Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei City

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Brief Introduction

Founded in 1958, Anhui Jianzhu University (abbreviated as AHJZU) is a multi-disciplinary university featured in civil engineering. AHJZU is a university jointly established by Anhui Province and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, an excellent university for the evaluation of undergraduate teaching work by the Ministry of Education, a doctoral degree awarding unit, a university implementing the national Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program, a national demonstration unit of economical public institutions, a national advanced unit for social practice of college students, a provincial advanced unit for intellectual work, a provincial excellent teaching management team, a provincial advanced unit for career guidance, a pacesetter unit of career guidance, an provincial advanced unit for university logistics, and a civilized unit in Anhui Province.

AHJZU is composed of 12 colleges, offering 64 undergraduate programs which cover seven major categories: Engineering, Management, Science, Arts, Literature, Law and Economics. There are more than 16,800 full-time undergraduate students and 2400 graduate students. There are about 1500 faculty and staff, including 1214 teachers, 520 of whom have the professional title of associate senior or above, 1094 of whom have the master’s degree or above, 15 doctoral supervisors and 578 master supervisors. AHJZU has 6 members of national higher education steering committee, 1 national famous teacher, 44 provincial famous teacher, 24 national teaching team and provincial teaching team, 5 provincial science and technology innovation team and 16 provincial academic and technical leaders，6 specialists enjoying the special allowance of the State Council and 7 teachers enjoying the special allowance of Anhui Provincial Government.

AHJZU has 1 doctorate degree program for first-level discipline, 12 master’s degree programs for first-level discipline, 14 professional master’s degree programs, 8 provincial key disciplines, 1 national engineering laboratory, 10 provincial key laboratories, 25 national and provincial engineering (technology) research centers. 1 provincial international science and technology cooperation base, 2 provincial university think tanks. More than 1.7 million paper books and over 3 million electronic books are now available in the library.

Closely relying on the advantages of broad civil engineering disciplinary, AHJZU actively serves the local economic and social development, refine the research direction, and forms multiple research direction and academic teams with great influence and distinct characteristics in the key areas of energy conservation & environmental protection, urbanization & Anhui style architecture, underground engineering, public security, advanced building materials and so on. In recent years, AHJZU has hosted national key research & development projects, national science & technology support plans, national science & technology major projects, sub-subjects of 973 plan, over 280 national projects of natural science fund & social science fund, over 1130 national and provincial subjects of science and research and won 112 national or provincial awards of science and technology, of which there are 4 national second prize for progress in science and technology, and 1 gold medal for China national invention patent.

Sticking to running school by quality, AHJZU has been deepening the reform of education and teaching, establishing and perfecting quality control system, implementing quality engineering and making great achievement. In recent years, AHJZU has won 44 national projects of quality engineering, 1 second prize of the first national textbook construction award and over 900 provincial projects of quality engineering, of which 1 second prize for national teaching achievement, 109 outstanding awards for provincial teaching achievement award. AHJZU has 19 national construction points of first-class undergraduate program, 6 national excellent courses, 10 national professional education certification (assessment) majors, 1 national excellent course, 44 provincial excellent courses, 1 national demonstration course of bilingual teaching, 1 “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” national planned textbook, 1 national innovation experiment area of talent training mode, 2 national demonstration center of experiment teaching, 5 national new engineering projects, and 2 national virtual simulation experiment teaching programs. The Virtual Teaching and Research Section of Building Electrical and Intelligence was selected as the first batch of virtual teaching and research section of professional construction in China.

AHJZU has become a base to cultivate senior engineering applied talent with the spirit of innovation and practice ability with the help of many school-run enterprises such as general institute of design and research， research institute of architecture & design, design institute of geotechnical survey, design institute of urban planning，and so on.

AHJZU enrolls student from 26 provinces（autonomous regions） and municipalities directly under the central government. The quality of students has been much better year by year. The admission line of national college entrance examination and the employment rate of graduate students rank top of the Anhui provincial universities. The graduates are favored by employers. Students have made great achievements in various discipline competitions and sports competitions for students in universities and colleges of the whole country and the province, and have won more than 1,000 national, ministerial and provincial-level commendations and awards.

AHJZU is increasingly active in foreign exchange and has established intercollegiate cooperation with more than 20 universities in the United States, Germany, Britain, Russia, Belarus, South Korea and China Taiwan. It also has great advances in joint-program, academic exchange, scientific collaboration and Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools. AHJZU is a Sino-foreign cooperative school-running unit recognized by the Ministry of Education.

AHJZU adheres to the university motto of “Virtues，Determination，Knowledge，and Self-improvement”, the orientation of education of “basing on Anhui, facing the Yangze River delta, radiating the country, relying on construction industry, serving new urbanization” and the educational philosophy of “setting up university with quality, leading university by innovation, strengthening university with talents, revitalizing university with feature specialty, administering university by law”, and sticks to the route of characteristic development of playing cards of “building” and writing essays about “Anhui”. AHJZU strives for true, forges ahead, and makes arduous efforts for building a first-class high level university of architecture with distinctive characteristics.