Wanxi College

Wanxi College is a provincial comprehensive public undergraduate college approved by the Ministry of Education. Its history can be traced back to the “Anhui Provincial Third Class A Agricultural School” founded by Mr. Zhu Yunshan, the former vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress in 1918. In March 2000, it was formed by the merger of the former Lu'an Teachers College, Wanxi United University and Lu'an Normal School. The school is located in Lu'an, a famous historical and cultural city in Anhui Province, which has been awarded the titles of "National Garden City", "National Ecological Demonstration Zone", "Model City of Chinese Habitat Environment", and "Top 200 Charming Cities with Chinese Characteristics". Lu'an is surrounded by mountains and Huai, and it has a superior location. 3 national highways including 312, 206, 105, 4 railways including Ningxi, Hejiu, Fuliu and Shanghai-Hanrong Express Railways, and 5 expressways including Shanghai-Shaanxi, Shanghai-Chengdu, Jiguang, Hefu, He'an, etc. Throughout the territory, it is only 30 minutes' drive from Xinqiao International Airport, and it only takes 24 minutes by EMU (high-speed rail) to get from Lu'an to Hefei, the provincial capital. The transportation is very convenient, and it has been established as a land transportation hub city by the Ministry of Transport.

The school is located on Moon Island, surrounded by water and beautiful scenery. The architectural facilities, natural landscape, and cultural atmosphere on the campus complement each other, forming a waterfront ecological campus of the unique "Hu Middle School" and "Island Colleges" among the national colleges and universities. , Hailed as "the most beautiful university on the island" by netizens.

The school now has 15 secondary colleges, 67 undergraduate majors, and 57 enrollment majors. The campus covers an area of 1816 mu with a total construction area of more than 460,000 square meters. The library has a paper collection of 1.2369 million volumes, electronic books of 1.6698 million volumes (including yearbooks, standards, etc.), and a total value of 281 million yuan in teaching and research equipment. The school currently has 20,823 full-time students, 1,139 in-service faculty members, 920 full-time teachers, 314 associate-professionals and above (including 78 full-time seniors), 773 master and doctoral teachers, and 25 provincial-level high-level talents .

The school attaches importance to scientific research and practical application, adheres to the application-oriented research as the scientific research direction, pays attention to the cooperation of industry, university and research, promotes teaching with scientific research, and strengthens teaching with scientific research. Since 2015, more than 2,600 high-level academic papers have been published in various academic journals, more than 170 academic works and textbooks have been published, and 847 vertical scientific research projects have been established, including 12 national projects and 253 provincial and ministerial projects. His academic achievements won 1 second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award and 19 provincial and ministerial awards. It has obtained 1,311 patents, including 111 national invention patents. There are 41 scientific and technological innovation platforms, including the Anhui Engineering Technology Research Center for Plant Cell Engineering, the Provincial Key Laboratory of Bionic Sensing and Detection Technology, Anhui Engineering Technology Research Center for Comprehensive Utilization of Agricultural and Forestry Wastes, and Anhui Dendrobium Industrialization Development Cooperative Innovation Center, Anhui Feather and Its Products Engineering Technology Research Center, National Traditional Chinese Medicine Industry Technology System Wanxi Comprehensive Experimental Station, National Expert Service Base (Traditional Chinese Medicine Industry in the Old Revolutionary Area of Dabie Mountain, Anhui), Xinghuo Chuangjia Provincial Public Innovation Space, Anhui The Provincial Engineering Laboratory for the Protection and Sustainable Utilization of Traditional Chinese Medicine Resources and the Anhui Engineering Technology Research Center for the Big Data of Featured Plant Resources are provincial-level scientific and technological innovation platforms. There are humanities and social science research platforms such as the Humanities and Social Sciences Key Research Base of Provincial Universities and the Anhui Red Culture Research Center. "Journal of West Anhui University" was rated as National Excellent Social Science Journals and Excellent Science and Technology Journals of Chinese Universities.

In recent years, Wanxi College has accelerated the pace of reform and development. In April 2013, it passed the first batch of undergraduate teaching review and evaluation by the Ministry of Education (pilot); in July 2014, it was approved as a local application-oriented high-level university in Anhui Province. Second Prize for Progress and Second Prize for National Teaching Achievements; In 2017, the discipline of Chinese Materia Medica was selected as the first-class discipline in Anhui Province, and the scientific research team for the conservation and development of traditional Chinese medicine resources with the characteristics of Dabie Mountain was selected as the leading talent team of universities in Anhui Province, and was approved to establish the "Anhui Province" Provincial Postdoctoral Scientific Research Station"; 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, won the provincial committee comprehensive assessment excellent ranking for four consecutive years, and was approved as the "Eleventh Civilized Unit of Anhui Province" in 2017; in 2018, the discipline of agricultural and forestry economic management was selected It is a domestic first-class discipline in Anhui Province; it was approved as the "National Expert Service Base" by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security in 2019; it was named the "First Civilized Campus of Anhui Province" in 2019; and the discipline of Traditional Chinese Medicine was selected as Anhui Province in 2020 Peak disciplines in colleges and universities.

The school actively expands foreign exchanges and cooperation, and has established collaboration and cultural exchanges with universities and research institutes in Finland, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Ukraine, France, South Korea, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other countries and regions.

The school adheres to the school motto of “Honesty, Knowledge and Innovation”, takes the transformation of educational ideas and concepts as the forerunner, takes the discipline and professional construction as the leader, and takes teaching as the center. Application-oriented senior professionals who can be used and retained, with innovative spirit and practical ability. The school adheres to the principle of educating people, pays attention to strengthening the ideological and political education of students, and pays particular attention to the use of the red culture of the region to carry out revolutionary traditional education to students.

The Lan Yuxian Song of Yunlu keeps on moving forward without forgetting the original intention. Facing the future, Wanxi College will unswervingly take Xi Jinping’s new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics as the guidance, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Party and the National Education Conference, adhere to the socialist direction of running schools, and adhere to the fundamental task of establishing morality and fostering people. Connotative development path, and strive to build West Wanxi College into a new type of local application-oriented high school with high quality of application-oriented personnel training, distinctive school-running characteristics, outstanding service for local development, first-class institutions of the same kind in the province, and some disciplines that have a certain influence in the country. Level university!