Jinggangshan University

Infobox University
name = Jinggangshan University ( _zh. 井冈山大学)


motto = _zh. 精神的教育
"(spirit of education)"
established = 1958
type = Public
president = Zhāng tài chéng
city = Ji'an
state = Jiangxi Province
country = China
faculty = 974
students = 27,000
campus = Urban, 2,554 acres
website = [http://www.jgsu.edu.cn jgsu.edu.cn] Chinese
[http://www.jgsu.edu.cn/english/ jgsu.edu.cn/english] English

Jinggangshan University (Chinese-inline|c=井冈山大学|p=jǐng gāng shān dàxué) is located at the Ji'an city of Jiangxi province in China. Ji'an is located in the foot of Jinggangshan Mountains. This university is a fairly new university.

In this university there is 27000 student and also near about 200 foreign student.

History

Jinggangshan University was established in 1958 and closed in 1963 because of the poor national economy at that time. In the August of 1978, Jinggangshan Branch of Jiangxi Normal University and Jinggangshan Branch of Jiangxi Medical University were set up on the basis of initiate Jinggangshan University. In the April of 1982, and the March of 1993, they were renamed respectively 'Jinggangshan Teacher College' and 'Jinggangshan Medicine College". In the March of 2000, approved by the Education Ministry of China, Jinggangshan Teacher College was renamed as Jinggangshan University after merging with Ji'an Educational Institute. In the July of 2003, approved by the Education Ministry of People's Republic of China, Jinggangshan Normal University was renamed as Jinggangshan University by combining with Jinggangshan Medicine College and Jinggangshan Vocational Technical College.

2007 re-opening

China's education authorities have re-established Jinggangshan University in the area known as the cradle of Chinese revolution [cite web |url=http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6293224.html |title=cradle of chinese revolution |date=2007-10-30 |publisher=People's Daily] 44 years after it was closed.The university of 27,000 students and 974 teaching staff was upgraded from the former Jinggangshan College and the campus covers 170 hectares. [cite web |url=http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6293224.html |title=University re-established in cradle of Chinese revolution |date=2007-10-30 |publisher=People's Daily |accessdate=2008-07-28 ] The Ministry of Education and the provincial government of Jiangxi have signed an agreement to provide more support for Jinggangshan University.Jinggangshan University was first built in the Jinggangshan Mountains in 1958, but was closed five years later when China faced economic difficulties.Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong and his colleagues established the first rural base of the revolution in the Jinggangshan Mountains in 1927 [cite web |url=http://news.manta.com/articles/description/200710300019540_60960100_0-0304|title=Mao Zedong and his colleagues establishment of rural base of revolution |date=2007-10-29 |publisher=Manta] .

Introduction

Jinggangshan University area is 2556 mu with a building area of 510,000 m², possessing about 90 million yuan worth of equipments and apparatus for teaching and scientific research. The library has electronic periodicals in Chinese or foreign languages and other net services such as foreign language database, diskette database, on-line database with a total storage of 1,030,000 volumes of books . The university publishes its own academic monthly journal, The Journal of Jinggangshan University, including philosophy & social science, and nature science editions. The university also has modern language labs and computer centers. The campus network has been established, and the multi-media equipments have been widely used in teaching and scientific researches. There are altogether 194 practice bases including humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, modern engineering, technological sciences, education and medicine sciences. At present, the university has over 15,000 full-time students from 30 provinces, districts, and municipalities of China, of whom over 8800 are undergraduates also there are over 10,000 adult students at all levels.

Medical School

Jinggangshan University includes Jinggangshan University Medical School (chinese-inline|c=井冈山大学医学院|p=jǐng gāng shān dàxué yīxuéyuàn). There is an affiliated hospital with 522 sick beds and 35 medical departments and sections.

Teachers and staff

The staff of current professional teachers in the college numbers 922, of whom 52 are professors, 257 are associate-professors, and over 60 are PHDs, over 310 are masters. 33 provincial pacesetters or backbone teachers of disciplines, 40 are school-level pacesetters of disciplines and academic subjects. Academicians such as Wang Zhikun, Yu Xiao, Qie Zhengwu and a host of well-known scholars both at home and abroad are engaged as part-time professors of the university. Meanwhile over 50 teachers and researchers of the university are engaged as honor tutors of master degree in Tongji University, Qinghua University, Nanchang University, Jiangxi Normal University, Jiangxi University of Finance & Economics, Jiangxi Agricultural University, East China Jiaotong University, Jiangxi University of Science &Technology, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southwest Normal University, etc. They have guided more than 60 masters.

Departments

In the University there are 14 departments:

*Politics and Law
*Arts
*Commerce
*Maths and Physics
*Industry
*Chemistry and Chemical Industry
*Life & Science
*Nurse
*Art and Music
*Physical

Courses and Labs

Covering 9 fields - arts, science, pedagogy, administration, economics, history, engineering, medicine, and law, the 44 undergraduate majors includes English, Business English, Japanese, International Economy and Trade, Law, Chinese Literature, International Chinese Teaching, Broadcasting and Journalism, Music, Fine Arts, Artistic Design, History, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Applying Chemistry, Biology, Ecology, Applying Psychology, Mechanics and Automatization, Computer Science and Technology, Biomedicine, Nursing, Information Management and System, Marketing, Financial Administration, Tourism, etc.

Disciplinary construction being under way, the university hence enforces the courses construction. There are two key provincial disciplines(ancient Chinese literature, physicochemistry), two provincial brand courses(Chinese Teaching Methodology for Middle School Students, History of Ancient Chinese Literature ), one provincial key lab(Coordination Chemistry Lab), one provincial education committee¡¯s key lab (Ecological Environment and Resources Lab), 4 city level key labs(Analytical Structure Chemistry Lab, Medicinal Biotechnology Lab, Singlechip and Embed System Lab, Ecological Environment and Resources Lab) ,one city-level engineering research center(Numerical Control Machine Engineering Technology Center).

Achievemets

In the December of 2004, the university passed the assessment of teaching level of undergraduates organized by the Ministry of Education of China. In the same year it was entitled by the Ministry of Education of China to enroll foreign students.

According to statistics, the number of academic research papers by Jingangshan University is over 3100, among which 75 are on the Science Citation Index (SCI) and on EI,together with 251 compiled monographs and textbooks. Jingangshan University has won over 25 ministerial and provincial awards of scientific research and teaching research achievements. There are 138 academic research projects and 67 teaching reforming researches are being undertaking, 2 out of which are National Natural Science Fund programs in 2005.

The university has gained more than 250 laurels at all levels(state-level, provincial-level , prefecture-level)and won a title of national forerunner unit for social practice of college students on consecutive 8 years. The academic administration gains the title of national advanced academic administration, Aixing Agency is honored with the title of national advanced unit of Million Volunteers of Helping the Disability. It also obtained such honors as provincial- level civilized campus, civilized unit of culture construction of campus and so on. In the national embarking competitions of maths modeling, in the First National and Provincial Pingpang games, and in the First National advertisement art competition, this university's students won gold medals.

ee also

*List of universities in Mainland China
*Nanchang University
*Yichun University

References

External links

* [http://www.jgsu.edu.cn Jinggangshan University Web]
* [http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6293224.html People's Daily Online]
* [http://www.jxcn.cn/269/2007-10-30/[e-mail] JXCN]
* [http://www.wiseway.com.cn/wisewayenglish/information.asp?keywords=Chinese%20University%20Rank Wiseway]
* [http://college.jgsu.edu.cn/mc/xsyd/xsst/09_10_06_924.html Foreign Student of JGSU]

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