Zhejiang Ocean University | Chinese Universities

Zhejiang Ocean University is a university jointly built by the Ministry of Natural Resources and the People's Government of Zhejiang Province, and is one of the key construction universities in Zhejiang Province. Founded in 1958, the school was named Zhoushan Aquatic College, renamed Zhejiang Aquatic College in 1975, merged with Zhoushan Normal College in 1998 to form Zhejiang Ocean University, after 2000, Zhoushan Health School, Zhejiang Aquatic School, Zhejiang Marine Aquatic Research Institute, Zhoushan Petrochemical School and Zhoushan Commercial School and other schools (units) have been merged (into), and in 2016 more current name. The construction and development of the school has always received the affectionate care and strong support from the Party and national leaders, and General Secretary Xi Jinping visited the school twice during his administration of Zhejiang Province to guide the work, giving full affirmation to the school's insistence on island schooling, requiring the school to continue to take the road of hard work, focus on local economic construction, and strive to make special features and contribute to the development of the province's marine economy.

The school has 2 campuses in New Town and Dinghai, with beautiful campus environment and pleasant scenery, which is an ideal place to study. The school covers a total area of 2608 mu (including 720 mu of sea area), with a building area of 534,000 square meters, 2.01 million paper books and over 490 million yuan of teaching and research instrument and equipment assets. There are 10 colleges, and scientific research institutions such as Zhejiang Institute of Marine Aquatic Research are built. It carries out master's education, general undergraduate education, continuing education and international student education, and jointly trains doctoral students with foreign universities. It has two A-class and seven B-class provincial first-class disciplines in science, agriculture, engineering, management, economics, literature, history and education, among which marine science is ranked 5th and aquatic science is ranked 8th in the fourth round of discipline evaluation by the Ministry of Education, and two disciplines of plant and animal science and agricultural science are in the top 1% of ESI. There are 9 master's degree programs in marine science, aquatic science, ship and ocean engineering, petroleum and natural gas engineering, food science and engineering, agriculture and forestry economic management, mechanical engineering, mathematics and water conservancy engineering, and 8 professional master's degree programs in transportation, agriculture, education, tourism management, pharmacy, resources and environment, civil engineering and water conservancy, biology and medicine, and has the right to grant master's degree with equivalent academic ability. There are 48 undergraduate majors, including 6 national first-class undergraduate majors, 2 national specialties, 14 provincial first-class undergraduate majors, 9 provincial key majors, 7 provincial advantageous majors and 8 provincial specialties. There are 14,094 full-time students of all kinds and 1,409 teaching staff, including 998 full-time teachers. Among the full-time teachers, 518 have doctoral degrees, 494 have senior professional and technical positions, including 192 with senior technical positions. There are 10 double-appointed academicians, more than 50 national talents; more than 90 provincial talents; 10 provincial teaching, science and technology innovation teams.

The university insists on taking social demand as the guide and devotes to cultivating comprehensive development of compound talents. The teaching achievements have won one national second-class prize, and in the past five years, six first-class and three second-class prizes for provincial teaching achievements. The university is a pilot university of the New Engineering Research and Practice Project of the Ministry of Education, the New Agricultural Research and Reform Practice Project of the Ministry of Education, and the National Excellent Agricultural and Forestry Talents Education and Training Program Reform Project, and has built a national experimental teaching demonstration center, a national off-campus practical education base for college students, a field practice base of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (jointly built), and the first island field survival teaching experiment base in China, which is the It is the only national demonstration base for training innovative talents (jointly constructed). In the past five years, students have won more than 170 national awards and more than 3,350 provincial and ministerial awards in various academic competitions. The university has been awarded as the advanced unit of research and practice of entrepreneurship education in national higher education institutions, the university with typical experience in deepening the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, and the university listed as the implementation university of national innovation and entrepreneurship training program for college students.

Focusing on the national strategic needs and local economic and social development, the university has been improving the scientific research innovation system and striving to enhance the level of scientific research and innovation capacity. The scientific research achievements have won the first, second and third prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award and 13 prizes of the National Science Conference. In the past 5 years, we have undertaken more than 120 national research projects such as the National Key Research and Development Project (subject), the National Social Science Foundation major and key projects, and more than 400 provincial and ministerial level research projects, with an average annual research expenditure of more than 130 million yuan; we have won 40 provincial and ministerial level awards for scientific and technological achievements and outstanding achievements in philosophy and social sciences, and 85 awards for important social forces. The university has built the National Engineering Technology Research Center for Marine Facilities Aquaculture, the National Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for the Utilization of Marine Biological Germplasm Resources, the National Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Oil and Gas Storage and Transportation Technology at the Port, the International Science and Technology Cooperation Base for Marine Aquaculture Engineering Technology, and 29 provincial and ministerial key laboratories, engineering laboratories, engineering technology research centers, collaborative innovation centers and 8 scientific research platforms for Sino-foreign cooperation. It has built Xixuan Fishery Science and Technology Island, and owns two research vessels, "Zhehai Science No. 1" and "Zhejiu Science No. 2", of which "Zhehai Science No. 1" has entered the sequence of national marine scientific research vessels. The Journal of Zhejiang Ocean University (natural science edition and humanities and social science edition) is published, and the Zhejiang branch of the National Ocean Press is set up.

The university actively promotes the internationalization of education, deepens cooperation and exchange with foreign universities and research institutions, and carries out various forms of education and research cooperation. The university has established teaching and research cooperation with 55 universities and research institutes in China and abroad, jointly established the Pisa Graduate School of Zhejiang Ocean University with the University of Pisa in Italy, conducted 6 joint doctoral programs and several double master's programs with the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Marine Science in Japan and South Ural State University in Russia, and cooperated with St. Petersburg State University of Marine Technology in Russia to hold The undergraduate program of Marine Science is the first batch of internationalized majors in Zhejiang Province. The university is a qualified unit for cultivating foreign students with Chinese government scholarship, a unit for enrolling and cultivating undergraduate students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, a unit of "One Belt, One Road" South-South Cooperation Agricultural Education, Science and Technology Innovation Alliance, and a member of China-Central and Eastern Europe "17+1" National Universities Association. The university is also a member of the China-Central and Eastern Europe "17+1" Association of National Universities, and has the only Russian language examination point of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science in the province.