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Qinghai University is located in Xining, an ancient city on the plateau. The school was formerly known as Qinghai Institute of Technology and was founded in 1958. In November 1960, it merged with Qinghai Agriculture and Animal Husbandry College, Qinghai Medical College, and Qinghai College of Finance and Economics to form Qinghai University, and was revoked at the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution". In 1971, the Qinghai Institute of Technology and Agriculture was restored, with two universities of engineering and agriculture. Qinghai University was restored in 1988. In October 1997, Qinghai College of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine was merged into Qinghai University. In January 2001, Qinghai Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Qinghai Academy of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences, and Qinghai Vocational College of Finance and Economics were transferred to Qinghai University. In 2004, Qinghai Medical College was merged into Qinghai University.
Sixty years of trials and hardships and sixty years of success have been passed down. The school has written a history of forging ahead and striving for self-improvement. At present, it has developed into a teaching and research university with four major disciplines, namely engineering, agriculture, medicine, and management, and coordinated development of other disciplines. Since 2001, Tsinghua University and other four well-known universities have successively supported Qinghai University. In 2004, it became a "provincial joint construction" university jointly built by the Qinghai Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Education. In 2008, it became a national "211 Project" key construction university. In 2012, it was selected as one of the 14 universities and colleges in the “Middle and Western Universities to Enhance Comprehensive Strength”. In 2016, it became one of the first 100 national innovation and entrepreneurship model schools. In 2017, it was selected as a national “World-Class Discipline” construction university. In 2018, it became the Ministry of Education and Qinghai Province. The People's Government "Ministry and Province Joint Construction" of colleges and universities.
The school covers an area of more than 3,000 acres, with a construction area of more than 650,000 square meters; the total value of fixed assets is 2.4 billion yuan; the library has a collection of 1.67 million books. The school recruits students from 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country, with more than 27,000 students, including more than 1,500 full-time doctoral and master graduate students and more than 20,000 regular full-time undergraduate students. The school has 4,615 faculty members, including 2,565 medical and full-time scientific research personnel and 1,467 full-time teachers. Among the full-time teachers, there are 329 doctors and 87% of them have master degrees or above.
The school has 1 world-class construction discipline, 2 national key disciplines, 16 provincial key disciplines, 5 doctoral degree authorization points, 57 master degree authorization points, 40 master degree authorization fields, and 69 undergraduate majors. There are 6 national-level characteristic majors; 2 national-level teaching teams, 1 national-level talent training model innovation experimental zone, 1 national-level experimental teaching demonstration center, 1 national-level off-campus practice education base for college students, and national-level 9 Excellence Program Projects, 1 National Professional Comprehensive Reform Project, 3 National Quality Video Open Courses, 1 National Bilingual Demonstration Course; 1 National Key Laboratory, 2 National Key Laboratory Branch Offices, National and Local 3 joint engineering laboratories (research centers), 3 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 4 laboratories (centers) of the Ministry of Agriculture, 1 key laboratory of the State Forestry Administration, 1 Guoyuhuayu VR World Laboratory; National One university science park and one national new rural development research institute.
There are 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 7 dual-employed academicians. 4 specially-appointed professors in the "Changjiang Scholars Award Program" of the Ministry of Education, 1 expert of the National "Foreign Professional Thousand Talents Program", and 2 winners of the National "Outstanding Youth Fund". They were selected into the national "Ten Thousand Talents Program" and the national "Ten Thousand Talents Program". 20 national-level talents such as "Project" and "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program", 31 "Experts with Special Allowance from the State Council", won the National Innovation Award, the Hong Kong Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Innovation Award, and the Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation Young Teacher Award 11 people including the Contribution Award of Chinese Overseas Chinese (Innovative Talents), the World's Only Basic Medicine Award of the Third World National Academy of Sciences, more than 30 national and provincial teaching teachers, outstanding teachers, and educators, provincial outstanding experts, outstanding professional and technical personnel There are more than 60 people, including 109 talents and 9 team projects selected by Qinghai Province’s "High-end Innovative Talents Thousand Talents Program". There are more than 160 people who are "135" high-level talents and provincial leaders in natural sciences and engineering technology in Qinghai Province. 1 team was selected as the "Innovative Team Development Plan of the Ministry of Education", 1 team was selected as the "National University Huang Danian Teacher Team", and 16 research teams were selected as "Qinghai Province Talent Highland".
The school actively promotes the in-depth integration of production, education and research, and actively serves the national strategy and regional economic and social development. The setting of disciplines is closely related to the traditional and emerging strategic industries related to the ecological protection of the Three Rivers Source and the construction of the Qaidam circular economy that the country and Qinghai Province are actively promoting. It has formed distinct discipline advantages and school-running characteristics in the aspects of Sanjiangyuan ecological protection, plateau agriculture and animal husbandry, plateau medicine, Tibetan medicine, salt lake chemical industry, new energy and new materials, and has cultivated a large number of application-oriented talents to contribute to Qinghai’s economic construction and society. Development has made a positive contribution. In the past five years, the school has received 1,408 scientific research projects, including 4 national key research and development projects, nearly 700 million yuan in research funding, and 578 achievements, including 11 internationally advanced, 61 internationally advanced, and 40 new varieties cultivated. . Won 2 second prizes of National Science and Technology Progress Award, 2 second prizes of National Teaching Achievement Award, 2 first prizes of Science and Technology Progress Award of Ministry of Education, 3 people-times of Qinghai Province Science and Technology Major Contribution Award, 31 Qinghai Province Science and Technology Progress Awards, Qinghai Province 8 Philosophy and Social Science Awards. Published 6192 academic papers in various domestic and foreign journals, and 3 academic papers in top international academic journals "Science" and "Nature".
The school insists on opening up schools and continuously strengthens foreign exchanges and cooperation. With the strong support of Tsinghua University, Northwest Sci-Tech University of Agriculture and Forestry, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), East China University of Science and Technology and other universities, considerable development and progress have been made in disciplines, faculty, personnel training, and scientific research. It has successively signed exchange and cooperation agreements with universities in more than 20 countries and regions including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, etc., joined the Qinghai-Utah Science and Technology Innovation Alliance, and launched a new round of Tsinghua University—University of Auckland— The "Three Brothers" model cooperation project of Qinghai University has promoted international exchanges and cooperation.
Standing at a new historical starting point, the school upholds the school motto of "Being better than Kunlun, learning to compete with rivers and rivers", promotes the spirit of "five specials", takes virtue and builds people as the foundation, takes support of innovation-driven and serves economic and social development as the guide, and strives to The school is built into a modern university with "characteristics and high-level".