Founded in 1956, Guangzhou Institute of Physical Education is the only independent university in South China that has undergraduate and graduate education. It has the right to assess associate professors and confer master's degrees. In 2008, he passed the evaluation of the undergraduate teaching level of the Ministry of Education with excellent results.
The school has about 8,000 students and more than 900 postgraduates. It has jointly run a school with the National Sports General Administration's Handball Baseball Center to train postgraduates, and jointly cultivates doctoral students with Shanghai University of Sport.
There are 6 disciplines in the school: education, literature, economics, management, art, and medicine. There are 10 master's authorization points: the first-level discipline of physical education is the key discipline of Guangdong Province, and there are 7 second-level master's authorization points, namely, physical education and training, sports humanities and sociology, sports human science, national traditional sports, leisure Physical Education, Sports Journalism and Communication, Sports Rehabilitation; as well as a master's degree in sports medicine in the medical category, a master's degree in journalism and communication, and a master's degree in sports.
There are 18 undergraduate majors: physical education, sports training, martial arts and traditional national sports, social sports guidance and management, sports human science, leisure sports, special education, journalism, broadcasting and hosting art, dance, dance performance, sports Rehabilitation, economics, public service management, pre-school education, performance, radio and television programming, rehabilitation therapy.
Among them, the three majors of human sports science, physical education, and social sports guidance and management are national specialty construction points. The three majors of journalism, martial arts and traditional national sports, and sports training are the specialty construction points of Guangdong Province; the two majors of physical education and sports human science are brand-name majors in universities in Guangdong Province; the major of leisure sports is the key major of Guangdong Province; physical education The six majors of special education, leisure sports, sports human science, dance, martial arts and traditional national sports are the pilot comprehensive reforms of Guangdong Province.
The school has two national quality courses "Sports Biochemistry" and "Sports Biomechanics", and one national quality resource sharing course "Sports Biochemistry". There are 6 provincial quality or resource sharing courses, 3 provincial quality video public courses, 6 experimental teaching demonstration centers, 3 provincial teaching teams, 7 provincial college students practical teaching bases, and 3 provincial talent training model innovation experiments Area.
Strong teachers, more than 600 faculty members. There are 420 full-time teachers, of which 64% are graduate students, and nearly half are professional and technical personnel with senior titles. Member of the Sports Committee of the National Education Steering Committee, expert of the National Social Science Fund Subject Planning Review Group, expert member of the National Fitness Expert Committee of the General Administration of Sports, expert of the State Council Special Allowance, national outstanding teacher, winner of the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award, Chinese Youth Society Educational Ginkgo Award, "Guangdong Special Support Program" teaching teacher, Pearl River scholar, Chinese "Two Finger Zen" successor, and a large number of international coaches and referees. The school hires famous CCTV host Bai Yansong, vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association Rong Zhixing and other celebrities at home and abroad as visiting professors or honorary consultants.
The school has a key laboratory of the State General Administration of Sport, a key research base of the State General Administration of Sport, a national scientific fitness demonstration area, a national fitness research center, a key laboratory of universities in Guangdong province, a key laboratory of scientific research in universities in Guangdong province, and an international university in Guangdong province. A large number of key scientific research platforms such as the Hong Kong-Macao Cooperative Innovation Platform, the Engineering Technology Research Center of Guangdong Universities, and the Research Base of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Guangdong Province.
The school has a national youth campus football "national training" base, a national social sports instructor training base, a martial arts skill project training base of the State General Administration of Sports, a national aerobics training base, a training center of the Chinese Badminton Association, and a training base of the Baseball Branch of the China University Sports Association , National Youth Sports Club and the country's first sports youth palace. The school has the right to approve first-level referees and first-level athletes.
The school sponsors "Journal of Guangzhou Institute of Physical Education", "Sports Mentors", "Swimming Quarterly" and other academic publications. Among them, "Journal of Guangzhou Institute of Physical Education" is the core journal of Chinese humanities and social sciences. The school library is the largest sports literature information center in South China, and the archives room has become a "national secondary science and technology archive management unit".
The school undertakes a number of major projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Social Science Foundation of China, and the Olympic science and technology research project.
The school actively strengthens international exchanges and cooperation, and has carried out personnel training and scientific research on international cooperation projects with universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Japan, Finland, South Korea, New Zealand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and other countries and regions. The annual average number of international students is about 40. The school hosted the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games Science Conference, creating a precedent for a single university in my country to host an international large-scale comprehensive sports science event.
Over the past 60 years since the establishment of the school, the school has adhered to virtues and cultivated people, worked hard to practice the core values of socialism, demonstrated the functions of talent training, scientific research, service to society, and cultural inheritance. It has trained a large number of Rong Guotuan, Qi Lieyun, Chen Xiaoxia, Xian Dongmei, etc. The outstanding athletes, experts, scholars, teachers, coaches and managers of China have made positive contributions to China’s economic and social development and have been fully affirmed by the society. The school is the only university in Guangdong Province that has won the honor of "Moving Nanyue Campus of the Year" for three consecutive times.
At the beginning of the school, Zeng Sheng, the vice governor of Guangdong Province, Zhu Guang, the mayor of Guangzhou, and Sun Leyi, the deputy mayor of Guangzhou, served as the school’s party secretary and principal; a well-known Chinese sports educator and pioneer of militarized sports in China, Yuan Jun, is well-known Domestic and foreign martial arts masters Huang Xiaoxia and Zhang Dengkui were awarded the Special Dedication Award by the ITTF, the first Chinese table tennis team coach Liang Zhuohui, excellent swimming coach "Frog King" Huang Zhuorong, excellent track and field coach Sun Ziping, table tennis star Zhuang Zedong coach Feng Guohao, etc. Well-known scholars once held the coach. Gradually form the school-running philosophy of health first, the integration of sports, humanities, and science, and the school-running characteristics of Yanglingnan sports culture, cultivating sports talents, sports and health.
In the future development, the school adheres to the party’s educational policy and socialist school orientation, adhering to the school motto of "Honesty, Scholarship, Talent and Talent", and promotes Rong Guotuan. When is the broad-based spirit of "when", cohesion, innovation-driven, and strive to build a high-level sports university with distinctive characteristics!