Yancheng Institute of Technology is a full-time general undergraduate university in Jiangsu Province. It is located in Yancheng, an open coastal city known as the "East Wetland Capital, Hometown of Cranes and Elk". It has two campuses on Jianjun East Road and Hope Avenue.
The school was established in May 1996 by the merger of Yancheng Industrial College and Yancheng Vocational University. Yancheng Technical College (originally named Yancheng Institute of Technology) was founded in 1958, and in 1986 it became one of the three demonstration higher industrial colleges for building materials; Yancheng Vocational University was founded in 1985. In 2000, Yancheng Accounting School, founded in 1964, was merged into Yancheng Institute of Technology. In 2018, it was approved as a "Master's Degree Granting Unit".
For half a century, especially since the mid-1990s, Yancheng Institute of Technology has been adhering to the school motto of "Study and Moral", carrying forward the "Iron Army Spirit" of the New Fourth Army, and practicing "advocating science, being brave in innovation, daring to take responsibility, and pursuing excellence". The mainstream values of the campus, implement the development strategy of "establishing schools with quality, strengthening schools with talents, developing schools with scientific research, famous schools, and shaping schools", focusing on building materials industry and local economic and social construction, focusing on cultivating high-quality application-oriented senior professionals, and continuously improving The level of scientific research and scientific and technological services has formed a school-running pattern with a focus on engineering and coordinated development of science, engineering, literature, art, economics, management, and agriculture.
The school has 18 secondary colleges, 76 undergraduate majors, and recruits students from 30 provinces (cities and autonomous regions) across the country. There are currently more than 23,000 full-time undergraduate students and 735 graduate students. The school covers an area of 2,282 acres, with a school building area of 605,200 square meters, a total value of fixed assets of 2.237 billion yuan, and a total value of teaching and scientific research equipment of 343 million yuan. The library has a collection of more than 1.89 million volumes and 35 databases in Chinese and foreign languages. The social science edition of "Journal of Yancheng Institute of Technology" is an excellent social science journal in national colleges and universities and an extended journal of AMI Comprehensive Evaluation (Journal A).
The school has more than 1,600 faculty members and more than 1,300 full-time teachers, including more than 700 senior titles, more than 500 doctors, and 272 postgraduate tutors. There are 5 Changjiang Scholars specially-appointed experts, 28 specially-appointed professors, and more than 180 part-time professors. At present, there are more than 200 people including the recipients of special allowances from the State Council and the provincial and municipal governments, the provincial "333 Project", "Blue Project" and "Six Talent Peaks" training candidates, provincial teaching teachers, provincial and municipal experts with outstanding contributions, etc. 18 people.
The school has obtained an excellent grade in the evaluation of the level of undergraduate teaching work. It is a pilot university of the Ministry of Education’s “Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program” and a university that implements the national “13th Five-Year Plan” project for the integration of production and education. The school has 7 national-level first-class professional construction sites, 3 national-level characteristic professional construction sites, 1 undergraduate major comprehensive reform pilot, 4 Ministry of Education "Excellence Plan" pilot majors, 7 provincial key majors (categories), 10 There are 1 brand majors in Jiangsu universities, 5 first-class undergraduate majors in Jiangsu Province, 4 “Excellence Plan” majors in Jiangsu Province, and 6 majors have passed the China Engineering Education Professional Certification (assessment); 6 national-level first-class undergraduate courses, national-level 1 high-quality video open course, 2 national high-quality online open courses (golden courses); 1 national engineering practice education center, 1 national off-campus practice education base for college students, and 1 national university student science and technology entrepreneurship practice base. 1 provincial-level key industrial college construction site, 2 Jiangsu provincial talent training model innovation experimental bases, 11 provincial-level experimental teaching and practice education centers, 1 provincial-level college student innovation and entrepreneurship practice education center construction site, 1 Jiangsu Province college students Entrepreneurship Demonstration Base, 1 Jiangsu University Student Entrepreneurship Demonstration Park, and 1 Jiangsu University Student Employment and Entrepreneurship Guidance Station. The school has won the National Teaching Achievement Award and the Jiangsu Provincial Teaching Achievement Special Award. The student team has successively won the first prize of the "Challenge Cup" National College Students Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition, the first prize of Cross-Innovation, and won the "Challenge Cup" Chinese College Students Entrepreneurship Plan He won the gold medal in the national finals of the competition, the silver medal in the "Internet +" innovation and entrepreneurship competition, the first prize in the National Finals of the Mathematical Modeling Competition for College Students, the Mechanical Innovation Design Competition, and the National Finals of the Smart Car Competition, and the Red Dot Award, the world's highest award for industrial design. The school's "Voice of Dreams" chorus has won many awards in domestic and foreign competitions. In February 2011, it was invited to Vienna to participate in the "Golden Hall Celebration Concert for the 40th Anniversary of the Establishment of China-Austria Diplomatic Relations", and won the first, fourth and fifth national awards. The first prize of the college student art exhibition. Students have successively won honorary titles such as "Star of Self-improvement of Chinese College Students" and "National Outstanding Communist Youth League Member". The admission rate of graduates in 2021 is over 25%. The school has been commended for many times as the "advanced collective for the employment of college graduates" in Jiangsu Province.
