Zhejiang Ocean University

Zhejiang Ocean University is a teaching and research university jointly developed by the State Oceanic Administration and Zhejiang Provincial People’s Government. Founded in 1958 as Zhoushan Fisheries College, it was renamed Zhejiang Fisheries College in 1975. In 1998, it merged with Zhoushan Teachers College to form Zhejiang Ocean University under its former Chinese name, Zhejiang Haiyang Xueyuan. After 2000, institutions including the Zhejiang Marine Fisheries Research Institute were incorporated. It adopted its current Chinese name, Zhejiang Haiyang Daxue, in 2016. Over nearly 60 years, the university has moved several times and experienced many changes, developing its motto of “Embrace All Streams and Strive Unceasingly for Self-Improvement.” It has contributed to marine talent cultivation, technological innovation, industrial upgrading and cultural inheritance in eastern China, especially Zhejiang. It has gradually developed an educational path consistent with higher education principles, closely connected to regional economic and social development and increasingly distinguished by marine studies. Its two campuses are Dinghai and Xincheng. The main Xincheng Campus is on Changzhi Island in Zhejiang’s Zhoushan Archipelago New Area, backed by hills and surrounded by the sea, with attractive scenery ideal for study.

The university’s development has received close attention and strong support from Party and state leaders. CPC Central Committee General Secretary Xi Jinping, while serving as Zhejiang Party secretary, visited twice to inspect and guide its work. He affirmed its commitment to education on islands and called on it to continue working diligently, focus on local economic development, develop distinctive strengths and contribute to the province’s marine economy. Zhang Dejiang, a member of the Political Bureau Standing Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, visited while serving as Zhejiang Party secretary and said the university should focus on exploring marine science, cultivating marine talent and developing marine industries, strengthening disciplines and R&D to build distinctive advantages. Party and state leaders including Li Tieying, Jiang Chunyun, Zhao Hongzhu, Hao Jianxiu, Lu Yongxiang, Han Qide, Zhou Tienong, Jiang Shusheng, Tung Chee-hwa, Ho Hau Wah and Song Jian expressed high expectations through visits or inscriptions. Successive provincial leaders, including Tie Ying, Li Zemin, Xia Baolong, Li Fengping, Chai Songyue and Li Qiang, repeatedly visited and offered strong attention and support. Qiao Shi, former member of the Political Bureau Standing Committee and chairman of the eighth Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, wrote the university’s name in calligraphy.

The university covers 2596.99 mu, including 720.02 mu of sea area, with 461400 square meters of buildings, 1.6965 million printed books and teaching and research equipment assets of RMB 333 million. It provides master’s education, regular undergraduate education, continuing education and international student education, and jointly trains doctoral students with overseas universities. Its categories include science, agriculture, engineering, management, economics, literature, history and education. It has 2 Category A and 7 Category B provincial first-class disciplines. Marine science ranked fifth among comparable disciplines nationally in the Ministry of Education’s third discipline evaluation. It has first-level master’s authorizations in marine science, fisheries, and naval architecture and ocean engineering, plus 2 professional master’s categories, engineering and agriculture, and may award master’s degrees to applicants with equivalent academic qualifications. Its 48 undergraduate programs include 2 national distinctive programs, marine fisheries science and technology and naval architecture and ocean engineering, and 19 provincial strong, key development, or emerging distinctive internationalized programs. It has 10 schools, 3 interdisciplinary research institutions—the Zhejiang Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Institute of Innovative Applications and East China Sea Development Research Institute—and operates an independent college, Donghai Science and Technology College of Zhejiang Ocean University. It has 16097 full-time students of various types and 1280 faculty and staff, including 764 full-time teachers. Among full-time teachers, 280 hold doctorates and 471 hold senior professional and technical positions, including 141 full senior positions. It has 8 jointly appointed academicians and 23 talents including national Thousand Talents Plan members, National Distinguished Young Scholars Fund recipients and State Council special allowance experts. Eighty-one people have been selected for provincial programs such as the Thousand Talents Plan, Qianjiang Scholars and “151” Talent Project. It has 9 provincial teaching and scientific innovation teams and is a deputy-chair institution of the Ministry of Education’s Teaching Advisory Committee for Marine Science Programs.

