Zhaotong University

About the university

Zhaotong University is a provincial public undergraduate university located in Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, at the junction of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan Provinces, which is known as "the throat of Western Shu and the key to Southern Yunnan". The university is located in a beautiful environment, adjacent to the provincial cultivation of national culture park, which covers an area of more than — acres, where you can enjoy flowers in spring, literature in summer, moon in autumn and snow in winter. Zhaotong University has a rich heritage, and its teacher education tradition can be traced back to the Teacher Training Institute established by the Qing government in —, the Second Provincial Teacher Training university, Zhaotong Regional Teacher Training university, and Zhaotong Teacher Training University in —, which was upgraded to an undergraduate institution in March — with the approval of the Ministry of Education. In April —, the university was listed by the Ministry of Education as a key undergraduate university supported by the Collaborative Quality Improvement Plan for Teacher Education. The university spirit of "hard work, rigorous study, practice and the pursuit of excellence" has been forged over the past 100 years, and the university motto of "A university has no boundaries and adults have tolerance" and the university ethos of "Virtue, dedication, pragmatism and innovation" have been formed. The university spirit of "Virtue, Dedication, Pragmatism and Innovation" has been formed.

Over the past 40 years, Zhaotong University has carried out the Party's education policy, adhered to the socialist direction of universitying, comprehensively implemented the fundamental task of establishing moral education, always taken the service of local economic and social development as its mission, and promoted students' growth, success and adulthood as its mission, and made self-improvement and forging ahead. It has become a comprehensive university with the new liberal arts, new agriculture and new engineering as its leading subjects and the coordinated development of multiple disciplines, and has become a centre for training talents, scientific and technological innovation and cultural dissemination in Zhaotong and the surrounding areas, as well as a training base for leading cadres of party and government organs, enterprise managers, teachers at all levels and technicians in the modern agricultural industry in Zhaotong county and city.

The university currently has 13 teaching Universitys, including the University of Humanities, the University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the University of Management, the University of Educational Sciences, and the University of Physics and Information Engineering, with 40 undergraduate majors, enrolling students from more than ten provinces and cities across China, and maintaining an employment rate of over 95% year-round.

The university has 1 University-Industry Cooperation Collaborative Education Project of the Ministry of Education, 1 provincial academician expert workstation, 1 provincial engineering research centre, 2 provincial key laboratories, 1 provincial model practical training base and 7 experimental training teaching centres. There are 28 training places for teacher training skills, 99 teaching laboratories and research laboratories, 51 practical training rooms, 181 smart classrooms, micro-grid classrooms and multimedia classrooms, achieving 100% coverage of multimedia equipment in all classrooms, and 119 off-campus internship and training bases. There are 9 university-level teaching teams. Among the public teaching facilities platforms, there are 2 provincial experimental training bases and technology innovation service centres. There are 21 national-level and provincial-ministerial-level projects, 1 provincial-level first-class discipline construction point, 8 provincial-level first-class majors and emerging majors construction points, and 13 provincial-ministerial-level teaching achievement awards and philosophical and social science excellent achievement awards.

The university has 711 teaching staff, including 228 with senior titles, 522 with doctoral and master's degrees, and 100 external teachers. The university has "National Famous Accountant", "Member of the Steering Committee of Business Administration Teaching of the Ministry of Education", "Member of the Expert Committee of Accounting Education of the Ministry of Finance" and "Member of the National Teaching Guidance Committee of Curriculum Civics and Politics of Higher Education". Member of the National Steering Committee of Curriculum and Civics Teaching in Higher Education Institutions", "Director of the Yunnan Provincial Steering Committee of Business Administration Teaching", "Teaching Master" and "Young Talents" of the Yunnan Provincial High-level Talents Training Support Program. "Young Talents", "Young and Middle-aged Academic and Technical Leaders of Yunnan Province", "Provincial Teaching Master", "Wumeng Artisan The university has a strong commitment to "teaching and learning" and "teaching and technology".

With the concept of "teaching, scientific research, special features and services", the university has established the University of Creative Writing, the University of Apple, the University of Tianma, the University of Potato, the University of Zhaxi Cadres (theoretical teaching department), the base class of Chinese Language and Literature, the base class of Physics, the base class of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, the base class of The university has set up pilot classes for talent training reform, such as the base class of Chinese language and literature, the base class of physics, the base class of mathematics and applied mathematics, the base class of preuniversity education, the class of English language, the experimental class of biological science, the special class of apple and asparagus potato, and the special class of literary creation, focusing on creating four special cards of highland special agriculture, Zhaotong literature, teacher education and red culture, promoting the development of professional construction characteristics, and cultivating composite, innovative and applied talents for local basic education reform, economic and cultural construction and social development. innovative and application-oriented talents for local basic education reform, economic and cultural construction and social development. In order to better serve the local economic and social development of Zhaotong, the university has set up the Northeast Yunnan Plateau Special Agricultural Research Centre, the Wumeng Mountain Ecological Protection Research Centre, the Jinsha River Basin Economic and Social Development Research Centre and the Chishui River Basin Ecological Protection Research Centre to carry out special research, and has won a number of projects at provincial and ministerial level, and published many academic papers in international and domestic renowned journals.

Over the past 40 years, the university has cultivated more than — outstanding talents represented by such outstanding students as Wu Jianzhi, a national moral model of filial piety and love for the elderly, Kan Jianjun, a national top 100 criminal police officer, Summer Min and Lei Pingyang, winners of the Lu Xun Literature Award, Zhang Ying, a national outstanding teacher, and Ma Hao, the champion of the men's mountain bike cross-country race at the — Jakarta Asian Games, who have contributed to the economic construction and social development of Zhaotong City and the surrounding areas Zhaotong University has made great contributions to the economic construction and social development of Zhaotong and the surrounding areas.

In the new era, Zhaotong University will not forget its original intention and bear in mind its mission, actively promote reform and innovation, comprehensively plan for high-quality connotative development, and strive to build the university into a Zhaotong University with distinctive professional characteristics, high quality talent training, strong social service capability and people's satisfaction!

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