Xiangtan University is located in Xiangtan City, Hunan Province, the hometown of Comrade Mao Zedong. Xiangtan University, founded in 1958, is a national key institution of higher learning inscribed by President Mao Zedong. 1978 was approved by the State Council and became one of the national 17 comprehensive national key institutions of higher learning and one of the provincial 18 key institutions of higher learning. It is the first batch of universities in China with the right to award master's degrees, the only local university in China that has set up a reserve officer selection and training base and a postgraduate selection and training base to train military and civilian talents, the first batch of universities in Hunan Province that recruit international students and national defense students, and the excellent undergraduate teaching evaluation school of the Ministry of Education. It is also a national comprehensive key institution of higher learning jointly established by the Ministry of Education and the Hunan Provincial Government. 1958: Mao Zedong personally wrote the name of Xiangtan University, repeatedly entrusting "Xiangtan University must be run well". Xiangtan University was established in June 2004 at the initiative and will of President Mao Zedong. In early August of the same year, Mao Yuju (a private school teacher in Mao Zedong) went to Beijing to give good news to President Mao Zedong. President Mao Zedong cordially received Mao Yuju at the official residence. Mao Zedong was all smiles and called Mao Yuju Yuju's brother. Mao Zedong is very concerned about the construction of Xiangtan University. Mao Yuju reported the running situation of Xiangtan University to Mao Zedong, and Mao Zedong inquired about the site, students, teachers and funds of Xiangtan University in detail. Mao Yuju asked President Mao Zedong to write the name of Xiangtan University. Mao Zedong readily agreed, and repeatedly entrusted "Xiangtan University must run well". A few days later, Mao Zedong's secretary sent Mao Yuju a personal letter and inscription from the chairman. The content of the letter is: "Brother Yuju: I wrote the name of Xiangtan University as instructed. Please forward it to me for selection! In addition, Dongshan school is closed, please transfer it to it. Mao Zedong, September 10. " In mid-September, when Mao Yuju happily returned to Xiangtan, all the teachers and students of Xiangtan University held high the red flag, beat gongs and drums to greet the name of the school inscribed by Chairman Mao, and held a grand celebration meeting. All the teachers and students solemnly swore in front of the statue of Chairman Mao: "Xiangtan University must be run well." In order to commemorate the day when President Mao Zedong inscribed the name of Xiangtan University, it was decided that September 10 would be the anniversary day of Xiangtan University. Coincidentally, 1985, the state designated September 10 as Teacher's Day. 1958 65438+On February 25th, Xiangtan Daily published an inscription by Chairman Mao to Xiangtan University. The topic is "Running Xiangtan University as instructed by Chairman Mao". Chairman Mao personally wrote the inscription "Xiangtan University", indicating that "Xiangtan University must be run well". Xiangtan University was founded with five departments of machinery, steel, agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry, and later added two departments of sports, finance and trade, with more than 700 students. There are school-run factories, farms, pastures and forest farms. The location of the school passed the school. It was originally located in Yangjiaqiao. Yangjiaqiao is located in Yangjiaqiao Town, Xiangtan County. Originally the former site of Xiangjiang Coal Mine, 1958 was allocated to the school. 1973 On September 30th, the Revolutionary Committee of Hunan Province submitted the Report on Restoring and Adding Colleges and Universities to the State Council. The report puts forward that "when the great leader Chairman Mao visited Hunan in 1970, he gave instructions on whether Hunan could be built into a big industrial province within ten years", and "for this reason, we demand that Xiangtan University be restored from 1974", and a plan for restoring Xiangtan University is attached, which points out that "Xiangtan University was established in/kloc-according to the needs of industrial and agricultural production development. At the same time, according to the requirement of building Hunan into a big industrial province in ten years, it is absolutely necessary and of great political significance to restore Xiangtan University. Xiangtan University is planned to be a comprehensive university. On the one hand, Hunan Revolutionary Committee made a report to the State Council, on the other hand, it paid close attention to the relevant matters required by the State Council Science and Education Group. * * * On June 1973 65438+ 10 14, Xiangtan prefectural party committee reported the "Request for instructions on the site selection of Xiangtan University" to the provincial party committee: "After repeated research and investigation, we think that the area around Yinkeng Brigade of Quantangzi Commune in Xiangtan County is suitable. This place is along Tanshao Highway, about 10 km away from Xiangtan city center, with wide scope and large development space. Most of them are barren hills, accounting for very little cultivated land; There is no need for a large number of demolition, and the land is easy to collect, which is conducive to combat readiness. " * * * Hunan Education Bureau Committee1973165438+1October 20th specially drafted the Report on Several Issues Concerning the Establishment of Xiangtan University and submitted it to the Provincial Revolutionary Committee. At that time, there were three school sites: one was Baotaling. Covering an area of about 3.25 million square meters, it is located between Xianggang and Xiangfang, close to Xiangjiang River, with flat terrain, convenient transportation and good hydropower conditions, but a farm has been set up here. Because the task of moving the farm is too big and it is located between the expressway and the railway bridge, there is no choice to build a school here. Second, Xiangtan County Quantangzi Commune Yinkeng Brigade. Covering an area of about 6.5438+0.3 million square meters, it is located near Tanshao Highway and about 10 km from the city center. This is a mountainous area with many barren hills. The disadvantage is that the way out of school must pass through the Hunan-Guizhou railway, and it is also a great task to build a small iron bridge or underground tunnel. Three, Xiangtan County Quantangzi Commune Reservoir Brigade. Covering an area of1.2000 square meters, it is close to Tanshao Highway and about12km away from the city center. The way out is convenient, and the terrain is surrounded by mountains and waters, but it is not very open. On March 1974 and 10, the State Council issued the document "the State Council's Report on the Restoration of Xiangtan University by the State Council Science and Education Group" (Guo Fa [1974] No.23), and the school resumed running. On May 8, 1974, the general office of the provincial party committee instructed that the school site should be located in Yunfeng Brigade of Baota Commune in Xiangtan City. Provincial Party Secretary Zhang Pinghua and Li Zhenjun, and Xiong Qingquan, member of the Provisional Party Committee of Xiangtan University Preparatory Office, visited the school site in person. 