Centered on talent cultivation and guided by social needs, the university develops versatile applied professionals with all-round moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic development, international perspectives and a marine spirit, humanistic literacy, awareness of cooperation and competition, innovative and entrepreneurial abilities and practical skills. In the two most recent rounds of teaching achievement awards, it received 1 national second prize, 5 provincial first prizes and 6 provincial second prizes. It has a national reform pilot project for the Excellent Agricultural and Forestry Talent Education and Training Program, a national experimental teaching demonstration center, a national off-campus practical education base for university students, a jointly developed National Natural Science Foundation field internship base, and China’s first island wilderness survival teaching experiment base. It is the only marine university with a jointly developed national demonstration base for innovative talent cultivation. Over the past 5 years, students have won 122 national and 3108 provincial or ministerial awards in subject competitions. They won gold awards in the national Challenge Cup entrepreneurship competitions in 2014 and 2016 and a special prize in the 14th Challenge Cup National College Students’ Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition in 2015. In 2016, a student society was selected among the top 100 in the national search for university student entrepreneurship societies. The university implements the National Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program. Its collected social-practice survey reports, Blue Reports, received an affirming letter from Xi Jinping, CPC Central Committee general secretary and then Zhejiang Party secretary. “Marine Culture” was selected among Zhejiang universities’ first campus culture brands. Outstanding alumni include Zhong Xingju, a nominee for Moving China 2010; Liu Lingyun, a Pride of Zhejiang honoree; Xu Fangcheng, a National Outstanding Individual in Employment and Entrepreneurship; Duan Zihao, a Chinese University Student Star of Self-Improvement; Li Binbin, one of Zhejiang’s Ten Best University Students; and Zhou Yun, a 2016 China Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award recipient. Graduate employment remains at least 95%.

Focusing on major national strategies and local economic and social needs, the university improves its research innovation system and strengthens research and innovation capabilities. Its achievements have received 10 awards including first, second and third prizes in the National Science and Technology Progress Awards and National Science Conference Awards. Over the past 5 years, it has undertaken 137 national projects under programs such as “973,” “863,” the Science and Technology Support Program and International Science and Technology Cooperation Program, and 372 provincial or ministerial projects. Annual research funding received averaged RMB 91.5341 million and exceeded RMB 125 million in 2015. It led the preparation of China’s first standards for sea-area benchmark price assessment, the Procedures for Determining Sea-Area Benchmark Prices and Specifications for Sea-Area Price Appraisal. It completed the world’s first whole-genome sequence map for a sciaenid fish, the large yellow croaker, and whole-genome maps for miiuy croaker and cuttlefish. One teacher has repeatedly appeared on China’s Highly Cited Researchers list. Since the 12th Five-Year Plan, it has made breakthroughs in natural sciences and the humanities, philosophy and social sciences. Projects it led received 2 second prizes in the National Science and Technology Progress Awards and 68 provincial or ministerial awards, including 17 first or special prizes. Its platforms include the National Engineering Technology Research Center for Marine Aquaculture Facilities, National-Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Discovery and Use of Marine Biological Germplasm Resources, National-Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Port-Area Oil and Natural Gas Storage and Transportation Technology, and 25 provincial or ministerial key laboratories, engineering laboratories, engineering technology research centers and collaborative innovation centers. It has 2 off-campus research bases, Xixuan Fisheries Science and Technology Island and Dongji Island Comprehensive Scientific Experiment Village, and 2 teaching and research vessels, Zhehaike No. 1 and Zheyuke No. 2. Zhehaike No. 1 is included in the national marine scientific research vessel fleet. It publishes the Journal of Zhejiang Ocean University, with natural science and humanities and social science editions, and hosts the Zhejiang branch of China Ocean Press. It hosts the Fisheries Culture Research Association of the China Society of Fisheries, Marine Resource Management Branch of the Pacific Society of China, Fisheries Resource Biology Branch of the Chinese Society for Oceanology and Limnology in preparation, Zhejiang Society of Marine Science and Technology, and Zhejiang Marine Culture Research Association.

