapers and periodicals subscribed; Hong Kong and Taiwan books and periodicals, Shenzhen University Library, and reprints Special resources such as ancient books are beginning to take shape. In 2019, a special collection room for legal documents on “one country, two systems” was established. It has 203 types of electronic resource databases, including more than 2.9947 million electronic books and 132,100 full-text electronic journals; the storage capacity of mirrored and self-built digital resources reaches 185TB. The library has gradually established a document resource system with complete subject categories, reasonable structure, and distinctive features. At the same time, it has actively participated in the document construction and sharing project at the national, provincial, and municipal levels, through interlibrary loan and document delivery services. , providing teachers and students with access to documents collected by major universities, academies of sciences, and important provincial and municipal libraries across the country.
Cooperation and Exchange
According to information in August 2018, the school has signed three strategic cooperation agreements for engineering master’s training with local governments such as Zhongshan City, Foshan City, and Dongguan City; with Shenzhen Nanshan District, Longgang District, Longhua New District and Pingshan New District have established four government-industry-university-research institutes including Nanshan Industrial Technology Research Institute, Longgang Innovation Research Institute, Longhua Bioindustry Innovation Research Institute, and Pingshan Electrochemical Power and Electric Storage Energy Industrialization Base. Collaborative education platform; 12 school-enterprise joint research laboratories (research centers) have been established with well-known companies such as Mindray, Omron, and CNOOC; in the National Integrated Circuit Industrialization Base, Huawei, Tencent, ZTE, DJI, CIMC and other industrial parks 190 joint postgraduate training practice bases were established with enterprises, 34 school-level engineering master's degree practice bases were built, 18 were selected as provincial joint postgraduate training demonstration bases, and the Shenzhen University-CIMC off-campus practice base was rated as a national model engineering professional degree Postgraduate joint training base.
As of February 2021, Shenzhen University has established exchange and cooperation relationships with 280 overseas universities (institutions), covering 50 countries and regions around the world, establishing an international talent training system, and implementing international cultural and educational exchanges There are more than 100 projects, and students have participated in more than 50 overseas dual-campus joint training projects, including 27 joint doctoral training projects.
The school has carried out the Ministry of Education’s Ten Thousand Persons Plan projects with many Hong Kong and Macau universities such as the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Baptist University, the Education University of Hong Kong, the Open University of Hong Kong, the University of Macau, and the Macau Polytechnic Institute. ; With Central University, Chinese Culture University, Kainan University, Taipei University of Technology, Soochow University, Fo Guang University, Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung University, Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, I-Shou University, Wenzao University of Foreign Languages, etc. The university conducts exchange student exchange programs.
The Master of Science in Financial Technology and Risk Control program jointly organized by Shenzhen University and Nantes Business School in France was approved as a Sino-foreign cooperative education project by the Ministry of Education; Marshall Biotechnology was established with Professor Barry Marshall, the Nobel Prize winner in medicine, and others Medical engineering laboratory; co-creation center for optoelectronics with the National University of Singapore; international cancer center with the University of Southern California; co-construction with the Institute of Molecular Oncology of the Italian Cancer Research Foundation in Milan, Italy Shenzhen University-IFOM Joint Research Center on Genome Stability and Aging (SIGMA); established the "Shenzhen University-Sydney University-Huaqiang Group Voice Center, etc.
The 985 Project refers to the Communist Party of China and the People's Republic of China* **A major decision made by the State Council of the Republic of China at the turn of the century to build a world-leading first-class university.
On May 4, 1998, then President Jiang Zemin celebrated the founding of Peking University. At the 100th Anniversary Conference, on behalf of the Communist Party of China and the Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China, he declared to the whole society: “In order to achieve modernization, our country must have a number of first-class universities with world-leading levels. ”
The 211 Project refers to the construction project of about 100 colleges and universities and a number of key disciplines geared towards the 21st century. It was officially launched in November 1995 after approval by the State Council.
The "211 Project" is a key construction project initiated by the state in the field of higher education since the founding of the People's Republic of China. It is a major measure taken by the Chinese government to implement the strategy of "rejuvenating the country through science and education" and a decision made by the Chinese nation in the face of China's domestic and foreign situations at the turn of the century. major decisions for the development of higher education.