At the university, there are now 18,000 full—time students and 9,000 part—time students. JLAU has a teaching staff of 1,838, which formed well—balanced, excellent—quality, vigorous and high—level teaching faculty, with the representative of Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Membership of the Discipline Assessment Group of State Council, Yangtze River Scholar, the Thousand Talents Plan, Ten—thousand Talents Plan, Outstanding Contribution to Middle-aged and Young Experts at the National Level and National Excellent Teachers.
JLAU covers
At the university, there are now 18,000 full—time students and 9,000 part—time students. JLAU has a teaching staff of 1,838, which formed well—balanced, excellent—quality, vigorous and high—level teaching faculty, with the representative of Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Membership of the Discipline Assessment Group of State Council, Yangtze River Scholar, the Thousand Talents Plan, Ten—thousand Talents Plan, Outstanding Contribution to Middle-aged and Young Experts at the National Level and National Excellent Teachers.
JLAU covers an area of 1,400 hectares, the campus area is 319.02 hectares, and the total building area is 802,000 square meters. The total fixed assets are over 2.2 billion worth of RMB. The library has more than 2,466,800 volumes of books. The allocation of teaching and researching resources is rational.
JLAU presently comprises of 1 postgraduate school, 15 schools and 2 teaching and research departments. JLAU has 7 stations for post-doctoral research, 21 doctoral disciplines, 78 master’s disciplines, 1 ministerial-level and 13 provincial-level key disciplines, 59 bachelor's disciplines, 7 National Characteristic Specialties, 13 Provincial Characteristic Specialties and 9 Provincial Brand Specialties. Currently JLAU has 1 national-level scientific platform, 9 ministerial-level scientific platforms, 47 provincial & city level platforms, 1 international and 3 school-enterprise cooperation platforms and 373 off- and on-campus practical teaching bases. In the education practices of recent years, the university has delivered a large number of excellent talents to the whole society, which has sprung up many outstanding alumni of grass—root, self—employment and serving agriculture and countryside. They have do the important contributions to the national and local economy construction and social development.
Relying on the strong discipline strength and advantageous teaching and research resources, JLAU insists on the university-running concept of “Taking serving local economic and social development as its mission”, and upholds the motto of “understanding morality, seeking knowledge, simple, unadorned credibility and integrity”. Taking the intrinsic development as the core task, JLAU vigorously advances the educational teaching reform to improve teaching quality and students’ comprehensive quality, exploring the modes of “three levels, three combinations and five platforms” and “Bases + Platforms” to cultivate interdisciplinary and innovative talents featured by their solid foundation, strong ability and high quality.
JLAU insists on the principle of “serving the local economic and social development”, offering scientific and educational service with “thesis written on the land of Jilin province”. Since the implementation of the twelfth Five—Year Plan, 1,944 research projects have been undertaken by JLAU, the total research funds of which reach 709 million RMB. 129 scientific awards above the provincial and national level have been achieved. The quantity and quality of scientific research achievements have been mounted on the top list among other provincial universities. JLAU has formed some typical scientific cooperative models, such as ‘Antu Model’ between JLAU and Antu County Government, ‘Minle Model’ between JLAU and Minle Village, ‘Borui Model’ between JLAU and Changchun Borui Feed Co. Ltd, ‘Zambian Model’ between JLAU and University of Zambia. JLAU has trained nearly 2 million technicians and farmers, the increased technical income of which has been reached to 15 billion RMB.
JLAU has implemented the strategy of opening-up and unceasingly broadened educational dimensions, and set up bilateral exchange and cooperation relationship with 58 universities and research institutes abroad, such as the U.S, Canada, UK, Italy, Russian, Japan, South Korea, Australia, South Africa, Zambia, etc. JLAU fully introduces the foreign intellectual resources and has taken an active part in sending the young teachers to develop international scientific cooperation. One joint degree program has been approved. JLAU develops the international students education actively, which became eligible to receive the China Scholarship, China—EU Credits Students Scholarship and Jilin Provincial Government Scholarship. As one of the earliest provincial universities to carry out Chinese Foreign—Aid Programs, since the twelfth Five—Year Plan, there have been 393 senior officials and technicians from 71 developing countries to our university to receive one month professional training. On behalf of Chinese Government, our university constructed one of the first China—Aid Programs—Agricultural Technology Demonstration Center in Zambia, which has been known as ‘South-South Cooperation Model’, and gained great attention by the society.
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