2. Introduction to Pingxiang College Pingxiang College is a full-time public undergraduate college with the approval of the Ministry of Education and enrollment for the whole country. Pingxiang is located in the west of Jiangxi Province, adjacent to Changsha, and 20 kilometers away from Huanghua International Airport/KLOC-0. Shanghai-Kunming high-speed railway and zhejiang-jiangxi railway cross east and west, 3 19 and 320 national highways cross, and G60 and S89 expressways run through the whole territory. Here, with outstanding people and thirst for knowledge, it has enjoyed the reputation of "the hometown of reading and the state of education" since ancient times, especially Anyuan, the birthplace of China's modern industry and workers' movement, which is famous all over the world. Since the reform and opening up, the former southern coal capital and the pearl of western Jiangxi have taken on a new look through urban transformation. Pillar industries such as industrial ceramics, mining machinery and new materials have flourished, and the economy and society have prospered and progressed. "Prospering the city with culture" has become a beautiful landscape.
The school was formerly known as Pingxiang Simple Normal School, a provincial school founded by 194 1, renamed Pingxiang Normal School by 1949, opened a junior college class by 1978, established Pingxiang Institute of Education by 1982, and renamed Pingxiang College by 1993 in 2003. In the course of running a school for more than 70 years, the school has been adhering to the motto of "Morality is the highest, learning is the highest" and taking the concept of "moral cultivation, pursuit of Excellence, pragmatic innovation and scientific development" as the concept, and has trained a large number of high-quality talents for the country. The school currently covers an area of 1.200 mu, with a construction area of nearly 300,000 square meters. There are 132 teaching experiment (room) centers, more than 200 on-campus (off-campus) practice (training) bases, teaching and research instruments and equipment with a total value of more than 60 million yuan, and the library has110000 copies and 250000 copies of electronic books. New engineering training center, material technology training center, concert hall, art building, student apartment, Ruoshui reading square, academic exchange center, gymnasium and training center, administration and scientific research center, etc. To provide an ideal study and living place for students to become talents and further their studies. The campus is shaded by trees and the air is fresh. Rhododendron Mountain, Cherry Blossom Ridge, Peach and Plum Garden, Ruoshui Square and Wenfang form a campus landscape integrating nature and culture.
In the past five years, the school has made outstanding achievements in the evaluation of provincial personnel training level, party building work, teaching work, teaching laboratory, library, ideological and political course teaching, teacher training, enrollment and employment, and student management. School satisfaction, social popularity and contribution rate to local economic and social development have been continuously improved, and it has won many national civilized units, national advanced mass sports collectives, national "Top Ten Excellent Training Bases" of the Ministry of Science and Technology, National Red Flag Youth League Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, National Voluntary Blood Donation Promotion Award, Jiangxi Civilized Campus, Advanced College of Ideological and Political Education for College Students, Civilized School Spirit Construction Unit of Jiangxi Province, Advanced School of Open School Affairs of Jiangxi Province, and Safe and Civilized School of Jiangxi Province. There are 9 collaborative innovation platforms in Industry-University-Research, including Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Industrial Ceramics, Jiangxi Research Center of Environmental Protection Materials and Equipment Engineering Technology, Jiangxi Research Center of Graphic Design and Animation Engineering Technology in Colleges and Universities, Jiangxi Research Base of Soft Science for Transformation and Development of Resource-exhausted Cities, Jiangxi Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences-Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Center, Pingxiang University Anyuan Red Culture Research Center, Mining Machinery and Equipment Research Center, E-commerce Research Center and Sponge City Research Institute. It has won more than 300 projects including National Natural Science Foundation, National Social Science Foundation, National Innovation Fund for Small and Medium-sized Sci-tech Enterprises, National Education Science Planning Project, National Key Laboratory Open Fund Project, and provincial and ministerial scientific research projects. In recent five years, more than 2,000 academic papers have been published in various academic journals, including nearly 500 papers collected by SCI, EI, SSCI and other institutions. Published more than 50 monographs (textbooks)/kloc-0. Teachers have won the Jiangxi Teaching Achievement Award and Social Science Research Achievement Award for many times, and students have made great achievements in the national college students' mathematical modeling contest, CCTV Cup national English speech contest, national college students' art (calligraphy) exhibition, Jiangxi computer contest, Jiangxi web page design contest, Jiangxi college students' art singing contest, Jiangxi sports meeting and other important competitions. The school has always adhered to the purpose of open education, constantly strengthened exchanges and cooperation with foreign countries (regions), and actively promoted the process of international education. We have established stable cooperation and exchange relations with universities and scientific research institutions in Britain, the United States, Switzerland, Canada, India, Thailand, Malaysia and other countries. At present, there are three majors in cooperation with Dutch College in Canada: marketing, preschool education and project cost. The school attaches great importance to practical teaching, relying on large and medium-sized enterprises and institutions to carry out off-campus practice (training), which enhances students' practical and innovative entrepreneurial abilities. Graduates are well received by all walks of life, with a one-time employment rate of over 90%, and have been rated as advanced units for employment of college graduates in Jiangxi Province for many years.
The school has 34 undergraduate majors and 0/6 specialist majors, covering arts, science, engineering, teaching, management, arts and other disciplines, and has built a number of advantageous specialties in Pingxiang industrial ceramics, mining machinery, powder metallurgy, fireworks and firecrackers and other characteristic industries. There are more than 50 teaching quality projects at or above the provincial level, and 2 projects supported by the state to improve the development ability of professional service industry in colleges and universities. School 20 15 was listed as the first batch of pilot institutions for transformation and development in Jiangxi Province. Full-time students 1. 1 more than ten thousand people. There are nearly 600 full-time teachers, among whom 40% have the title of deputy high school or above, and 70% have the master's degree and doctor's degree. Hire 5-7 foreign experts all the year round. Among the teachers, there are more than 50 people who enjoy special allowances from the State Council and Jiangxi provincial governments, provincial academic leaders, provincial talent project candidates, provincial teaching masters and provincial young and middle-aged backbone teachers. After more than 70 years, the school has delivered nearly 654.38+10,000 graduates to the society. Most of them have become the backbone of enterprises and institutions, and there are also many academic celebrities, business tycoons or political elites at home and abroad. They have made contributions to society in their respective jobs. Among them, Liu Tianquan, the first graduate of this school, is the first academician of China Academy of Engineering and the second prize winner of National Science and Technology Progress Award.
After vicissitudes of life, string songs continue to cast the soul of the school. At present, a new generation of college students in Pingxiang are taking in-depth study and implementation of the spirit of the 19th Party Congress as the guide, taking Do not forget your initiative mind as the guide, keeping in mind the mission, working hard, and striving to build the school into an application-oriented university with outstanding characteristics and obvious advantages, which is based on Pingxiang, radiating the surrounding areas, facing the whole country, focusing on engineering, based on arts and sciences, and coordinated development of multiple disciplines.