Shihezi University

The university was founded in September 1949 during the march of the People's Liberation Army to liberate Xinjiang. In April 1996, it was formed by the merger of Shihezi Agricultural College, Shihezi Medical College, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Teachers College and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Economic College, which were under the Ministry of Agriculture.

The school has always adhered to the educational orientation of "rooted in the Corps, serving Xinjiang, facing the whole country, radiating to Central Asia", the educational philosophy of "serving as the purpose, developing through contribution", and the educational characteristics of "cultivating people with the spirit of the Corps, serving reclamation and border defense", and has become an important force in reclamation and border defense and border construction.

The school now has 11 disciplines, including economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management and art. It has 5 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points (including 25 second-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points), 23 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points (142 second-level discipline master's degree authorization points), 13 types of master's professional degree authorization, 92 undergraduate programs, and 3 postdoctoral research stations (research stations). There is 1 national key discipline and 1 national key (cultivated) discipline, and 10 provincial key disciplines. There are 3 national teaching teams, 1 national teaching master, 4 national excellent courses, 5 characteristic specialties, 1 experimental teaching demonstration center, 1 bilingual teaching demonstration course, 3 Ministry of Education excellent video open courses, 2 National excellent Resource sharing courses, and 576 national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training Program projects. The university has a national base for college students' cultural quality education and an off-campus practical education base, and is a pilot university for the Ministry of Education's Program for the training of outstanding (doctors, engineers, agricultural and forestry talents) education.

The school adheres to the path of integration of industry, education and research, and gives full play to the disciplinary advantages of comprehensive and strong application, Research with location advantages and characteristics in "Efficient agriculture and ecology in desert Oasis areas, animal genetic improvement and disease control, Prevention and Control of high local and ethnic diseases in Xinjiang, efficient storage and deep processing of agricultural products in Xinjiang, special plant medicine resources and development in Xinjiang, green chemical processes and new materials technology, mechanization technology and equipment for characteristic agricultural production in Xinjiang, Economic and Social Development of the Corps" Breakthrough progress has been made in the field. In recent years, he has led two projects under the National 973 Program, four projects under the National 863 Program, six projects under the National Science and Technology Support Program, and six major bidding projects of the National Philosophy and Social Sciences. He has achieved more than 300 scientific research results and received more than 200 awards at or above the provincial and ministerial level. The university has two national international science and technology cooperation bases, two provincial and ministerial co-built national key laboratory cultivation bases, two provincial and ministerial co-built key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, two engineering centers of the Ministry of Education, one national and local joint engineering research center, two national and local joint engineering laboratories, one national university science park, one key laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture, and four key laboratories of the Corps Three engineering technology research centers and four collaborative innovation (cultivation) centers of the Corps. Four key laboratories of the Department of Education of the Autonomous Region and four key research bases for liberal arts of the Autonomous region and the Corps.

The school has excellent teaching and research conditions. The campus area is 1.82 million square meters, the building area is 1.1698 million square meters, the laboratory area is 180,000 square meters, and the green coverage rate is 41%. It has a number of landmark buildings such as a well-equipped library, gymnasium, swimming pool, track and field, standard stadium, auditorium and comprehensive teaching building, and four affiliated hospitals. The school was named a "National Civilized Unit" in 2011.

The school has 2,581 staff members, including 1,749 full-time teachers. It has appointed three academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, three distinguished professors under the Changjiang Scholars Program of the Ministry of Education, two chief scientists of the National 973 Program, 247 professors and 628 associate professors. It has two Ministry of Education innovation teams, one has been selected as a leading talent in science and technology innovation of the Ministry of Science and Technology under the "Innovation Talent Promotion Program", one has been selected as a national cultural master and "Four Groups of Talents" by the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, ten have been selected for the Ministry of Education's "New Century Excellent Talent Support Program", five have been selected for the "Thousand Talents Program", and six have been selected for the "Thousand Young Talents Program" - Xinjiang project. There are 11 experts with outstanding contributions at the provincial and ministerial level and 41 provincial high-level talents.

The school recruits students from 31 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) across the country. Currently, there are 41,502 students enrolled, including 21,963 regular undergraduates, 1,117 regular junior college students, and 3,928 master's and doctoral students. The employment rate of its undergraduate graduates has remained above 90% for many consecutive years. In recent years, the school has been honored with titles such as "Advanced Collective in Graduate Employment Work of Regular Institutions of Higher Learning in China" and "50 Universities with Typical Experience in Graduate Employment in China".

The school has carried out extensive international exchanges and cooperation, established an international education center, and set up a Confucius Institute in Kazakhstan. More than 70 universities and research institutions in countries such as the United States, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Austria, Japan and South Korea have engaged in multi-level and wide-ranging exchanges and cooperation. More than 800 students from 15 countries have come to study at the university.

The university has been actively expanding exchanges and cooperation between the university and localities, as well as between the university and enterprises. Since 2001, Peking University has consistently provided targeted support to Shihezi University. In 2010, a university team led by Peking University, with Huazhong University of Science and Technology, East China University of Science and Technology and Huazhong Agricultural University as deputy leading units, and Chongqing University, Jiangnan University, University of International Business and Economics, Nanjing Normal University and South China Agricultural University as member units, provided targeted support to Shihezi University. The university has signed intercollegiate cooperation agreements with more than 30 domestic universities, including Zhejiang University, Northwest A&F University and Shaanxi Normal University. More than 30 units of the Corps and Autonomous Region, including Shihezi City of the Eighth Division, Kunyu City of the Fourteenth Division, Manas County, Shawan County and Heshuo County, have signed school-local cooperation agreements. More than 20 enterprises, including Xinjiang Tianye, Xinjiang Tianfu, Tianshan Aluminum and Xinjiang Western Pastoral Industry, have established school-enterprise cooperation relations.

Riding on the spring breeze of the revitalization of higher education institutions in the central and western regions and the comprehensive deepening of reforms in the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, Shihezi University is moving towards the goal of building a distinctive and high-level university that is "advanced in the west, first-class in Central Asia and internationally renowned".