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"History" Xinjiang University is a comprehensive university with a long history of running a school, a glorious revolutionary tradition, and distinctive characteristics of running a school. It has an important role and a special regional position in the national higher education layout. It is the leader of higher education in the autonomous region. Vanguard. In 1924, the predecessor of Xinjiang University, the Xinjiang Russian Language, Law and Politics College, was founded, which opened the prelude to higher education in Xinjiang. In January 1935, it was converted into Xinjiang College. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, a group of communists and writer Mao Dun, philosopher Zhang Zhongshi, artist Zhao Dan and other progressives came to teach at the school, and proposed "taking the nation as the form and Marxism-Leninism as the content". "The educational thought of "" set off vigorous anti-Japanese and national salvation propaganda activities, and the social influence was increasing day by day. In 1960, Xinjiang University was formally established, and the school entered a new period of development. When the country had established key universities for construction, Xinjiang University was among them. In 1978, the school was identified by the State Council as one of the first 88 key institutions of higher learning and one of the 16 comprehensive key universities in the country. In 1997, the school was included in the first batch of national "211 Project" key construction universities. In 2000, it was designated by the Ministry of Education as a key university for the development of the western region of the country. In the same year, Xinjiang University merged with the former Xinjiang Institute of Technology to form a new Xinjiang University. In 2004, the school became a university "co-constructed by the districts and ministries" by the People's Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and the Ministry of Education. In 2012, the school was listed as a construction university ("One Province, One School") in the National "Middle and Western Universities Comprehensive Strength Improvement Project". In 2017, it entered the ranks of the first batch of 42 first-class universities in the country. In 2018, it was included in the ranks of "Ministry-provincial Joint Construction" colleges and universities. In the course of more than 90 years of development, the school has taken the maintenance of the motherland’s unity, ethnic unity, national security, and social stability as its own responsibility, and has taken serving the national development strategy and the economic and social development needs of the autonomous region as the school’s mission and historical responsibility. The school motto of “Practical, Realistic, and Innovative” is rooted in the land of China, based on the reality of Xinjiang University, with the fundamental task of cultivating people with morality, and the fundamental purpose of running a university that satisfies the people. It has trained more than 200,000 professionals from various ethnic groups for the economic and social development of Xinjiang. Talents have written a magnificent chapter in the development of higher education in Xinjiang.
"Institution Setting" Xinjiang University has 24 colleges, 1 graduate school, 1 independent college, 1 teaching and research department, 4 teaching practice centers, 8 research institutes, and 1 international research center for arid and semi-arid sustainable development .
"Disciplines and professional settings" There are nine disciplines including economics, law, literature, history, science, engineering, management, art, and philosophy, covering the main areas of senior professional training and scientific research. The school has been included in the implementation of the National Excellent Engineers, Excellent Legal Talents Training Program, and the Ministry of Education's undergraduate professional comprehensive reform pilot universities. There are 2 national key disciplines, 1 national key cultivated discipline; 6 autonomous regional peak disciplines, 7 autonomous regional plateau disciplines; 14 first-level disciplines authorized for doctoral degree, 31 first-level disciplines authorized for master's degree, and 11 post-doctoral research Mobile station, 10 master degree categories; 91 undergraduate majors, including 10 national specialty majors, 19 autonomous regions in short supply of talents, 12 autonomous regions key majors.
"Scientific Research" In 2017, Xinjiang University received a total of 908 scientific research projects of various types, with funding of 174.94 million yuan. Undertake 5 key major projects, including 1 major research project of philosophy and social science research of the Ministry of Education, 4 key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China-Xinjiang Joint Fund; 1454 published academic papers; 1 special prize for scientific and technological progress of the autonomous region , 6 second prizes, 4 third prizes.
"Teaching and scientific research platform" Xinjiang University has 56 scientific research platforms (teams) above the provincial and ministerial level, including 2 autonomous region-level collaborative innovation centers; 1 national key laboratory cultivation base jointly established by the Ministry of Science and Technology, and national international scientific and technological cooperation 1 base, 3 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 11 key laboratories of the Autonomous Region (Engineering Technology Research Center), 7 key laboratories of universities in the Autonomous Region; 1 Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education, 2 Engineering Technology Research Centers of the Autonomous Region; Education 1 Ministry of Humanities and Social Sciences Key Research Base, 9 Autonomous Region Universities Humanities and Social Sciences Key Research Bases; 1 National Science Basic Scientific Research and Teaching Talent Training Base; 1 Key Field Innovation Team of the Ministry of Science and Technology, 4 Ministry of Education Innovation Teams, 1 Tianshan Innovation Team of the Science and Technology Department, 10 Innovation Teams of the Education Department, and 1 Resource Sharing Platform of the Autonomous Region. "Number of students" There are currently 36157 students of various types, including 21025 ordinary undergraduates, 5159 full-time master's students, 453 doctoral students, 1039 part-time graduate students, 904 international students, and 7577 adult undergraduates. .
"Teachers" The school has 1879 full-time teachers (including double-shoulder teachers). Teachers with senior professional titles account for 48.86% of the total number of full-time teachers, and teachers with doctoral degrees account for 38.03% of the total number of full-time teachers. There are 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 4 "Yangtze River Scholars" distinguished professors from the Ministry of Education, 1 "National University Huang Danian Teacher Team", 7 national "Thousand Talents Program" (Xinjiang Project), 4 "Ten Thousand Talents Program" , 3 national candidates for the National New Century Talents Project, 10 "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program" from the Ministry of Education, 40 Tianshan Scholars from the Autonomous Region, 14 outstanding experts from the Autonomous Region, and 39 experts enjoying special government allowances from the State Council There are 15 autonomous region-level teaching experts and 23 famous teachers.
"Foreign Exchange and Cooperation" The school has successively established educational exchange and cooperative relations with more than 160 universities and research institutes in more than 30 countries and regions including the United States and Russia, and signed educational exchange and scientific research with more than 60 foreign universities and educational institutions. The cooperation agreement establishes 3 Confucius Institutes/Confucius Classrooms in Kyrgyzstan and Russia. The school is the Shanghai Cooperation Organization University Project School, the Ministry of Education Fulbright Project School, the Ministry of Education U.S.-University Department Project School, the Chinese Government Scholarship Independent Enrollment Project School, the Confucius Institute Scholarship Project School and the Xinjiang Government Scholarship Project School. In 2010, the Ministry of Education arranged Tsinghua University as the team leader, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Wuhan University, and Central South University as the deputy team leaders, and Beijing Normal University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Dalian University of Technology, Tongji University, Donghua University, and China University of Mining and Technology as members. Xinjiang University is supported by 10 universities in China. In 2013, Renmin University of China and Sun Yat-sen University joined the team of supporting universities.
"School Conditions" Xinjiang University has three campuses: the main campus, the south campus, and the north campus, covering a total area of 2.909 million square meters (about 4,363 acres). The total value of fixed assets is about 2.4 billion yuan, and the total value of teaching and research equipment is 610 million yuan. The library is the provincial central library of China's Higher Education Document Security System (CALIS), with a total volume of 3.465 million books and documents. The campus network and CERNET Xinjiang area master node, Xinjiang Education Area Network Control Center, and Urumqi Education Metropolitan Area Network have been built. It has a modern digital library and a first-class multifunctional gymnasium in the Northwest.
"Overall Development Goal" By 2024, a high-level university that is "advanced in the west, first-class in Central Asia, and internationally renowned" will be established in an all-round way. By 2035, the overall level of the school will reach the first-class level in China and become the most influential regional first-class university in Central Asia. By 2050, a first-class university with Chinese characteristics will be basically built.