Nanchang Hangkong University

Nanchang Hangkong University is a multi-disciplinary university with engineering as its main discipline and coordinated development of engineering, science, liberal arts, management, economics, law, education and art. Nanchang Hangkong University has always adhered to the educational philosophy of "people-oriented, quality-driven, talent-strong, open-driven, and characteristic development", and has steadily advanced its internal construction and teaching quality. It is an excellent university in the evaluation of undergraduate teaching work by the Ministry of Education. In 2009, it was identified as a predicted unit for the establishment of doctoral programs.

1. School history: Nanchang Hangkong University was founded in 1952 and was among the first institutions in the country to have the authority to confer bachelor's degrees. It began training master's students in 1985 and was granted the right to confer master's degrees in 1990. It was successively affiliated with the Ministry of Aviation Industry, the Ministry of Aerospace Industry, and the Aviation Industry Corporation of China. Since 1999, it has implemented a management system of co-construction by the central and local governments with local government management as the main part. It is a higher education institution jointly built by the People's Government of Jiangxi Province and the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.

2. Characteristics of the school: The school adheres to the motto of "Daily Renewal and Self-improvement, Unity of Knowledge and Action", the school spirit of "Diligence, Civility, Pragmatism and Innovation", and the Changhang spirit of "Unity and Self-improvement, Striving and Progress", adheres to the service orientation of "Rooted in Jiangxi, Facing the whole country, serving the local area, serving national defense", is oriented towards the demands of aviation national defense, and actively serves the national aviation industry and the economic and social development of Jiangxi, It has 25 majors related to aviation and national defense, accounting for 39.7% of all majors in the school, including aviation-specific majors such as aircraft design and engineering, aircraft power engineering, aircraft manufacturing engineering, flight technology, and performance (Air Stewardess direction). At present, the university has initially established itself as an undergraduate institution with obvious engineering strengths and distinct aviation characteristics.

3. School conditions: The school is located in the heroic city of Nanchang, which is rich in natural resources and talented people. The campus is beautiful and has three campuses, namely Qianhu Campus, Shanghai Road Campus and Gongqingcheng Campus, covering an area of more than 3,500 mu. The school buildings cover an area of 1.04 million square meters. It has more than 38,000 sets of teaching and research equipment, with a total value of about 430 million yuan. More than 2 million volumes of paper books, more than 2.5 million volumes of electronic books, and 348 kinds of Chinese and foreign periodicals. Sports venues cover an area of 155,000 square meters.

4. Institutional setup: The school has the School of Materials Science and Engineering, the School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, the School of Aeronautical Manufacturing Engineering, the School of Information Engineering, the School of Foreign Languages, the School of Aeronautical Engineering (School of Aeronautical Engines), the School of Mathematics and Information Science, the School of Testing and Optoelectronic Engineering, the School of Economics and Management, the School of Physical Education, the School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, the School of Art and Design, the School of Marxism, and the School of Liberal Arts and Law There are 16 professional colleges including the College, the College of Music, the College of Software, three management colleges including the College of International Education, the College of Continuing Education and the College of Education for National Defense Students, and one independent college, the College of Science and Technology. The university has a postdoctoral research station of Jiangxi Provincial Engineering Research Center for Test Technology and Control and a postdoctoral innovation practice base of Jiangxi Provincial Engineering Research Center for Aviation Materials. 1 National engineering laboratory, 24 provincial (ministerial) key laboratories (research centers) and provincial key bases, including 2 Jiangxi Province "2011 Collaborative Innovation" centers. It has two national-level experimental teaching demonstration centers and nine provincial-level experimental teaching demonstration centers.

5. Disciplines and Specialties: It has 13 first-level discipline master's programs, covering 69 second-level discipline master's programs, and 13 engineering master's fields and 3 (Master of Public Administration, Master of Fine Arts, Master of Translation) professional degree categories. There are 63 undergraduate programs, including 5 national characteristic programs, 8 provincial characteristic programs, 1 national comprehensive reform pilot program, 6 provincial comprehensive reform pilot programs, 3 first-class disciplines of Jiangxi Province, and 5 national defense characteristic disciplines. The university has been selected as one of the second batch of universities implementing the Ministry of Education's Program for the Training of Outstanding Engineers, and has been approved for six national and six Jiangxi pilot programs for the program.

