Founded in 1958, Shaoyang University is a “Double First-Class” high-level application characteristic university of Hunan province with enrollment qualifications for Master’s degree graduates. It is situated in Shaoyang city of Hunan province, a national sanitary city and famous cultural city in the southwestern part of Hunan. This fertile land with rich humanistic connotations has nurtured Wei Yuan, the thinker who “first looked out into the world”, Cai E, the democratic revolutionist who “rebuilt the republic”, Lv Zhenyu, the outstanding Marxist historian, and He Lvting, the People’s Musician who pursued both professional excellence and moral integrity and so on. It is an important birthplace of Hunan culture, and it also boasts splendid intangible cultural heritages, including Baoqing Bamboo Engraving, Shaoyang Puppet Show, Tantou New Year Paintings and Huayao cross-stitch work and so on, well-known both at home and abroad.
The university now has four campuses, respectively in Qili Ping, Lizi Yuan, Xihu and Jiangbei, covering a total area of 1631 thousand square meters. And its school buildings occupy an area of 924.1 thousand square meters. The fixed assets are 1.42 billion yuan, the original value of teaching and scientific research equipment is 291 million yuan, and the collection of books are more than 2,370,300 volumes, including 780,000 e-books, 1,471 Chinese and foreign paper newspapers and periodicals, and 40 databases of various types. The school has 23 teaching colleges, and has the “serving national special needs talent training project” category of professional Master’s degree in mechanics, biology and medicine; 53 undergraduate majors, covering 11 general disciplines such as economics, laws, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agronomy, medicine, management, and arts; recruiting students from 30 provinces (cities and autonomous regions), with 27,552 full-time students.
It has a staff of 3947——204 professors, 753 associate professors,127 with the qualifications of supervising Master’s students and 452 with Doctor’s degree. The university boasts 58 experts, including experts enjoying special government allowances from the State Council, national outstanding teachers, national university ideological and political theory teaching experts, experts enjoying provincial government special allowance, Furong scholars, experts in provincial “Program of One Hundred Talents ” , provincial teaching teachers, and provincial “121 Talent Project” experts, and many foreign teachers are hired throughout the year.
The university is active in international exchanges and cooperation, and has established various forms of cooperation and exchange relationships with universities of the United Kingdom, the United States, Malaysia and other countries. It has two joint programs approved by the Ministry of Education. Since 2015, the university has begun to recruit international students. There are now international students from Asia, Europe, Africa and other regions.
