Hainan University is a comprehensive key university formed by the merger of the former South China Tropical Agriculture University and the former Hainan University in August 2007. It is a university "jointly established by the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Hainan Province".
The school upholds the school motto of "Hearing all rivers and making great progress" and promotes the school spirit of "self-reliance, dedication, loyalty and perseverance". In December 2008, it was approved by the state to become a key construction university of the "211 Project"; in 2012, it entered the national "Middle and Western Higher Education Revitalization Plan" construction ranks, and successively won the "Middle and Western Universities Basic Capacity Building Project" and "Middle and Western Universities Comprehensive Strength" Enhancement project" and other construction support; In 2017, it was selected as a national "Double First Class" construction university; In 2018, the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government made a major decision and deployment of "Gather the power of the province to run Hainan University"; in the same year, Hainan University Become a "Ministry-provincial Joint Construction" university by the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Hainan Province, and be included in the ranking of universities directly under the Ministry of Education.
The former South China University of Tropical Agriculture was founded in 1958 and is closely integrated with the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences founded in 1954. It is also called the "Two Institutes of Hot Crops" (South China Institute of Tropical Crops and South China Institute of Tropical Crops), and is known as my country's tropical agriculture "Gemini" in the field of science and education. Through arduous and arduous efforts, the "people from the two institutes" have made our country the only country in the world that has successfully planted natural rubber in a large area within the range of 18-24° north latitude. Large-growing country and the fifth largest rubber-producing country. As a result, the school has established a unique position in the field of natural rubber and tropical agriculture research, and has won more than 900 scientific and educational achievements, including the first prize of the National Invention Award, the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, and the second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award. It has made significant contributions to my country's national defense and economic and social development.
The original Hainan University started hard on a wasteland in 1983 and established the province's largest professional system with extensive social radiation and influence, and became a provincial comprehensive key university. Hu Yaobang, the former General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, wrote the name of the school. In 2005, the school was rated as excellent in the evaluation of the undergraduate teaching level of the Ministry of Education. The quality of personnel training and scientific research capabilities have been greatly improved, and the overall school running level has continued to improve, making a positive contribution to the economic and social development of Hainan.
Since the establishment of the school, the older generation of revolutionaries such as Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Dong Biwu, Ye Jianying, Deng Xiaoping, Hu Yaobang, Wang Zhen, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, Li Peng, Zhu Rongji, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Zeng Qinghong, Li Lanqing, Wei Jianxing, Liu Yandong and other party and state leaders Visited the school successively and gave cordial care; successive leaders of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government showed great care and support for the construction and development of the school; all walks of life, overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots donated funds to build office buildings, teaching buildings, and books For important projects such as museums, academic centers, sports venues, and student activity centers, a number of scholarships (bursaries) have been set up, which has effectively promoted the development of the school.
The coconut wind slowly, the sound of the book is loud. In the sixty years of spring and autumn, after generations of hard work, the school's conditions and campus environment have been continuously optimized, and the three campuses have increasingly glowed with their unique charm as the highest institution in Hainan. Today, Hainan University has developed into a national key construction university and a comprehensive university with a wide range of influences on regional economic and social development. It has established the province's largest integrated undergraduate, master, and doctoral talent training system with relatively complete disciplines.
Hainan University currently has 36 colleges with more than 41,000 full-time students, including more than 33,000 ordinary undergraduates, more than 7,000 master's degree students, nearly 600 doctoral students, and more than 300 international students. There are more than 2,300 full-time teachers, including more than 1,200 teachers with senior titles, more than 1,150 teachers with doctoral degrees, 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 academician of the Canadian National Academy of Engineering, 1 foreign academician of the Japanese Academy of Engineering, Changjiang Scholars, outstanding youths, and 10,000 people 19 national-level talents including leading talents are planned.
The school adheres to the principle of "highlighting characteristics, key construction, and comprehensive development", and highlights the four characteristics of "tropics, oceans, tourism, and special zones". The disciplines cover philosophy, economics, law, literature, science, medicine, agriculture, engineering, management, and art. Wait for ten categories. "Crop Science" was selected into the list of "world-class" construction disciplines, and it has established three advantageous and characteristic discipline groups, namely "Tropical Agriculture" discipline group, "Cultural Tourism" discipline group, and "South China Sea Ocean Resources Development and Utilization" discipline group, and 3 national key disciplines. (Including 1 cultivation discipline), 18 provincial-level characteristic key disciplines, 6 post-doctoral research mobile stations, 10 first-level discipline doctoral programs, 32 first-level discipline master programs, 17 master's degree categories, 71 undergraduate majors . It has 25 national-level first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 24 provincial-level first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 5 national first-class courses, 10 provincial-level first-class courses, 15 provincial-level boutique online open courses, and 2 national key laboratories (Including 1 cultivation base), 17 provincial and ministerial key laboratories, 3 provincial and ministerial collaborative innovation centers, 14 provincial and ministerial engineering research centers, 13 provincial academician workstations, 21 academician team innovation centers, 11 There are two provincial-level key research bases for humanities, philosophy and social sciences, and two national advanced collectives of professional and technical personnel. Approved 3 bases for intelligence introduction: tropical biology and medicine discipline innovation and intelligence introduction base, tropical crop green and healthy production theory and technology innovation intelligence introduction base, smart supervision and governance modernization intelligence introduction innovation base. 16 national-level teaching quality engineering projects, including 1 national-level experimental teaching demonstration center, 2 national-level teaching teams, 8 national-level characteristic majors, 2 national-level quality courses, 1 national-level bilingual teaching demonstration course project, 2 national teaching teacher awards.
The school implements an open-running strategy and has established a new pattern of “all-round, multi-level, and wide-ranging” foreign exchanges and cooperation. 191 overseas colleges, international scientific research institutions, and college alliances have reached cooperation, each from 37 Countries and regions. The school was selected as the second batch of demonstration bases for studying in China by the Ministry of Education, and has established a complete training system of "Bachelor-Master-Ph.D." in international student education. In 2017, in cooperation with Arizona State University of the United States, the "Arizona State University of Hainan University United International Tourism College" was established.
Groups of students, full of passion and dreams, gather here from all over the world, playing the song of innovation and advancement with their youth and passion. Over the past 60 years, the school has cultivated nearly 300,000 senior professional talents, creating management and technical backbones in major industries across the country and Hainan, and a large number of talents are starting their own businesses overseas.
As Hainan embarks on a new round of comprehensively deepening reform and opening up, and advancing the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Pilot Zone and the free trade port with Chinese characteristics, Hainan University has ushered in a new historical opportunity. The school will keep in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's "April 13" important speech in the spirit of "support Hainan University to create a world-class discipline", seize opportunities and work hard. As the only national "double first-class" construction university and "ministerial and provincial joint construction" university in Hainan, Hainan University will focus on serving the overall situation of the country's major strategy, based on the practice of building a free trade port with Chinese characteristics, and adhere to "support and lead, and win with characteristics." The overall idea of "high-level grafting and open innovation" is carefully examined and vigorously shouldered the mission of the new era. Under the strong leadership of the Central Committee and the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, we will unswervingly adhere to the direction of running a school in socialism, not forgetting to build up the original aspirations of the people, and strive to build the school into a comprehensive research type with distinctive characteristics, first-class domestic and internationally renowned The university has made new and greater contributions to accelerating the construction of a beautiful new Hainan and realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!