1974165438+1October 15 The provincial party committee specially issued the Notice on Restoring the Minutes of the Meeting of the Working Committee of Xiangtan University, and decided to list the capital construction of Xiangtan University as a key project, and finally decided to put the school site in the new site of Xiangtan Battery Factory and the old site of the demolished electrical appliance factory. According to the instructions of the State Planning Commission, the school construction land is 500 mu, and another 500 mu of agricultural and forestry land is zoned, *** 1000 mu. Schools have risen rapidly on a piece of Yuan Ye. The State Council approved schools as the first batch of national key schools 1974 1 1. 10, the Ministry of Education issued the Notice on Requesting Support for Some Teachers and Books of Xiangtan University, and all colleges and universities responded positively, taking it as a glorious task to support Chairman Mao's hometown construction. 1975- 1978, more than 3,000 letters and visits from all over the country, requesting to transfer to another school. The school has transferred about 300 young and middle-aged backbone teachers, teaching assistants and management cadres from other provinces, and more than 60 teachers and teaching assistants have been supported by universities and other units in the province. At the same time, all provinces, cities and universities in China actively donated books. Peking University Library proposed that if there are more than two sets of books and materials, one set can be given to Xiangtan University. Among the books presented by Peking University, there are 23,069 precious ancient books, such as The Collection of Ancient and Modern Books of King James and The Four Great Series. Among them, The Collection of Ancient and Modern Books written by Qin Wang is a bronze movable type book from Kangxi to Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty. The book is divided into 6 parts, 32 classics and 6 1 17 volumes. It is the largest book in the world and the largest book in the history of copper movable type printing in China. There are only 6 sets of China. At present, only the university library in China has a complete collection of ancient and modern books, which has become the "treasure of the town library" of the university. 1975- 1978, 68 institutions of higher learning and scientific research institutions in China donated more than 280,000 volumes of books, materials, newspapers and periodicals. The school is located in the western suburb of Xiangtan City, which used to be a high loess slope. Builders all over the country have worked hard with reverence for Chairman Mao. Building a thatched shed and living in a farmhouse is the first lesson for the faculty who first came to Xiangtan University. 1974- 1976 during the start-up period, the whole school * * * teachers and students set up 1 10 hut with an area of 3,000 square meters; More than 500 faculty members from 305 households in the school stayed with farmers in 36 residents' groups in 8 villages in 3 towns. Every Saturday, the school is compulsory for Labor Day, and the loess slope is crowded with people and cheers. Teachers and students participate in leveling track and field, outdoor cinema, building campus roads, assisting post and telecommunications departments to set up wires and cables, and planting trees and greening. 1977, the school built the first batch of staff dormitories, and the staff of the school only picked bricks and carried tiles for thousands of working days. 1975 September 10, on the 7th anniversary of President Mao Zedong's inscription for the school, the school held its first opening ceremony after restoration. Due to the shortage of teaching materials and textbooks at that time, teachers carried forward the spirit of self-reliance and wrote without teaching materials; Do it yourself without teaching AIDS; If there is no laboratory, organize it yourself. Although the faculty and staff come from all over the country and don't know each other, they don't do anything outside their duties, understand each other, take care of each other and have deep feelings. In those passionate years, the hearts of school leaders, faculty and students were closely linked. Although the conditions are difficult, everyone has no complaints, and there is only one wish in their hearts: to build Xiangtan University well. 1In July, 977, Li Zhenjun, secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and deputy director of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee, was appointed as the first principal of the school since it resumed running. 1978 in may, the provincial party Committee decided to set up Xiangtan university Committee, and appointed the former deputy secretary and vice president of the temporary party Committee as the secretary and president, and the former deputy secretary of the temporary party Committee Wang as the deputy secretary. When the school began to recruit students on 1975, it opened two majors: politics and chemical machinery. 1976 added China literature and computational mathematics; 1977 after the resumption of the college entrance examination, six majors were added: history, philosophy, mathematics, physics, environmental engineering, forging technology and equipment; 1978 increase the history of the CPC and political economy, and cancel the original political major. The enrollment specialty reached 1 1, and the number of students in school increased from 223 in 1975 to more than 900 in 1978. From 65438 to 0978, the first batch of graduate students enrolled Marxist philosophy, political economy, basic mathematics, ancient literature in China, modern literature in China and world literature. 1976- 1978, the school completed national, provincial, municipal, industrial and mining enterprises and other projects 13, * * * obtained 2 scientific research achievements1,of which major achievements1; Write 4/kloc-0 academic papers or scientific research reports, of which 24 were read at professional conferences or academic conferences above the provincial level, and 2/kloc-0 were published in academic journals such as Journal of Mathematics and advances in mathematics. The liberal arts department has completed 38 scientific research achievements, 29 papers, 3 monographs, 6 teaching materials and 6 research reports. After several years of hard work, campus infrastructure construction has begun to take shape, teaching has achieved initial results, scientific research has reached a new level, and new comprehensive colleges have risen rapidly. 1978 In February, the State Council approved the report of the Ministry of Education on running national key institutions of higher learning well. This school entered the first batch of 88 national key institutions of higher learning, and was included in 16 national comprehensive key institutions of higher learning together with universities such as Peking University and Fudan University.