Zhengzhou University was merged and established on July 10, 2000 by the former Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou University of Technology and Henan Medical University. The former Zhengzhou University, founded in 1956, is the first comprehensive university founded by the state after the founding of New China; The former Zhengzhou University of Technology, founded in 1963, is a key university directly under the former Ministry of Chemical Industry; The former Henan Medical University, founded in 1928, is a provincial key medical college focusing on medicine. After long-term construction and development, the university has become a comprehensive university covering 12 disciplines, including science, engineering, medicine, literature, history, philosophy, law, economics, management, education, agriculture, and art. It is a key construction university of the national "211 Project" and a selected university of the national "Plan for Improving the Comprehensive Strength of Universities in Central and Western China", It is a university jointly built by the People's Government of Henan Province and the Ministry of Education.
Zhengzhou University has sufficient educational resources. The main campus includes 4 campuses, covering a total area of 6493 mu, of which the main campus located in Zhengzhou High tech Industrial Development Zone covers an area of 4845 mu, with a total construction area of 1.65 million square meters.
Zhengzhou University has a large school scale and a strong faculty. At present, there are more than 52000 full-time ordinary undergraduate students, more than 15000 graduate students of all kinds, and more than 1400 foreign students in the headquarters; There are nearly 6000 on-the-job teaching staff, including 24 academicians (6 full-time, 18 double hired), 721 professors, 5 winners of the National "Outstanding Youth Fund", 19 candidates of the National "Hundred Thousand Talents Project", 4 candidates of the National "Thousand Talents Plan", 6 candidates of the provincial "Hundred Talents Plan", more than 1600 associate professors, and more than 1700 teachers with doctoral degrees.
Zhengzhou University has a complete talent training system. There are 46 hospitals (departments), 9 affiliated hospitals, 107 undergraduate majors, 55 first level discipline master programs, and 237 second level discipline master programs; 21 first level discipline doctoral programs and 124 second level discipline doctoral programs. There is also one professional doctor degree program, 19 professional master degree programs, and 23 post doctoral research stations. There are 14 national quality courses, 14 national characteristic majors, 3 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 2 national talent training mode innovation experimental areas, 7 national engineering practice education centers, 210 national undergraduate innovative experiment programs, innovation and entrepreneurship training programs, 4 national teaching teams, and 5 national famous teachers, 2 national bilingual teaching demonstration courses. The university has 1 national science basic science research and teaching talent training base, 1 national university student cultural quality education base, 1 university counselor training and research base of the Ministry of Education, 1 overseas Chinese education base, 6 national key (cultivation) disciplines, 37 national key clinical specialty construction projects, 214 provincial key disciplines, 4 disciplines (fields) ESI ranks among the top 1% in the world.
Zhengzhou University has a solid scientific research foundation. There are more than 330 scientific research institutions of all levels and types. Among them, there are 1 national engineering research center, 1 national technology research and promotion center, 1 national international joint research center, 1 national chemical safety engineering technology center, 1 national drug safety evaluation research center, 2 national drug clinical research bases, 3 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, and 2 engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education; One key research base of humanities and social sciences in colleges and universities jointly built by the province and ministry; 1 sports culture research base of Sports Culture Development Research Center of General Administration of Sport of China; 1 national intellectual property training base; 6 Henan Collaborative Innovation Centers; 104 provincial key laboratories, engineering technology research centers, engineering laboratories, international joint laboratories, key research bases of humanities and social sciences, provincial key discipline open laboratories, engineering technology research centers, national key laboratory cultivation bases, etc., 125 provincial and ministerial level key scientific research institutions, with strong basic research Applied research and technology development capability.
Zhengzhou University has perfect infrastructure and excellent school running conditions. It is one of the "400 Best Afforestation and Greening Units" awarded by the National Greening Commission. The school library has a building area of 84000 square meters and a collection of more than 7.971 million books. It has 1 publishing house; 14 academic journals are published and distributed publicly. The school also cooperates to establish Sias International College and Sports College.
Zhengzhou University has an active academic atmosphere and extensive foreign exchanges. It has successively established cooperative relations with more than 20 domestic universities and research institutes, including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and other countries, such as the United States, Britain, France, Japan, Russia, Canada, Australia, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Finland, Ukraine, and Hong Kong More than 170 well-known universities in more than 40 countries and regions, including Taiwan, have established inter university cooperation. Adhering to the principle of people first and paying attention to the all-round development of students' quality, the university has cultivated a large number of qualified talents for the society, and has won many honorary titles above the provincial level in party building, ideological and political work, teaching, scientific research, medical treatment, management, student work and logistics services.
The construction and development of Zhengzhou University has been warmly cared for and strongly supported by the central and local leaders at all levels. Li Keqiang, Liu Yunshan, Liu Yandong, Wu Bangguo, Jia Qinglin, Li Changchun, He Guoqiang, Li Lanqing, Luo Gan, Chen Zhili, Gu Xiulian, Cheng Siwei, Zhang Siqing, Xu Kuangdi, Zhang Rongming and other leaders respectively visited the school to inspect and guide the work. The main leaders of the Ministry of Education, the provincial party committee, and the provincial government have visited the school for many times for research or on-site office work. With the concern and support of the superior leaders, the school has made great progress in talent training, teacher team construction, discipline construction, scientific research, campus construction, party construction, ideological and political work, etc., showing a good momentum of development. Zhengzhou University will adhere to the principle of "one province, one school", take collaborative innovation as the starting point, speed up the pace of transformation and development and connotation construction of the school, comprehensively improve the quality of education and teaching and the level of running a school, and strive to build Zhengzhou University into a domestic first-class, internationally renowned, high-level university with regional demonstration role by the middle of this century, in order to build a well-off society in an all-round way Make new and greater contributions to the rise of the Central Plains.
(Note: The above data is up to September 2014)
