Hunan University of Humanities, Science and Technology

=Introduction and Location:=

Hunan University of Humanities, Science and Technology（湖南人文科技学院）(HUHST), established in 1978, is a state-owned provincial university of higher education approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education. It is located in Loudi, a newly built city in central Hunan province. With its beautiful scenery, pleasant climate, rich resources and convenient transportation, Loudi holds the reputation of a botanical garden city and one of the most livable cities in China.

Campus and Facilities:

HUHST occupies an area coverage of about 700,000 m2 (1,050 Chinese acres), including 356,000 m2 constructed campus buildings. Its total teaching and research equipments have reached the value of 55 million yuan (RMB). The collection in the library includes 800,000 books, over 1,400 Chinese and foreign periodicals, 140,000 e-books and 6 editions of academic periodical database.

Disciplines and Courses:

HUHST possesses 16 faculties and 15 research centers. Among its 36 courses, 29 are undergraduate courses covering 8 comprehensive disciplines, naming Art, Science, Technology, Education, Business, Management, Law, and Agriculture. The university has 2 provincial priority construction disciplines, 2 first-category featured program construction pilots of the Chinese Ministry of Education，2 provincial “Eleventh Five-Year” prestigious specialties, 3 provincial excellent courses, 1 provincial research base of philosophy and social science, 1 provincial demonstration laboratory, 43 social practice placement-centers, 4 provincial excellent placement-centers, and 1 practice placement-center of dragon & lion performance authorized by the Chinese Ministry of Education.

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Of its 892 staff members, there are 585 full-time teachers, including 1 Academician of Chinese Engineering Academy (the Honorary President of HUHST), 67 professors, 174 associate professors, 45 doctors, 319 masters, 5 foreign teachers, 53 guest professors, 33 provincial key young teachers and 12 candidates of provincial key young teachers. Also, HUHST has 1 First Level Intellectual and 3 Third Level Intellectuals of New Centennial Hunan 121 Project, 5 “Zeng Xianzi Educational Fund Prize” owners, 1 “Provincial Xu Teli Educational Prize” winner and 2 government special allowance grantors.

Research:

Over the past four years, HUHST staff members have published over 45 academic books, compiled 22 text books, edited 20 text books with joint effort; published 1838 journal articles with 623 published in national key periodicals, 127 in focal periodicals abroad, 51 cited by the three international citation index systems SCI, EI and ISTP and 23 reprinted by Abstracts of New China and the Photocopy Documents of Renmin University of China. HUHST has taken the lead of 395 national and provincial research projects, which incorporate 2 subsidized by National Social Science Funds, 2 sponsored by National Natural Science Funds, 3 supported by the Chinese Ministry of Education and 186 funded by Hunan province. In addition, 86 awards are achieved in relation with “Teaching Achievements”, “Social Science Achievements” and “Technological Advanced Achievements”. “The Journal of Hunan University of Humanities, Science and Technology" has been promoted as “the national top hundred social science journals”.

tudents:

HUHST recruits students all over China. Currently there are 10,800 full-time students, 5,000 part-time adult students and around 40,000 alumni. HUHST aims at educating talents with the mission of “Solid Foundation, Relaxed Admission, Strong Competence and Top Qualification”. Over the past few years, students have won outstanding awards -- 7 national prizes (5 first prizes, 2 second prizes) and 88 provincial prizes --in different kinds of competitions, such as, mathematical module competition, electrical design contest, English speech competition, “Challenging Cup” competition, university sports meeting, art festivals, computer rank test, English rank test, calligraphy competitions, dragon and lion dance performances and so on. Traditional Chinese sports events like orienteering and dragon and lion dance performances rank at the top in China. Furthermore, HUHST has achieved remarkable outcomes by establishing international academic relationships with foreign universities from the US, UK, Australia, Singapore and Thailand in the fields of teaching, learning and research.

Administration:

With firm and active work in Party construction and ideological & political education, administration in HUHST has been strengthened by self-improvement. Its influence in China has been increased with successive awards conferred, such as “One of the First Hunan Provincial Cultivated and Civilized Universities”, “Hunan Provincial Cultivated and Civilized Work Unit”, “Hunan Provincial Advanced Grassroots Communist Party Organization”, “National Fitness Advanced Unit”, “Hunan Provincial Botanic Garden Unit” and “the National College Students Social Practice Advanced Unit” (8 times).

External link

* [http://www.hnrku.net.cn/ Website]