Ningxia University, referred to as "Ningda" for short, is located at the foot of Helan Mountain, a famous historical and cultural city with the reputation of "Lake City in the West". It is a comprehensive university jointly established by the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, focusing on literature, science, industry and agriculture. It is a national "2 1 1 Project" and "Midwest" key university, and it is the first batch of universities approved by the Ministry of Education to recruit and train foreign students in China with China government scholarships.
Ningxia University is a comprehensive university jointly established by the People's Government of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and the Ministry of Education. It is a national "2 1 1 project" key university and an excellent sub-school for undergraduate teaching level evaluation of the Ministry of Education.
Ningxia University was founded in 1958. 1997 65438+February, Ningxia University merged with the former Ningxia Institute of Technology and Yinchuan Normal University (including Ningxia Education College); In February 2002, it merged with Ningxia Agricultural College to form a new Ningxia University, which opened a new page in the reform and development of the school. The school is located in Yinchuan, a famous historical and cultural city with a long history and beautiful scenery. The campus is full of tall buildings, lush flowers and trees and elegant environment. It is an ideal garden for study and research.
In the course of running a school for more than 50 years, the school has carried forward the "Elaeagnus angustifolia" spirit of "not afraid of difficulties and cold, with deep roots and strong branches" and the tradition of "struggling hard and carrying forward with heavy burdens" from generation to generation, being brave in innovation and pioneering. Especially in recent years, in accordance with the strategic decision of the Party Committee and government of the autonomous region to "focus on building Ningxia University" and "strive to make Ningxia University a high-level university", the school has made great efforts to "make up the historical debts, grasp the current construction and lay the foundation for the future", and all undertakings have developed rapidly.
The school has three campuses, covering an area of 2,307 mu, with a building area of 640,000 square meters and a teaching experimental farm 1.695 mu. There are more than 2,700 faculty members. It enrolls students from 27 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. At present, there are more than 6,000 full-time college students10.4 million, more than 2,800 graduate students, more than 3,200 ethnic minority preparatory students and more than 0.4 million adult higher education students10.4 million. There are four kinds of academic journals published publicly. Journal of Ningxia University (Natural Science Edition) is the national Chinese core periodical, and Journal of Ningxia University (Humanities and Social Sciences Edition) has been selected as the source periodical of China Social Sciences Citation Index (CSSCI) of China Social Sciences Research and Evaluation Center of the Ministry of Education for many years. 1995 became the main node of China Education and Scientific Research Computer Network (CERNET) in the northwest of Ningxia. It has a modern digital library and a multi-functional gymnasium. The fixed assets of the school are 65.438+0.25 billion yuan.
The school has 23 colleges. 68 undergraduate majors in 9 disciplines. National key disciplines 1, national key (cultivation) disciplines 1, autonomous region-level key disciplines 17, and 7 key construction disciplines of "2 1 kloc-0/engineering",1engineering. There are two Post-Doctoral Research Center of ethnology and water conservancy and hydropower engineering. There are five autonomous region academician workstations for energy and chemical engineering, facility agriculture, biotechnology, ecological restoration, civil engineering and water conservancy engineering. At present, there are 1 quality education bases for college students,/national excellent courses 1 door, 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center, 3 national teaching teams, 8 national specialty specialties, 1 bilingual teaching demonstration courses and 50 national innovative experimental plans for college students.
Construction of key disciplines
National Key Discipline (2): Grassland Science and History of Chinese Minorities (Cultivation).
"2 1 1" project key disciplines (7 disciplines): China ethnic history theory and Hui history, Xixia history, grassland science and ecological engineering, protection and utilization of biological resources with northwest characteristics, water-saving irrigation and water resources regulation in arid areas, coal chemical industry and energy conservation and emission reduction, Ningxia teacher education development, mathematical mechanics and engineering technology.
Key disciplines at autonomous region level (17): special history, Chinese philology, regional economics, ethnology, English linguistics, applied psychology, human geography, biochemistry and molecular biology, applied chemistry, grassland science, water conservancy and hydropower engineering, applied mathematics, basic mathematics, crop cultivation and cultivation, condensed matter physics, clinical veterinary medicine, machinery manufacturing and its automation.
Full-time teaching and research personnel in the school account for 50% of senior titles, and master's and doctoral degree personnel account for about 80%. Flexible introduction 16 academicians, 19 were selected as "National Million Talents Project", 4 1 was selected as "New Century 3 13 Talents Project" of the autonomous region, 1 won the second prize of national scientific and technological progress, 1 won the "Young people with outstanding contributions to the country"
The school has a number of laboratories and scientific research bases with advanced level and perfect facilities. The value of teaching and research instruments and equipment is nearly 200 million yuan. There are 38 scientific research institutions and 93 laboratories in various disciplines. The key laboratories of energy and chemical industry (natural gas conversion) and northwest land degradation and ecological restoration are the national key laboratory cultivation bases built by provincial offices, the recycling laboratory of coal chemical resources in Ningdong base is a national and local joint engineering laboratory, the key laboratory of western characteristic biological resources protection and utilization and the key laboratory of northwest degraded ecosystem restoration and reconstruction are the key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, the grape and wine engineering research center and the modern agricultural water resources efficient utilization engineering research center in arid areas are the engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education, and Xixia Research Institute is the key research base of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education.
