Suzhou College

Suzhou College is a comprehensive general undergraduate university in Anhui Province. The predecessor was the Suxian District Normal School in Northern Anhui, founded in 1949. In 1983, it was upgraded and renamed as Suzhou Teachers College. In 2004, it was upgraded and renamed as Suzhou College. In 2014, it passed the undergraduate teaching qualification assessment of the Ministry of Education and was approved as Anhui in 2015. The provincial local application-oriented high-level university project construction unit was approved in 2019 as a new master's degree granting project construction unit. The Suzhou Municipal Party Committee and Government strongly supports the construction and development of the college. On December 18, 2020, the 11th plenary meeting of the Fifth Suzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China reviewed and approved the "CPC Suzhou City on the formulation of the 14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development And the Proposals for the Long-term Goals for the Year 2003 and 2005, put "support for Suzhou College to establish Suzhou University" on the agenda.

The school is located in Suzhou City, a historical and cultural city in northern Anhui. It has two campuses: the Education Park campus and the Bianhe Road campus. The school occupies an area of 1146 acres, with a building area of nearly 500,000 square meters, with a total value of more than 200 million yuan in teaching and research equipment, more than 1.2 million paper books in its collection, and more than 5.13 million electronic books. There are 15 secondary colleges and 64 undergraduate majors, covering eight disciplines including engineering, management, science, literature, economics, art, education, and medicine. It has 1 national-level characteristic major, 1 national-level comprehensive reform pilot major, 1 provincial-level key discipline, 9 provincial-level characteristic majors, and 12 provincial-level comprehensive reform pilot majors. There are 1044 faculty members, including 81 senior professional and technical positions, 296 associate senior professional and technical positions, 824 master's degree and above (including 98 doctoral degrees), and 88 Ph.D candidates; 1 national outstanding teacher, national There are 1 model teacher, 2 provincial academic and technical leaders, 11 provincial outstanding teachers, 16 provincial teaching teachers, and 25 provincial education talents. There are more than 18,873 full-time students and 1,445 adult education students.

The school is centered on the "local and application-oriented" orientation of running a school, guided by the needs of local economic and social development, vigorously adjusts the discipline and professional structure, and builds a discipline and professional system with engineering and management as the main and coordinated development of multiple disciplines, forming six major categories Application professional group. The school has deeply promoted the teaching reform of the “trinity” of practical education, innovation and entrepreneurship education, and social responsibility education, and the quality of talent training has been continuously improved. In the past three years, students have won more than 1,100 awards at or above the provincial level in various competitions, and the employment rate of undergraduate graduates has exceeded 94%.

The school vigorously promotes school-site, school-enterprise, and school-school cooperation, and cooperates with local governments, enterprises and institutions to build industry-university-research cooperation centers, government decision-making consultation centers, internship training bases, and employment bases to promote collaborative education. It has 1 post-doctoral scientific research workstation, 1 national engineering technology research center, 7 provincial scientific research platforms, and more than 230 practical training bases. Since 2014, he has undertaken 227 scientific research projects at or above the provincial and ministerial level, and won 6 provincial and ministerial scientific research awards; published more than 3,300 academic papers, including 508 indexed by SCI and EI; published 136 textbooks and monographs; authorized the country 82 invention patents. Since 2017, 271 industry-university-research cooperation projects have been signed, and more than 11 million yuan will be received in 2020; a number of consulting reports have been adopted by relevant provincial and municipal departments; in 2017 and 2018, he was selected as one of the top 100 invention patents in Anhui Province for two consecutive times.

The school insists on cultivating people by virtue, actively practicing the core values of socialism, and constantly optimizing the top-level design of cultural education. Actively absorb local excellent cultural resources, integrate its own excellent school-running traditions, and further promote the "cultural education and cultural education", and build a cultural education model supported by curriculum construction, leading by theoretical research, strengthening featured platforms, and serving cultural practice. The research result of "Exploration and Practice of Cultural Education in Local Applied Undergraduate Universities" won the first prize of Anhui Province Teaching Achievement.

The school has signed cooperation agreements with 19 universities and scientific research institutions in the United States, New Zealand, Malaysia and countries and regions along the “Belt and Road”. ) More than 150 person-times for foreign research, visits, and doctoral degree studies. In 2019, he was approved by the Ministry of Education for one Sino-foreign cooperative education project. In 2019 and 2020, he completed the high-quality undergraduate enrollment of Sino-US cooperation "Biotechnology" for two consecutive years. Actively promote Indonesian and other foreign students to come to the school to receive academic education, actively build the "study in Anhui" and "study in Suzhou" brands, and promote and spread the excellent Chinese traditional culture and local culture.

The school is a local application-oriented high-level university project construction unit in Anhui Province, the first batch of demonstration applied undergraduate universities in Anhui Province, the first batch of colleges and universities in Anhui Province that implement innovation and entrepreneurship training programs for national college students, and the first batch of college students' innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration universities in Anhui Province. The school has been rated as an advanced unit of employment in Anhui Province, as a model unit for employment of ordinary college graduates in Anhui Province for 4 consecutive years, as a civilized unit in Anhui Province for 4 consecutive times, and as the first Anhui Province in 2015 A civilized unit of the education system, was named the first civilized campus in Anhui Province in 2019. From 2015 to 2018, it was awarded the “Good” grade in the annual comprehensive assessment of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee for 4 consecutive years.

2021 is the first year of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. Standing at a new historical starting point, the school will consistently hold high the great banner of Xi Jinping’s thoughts on socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, fully implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the second, third, fourth and fifth plenary sessions of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Implement General Secretary Jinping’s important expositions on education and the spirit of the National Education Conference, concentrate on the implementation of the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech in Anhui, and firmly seize the major strategic opportunities for Anhui’s deep integration into the Yangtze River Delta and high-quality development. Comprehensive reforms to stimulate vitality, promote the construction of high-level local applied universities and master degree granting units in the new stage to make new progress, build a high-level undergraduate education in an all-round way, and start the school’s "14th Five-Year Plan" with excellent results Good step, laying the foundation for the founding of Suzhou University and presenting a gift to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party!