Brief Introduction to Jining University
Jining University，founded in 1951 and formerly known as Jining Teacher’s College, was approved by the Ministry of Education to be a provincial full-time undergraduate institution of higher education in March, 2007. The main campus is located in Qufu, Shandong, China, a famous historical city in the world as well as the birthplace of Confucius，one of the greatest thinkers and educators in the world. On the South of Qufu lies the birthplace of Mencius, a great Saint in Chinese history and to the west is the Jing-hang Grand Canal, the longest one in the world. The profound Confucius’ and Mencius’ culture, together with the ancient Grand Canal culture has greatly promoted the development of Jining University.
For almost 70 years，Jining university has been taking root in this extraordinary cultural deposit, forming its unique characteristics with the school motto being “rich in knowledge, tenacious of purpose, kind in personality, conscientious in action”. It has produced a good many qualified graduates and made great contributions to the social development and economic construction.
At present, the university consists of 20 departments, including 73 majors, (20 undergraduate programs and 23 junior college programs), covering 9 academic disciplines: literature, history, law, education, economics, science, engineering, management, and art. It has formed a relatively successful pattern with a complete range of disciplines, reasonable structure, distinguishing features, harmonious development in art, science and engineering, and co-existence of teacher’s and non-teacher’s education.
The campus of Jining University covers an area of about 114 hectares and the total building area reaches about 554,900 square meters. The Library has a collection of more than 1.84 million volumes, more than 1200 Chinese and foreign journals, and 1.65 million e-journals. The instruments and equipments for teaching and research is worth more than130 million RMB. Currently, the university has 1165 faculty and staff members 79 professors and 326 associate professors. The number of full-time students is more than 20000.
The university has always adhered to reform and innovation, deepened internal reform, and now established a dynamic and efficient management system and operation mechanism. Persisting in the principle of people-first and moral education, the university has implemented moral education with Confucian culture as the main content and got remarkable achievement in moral education. It has always been open in running schools, attached great importance to foreign cooperation and exchanges, constantly enhanced the vitality of running schools, and now has established friendly relations with colleges and universities in the United States, Britain, Russia, , South Korea ,Thailand, Philippines and the like.
