Staff
Having paid great attention to the faculty building, XHU now has 1,400 teachers and staff members, among whom 380 teachers own the title of senior post. XHU has also invited 3 academicians to be directors of the key provincial laboratories, 14 other academicians and 43 distinguished professors to be part-time professors.
Besides four Engineering Master Degree Programs, the university currently offers 18 other Masters Degree Programs. It has four key provincial disciplines, five provincial priority laboratories, one provincial engineering center, seven personnel training bases for Bachelor Degree, one model center for the basic teaching program and over 30 research and assessment centers. XHU is also qualified to admit four-year course equivalent ME applicants and hold graduate courses, enroll foreign students and offer doctoral programs jointly with other national principal universities.
XHU shows good potential and strength in developing scientific research. It has undertaken the state 863/CIMS Projects, the State Natural Science Fund Projects, the Projects of The 8th Five-Year Plan of the Ministry of Machinery Industry, the State Major Project of the 9th Five-Year Plan and the 10th Five-Year Plan, the Major Teaching and Research Projects of Personnel Training and Fostering For the 21st Century of Ministry of Education and many other ministerial and provincial major scientific research projects as well, and has won several science and technology achievement prizes and science and technology advanced prizes at the ministerial and provincial levels.
XHU pays great attention to cultivate well-rounded and developed students. They have won the first and the second national prizes in the National Electronic Design Competition for 6 years, the second national prize in Mathematical Model Design Competition, two national third prizes and organizing prizes in the Challenging Cup Competition in 2002 and a national third prize in 2000. The university has successfully held the Table Tennis Game of the 6th National Game of the Undergraduates, and won both the men's and women's gold and silver medals of the team title. In 2002, the university held 11 meetings of the 2002 Anniversary of China Scientific Committee. The university is the National Art Education Model and has been awarded the prize of a National Model for excellent organization of students practice work. Therefore, employers for their creative and diligent spirit welcome students of XHU. For years, the employment rate has been above 85%. XHU sets the strategy of developing the university through opening to the outside world. It has established collaborative relations with more than 20 universities from nearly 14 different countries and signed the 1-2-1 Educational Program with four American State Universities, providing its students a wonderful opportunity to earn dual degrees from both Chinese and American Universities over the course of four or five years.
For its good reputation, XHU has collected funds in many ways in order to develop itself. In 2002, the university signed an agreement with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and secured a loan of RMB one billion yuan. In 2002, the university signed another agreement with Xin Tiantong Co. Ltd, which will invest one-billion-yuan to build an extension of the campus. XHU will initiatively take part in the worldwide talent competition and strive to build first-class provincial disciplines. It aims to become a first-class provincial comprehensive university through having the society and the world in view and continuing to further the reforms of existing tertiary education and talent-cultivation models. In all, XHU will make great contributions to the Development of the West and the Sichuan Province.
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