What is Jinan University?

Jinan University is the first overseas Chinese university in China founded by the state. It is the first university in China to recruit foreign students. It is currently the university with the largest number of overseas students in the country. It is a key comprehensive university of the national "211 Project" University, directly under the leadership of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council. The word "Jinan" comes from the chapter of "Shang Shu Yu Gong": "The east is spread over the sea, the west is covered by the quicksand, Shuonan is Jin, and the sound education is spread all over the world." It means facing the South Sea and spreading Chinese culture far to the five continents and four seas. The school’s predecessor was the Jinan Academy founded in Nanjing in 1906 by the Qing government. It later moved to Shanghai and was renamed National Jinan University in 1927. During the Anti-Japanese War, it moved to Jianyang, Fujian Province. Moved back to Shanghai in 1946. In September 1949, it merged with Fudan University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and other universities. It was rebuilt in Guangzhou in 1958.

Qian Weichang, former vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, serves as chairman of the fifth board of directors and honorary president of the school; Professor Hu Jun, doctoral supervisor, serves as the president.

Jinan University, known as "the highest institution of higher education for overseas Chinese", adheres to the school motto of "loyalty, trust and respect" and focuses on cultivating talents with the excellent traditional moral culture of the Chinese nation. The school actively implements the school-running policy of "facing overseas, facing Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan". Since its establishment, the school has trained more than 200,000 talents from 120 countries on five continents and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. It is said that peaches and plums are all over the world.

In June 1996, Jinan University became a national key university for the 21st century. In 2002, the school approved the "211 Project" construction projects during the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period, and determined the areas of Chinese language and literature and overseas Chinese education, Sino-foreign relations and overseas Chinese, industrial economics and financial economics, business management theory and application, bioscience technology and The six disciplines of biomedical engineering, reproductive science and family planning are key construction disciplines.

The school has 20 colleges, 49 departments, 101 research institutions and 80 laboratories, 68 undergraduate majors; 134 master's degree-authorized disciplines, 6 doctoral degree-authorized first-level disciplines, 39 Ph.D.-authorized secondary disciplines, 58 majors recruiting and cultivating Ph.D.s; including recruiting and cultivating Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Accountancy (MPAcc), and Master of Laws (JM) , Master of Clinical Medicine, Master of Stomatology, Master of Engineering, Master of Public Administration (MPA); it is also a school that pilots high-level sports teams across the country. The school has 9 postdoctoral mobile stations (Applied Economics, Clinical Medicine, Chinese Language and Literature, Biology, Business Administration, Journalism and Communication, History, Biomedical Engineering, Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine), and 1 postdoctoral research workstation (Guangzhou Biomedicine Research and Development Base), 4 national key disciplines (industrial economics, hydrobiology, finance and literature and art), 8 key disciplines of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, 2 Guangdong Province first-level key disciplines, 10 Guangdong Province second-level key disciplines Level-level key disciplines include the National Humanities and Social Sciences Key Research Base (Overseas Chinese), the Ministry of Education’s Chinese Language and Literature Talent Training and Scientific Research Base, the National College Student Cultural Quality Education Base, the National Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language Base, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council Chinese Education Base and Guangdong Provincial Key Research Base for Humanities and Social Sciences. There are 1 national engineering center, 2 engineering centers of the Ministry of Education, and 9 provincial and ministerial key laboratories.

The school has four campuses in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Zhuhai. The campus covers a total area of ??1.6952 million square meters, the school building area is 928,900 square meters, and the student dormitory area is 260,800 square meters. The school library has a collection of 2.8516 million volumes. The school has 6 national-level tertiary-level affiliated hospitals, namely Guangzhou Overseas Chinese Hospital, Shenzhen People's Hospital, Zhuhai People's Hospital, Guangzhou Red Cross Hospital, Qingyuan People's Hospital and Jiangmen Wuyi Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, and 1 specialist hospital, namely Shenzhen The ophthalmology center is directly affiliated with one hospital, Shenzhen OCT Hospital. The eight hospitals*** have 6,193 employees and 4,824 hospital beds.

