Hetao College is a comprehensive application-oriented local undergraduate college in western Inner Mongolia. Located in the northern border of the motherland, the famous Hetao Plain with a few elbows of the Yellow River.
Historical evolution: The predecessor of Hetao University was Hetao University, founded in 1985, approved by the People's Government of the Autonomous Region and filed by the Ministry of Education. The famous economics professor Mr. Chen Liangbi was the first president. The establishment of the school received the cordial care of the party and state leaders. In 1986, then Vice President Ulanhu wrote the name of the school. In 1996, Comrade Cheng Siyuan, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, visited the school to inspect and guide its work. The school was struggling in its early days, lacking financial resources, rudimentary school buildings, and insufficient teachers. In the process of its establishment, it has received strong support and funding from governments at all levels, people from all walks of life and the people of Bayannaoer.
Entering the new century, the school has experienced two optimization and integration of educational resources. In 2001, the original Bayannaoer League Education College and Bayannaoer League Normal School (formerly Suiyuan Provincial Shaanba Normal School founded by General Fu Zuoyi in 1943) were merged into Hetao University. In 2004, the former Bayannaoer League Branch of Inner Mongolia Radio and Television University, Bayannaoer League Finance and Trade Workers Secondary Professional School, Bayannaoer League Health School, Bayannaoer League Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Secondary Professional School, and Inner Mongolia Linhe Water Conservancy School were merged into Hetao University.
In 2012, Hetao University was upgraded to a general undergraduate college approved by the Ministry of Education and renamed as Hetao College. The two-level management system of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Bayannaoer City was implemented, with the management of the autonomous region as the mainstay. At the same time as the upgrade, the Bayannur Municipal Party Committee and government proposed to use the power of the city to run the Loop College. In the case of very difficult financial resources, it invested 1.028 billion yuan to build a new campus (Shuanghe campus) on the shore of the Yellow River. It was completed and put into use at the end of 2018. Use, the conditions for running a school have undergone a fundamental change, and the college has entered a new stage of development. In 2016, the college was granted the right to confer bachelor's degrees, and in the same year was approved by the People's Government of the Autonomous Region as a pilot institution for overall transformation. On August 21, 2019, Comrade Bu Xiaolin, Chairman of the Autonomous Region, visited the college to guide the work.
The establishment, development and growth of the school has always been bathed in the glory of the party's ethnic policy, accompanied by the pace of reform and opening up. Every step the school has taken is the result of the undaunted, hard work, and tenacious struggle of the Hetao Academy of the past generations, which embodies the strength of the party's leadership, the support of the masses, and the strength of the people's trust.
Faculty: There are 1122 faculty members in the college. There are 569 full-time teachers, including 32 full-time teachers and 158 deputy senior teachers. Senior teachers account for 33.39% of full-time teachers; 26 doctoral degree teachers, 333 master's degree teachers, and master's degree and above teachers account for 63.09% of full-time teachers ; There are 125 dual-qualified teachers, accounting for 21.97% of full-time teachers. There are 10 autonomous region-level teaching teams, 12 famous teachers, and 8 rookies in the teaching circle.
Teaching construction: The college has 32 undergraduate majors distributed in 9 disciplines including literature, science, agriculture, engineering, education, management, economics, art, and medicine. There are 13 autonomous region-level brand majors, 8 majors jointly built by the integration of production and education, and 4 first-class majors at the college level. There are 21 autonomous regional-level quality courses and 10 project-approved online open courses; 63 college-level quality courses and 61 project-approved online open courses. 3 national-level teaching research projects were approved; 2 autonomous region-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, 5 teaching achievement awards, 71 teaching research projects were approved; 217 college-level teaching research projects were approved, and 767 teaching research papers were published. In the past three years, students have won 31 national-level awards and 348 autonomous region-level awards.
Scientific research: The college has established 7 autonomous region-level scientific research platforms, including 1 academician workstation, 2 key laboratories, 2 engineering technology research centers, 1 humanities and social science key research base, and 1 innovation cultivation team. 20 college-level scientific research platforms; 5 doctoral workstations. There are currently 6 college-level key disciplines and 2 key cultivation disciplines. The “Wuliangsuhai River Basin Landscape Forestry Lake Grass Sand Ecological Protection and Restoration” pilot project assisted by the academician workstation of the college was approved as the third batch of national “Landscape Forest Lake Grass Ecological Protection and Restoration Project” pilot projects and received 5.678 billion yuan in funding.