6. Talent cultivation: The school has the qualification to recommend outstanding graduating undergraduates for admission to master's programs without taking the entrance examination. Jointly cultivate doctoral students with universities and research institutions such as Beihang University, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials, Hunan University, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Beijing Normal University. The university has one national teaching team, one national excellent course, and one national bilingual teaching demonstration course; Four national teaching achievement awards and 75 provincial teaching achievement awards; 8 National planning textbooks and 40 provincial and ministerial excellent textbooks. It has three national-level engineering practice education centers jointly built by schools and enterprises. It has 216 off-campus practice (internship) bases, among which the engineering practice education center jointly applied for with China Southern Aviation Industry (Group) Co., Ltd. has been approved as a national off-campus practice education base for college students. The "Changhang Model" for training national defense students for the navy has been successfully approved as a national experimental zone for innovative talent cultivation models, and the Ministry of Education and the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army of China jointly issued a document to promote the experience of our university in training national defense students nationwide.

Students' ability to innovate in science and technology has been continuously enhanced. Over the past five years, college students have won more than 2,800 awards in science and technology competitions at or above the provincial and ministerial level, received 525 patent applications and 420 authorizations, published over 640 papers, and obtained 190 projects under the National and Provincial College students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program. He has won the first prize in the final of the "Challenge Cup" National College Students' Extracurricular Academic and Technological Works Competition, the Special prize in the International 2015CORE Renewable Energy Technology Top Design Competition, two silver awards in the "Internet Plus" College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the national championship in the 16th National College Students' Robot Competition Ground Challenge, the first prize in the 5th China Education Robot Competition, the 30th Gold Medal at the Pittsburgh International Invention Show, Gold Medal at the Fifth National College Business Elite Challenge, and other honors. The college student innovation team "Environmental Photocatalysis and Resource Recycling Team" was honored with the title of "Deng Xiaoping Innovation Team". The college students' innovation and entrepreneurship base was named as one of the third batch of Jiangxi Province College Students' Entrepreneurship incubation Base creation units and was designated as a national "College Students' KAB Entrepreneurship Education Base". In the evaluation of innovative talent cultivation and discipline competitions in Chinese universities, our university has consistently ranked among the top three in the province and 119th in the country.

7. Scientific research: Since the 12th Five-Year Plan, nearly 7,948 papers have been published in domestic and international academic journals, including more than 2,640 indexed by SCI, EI and ISTP, and more than 280 indexed by CSSCI; 1,181 national patent authorizations, including 556 invention patents; 116 books and 274 textbooks have been published. One National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, two National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, 335 National Natural Science Funds of other categories, and 23 National Social Science Funds have been approved. More than 20 projects including 2 National Education Science Planning Projects, major bidding projects of philosophy and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, general projects of Humanities of the Ministry of Education, educational science and technology projects and outstanding talent projects of the Ministry of Education, and nearly 20 projects including major national science and technology special projects, sub-projects, sub-projects of the "973" and "863" programs. More than 100 national defense research projects and over 900 provincial and ministerial-level projects such as Jiangxi Province's major science and technology projects have been undertaken. One National Science and Technology Progress Award (participated in), one Third prize of Outstanding research Achievements in Humanities and Social Sciences of Chinese universities. 74 provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological achievements awards. Professor Luo Shenglian was awarded the 2012 Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Innovation Award.

