About Ningbo City
Ningbo University is a dynamic, young and comprehensive university with a
wide range of disciplines: economics, law, education, liberal arts,
history, science, engineering, agronomy, medicine and management. It is
one of the key institutions of higher learning of Zhejiang Province.
Deng Xiaoping autographed the name of Ningbo University. Throughout its
establishment and development, the University has been upheld by
considerable donations and generous support from patriotic overseas
Chinese such as Sir Yue-kong Pao, Sir Run-run Shaw, Sir Chao An Chung,
Sir Hans Tang, Sir Yue-shu Pao, Sir Cao Guangbiao, Sir Li Dashan, Sir
Zhu Xiushan, as well as from personages of various circles in the
country. Mr. Cheng Gang, a standing member of Ningbo Municipal Committee
of CPC, is concurrently Secretary of the Ningbo University Committee of
CPC. Professor Nie Qiuhua holds the presidency of the university.
The University is located in the historical and cultural city of Ningbo
of Zhejiang Province, bordering on the East China Sea. Ningbo has long
been acclaimed as a thriving commercial port and a shining pearl near
the East Sea, and it has gradually grown to be a major city in the
Southern part of the Yangtze Delta and a key trading port in the East
China. The University has five campuses, covering an area of over 160
hectares, with a floor space totaling 560,000 square meters. The main
campus, adjacent to Ningzhen Road in the north and Yongjiang River in
the south, offers wide space for study and research with magnificent
buildings and pleasant lawns and greenery.
The University supplies a complete set of facilities and services for
teaching, and research. Its libraries now have a CNKI Network
Administrative Service Center, and a collection of approximately
1,400,000 books. The university consisting of 19 faculties and colleges
offers 65 bachelor programs and 56 master rograms. The number of its
full-time undergraduate students amounts to 23,000 with 700 in-residency
postgraduates. The number of the teaching and administrative staff
reaches 2,400 of which 1300 are teachers, with 6 academicians, 188 full
professors and 581 associate professors.
Ningbo University ranks among the first group of universities of China
to enroll students from China’s mainland and Hong Kong, Taiwan and
Macao. It offers mainly undergraduate programs, and simultaneously it
makes vigorous efforts to expand graduate programs, and also offers
doctoral degrees in cooperation with other universities. Pursuing the
tradition of "seeking truth from facts and applying knowledge to the
service of the nation" as its mission, the university aims to carry out
systems of credits, combination of major subjects with minor subjects
and flexible study programs, and to implement the course structure with
the first block of general education and the second block of specialty
study, to bring about quality students with broad adaptability, good
knowledge, and strong capacity.
The Libary The university is featured by its emphasis on the development of
academic disciplines. Centering on the local economic and social
development, the university has adjusted and optimized the structure of
disciplines, and this has resulted in its 13 provincial key academic
disciplines and key assisted academic disciplines, 11 municipal key
academic disciplines and key assisted academic disciplines, which bear
distinct regional characteristics. The university has also made great
advancements in scientific studies and social services. It has 2
provincial key laboratories, 12 municipal key laboratories, and 77
institutes. It has jointly established, with the local enterprises, 3
provincial and municipal engineering and technology centers. The
academic periodical of the university is the Journal of Ningbo
University, which consists of editions of Natural Science and
Engineering, Liberal Arts, and Education.
Ningbo University maintains close links and intercollegiate cooperation
with 47 well-known institutions of higher learning in Canada, Germany,
France, Britain, USA, Sweden, Japan, South Korea and Australia. The
success of the international exchanges can be exemplified by its
successful China-Canada joint-educational program and its other programs
for international students from Japan and other foreign countries. It
also has successful cooperation and exchanges with institutions of
higher learning and educational agencies in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Up to
now it has signed cooperative agreements with The Chinese Culture
University of Taiwan, Chaoyang University of Technology, Chihlee
Institute of Commerce, and Taiwan Marine University, etc
Facing the great historical opportunity of developing higher education,
Ningbo University, based on Ningbo and serving Zhejiang, is laying
greater emphasis on improving its quality, raising its level, and
heightening its status. The University is now endeavoring to become a
well-known university with both educational and academic excellence, not
only closely linked with the local economic and social development and
satisfying the demands of the age, but also contributing more to the
economic prosperity and social development of Zhejiang and the country
as a whole.