The school always adheres to the people-oriented principle and constantly improves the quality of personnel training. Strengthen the central position of personnel training, issue "Several Opinions on Strengthening the Cultivation of Innovative Spirit and Innovative Ability of Undergraduates", formulate implementation plans, and revise personnel training plans and curriculum construction requirements. According to the goal of "solid foundation, sound personality, strong employability and great development potential", the teaching reform idea of "strengthening foundation, highlighting practice, developing specialty, focusing on innovation and training by different streams" was determined, and it was implemented by building two programs (professional training program and personality training program) and three platforms (curriculum construction platform, practical ability training platform and innovative ability training platform). The school strives to make all undergraduates participate in the cultivation of innovative spirit and ability in different ways through efforts, so that 30% of them have certain innovative ability.
The school's scientific research work continues to expand steadily, focusing on "optimizing the ability of scientific and technological resources and concentrating the level of scientific and technological services". Focusing on the overall goal of "enhancing connotation and strengthening characteristics", we will take institutional innovation as a breakthrough, strengthen the incentive mechanism for scientific research, continue to promote original innovation, and focus on integrated innovation and introducing digestion, absorption and re-innovation. In terms of undertaking scientific research projects, since the Eleventh Five-Year Plan, the school has undertaken more than 800 scientific and technological projects at or above the autonomous region level, and the total funds have increased by 4.5 times compared with the Tenth Five-Year Plan period. Major breakthroughs have been made in the national science and technology support projects such as "Research and demonstration on key technologies of saline-alkali land improvement and desulfurization waste resource utilization in Hetao area of the Yellow River" and other major national basic research projects and topics such as "Research on major issues of efficient utilization of resources and ecological environment security", and major projects such as national key scientific and technological research projects, national agricultural achievement fund transformation projects, "863 Plan" guiding projects, national key new product plans and "948" projects have been undertaken and completed successively. He has undertaken more than 40 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation and the National Social Science Foundation 168 projects of philosophy and social science at or above the autonomous region level, and more than 320 natural science projects such as tackling key scientific and technological problems in the autonomous region. The school has successively established all-round cooperative relations with more than 0 leading enterprises in five cities of the autonomous region and more than 0 small and medium-sized enterprises in the whole region, signed cooperation agreements, and carried out substantive cooperation and extensive services. In terms of scientific and technological achievements, a number of landmark achievements have been made, and breakthroughs have been made in the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the ho leung ho lee foundation Science and Technology Innovation Award and the Autonomous Region Science and Technology Outstanding Contribution Award.
The school insists on opening to the outside world, regards foreign cooperation and exchange as an important starting point for the connotation construction of the school, and forms a "one body, two wings and one platform" (serving the overall opening-up strategy of the school; International cooperation and domestic cooperation; Alumni work network) foreign cooperation and exchange work pattern. On the basis of deepening and innovating the working mode of counterpart support with Shanghai Jiaotong University, domestic cooperation has successively carried out substantive exchanges and cooperation with 9 universities including Shandong University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Jilin University, Nanjing Normal University, Nanchang University, Fuzhou University and Shanghai Normal University, forming a "one-to-nine" cooperation pattern. International cooperation is based on ethnic regional characteristics and characteristic disciplines, and has established key cooperative relations with more than ten universities in more than ten countries, including Shimane University, Sōka Gakkai (University), Dubai University in the United Arab Emirates, Missouri State University in the United States, and Nordic World Union College of the Norwegian Red Cross, on the platforms of China-Japan International Joint Research Institute, Xixia Studies Institute, Hui Institute, Arabic language talent training, Arabic culture research and biotechnology and ecology research. Ningxia University is a university approved by the Ministry of Education to recruit international students and China government scholarships to train international students in China. Since 1992, nearly a thousand foreign students from more than 20 countries have come to study. The first Confucius Institute in the Gulf region was jointly established with Dubai University in the United Arab Emirates. Great progress has been made in the work of alumni in the school, and five city alumni associations in Ningxia, Yinchuan Industrial and Commercial Alumni Association and Beijing Alumni Association have been established successively.
In recent years, the school has been rated as "National Advanced Grass-roots Party Organization", "National Advanced Unit of Party Building and Ideological and Political Education in Colleges and Universities", "National Advanced Unit of Spiritual Civilization Construction" and "National Civilized Unit".