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Zhaotong College is a provincial public application-oriented general undergraduate school located in Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, at the junction of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces. The school is bordered by the Wumeng Mountains in the north and the cultivated waters of the province in the south. The mountains and rivers reflect each other. The environment is elegant and the scenery is pleasant. It is an ideal place for studying and studying.
Zhaotong College has a rich cultural heritage. Its history can be traced back to the Teacher Training Institute established by the Qing government in 1906. It has gone through the Provincial Second Normal School and the Zhaotong Regional Normal School. In 1978, Zhaotong Teachers College was established. One of the earliest universities in the city. In 1992, Zhaotong Teachers College was renamed Zhaotong Teachers College. In 1999, Zhaotong Teachers College, Zhaotong Education College, and Zhaotong TV University merged to run the school. The full name of the school is "Zhaotong Teachers College". In 2000, Zhaotong Teachers Technical College merged with Zhaotong Normal School to form Zhaotong Teachers Technical College. In March 2012, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the school was upgraded to an undergraduate college, with the full name of the school "Zhaotong College".
The school currently covers an area of 506,669 square meters, with a total school building area of 285,301 square meters; the total value of fixed assets is 724,984,100 yuan, of which the total value of teaching and research equipment has reached 59,323,300 yuan; the total collection of books is 815,000 volumes, and the electronic books are 201192 volumes; There are 1,186 computers for teaching; the school’s gigabit backbone campus network is operating well, and the construction of a digital campus is initially completed, which provides a basic guarantee for the school’s teaching, scientific research, and office management information.
The school has long insisted on a foothold in Zhaotong and served the Wumeng Mountain area for running schools. It has accumulated rich experience in running schools and relatively strong school running capabilities, forming literature, history, law, science, engineering, education, management, art, agriculture, and economics. The coordinated development of multi-disciplinary studies, teacher education, literary creation and criticism, and the development and utilization of biotechnology and other disciplines highlight the school-running pattern. Currently there are the School of Humanities, School of Management, School of Educational Science, School of Foreign Languages, School of Mathematics and Statistics, School of Physics and Information Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Physical Education, School of Art and Design, School of Music and Dance, School of Marxism, School of Continuing Education , Vocational and Technical Education College, Agriculture and Life Sciences College, Geography Science and Tourism College, International Education College, Teacher Education College, Innovation and Entrepreneurship College and other 18 colleges and 1 college student innovation and entrepreneurship park, 31 undergraduate majors, 35 junior majors , Recruit students from more than ten provinces and cities across the country.
The school focuses on talent training, deepens the reform of school running and education and teaching, promotes the transformation and development of the school to a university of applied technology, and explores the formation of the education concept of "knowledge education + vocational education + life education", "applied, local, international The application technology university’s overall sports design is the main content of the “integrated” undergraduate talent training model, the “3+1” teaching model, and the multi-functional talent training standard to cultivate the comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, sports, and art, with a sense of social responsibility and practice. Capable and innovative application-oriented senior professionals. Provide free education for normal students to cultivate talents that are in short supply in Zhaotong's basic education; establish a five-year higher vocational education based on the "3+2" model, and build a "overpass" for vocational education in Zhaotong. The school has 16675 full-time undergraduate and junior college students, including 5780 undergraduates, 5820 junior college students, 113 ethnic minority preparatory students, 4962 five-year junior college students, and 1188 correspondence students, including 795 undergraduates. , 393 junior college students). The school’s employment performance is outstanding, the employment rate of graduates remains above 90%, and it has continuously won the first prize in the assessment of responsibility for the employment goals of college graduates in Yunnan Province.
The school implements doctoral and master's programs, actively introduces high-educated talents from key universities across the country; implements the young and middle-aged teacher talent program, and actively supports in-service teachers to visit and study in key universities at home and abroad, forming a more reasonable faculty echelon. The school has 561 faculty members, including 448 full-time teachers; 283 teachers with master's degree or above; 178 teachers with senior professional and technical positions, of which 46 are in senior high school and 132 are in associate high school. In addition, the school also employs part-time teachers. There are 167 professors and visiting professors, and 3 foreign teachers.
The school actively builds a scientific research platform, and established Yunnan Zhaotong Literature Creation Research Institute, Yunnan Zhaotong Apple Research Institute, Yunnan Zhaotong Gastrodia Research Institute, Zhaotong Development Research Institute, Wumeng Mountain Area Poverty Alleviation and Development Research Institute, Yunnan Food Safety Zhaotong Research Institute of Higher Education in Yunnan Province, Zhaotong Plateau Characteristic Agricultural Products Engineering Research Center, Jiang Liangfu Research Institute, Jinsha River Cultural Research Center. In recent years, the faculty of the school has published more than 2,000 academic papers, including more than 200 papers in core journals across the country, which have been published by SCI, EI, ISTP, CSSCI, "Xinhua Digest", "Renmin University of China Newspapers and Periodicals" and "National Universities "Academic Digest" has collected and reproduced more than 40 articles; published more than 60 monographs and textbooks in publishing organizations such as People's Publishing House, Higher Education Press, China Social Sciences Press, Shanghai Sanlian Publishing House; published more than 200 literary and artistic works (pieces); Presided over or participated in more than 120 national, provincial and municipal scientific research projects; obtained 3 national invention patents; 59 provincial and above "quality projects" and transformation development projects.
The school actively develops domestic and foreign exchanges and cooperation. Faculty and student exchanges with 29 foreign (overseas) universities and educational institutions, including Eastern University of Thailand, Lampang International University of Technology in Thailand, International Education Center of Malaysia, Babasa Vocational and Technical University of Laos, Bole University of Thailand, Taipei City University of Science and Technology, etc. , Cultural exchanges and other aspects of cooperation. Build a Chinese education base in Yunnan Province and accept Chinese teachers from Myanmar to participate in Chinese training. In the Thai Chinese Education Demonstration School, Education Union Senior High School was listed as an internship education base, and more than 200 students were sent to a Chinese school in northern Thailand for internship. Establish cooperative relations with China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Shanghai Normal University, Kunming College, Zhongshan Vocational and Technical College, Dongguan Vocational and Technical College and other brother colleges and universities in and outside the province, in depth in discipline construction, teacher training, student training, teaching and research, etc. comminicate. Establish a long-term, comprehensive and open strategic cooperative relationship of production, education and research with the people's governments of counties and districts in Zhaotong City, enterprises and institutions, technical secondary schools, and senior high schools, and jointly commit to the economic and social development of Zhaotong.
Since 1978, the school has trained more than 40,000 outstanding talents for economic construction and social development in Zhaotong City and its surrounding areas, and has become an important base for training various talents in Zhaotong City and even Yunnan Province. It is promoting economic construction, social development, and technological progress. He revitalized Zhaotong’s basic education in realizing its own value, achieved remarkable results, and won a good social reputation. The school has successively won the "Advanced Unit for Police and Civil Construction" awarded by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army; Many honorary titles such as "Civilized School of Yunnan Province" awarded by the Provincial Higher Education Working Committee and the Provincial Department of Education.
Standing at a new historical starting point, the teachers, students and staff of Zhaotong University will be guided by Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thinking of the "Three Represents", the scientific outlook on development, and Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The five concepts of innovation, coordination, greenness, openness, and sharing, adhering to the school motto of “university without borders, tolerance for adults”, carrying forward the spirit of “honoring morality, dedication, pragmatism, and innovation”, unite and cooperate, reform and innovate, Forge ahead and strive to build the school into a well-known, distinctive and high-level applied local university at home and abroad!