8. Faculty: The school has more than 2,000 staff members, including 1,274 full-time teachers; There are 430 teachers with doctoral degrees and 735 with master's degrees, accounting for approximately 91% of the total number of full-time teachers. There are 30 doctoral supervisors and more than 630 master's supervisors; There are five dual-appointed academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Two recipients of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, one under the National Thousand Talents Program, two under the National Ten Thousand Talents Program Leading Talents in Science and Technology Innovation, two recipients of the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, one under the National Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Thousand Talents Program, one under the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Hundred Talents Program, and five National Excellent Teachers; Two of the Ministry of Science and Technology's leading talents in Science and technology innovation, and two of the Ministry of Education's New Century Excellent Talent Support Program; 40 first-tier and second-tier candidates of Jiangxi Province's New Century Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talents Project, and 36 recipients of government special allowances; 14 candidates for Jiangxi Province's "Ganpo 555 Project", 2 Distinguished professors of Jinggang Scholars, 5 leading academic and disciplinary leaders of Jiangxi Province, 17 teaching masters of Jiangxi Province, 26 candidates for Jiangxi Province's Young Scientist Training Program and Outstanding Young Talent Training Program, and 1 cultural master of Jiangxi Province. 48 provincial (ministerial) level academic leaders and 72 provincial (ministerial) level middle-aged and young backbone teachers.

9. Admissions and Employment: The school recruits students from 29 provinces, municipalities directly under the Central Government and autonomous regions across the country, including first-tier universities in 14 provinces. Currently, there are more than 23,000 full-time students on campus, including more than 20,000 undergraduates and 1,955 postgraduates. Since its establishment, the school has produced more than 130,000 graduates of all kinds. The school has established long-term cooperative relations with enterprises and institutions in the fields of aviation, aerospace, civil aviation and general aviation, as well as human resources departments of nearly 30 local governments. More than 30 percent of the graduates each year serve in defense and military enterprises and major civil aviation and general aviation companies. The school has consecutively received honors such as "Advanced Collective in Employment Work for Graduates of Regular Colleges and Universities" and "Excellent Grade in Employment Work Assessment for Graduates of Regular Colleges and Universities" in Jiangxi Province.

10. International Cooperation: The school has been vigorously promoting international cooperation and exchange. We have established stable intercollegiate partnerships with more than 60 universities in 20 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Ukraine. Over the past five years, more than 800 students have been sent to universities in Britain, the United States, France, Australia, Japan and other countries for exchange or study. The school has been cooperating with universities in the UK, Australia, the US and other countries to run undergraduate-level Sino-foreign cooperative education programs. Currently, there are more than 1,200 students in Sino-foreign programs on campus. Actively developing international students in China, our university has the qualification to train international students on the Chinese Government Scholarship. As of December 2017, our university has recruited 38 international students on the Chinese Government Scholarship. At the same time, our university accepts a number of scholarships to support international students in China, including the "Chinese Government Special Scholarship - Scholarship for Local Government Degree Students", "Central and Eastern European Credit Student Scholarship", and "Jiangxi Provincial Government Scholarship for Foreign Students". The university offers four fully English-taught undergraduate and postgraduate programs: Aeronautical engineering, Computer science and Culture, Business administration, and Civil Engineering. There are 212 international students of all kinds on campus, including 205 degree students and 7 short-term language students. The school has been awarded the title of Advanced Collective for International Students in China.

11. People 's livelihood work: The school focuses on people' s livelihood work, implements the "Health Project" for faculty and staff, and establishes a financial aid system based on "awards, work-study, grants, loans, subsidies" - "helping others, helping oneself, and helping others". Charitable individuals and enterprises have set up nearly 20 social scholarships and grants. The school was awarded the title of "Outstanding Unit of Communist Youth League Work in the Province in 2015", and was honored with the national "May 4th Red Flag Youth League Committee" and the provincial "May 4th Red Flag Youth League Committee". The school student union was rated as a provincial "five-star Student Union".

12. Social reputation: The school has been honored with titles such as National Model Workers' Home, National Advanced Unit for Military Training Work, National Advanced Collective for Mental Health Education of College Students, Jiangxi Province Civilized Unit, Jiangxi Province Advanced Grassroots Party Organization, Jiangxi Province Advanced Unit for Campus Construction, Jiangxi Province Advanced Unit for Party Building and Ideological and Political Work, Jiangxi Province Advanced Unit for News and Publicity Work of National Defense Science and Technology Industry, National Defense Science and Technology Industry Military Industry Honorary titles such as Cultural and Educational Base.