Zhejiang Ocean University

Zhejiang Ocean University is a teaching and research university jointly built by the State Oceanic Administration and the people 's government of Zhejiang Province. Founded in 1958 as Zhoushan Fisheries College, it was renamed Zhejiang Fisheries College in 1975 and merged with Zhoushan Teachers College in 1998 to form Zhejiang Ocean University. After 2000, the Zhejiang Institute of Oceanology and Fisheries and other institutions were merged into it. In 2016, it was renamed to its current name. Over the past nearly 60 years, the school has changed its location several times and has accumulated the spirit of its motto "Embrace all rivers and Strive for self-improvement", making significant contributions to the cultivation of Marine talents, scientific and technological innovation, industrial upgrading and cultural inheritance in eastern China, especially in Zhejiang Province. The school has gradually explored a path of education that conforms to the laws of higher education development, is closely integrated with regional economic and social development, and has increasingly distinct Marine characteristics. The school has two campuses, Dinghai Campus and Xincheng Campus. The main campus, Xincheng Campus, is located on Changzhi Island in Zhoushan Archipelago New Area, Zhejiang Province, surrounded by mountains and the sea, with pleasant scenery and is an ideal place for study.

The construction and development of the school have always received the kind concern and strong support of the Party and state leaders. When visiting the school, Zhang Dejiang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and then secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee, pointed out that the school should focus on exploring Marine science, cultivating Marine talents and developing Marine industries, strengthen the construction of professional disciplines and scientific research and development, and create distinctive advantages. Party and state leaders such as Li Tieying, Jiang Chunyun, Zhao Hongzhu, Hao Jianxiu, Lu Yongxiang, Han Qide, Zhou Tienong, Jiang Shusheng, Tung Chee-hwa, Ho Hau-wah and Song Jian expressed high expectations for the school's development during their visits to the school or their inscriptions on its establishment. Qiao Shi, former member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People's Congress, inscribed the name of the school.

The school adheres to the principle of talent cultivation as the center and social demand as the orientation, and is committed to cultivating compound applied talents who are well-rounded in morality, intelligence, physical fitness and aesthetics, have an international vision and Marine spirit, humanistic quality and cooperative and competitive awareness, innovation and entrepreneurship ability and practical skills. In the last two sessions of teaching achievement awards, one national second prize, five provincial first prizes and six provincial second prizes have been won. It now has a national pilot project for the education and training of outstanding agricultural and forestry talents, a national experimental teaching demonstration center, a national off-campus practical education base for college students, a National Natural Science Foundation of China Field Practice base (co-built), and the first domestic island field survival teaching experiment base. It is the only national-level innovative talent training demonstration base (co-built) among Marine universities. In the past five years, students have won 122 national awards and 3,108 provincial and ministerial awards in various subject competitions, gold awards in the 2014 and 2016 National "Challenge Cup" College Students' Entrepreneurship Competition, and special prize in the 2015 14th "Challenge Cup" National College Students' Extracurricular Academic and Technological Works Competition In 2016, the school was selected as one of the top 100 clubs in the "Search for 2016 National College Students' Entrepreneurship Club Activities" and was listed as a national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training program implementation university. "Ocean Culture" was recognized as one of the first batch of campus culture brands in colleges and universities in Zhejiang Province. A number of outstanding alumni have emerged, including Zhong Xingju, a candidate for "Touching China 2010", Liu Lingyun, a "Proud Person of Zhejiang", Xu Fangcheng, a "National Outstanding Individual in Employment and Entrepreneurship", Duan Zihao, a "self-made star of Chinese college students", Li Binbin, one of the top ten college students in Zhejiang Province, and Zhou Yun, the recipient of the "2016 China Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award". The employment rate of graduates has remained above 95%.