Since upgrading, teachers have undertaken 552 scientific research projects, including 12 at the national level and 199 at the provincial and ministerial level. Published 1432 papers; 42 software copyrights and patents were approved, 123 monographs were published; 9 scientific research awards at the municipal level and above; registration of "Sunflower Seedling Transplanting", "Processing Tomato Source and Sink Regulation", "Humic Acid Research and Development and Promotion" There are 3 achievements in the National Achievement Database; a new crop variety of Henuo 101 has been selected and bred. Host the Mongolian and Chinese internal publication "Hetao College Forum".
Cultural inheritance: In terms of the research and inheritance of Hetao culture, the teachers of the college have been approved for the establishment of 42 Hetao cultural research projects, wrote 3 monographs, and published 68 papers. In terms of the research and inheritance of Urad culture, 5 research bases have been established, including the Urad Cultural Research Center and the Urad Mongolian Traditional Handicrafts Room. 3 research topics have been approved at ministerial level and above, and 10 monographs have been published. "Special Hero Epic Research" won the third prize of the social science works of the autonomous region government, and the group dance "Blessing of Urad" won the first prize of Autonomous Region Group A in the 4th National College Student Art Exhibition and the first prize of the country.
Open schooling: The college adheres to the road of multi-level open schooling. Inter-school cooperation with Beijing Normal University, Xiamen University, Ningxia University, Dalian University of Foreign Languages, Rzeszow University of Information Technology and Management in Poland and other domestic and foreign universities and 15 universities in the autonomous region. Develop school-enterprise cooperation with Beijing Dongfang Zhiye Cultural Development Co., Ltd., Beijing Yidiyou Education Consulting Co., Ltd., Dane Times Technology Group Co., Ltd., Phoenix Satellite TV Group Phoenix Digital Media Education Group, etc. Actively integrate into the “Belt and Road” construction and carry out educational cooperation and exchanges with Mongolia.
Social services: The college takes serving the local economic construction and social development as its own responsibility, deeply promotes school-government-enterprise cooperation, actively integrates into the regional economic and social development strategy, and builds a talent training system with local characteristics and meets local needs. Give priority to the development of ethnic education, and focus on cultivating high-quality applied talents who are both Mongolian and Chinese. Relying on the Translation Research Center, it has carried out interpretation and translation work for the Bayannaoer Municipal Government, enterprises and institutions, and the "International Rock Painting Academic Seminar", "China-South Africa Rock Carvings Seminar", etc., and assisted in the application and preparation of the World Cultural Heritage Preparatory Project of Yinshan Rock Carvings The Hetao Irrigation District has successfully applied for the World Cultural Heritage and promoted cultural exchanges with foreign countries. Relying on scientific and technological research and development projects, insisting on collaborative innovation, serving the development of local agriculture and animal husbandry, and participating in the construction of the regional public brand of "Tianjin Loop" from multiple angles. Relying on the scientific and technological training and technical guidance of "Helping the Wisdom and Aspirations", help the agricultural and pastoral areas to alleviate poverty, establish smart agriculture demonstration sites, build agricultural science and technology demonstration parks, Urad Central Banner Delingshan 10,000-mu peanut industrial park, Siyitang" "Smart Four Controls" High-efficiency Agriculture Demonstration Park, build a "government + college + technology platform + cooperative + farmer" precision poverty alleviation model, promote two-color mulch film, thin and thick zone drip irrigation technology in Shihahe Town, Urad Central Banner, and promote high-quality Embryo transfer expansion and hybrid application technology for meat breeding sheep, continue to explore the development path of poverty alleviation and prosperity in mountain and arid areas.
Although the college is located in an ethnic minority area in the western economically underdeveloped frontier, with few high-quality shared resources, lack of high-level talents, and tight school funding, the faculty and staff of the college have always adhered to the school-running principle of "hard work, continuous self-improvement, work hard, and honor the country". Tradition, practicing the school motto of "Looking up at the stars and keeping your feet on the ground", unite and unite, actively promote reform and innovation, strengthen connotative development, strive to build high-quality applied undergraduate colleges with distinctive characteristics, and continue to create various careers in the college A new situation in development.