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Hunan City College is a full-time general undergraduate college sponsored by the Hunan Provincial People's Government. The school is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River plain and the core city of the lake-surrounding ecological economic circle on the south bank of Dongting Lake-Yiyang City, Hunan Province. The school has a profound cultural heritage, beautiful natural environment and convenient transportation.
The predecessor of was the Yiyang District Teachers College, founded in 1970, and the Yiyang Basic University, founded in 1978. In March 2002, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the then Yiyang Teachers College and Hunan Chengjian College were merged into Hunan City College. It was the first full-time public undergraduate school named "city" in the inland area. The school follows the spirit of the school motto of “concurrent study of character, knowledge and practice”, and strives to run a university that satisfies the people. In 2012, it passed the qualification evaluation of undergraduate teaching work by the Ministry of Education. Approved the "Master's degree granting unit of Hunan Province's proposed construction project in 2020-2023", and it is a "Hunan Province Civilized Unit" and "Hunan Province Safe Colleges and Universities".
The school’s existing campus area is 1,415 acres, with a construction area of 550,200 square meters. It has fixed assets of 1.445 billion yuan. There are 1.87 million paper books and 2.05 million e-books. There are 1,236 faculty members, including 886 full-time teachers, 366 teachers with senior professional titles, and 744 teachers with doctoral and master's degrees. There are 35 high-level talents (times), including members of the Undergraduate Teaching Committee of the Ministry of Education, outstanding talents in the new century, and experts with special allowances from the State Council. The construction of the "dual teacher and dual ability" teacher team has achieved remarkable results. 282 people have obtained industry qualification certificates, accounting for 31.8% of full-time teachers. The school has 12 secondary colleges and 51 undergraduate majors, focusing on engineering, covering science, engineering, literature, management, teaching, art, economics and other disciplines. The school recruits students from 30 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions, and currently has 17,821 full-time undergraduate students.
The school adheres to the standard of morality and talent cultivation, attaches importance to education and teaching reform, promotes school-enterprise cooperation, integration of production and education, and innovative talent training models. With the goal of cultivating high-quality applied talents, the "1234" applied talent training system has been constructed. Namely: Taking the cultivation of students' ability as the main line, integrating ideological and political education, innovation and entrepreneurship education through the whole process of talent training, through the three major courses of basic ability courses, professional ability courses, and development ability courses, to achieve "practical foundation, emphasis on application, and distinctive features". , High-quality" four aspects of training requirements. In cooperation with enterprises, we have established Aihua College, Aoshikang Class, and Minmetals 23 Metallurgical "order-type" classes, adopting school-enterprise "3+1" or "3+0.5+0.5" and other talent training model reforms, and comprehensive improvement The quality of talent training.
The school highlights the theme of the city, combines production, education, research and application, and cultivates a large number of advanced application-oriented talents for the society. The employment rate of school graduates has exceeded 95% for 15 consecutive years. In the five-year salary rankings of graduates in Hunan Province, it has repeatedly ranked first in similar institutions in the province in recent years. The school is known as "the cradle of urban construction talents". Outstanding graduates have participated in the National Stadium (Bird's Nest), Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant, Shanghai-Kunming High-speed Railway, Hangzhou Bay Bridge and other national key construction projects.
The school is based on the industry, serves the region, continuously optimizes the professional structure, and strengthens the construction of professional connotation. The urban and rural planning major is a national characteristic major and a national comprehensive reform pilot major; 10 majors such as urban planning, civil engineering, and water supply and drainage engineering are key majors and characteristic majors of ordinary colleges and universities in Hunan Province; 5 urban and rural planning, electronic information engineering, etc. The major is a comprehensive reform pilot major in Hunan Province. It has 27 provincial-level and above practical teaching, innovation and entrepreneurship education teaching platforms represented by the National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center of Civil Engineering. The school has won 3 national teaching achievement awards and 26 provincial teaching achievement awards.
The school insists on the combination of production, education, research and application. Six disciplines, including civil engineering, urban and rural planning and design, and information and communication engineering, are the "double first-class" characteristic construction disciplines in Hunan Province. It has 24 scientific research and innovation platforms above the provincial level, including the national-level crowd-creation space, the Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Dark Tea Golden Flower, and the Hunan Research Center for Socialist Theory System with Chinese Characteristics. It is a post-doctoral research mobile station collaborative research and development center. In recent years, a total of 37 projects have been awarded by the National Natural Science and Social Science Funds. In the past five years, the horizontal scientific research funding has exceeded 100 million yuan, which is far ahead of similar universities in Hunan Province. It has won 19 national and provincial science and technology awards and social science fund project outstanding achievement awards; planning and architectural design achievements have won more than 80 industry awards at or above the provincial and ministerial levels. It is the unit with the highest level of awards and the most awards in the field of college planning and design in the province. It is at the leading level in Hunan Province in terms of urban and rural planning, architectural design, geographic information system development and application research. The "Town (Town) Village Green Space Classification Standard" developed by the school was approved by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development as a national industry standard, and the "Changzhutan Ecological Green Heart Area Spatial Development Strategic Plan" compiled by the school won the first place in the international bidding. He led the establishment of the Hunan Provincial Urban Science Research Association of the provincial society, and the Hunan New Urbanization Research Institute established was selected as a specialized think tank in Hunan Province. "Journal of Hunan City University" (Social Science Edition) is the "National Top 100 Social Science Newspaper".
The school insists on opening up schools, and international cooperation and exchanges have achieved remarkable results. It has successively carried out close cooperation with universities in Ghana, New Zealand, Malaysia, the United States, Macau and other countries and regions. Won the title of "Malaysian Higher Education Annual Quality Cooperative College". It is the first of two universities in the province to co-organize an undergraduate education program in visual communication design with Vitria Institute of Technology in New Zealand, and co-organize a Confucius Institute with the University of Cape Coast in Ghana.
The school has six school-run enterprises, including the Planning and Architectural Design and Research Institute, the Civil Engineering Testing Center, and the Black Tea Research and Development Technology Co., Ltd. Among them, the Planning and Architectural Design and Research Institute has six Grade A qualifications in urban and rural planning, construction engineering, and municipal roads. It is unique among the two universities in Hunan Province. It is a "national high-tech enterprise" with an annual output value of 230 million yuan in 2017. The school has signed industry-university-research cooperation agreements and internship base agreements with 299 well-known companies such as China National Nuclear Corporation (China National Nuclear Corporation), China State Construction Engineering Corporation (China Construction), China Railway Engineering Corporation (China Railway), etc.; with Yiyang City The People's Government and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei) jointly established the Hunan New Smart City Research Institute. Signed strategic cooperation agreements with more than 10 government departments including Yiyang City and Qiyang County.
In 2016, the third party congress of the school planned a new blueprint for school development and determined the "1235" development strategy. That is, to achieve a goal: to build a high-level applied university with distinctive characteristics. Consolidate the two focus points: highlight the connotation construction and characteristic development. Three major tasks are to be completed: to ensure high-level acceptance of the undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education, promote the integration of medical disciplines into the school, and strive to break through the master's authorized unit. Implementation of five major projects: talent training and quality improvement project, innovative service leading project, faculty optimization project, student development ability improvement project, happiness index growth project.
At a new historical starting point, the school will 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 National Education Conference and the National Undergraduate Education Work Conference in the New Era, and make every effort to promote the construction of "double first-class", deepen reforms, and stimulate Energize, tap potential, conduct pressure, enhance core competitiveness, and make unremitting efforts to build a high-level application-oriented university with distinctive characteristics.