The school focuses on the major strategic demands of the country and the needs of local economic and social development, constantly improves the scientific research and innovation system, and strives to enhance the scientific research level and innovation capacity. The research achievements have won the first, second and third prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award and 10 awards of the National Science Conference. In the past five years, 137 national-level research projects including the National 973 Program, 863 Program, Science and Technology Support Program and International Science and Technology Cooperation Program, and 372 provincial and ministerial-level research projects have been undertaken. The average annual research funds received to the university amount to 91.5341 million yuan, and exceeded 125 million yuan in 2015. He presided over the completion of China 's first standards for determining the benchmark price of sea areas, namely the "Regulations for Determining the Benchmark Price of Sea Areas" and the "Norms for Evaluating the Benchmark Price of Sea Areas", and completed the world' s first complete genome sequence map of the large yellow croaker of the family Shichthidae and the complete genome sequence map of the 𩾠cuttlefish and squid. One teacher has been consecutively listed as a highly cited researcher in China Since the 12th Five-Year Plan, the school has achieved a number of breakthrough research results in natural sciences and humanities, philosophy and social sciences. The projects led by the school have won two second prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award and 68 provincial and ministerial awards, including 17 first prizes (special prizes). It has established the National Engineering Research Center for Marine Facility Aquaculture, the National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for the Exploration and Utilization of Marine Biological Germplasm Resources, the National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Port Oil and Gas Storage and Transportation Technology, as well as 25 provincial and ministerial key laboratories, engineering laboratories, engineering technology research centers, collaborative innovation centers, etc. It has two off-campus research bases, Xixuan Fishery Science and Technology Island and Dongji Island Comprehensive Science Experiment Village, and two vessels for teaching and scientific research (Zhejiang Marine Science 1 and Zhejiang Fishery Science 2), among which Zhejiang Marine Science 1 is included in the sequence of national Marine scientific research vessels. Journal of Zhejiang Ocean University (Natural Science Edition, Humanities and Social Sciences Edition) is published, and there is a Zhejiang branch of National Ocean Press. The Chinese Society of Fisheries, the Branch of Marine Resources Management of the China Pacific Society, the Branch of Biological Fishery Resources of the Chinese Society of Oceanology and Limnology (in preparation), the Zhejiang Society of Marine Science and Technology, and the Zhejiang Society of Marine Culture are affiliated with our university.

The school, with social service as the carrier, strives to forge an innovative path of local universities serving regional economic and social development with distinctive features and continuously enhances the overall level of social service. It has established the China Marine Science and Technology Innovation Intelligence Park, is in the process of building a national university science park, and has formed a number of science and technology innovation service platforms with government departments along the coast of Zhejiang, enterprises and institutions, as well as domestic universities and colleges. The Institute of Marine Survey, Planning and Design has qualifications such as national metrological certification, sea area use argumentation (Class B), fishery vessel design (Class B), agricultural product quality and safety testing, fishery pollution accident investigation and identification (Class B), surveying and mapping (Class D), Zhejiang Province Sea area assessment, and Zhejiang Province sea area benchmark price determination. Continuing education for professional and technical personnel and professional skills training in fisheries, petrochemicals, seafarers, international business English, teacher education, etc. It has qualifications such as the seafarer quality system, 27 seafarer training programs (including first-class captains and chief engineers in unlimited navigation areas), first-class training for seafarers in distant-water fishery, petrochemical vocational skills appraisal, and second-class training for international business English examination, etc. It has training organizations such as the National Fishery Surveyor Training Base, the Zhejiang Province Distant-Water Fishery Training Center, and the Sinopec Sales Company Zhoushan Training Center, and is a national Marine awareness education base and a national science popularization education base.

The 21st century is the ocean century. The school is focusing on the strategic deployment of building a "maritime power" and the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road", closely integrating with the development needs of the Zhejiang Marine Economic Development Demonstration Zone, the Zhejiang Zhoushan Archipelago New Area, the Zhoushan Free Trade Port Area and the Zhoushan River-Sea Combined Transport Service Center, adhering to the principles of being based in the East China Sea, facing the whole country and going to the world, The strategic task is to build a comprehensive Marine university with distinctive features and significant influence at home and abroad; Adhere to distinctive development, strengthen collaborative innovation, promote international cooperation, deepen comprehensive reform, continuously improve the university governance system, vigorously implement innovation and entrepreneurship education, accelerate the enhancement of students' competitiveness and teachers' influence, Strive to become an important base for cultivating Marine talents, a platform for research and development of Marine science and technology, an incubation park for Marine high-tech, a carrier for introducing Marine science and technology intelligence, and a research center for Marine humanities and social sciences in China.

(Updated December 2016)

Party Secretary: Liu Hongming

President: Yan Xiaojun

Address: No. 1, Haida South Road, Lincheng Sub-district, Dinghai District, Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province

Postal Code: 316022

Telephone: 0580-2550008, 2550009

True mail: 2551319, 8180632

Web address: //www.zjou.edu.cn

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