The school actively carries out foreign academic and educational exchanges and has signed bilateral agreements or established academic exchange relationships with 107 universities and cultural institutions on five continents in the world, including the United States, Brazil, and Peru. , the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia, South Africa, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and other countries and Hong Kong and Macao regions. The school has offices in Hong Kong and Macau and an education foundation in Hong Kong.

Historically, the faculty of Jinan University included Ma Yinchu, Zheng Zhenduo, Liang Shiqiu, Wang Yanan, Zhou Gucheng, Qian Zhongshu, Zhou Jianren, Xia Yan, Xu Deheng, Hu Yuzhi, Yan Jici, Chu Tunan, Huang Binhong, Pan Tianshou and a large number of famous scholars. Today, the school has a strong teaching staff, with 1,638 full-time teachers, including 2 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 6 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 226 doctoral supervisors, 365 professors, and 570 associate professors.

Currently, there are 34,133 students of various types, including 23,933 full-time students, 5,861 doctoral and master's students, and 17,101 undergraduates. There are 12,594 overseas Chinese, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and foreign students on campus. The school has a strong academic style and a rich collection of humanities. Among them, former Vice Prime Ministers of the State Council Wu Xueqian and Li Lanqing, well-known figures Jiang Shangqing, famous overseas Chinese leader and first president of the University of Singapore Lee Kong Chian, former Chairman of the Thai Parliament and Deputy Prime Minister Xu Dunmoo, former President of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce Chen *cun, and in recent years Wang Xueping, Xu Leyi, Zhong Yangsheng, Zhiguang, Ma Youheng and many other famous figures in the government, business and cultural and educational circles from the mainland, Hong Kong and Macao are outstanding alumni of Jinan University in different periods. It can be said that there are many talents and they are well-known at home and abroad.

The 21st century is the century of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Jinan University, which shoulders the glorious mission of cultivating talents for overseas Chinese and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions, has even more arduous tasks and a long way to go. In the new century, all teachers, students, staff and alumni at home and abroad will continue to carry forward the Jinan spirit of "patriotism, love the school, unity and forge ahead", establish the school running philosophy of "internationalization, modernization and comprehensiveness", keep pace with the times, and pioneer and innovate. , in order to implement the development strategy of "famous overseas Chinese schools" and strive to build a well-known high-level research university at home and abroad.

School motto:

The origin and meaning of Jinan University’s motto: The origin of the four words “loyalty (zhong) faith (xin) dutifulness (du) respect (jing)” of our school Very ancient. "The Analects of Confucius? Wei Linggong" records that: Confucius's student Zi Zhang asked how to make himself effective everywhere. Confucius replied: "If you say words of loyalty and act with sincerity and respect, even if you are a barbarian country, you can do it. If you are not honest with words and deeds are not reverent, even if you are in a state, how can you do it?" Translated into modern Chinese, it means: "Words of loyalty are true." Being honest and serious in behavior will work even in other countries. If you are deceitful in words and frivolous in behavior, will it work in your own hometown?" The content includes both "words" and "actions". , that is, the entire content of a person's conduct, is very comprehensive.

"Loyalty, faithfulness and respect" are highly generalized abstract moral concepts. The accumulation of tens of millions of historical and cultural values ??give them roughly the following meanings:

Loyalty: Loyalty , no two, dedicated, selfless and other meanings.

Faith: It means honesty, non-deception, morality, authenticity, etc.

Dude: has the meaning of solidity, sincerity, solidity and single-mindedness.

Jing: It means respect, seriousness, respect, caution, etc.

These four words have overlapping meanings and can be used in combination. They can also be combined with other words to form new words with moral connotations. They have many changes and are full of generative power.

Jinan Spirit:

Loyalty and sincerity, unity of knowledge and action, self-improvement, harmony without difference

Surrounding Environment

Main Campus of Jinan University Located at No. 601 West Huangpu Avenue, Tianhe District, Guangzhou City, it is bounded by Zhongshan Avenue to the north, Huangpu Avenue to the south, and the South China Expressway to the east. The transportation is extremely convenient. There are many buses, buses or minibuses leading to Guangzhou Railway Station and Guangzhou. East Railway Station and Airport.