Founded in 1928, Guangxi University is located in Nanning, the picturesque capital of Guangxi known as the "Green City". It is the oldest and largest comprehensive university in Guangxi and the only university in Guangxi to be included in the "211 Project". It is also a provincial and ministerial university jointly built by the Ministry of Education and Guangxi, a university under the Plan to enhance the comprehensive strength of Higher Education Institutions in Central and Western China, a "One Province, One University" university, and a university with world-class disciplines.
The university now has 27 colleges, covering 11 disciplines including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management and art. It has 98 undergraduate programs (79 of which were admitted in 2017, 24 of which were admitted under 9 major categories) and 36 first-level discipline master's programs. 16 second-level discipline master's programs (excluding those covered by the first-level discipline master's programs), 8 first-level discipline doctoral programs, 3 second-level discipline doctoral programs (excluding those covered by the first-level discipline doctoral programs), 16 master's professional degree categories and 10 postdoctoral research stations. There is 1 national "Double First-Class" construction discipline cluster, 2 national key disciplines, and 1 national key (cultivated) discipline; Engineering, materials science, and agricultural science are among the top 1% of ESI disciplines globally. There is one national key laboratory and one provincial and ministerial co-built national key laboratory cultivation base, three Ministry of Education key laboratories and engineering research centers, one Ministry of Education country and regional research base, one State Forestry Administration key laboratory, and a number of key laboratories, engineering technology research centers and research bases in Guangxi. There are four Guangxi "2011 Collaborative Innovation Centers and Cultivation Bases", one Guangxi Key Research Base for Humanities and Social Sciences, and six Guangxi key research Bases for humanities and social sciences in colleges and universities.
The school has made efforts to improve the level and quality of its teaching staff, and has intensified the cultivation and introduction of high-level talents, thus creating a high-quality teaching staff that is of high moral character, proficient in business, well-structured and full of vitality. The school currently has 3,662 staff members on its payroll, including 630 with senior professional titles, 1,118 with associate senior professional titles, 1 with a first-level professional position, 73 with a second-level professional position (including 24 with extended retirement), and 4 with tenured professors. Among them, there are 2,110 full-time teachers, 325 doctoral supervisors and 1,783 master's supervisors. At present, there is one academician of our university; Five dual-appointed academicians; One chief scientist of the 973 program; One Distinguished professor under the National Thousand Talents Program; Three leading talents of the Ten Thousand Talents Program; Four "Chang Jiang Scholars" and one "Chang Jiang Scholars Chair Professor" of the Ministry of Education; Three recipients of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars; 13 foreign professors and experts; 32 experts enjoying special government allowances from The State Council; Nine people selected for the National "100,000 Talents Project"; Two National "Outstanding Professional and Technical Talents"; Two National teaching masters; Two people selected for the "Hundred Talents Program" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Six National "Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Experts with Distinguished Contributions"; One candidate for the "Thousand Talents Program for Young People"; Two recipients of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars; One of the leading talents in science and technology innovation of the Ministry of Science and Technology; Seven candidates for the Ministry of Education's New Century Excellent Talent Support Program; One recipient of the Lu Xun Literature Prize.
