Nanchang University

The main university has 4240 staff in established posts, including 3 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 2 of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 2 members of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee’s discipline evaluation groups, 2 national teaching teams and 4 virtual teaching and research office pilots. In recent years, distinguished collectives have included the National Engineering Research Center for Silicon-Based LEDs, named a National Advanced Collective in the Education System; the Engineering Mechanics Experimental Center, awarded National Worker Pioneer recognition; and the Food Science and Engineering Teacher Team, named a national Huang Danian-style university teacher team. Three individuals were named National Outstanding Communist Party Members, 2 National Advanced Individuals in Fighting COVID-19, 1 received nursing’s highest international honor, the Florence Nightingale Medal, 1 was named a National Model Teacher and 1 a National Model of Courageous Conduct. Dedicated educators include Jiang Fengyi, Xie Mingyong, Zhang Wei, Zhu Xingen, Zou Defeng and Hong Yijiang. Jiangxi Model Teacher Wang Yu and “doctoral supervisor mother” Shi Qiujie embodied through their lives the university teachers’ Four Loves: love for the Party and country, love for one’s work, love for the university as home, and love for students as children.

The main university has more than 36200 full-time undergraduates, including 994 international students, and over 18100 full-time postgraduate students, including 78 international students. It reforms talent development through a model for outstanding students featuring three systems, three transformations and three integrations; an applied talent model represented by excellent professional education; and a versatile talent model based on interdisciplinary integration. It has 4 national model courses integrating ideological and political education, 4 national distinguished teacher/team recognitions for such courses, and 1 special prize in the national university ideological and political theory teaching showcase. It received 1 National Outstanding Textbook Award in the inaugural national textbook development awards and 1 National Advanced Individual in Textbook Development honor. It is a National Civilized Campus. It has 8 Ministry of Education projects for comprehensive reform and quality improvement in university ideological and political work: 5 excellence projects, 1 distinguished university counselor studio, 1 research library project and 1 listing as a national demonstration one-stop student community. Three works were selected as outstanding examples in the ministry’s Respecting Outstanding Traditional Chinese Culture initiative. Its Party-building recognitions include 1 National Advanced Primary-Level Party Organization, 2 national benchmark schools or departments, 6 national model Party branches, 4 national Strengthening the Nation teams led by teacher Party branch secretaries who lead both Party-building and academic work, 2 of the national Hundred Model Postgraduate Party Branches, 3 of the national Hundred Model Postgraduate Party Members, and 1 national studio for such dual-leading teacher Party branch secretaries. One counselor was named among the nation’s Most Beautiful University Counselors. Since its founding, it has educated more than 590000 outstanding full-time and over 430000 part-time students, contributing to national and local economic and social development.

Centered on fostering virtue through education, the university firmly places talent development at the center, education and teaching at the foundation, and undergraduate teaching as a priority. Under the Ministry of Education’s Double Ten Thousand Plan, it has 59 national first-class undergraduate program development sites and 77 national first-class courses. Across three consecutive rounds, it received 8 second prizes in the National Teaching Achievement Awards. It has 5 Ministry of Education New Engineering research and practice projects, 3 New Agricultural Sciences research and reform practice projects and 5 New Liberal Arts research and reform practice projects. It is among the first national demonstration universities for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, hosts the Jiangxi main node of the China Education and Research Network (CERNET), and is Jiangxi’s only university participating in the China Next Generation Internet demonstration project, CNGI. It ranked 1st in the 2019-2023 national competition rankings for students at local undergraduate institutions, and 14th in both the 2019-2023 national regular university undergraduate competition rankings and the national Double First-Class university student competition rankings. It has won 32 gold medals across editions of the China International Internet+ University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, renamed the China International College Student Innovation Competition in 2023. One postgraduate student won a 2022 World Athletics Championships title, won gold and broke the event record at the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games, and won silver at the 2024 Paris Olympics, matching China’s best Olympic result in that event.