The school actively adapts to the development needs of Jiangsu coastal development, local economic construction and building materials industry, and strengthens discipline construction and scientific research. Three disciplines of engineering science, materials science, and chemistry have entered the top 1% of the ESI ranking in the world, and the ESI comprehensive ranking ranks 263rd in the country's universities; it has 6 provincial key construction disciplines, 1 first-level discipline master's degree, and 1 master's degree. category. There are 8 school-level research institutes and 72 school-level research institutes (centers), 1 provincial-level "2011 Collaborative Innovation Center", 9 provincial-level key laboratories, 8 provincial-level engineering research centers, and 1 provincial-level Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation Demonstration Base, 1 Provincial Humanities and Social Sciences Extra-School Research Base, 1 Provincial Think Tank and 2 Municipal Key New-type Think Tanks, 1 Provincial Military-Civilian Integration Technology Innovation Platform, 1 National University Science Park , 1 national technology transfer demonstration institution. The school has a ministry-level scientific and technological novelty search station of the Ministry of Education.
In recent years, the school has been approved for 237 national-level projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Social Science Foundation of 2 prizes, 19 Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Awards, 4 Provincial Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Awards; published more than 3,900 articles in SCI, EI, etc.; 1,599 authorized invention patents, of which 162 were authorized in 2020 . According to the statistics of authoritative institutions, the number of patents transferred by the school has reached 604, ranking 22nd among national universities.
The school has successively established friendly and cooperative relations with more than 30 colleges and universities in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Poland, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine, Japan, South Korea, Lithuania, Malaysia and other countries and Taiwan, and carried out mutual recognition and joint credits. Cultivate inter-school exchange and scientific research cooperation projects such as master's degree. The school has held three Sino-foreign cooperative education projects approved by the Ministry of Education with the University of Greenwich in the United Kingdom and the University of Detroit in the United States.
The school party committee adheres to people-oriented, vigorously promotes party building, democratic school governance, harmonious campus and campus culture construction, takes the overall situation, and continuously strengthens the ability to lead scientific development. The school party committee was commended as the "Advanced Grass-roots Party Organization in Jiangsu Province", and the school has successively won the "National May 4th Red Flag Youth League Committee", "National Advanced Unit of Social Practice for College Students", "National Advanced College of Energy-saving Management in Colleges and Universities", "National Campus Water Saving and Safe Water Supply Wisdom" Management Model Demonstration School", "Jiangsu Civilized Unit", "Jiangsu Civilized School", "Jiangsu Province Advanced Collective of Ideological and Political Education in Colleges and Universities", "Jiangsu Civilized Campus", "Jiangsu Province Communist Youth League Work Advanced Unit", "Jiangsu Province College Harmonious Campus" "Jiangsu Safe Campus", "Jiangsu Safe Campus Demonstration University", "Jiangsu Province Advanced Unit for Informatization Construction of Colleges and Universities" and other honorary titles.
Standing at a new starting point, Yancheng Institute of Technology will bring together the wisdom and strength of all teachers and students in the school, adhere to the road of integrated development with the industry and the region, and deeply implement the "Quality-based school, talent-strengthening school, scientific research revitalization school, discipline famous school, and cultural shaping." School” strategy, comprehensively improve the quality of education, continuously enhance the overall strength, and strive to achieve “become an important base for the training of outstanding first-line engineers, an important source of technological innovation in the industry, an important support for coastal development and regional economic development, and accelerate the construction of high-level first-class application-oriented University" goal!
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