Using social service as its vehicle, the university seeks an innovative, distinctive path for a local university to serve regional economic and social development and continually improves its overall service. It has established the China Marine Science and Technology Innovation and Talent Introduction Park and is preparing a National University Science Park. It has jointly developed scientific innovation service platforms with coastal Zhejiang government departments, enterprises and institutions, and major domestic research institutes and renowned universities. Its Marine Survey, Planning and Design Research Institute holds national metrology accreditation, Grade B sea-area use assessment authorization, Grade B fishing vessel design authorization, agricultural product quality and safety testing qualifications, Grade B fisheries pollution accident investigation and appraisal qualifications, Grade D surveying and mapping qualifications, and Zhejiang qualifications for sea-area appraisal and sea-area benchmark price determination. It offers continuing education for technical professionals and skills training in fisheries, petrochemicals, seafaring, international business English and teacher education. Its qualifications include a seafarer quality system, 27 seafarer training programs including first-class masters and chief engineers for unlimited voyages, first-level distant-water fishing crew training, petrochemical vocational skills appraisal and second-level International Business English Examination training. Training bodies include a National Fisheries Vessel Surveyor Training Base, Zhejiang Distant-Water Fisheries Training Center and Sinopec Sales Company’s Zhoushan Training Center. It is a National Marine Awareness Education Base and National Science Popularization Education Base.

The university actively advances educational internationalization and deepens exchanges with overseas universities and research institutions through diverse educational and research cooperation. Over the years, it has regularly held the China Zhejiang International Marine Science and Technology Forum series and initiated a marine science and education cooperation mechanism around the East China Sea involving China, Japan and South Korea. It has a Ministry of Science and Technology international cooperation base, teaching and research partnerships with over 50 overseas universities and research institutes, and 8 jointly developed international laboratories and research centers. It jointly trains doctoral students with institutions including the University of Pisa in Italy, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology in Japan and South Ural State University in Russia. It operates an undergraduate dual-bachelor’s program in naval architecture and ocean engineering with Saint Petersburg State Marine Technical University in Russia, and 3 dual-master’s programs with institutions including the University of Pisa. Marine science was among Zhejiang’s first internationalized undergraduate programs. It has the Zhejiang testing center for Russia’s Test of Russian as a Foreign Language system and an International Marine Education College. It is qualified to host Chinese Government Scholarship students and recruit undergraduate students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and is a Zhejiang university with distinctive internationalization.

The 21st century is the maritime century. Following the strategies of building a strong maritime nation and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road, the university addresses development needs in the Zhejiang Marine Economy Development Demonstration Zone, Zhejiang Zhoushan Archipelago New Area, Zhoushan Free Trade Port Area and Zhoushan River-Sea Intermodal Transport Service Center. Rooted in the East China Sea, serving China and reaching the world, its strategic task is to become a comprehensive ocean university with distinctive strengths and significant domestic and international influence. It will pursue distinctive development, collaborative innovation, international cooperation and comprehensive reform, improve university governance and vigorously implement innovation and entrepreneurship education. It will strengthen student competitiveness and teacher influence, striving to become a major national base for marine talent cultivation, a marine science and technology R&D platform, a marine high-tech incubator, a vehicle for introducing marine expertise, and a research center for marine humanities and social sciences.

(Updated December 2016)

Party Secretary: Liu Hongming

President: Yan Xiaojun

Address: 1 Haida South Road, Lincheng Subdistrict, Dinghai District, Zhoushan, Zhejiang

Postal code: 316022

Telephone: 0580-2550008, 2550009

Fax: 2551319, 8180632

Website: //www.zjou.edu.cn

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