The key universities of the Ministry of Agriculture, which focus on the characteristic disciplines of aquatic products, have a coordinated development of agriculture, science, engineering, economics, literature and management.
Shanghai Fisheries University is an ordinary institution of higher learning with a long history of 95 years and a glorious tradition. Its predecessor was Jiangsu Fisheries School, which was founded in 19 12. 1952 became the first undergraduate fisheries university in China-Shanghai Fisheries College. 1985 changed its name to Shanghai Fisheries University. Since 2000, it has been jointly built by the Ministry of Agriculture and Shanghai, and it is managed by the territory. Now the school has developed into a multidisciplinary university with a complete education system, numerous disciplines, distinctive school-running characteristics and coordinated development of agriculture, science, engineering, economics, literature and management.
The school has eight professional colleges, including Life College, Ocean College, Food College, school of economics and management College, Information College, Humanities College, Engineering College and Foreign Languages College, and four colleges, including International Cultural Exchange College, Adult Education College, Higher Vocational College and Ai En College, which are jointly run by our school and Australia. It also has the Central Agricultural Cadre Education and Training Center, Shanghai Fisheries University Branch and the Marine Fisheries Training Center of the Ministry of Agriculture.
There are 1 national key disciplines, 7 provincial and ministerial key disciplines, 4 Shanghai education highlands and 1 e research institutes of Shanghai universities. There are 1 post-doctoral research mobile stations, 1 first-class discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 6 doctoral degree authorization points in two disciplines, 1 first-class discipline master degree authorization points, 26 master degree authorization points in two disciplines, 7 master degree application points with equivalent academic qualifications, 33 undergraduate majors (including 6 national management majors) and a number of higher vocational majors.
The school has more than 2700 undergraduates/kloc-0 and 790 postgraduates. The school has nearly 1 000 faculty members, including more than 780 full-time teachers, more than 350 senior professional technicians and 27 doctoral and master's tutors. The school has 1 person, a member of the discipline evaluation group of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, 1 person, a member of the National Million Talents Project, 2 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions at the national level, 3 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions at the provincial and ministerial levels, and 4 members of the Seventh Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture.
The school has excellent conditions for running a school, and the teaching laboratory and professional laboratory facilities are complete. It has the key laboratory of innovation and utilization of aquatic germplasm resources of the Ministry of Education, the key open laboratory of aquatic germplasm resources and aquaculture ecology of the Ministry of Agriculture, the aquatic organism disease source bank of the Ministry of Agriculture and the cold storage testing center; A number of professional laboratories have been established, such as the Sino-American (SFU-NOAA) Marine Remote Sensing and Fishery Information Research Center and the Freshwater Fishery Processing and Utilization Laboratory. It has China Fisheries Development Strategy Research Center and 7 university-level research centers, and has established Shanghai Fisheries University Agricultural Research Institute, Public Management Research Institute, China Fish Culture Research Institute, Foreign Language Research Institute and China Fish Culture Museum. It has a well-known fish laboratory and specimen room at home and abroad, and the largest professional whale museum in Asia. The library has 770,000 books and 380,000 e-books, featuring aquatic products, oceans and delicacies. With a modern campus network, the website platform of "China Aquatic Products Network" serving the aquatic products industry in China has been built. China Fisheries News and Journal of Shanghai Fisheries University sponsored by our university are listed as Chinese core journals, China science and technology core journals and China science and technology papers statistical source journals, and China Fisheries News won the title of "National Top 100 Academic Journals" in the first and second sessions. The school is also affiliated to Shanghai Fisheries Society, Shanghai Fisheries Economic Research Association and Shanghai Yan 'an Spiritual Research Association.
Since the 1990s, more than 60 scientific and technological achievements of our school have reached the international leading and advanced level, more than 90 have been initiated and advanced in China, more than 40 have won national scientific research projects or achievement awards, more than 50 have won provincial and ministerial awards, and more than 30 have been patented. Our school has made great contributions in environmental protection, species protection, genetics and breeding, food processing, development and utilization of marine resources, aquaculture, agricultural economy and other fields. In 2006, the funding for scientific research reached 42 million yuan.
The school has close exchanges and cooperation with universities in the United States, Japan, Russia, Australia and other countries, as well as many international organizations. It has exchanged international students with many foreign universities, participated in the Sino-US cooperation plan for marine living resources for a long time, and established long-term friendly and cooperative relations with international organizations such as FAO, UNESCO, Fisheries Information Center, Asian Fisheries Society and International Aquatic Living Resources Management Center.
At present, the school has two campuses, namely Simon Road Campus in Yangpu District and Xuehai Road Campus in Nanhui District, and has three breeding bases in Nanhui, Fenghua and Xiangshan County, Zhejiang Province. According to the structural adjustment plan of colleges and universities in Shanghai, our school will move to Shanghai Lingang New Town in 2008. The new campus is located in the main urban area of Lingang New Town, with a planned area of about 1.600 mu and a planned construction area of 586,000 square meters. In the near future, a modern university with complete functions, advanced facilities and beautiful environment will stand on the coast of the East China Sea and the drip lake.
In order to adapt to the popularization trend of higher education in China, promote the development of aquatic products, marine science and technology and higher education, and cultivate professionals who meet the urgent needs of social needs and local economic and social development, the school has put forward the goal of running a school in the new period: strive for 20 12, and build the school into a discipline with obvious advantages in agriculture, science, engineering, economics, literature and management by the centenary of its establishment. High-level characteristic universities with important influence in the world have become the cradle of cultivating high-level professional and technical talents and high-quality applied talents, and an important base for scientific and technological innovation of aquatic products, oceans and food in China.