Guangdong Ocean University (formerly known as Zhanjiang Ocean University), is a marine and aquatic disciplines as the characteristics of the coordinated development of science, engineering, agriculture, literature, economics, management, law, teaching and other disciplines; to undergraduate education, accelerate the development of postgraduate education; to the application of disciplines in the forefront, and also basic theoretical disciplines of the multidisciplinary marine university, is the key construction of universities in Guangdong Province. 2007 the school by the Ministry of Education for the evaluation of the level of undergraduate teaching work.
In 2007, the university was honored by the Ministry of Education as an excellent school for undergraduate teaching work level assessment.
The predecessor of the university is Guangdong Higher Fishery Vocational School, which was founded in 1935, and it is the beginning of modern marine fishery education in Guangdong, with a history of 73 years, cultivating more than 70,000 applied high-level specialists, and becoming an important force to promote the economic development of the South China Sea and economic and social development of endangered sea areas.
The school is divided into three campuses (excluding Cunjin College Campus): the main campus, Xiashan Campus, Seaside Campus. The main campus is located in the western suburbs of Zhanjiang City, next to the World Geopark-Huguangyan Scenic Spot, by the mountains, facing the sea, in a beautiful environment, is the ideal place to study and achieve success.
There are 18 secondary colleges, including College of Fisheries, College of Food Science and Technology, College of Agriculture, College of Engineering, College of Economics and Management, College of Navigation, College of Information Technology, College of Software, College of Science, College of Liberal Arts, College of Law, College of Chinese Song Art, College of Foreign Languages, College of Politics and Administration, College of Continuing Education, College of Vocational and Technical Studies, College of Physical Education and Recreation, and Inchcape College (independent college). There are 60 undergraduate majors, 29 higher vocational and post-secondary majors, 14 master's degree authorization points, 1 master's degree point of agricultural extension, 1 provincial key disciplines, 2 provincial key support disciplines, 2 Guangdong Province famous brand majors, and 1 Ministry of Education of Higher Education featured specialty construction site.
There are 18 scientific research institutes, including Guangdong Marine Development Research Center, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Biology and Epidemiology of Aquatic Economic Animals, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Deep Processing of Aquatic Products (Department of Education), Pearl Research Institute, Institute of Marine Economics, South China Sea Marine Environment Research Institute, and Marine Resources and Environment Monitoring Center.
The school is in good condition. The campus covers an area of 4,911 acres. It is equipped with basic teaching and living facilities such as teaching buildings, science and technology buildings, libraries, museums, student apartments, air-conditioned student canteens, as well as cultural squares, sports fields and standard swimming pools. The total building area of the school building reaches 636,000 square meters, the library has a collection of 1.76 million books, the value of teaching and research equipment is nearly 170 million yuan, and the value of fixed assets is about 1.36 billion yuan. The university has 63 teaching laboratories of various types, including 1 measuring and certifying institution accredited by the state, 7 provincial key laboratories, and 2 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers. There are 201 on- and off-campus internship bases, including the Aquatic Biology Museum. The Museum of Aquatic Biology displays nearly 3,000 kinds of specimens, which is the museum that preserves the most specimens of aquatic organisms among the colleges and universities in China.
The university has 1,031 teachers, including 95 professors, 269 associate professors, 116 doctors and 493 masters. Into the Guangdong Province, "thousands of hundred ten project" provincial training object 6, enjoying special government subsidies 13 people, won the "National Model Worker", "National Teacher Virtue Advanced Individual", "National Model Teacher", "National Outstanding Teacher" title ****7 people. Full-time students***18,318 (excluding Cunjin College), including 15,491 undergraduates, 2,410 specialists (senior vocational), 417 master's degree students; 9 international students; 11,000 adult higher education students. The university has gradually developed the school spirit of "diligence, truth-seeking, dedication and innovation" and the fine tradition of emphasizing applied research and science and technology promotion in its long-term practice of running schools.
The school adheres to the philosophy of "Strengthening the school with talents, establishing the school with quality, developing the school with academics, and promoting the school with characteristics" and the principle of "Combining the expansion of the scale with the improvement of the quality to improve the quality; combining the expansion of the extension with the enrichment of the connotation to enrich the connotation; combining the comprehensive development with the enhancement of the characteristics to strengthen the characteristics". To strengthen the characteristics of the main" of the school running ideas, through the optimization of academic structure, strengthen the professional construction, the implementation of quality education, the quality of teaching and learning steadily improved. School for more than 20 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government enrollment, teaching level and quality of training has been widely recognized by the community and fully affirmed, in recent years, the employment rate of undergraduate graduates are more than the average level of the province. 2004, in the "Challenge Cup" and other extracurricular scientific and technological and cultural, art and sports competitions, our students **** won five international awards. ***In all kinds of extracurricular scientific, technological, cultural, artistic and sports competitions since 2004, our students have won 5 international awards, 84 national awards, and 754 provincial and ministerial awards. 2006 and 2007, our students were invited to participate in the performances of the 5th anniversary of the founding of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the 10th anniversary of the return of Hong Kong to the world, which were highly praised by the Ministry of Culture and the General Department of the Political Department of the People's Liberation Army.
Scientific research has made great progress, and the academic level is constantly improving. In the past three years, the school undertook all kinds of scientific research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation, the national "863" program, the national science and technology support projects, including 810 projects, including 37 national projects, provincial and ministerial level projects 115 projects, the total funding for scientific research 73 million yuan; access to all levels of various types of scientific research awards, including provincial and ministerial level 53, of which 15, "South China" and "South China". 15, "South China shrimp industry efficient technology" project won the 2006 Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Award, "Gulf of Mexico scallop aquaculture technology research and promotion" project won the 2006 National Marine Science and Technology Innovation Achievement Award Second Prize. Shrimp seedling breeding and aquaculture, seedling breeding and aquaculture of marine valuable fish, marine fish disease prevention and control, pearl mussel breeding and pearl technology, aquatic products processing and storage technology, marine drug development, hybrid rice breeding and other technologies have reached the international and domestic advanced level. In the fish, shrimp, pearls and other aspects of a large number of scientific research results have been widely popularized and applied, and vigorously promote the development of aquaculture in the south of China, only Zhanjiang region's production of seawater pearls accounted for two-thirds of the country, shrimp production accounted for one-sixth of the country. School of independent research and development of new hybrid rice varieties "Bo Ⅱ excellent 15" in Guangdong, Gui, Qiong three provinces and regions in the promotion of the cumulative area of more than 7 million mu. The Journal of Guangdong Ocean University, organized by the university, is a core journal of science and technology in China.
The university's many successful practices in joint education have attracted widespread attention both inside and outside the province. It has jointly founded the "Guangdong Ocean University Chinese Song Art College" with the National Song and Dance Troupe, and the "Guangdong Ocean University WTO Research Center" with the China World Trade Organization Research Institute of the University of International Business and Economics, the former of which has been recognized by Professor Zhou Yuanqing, the president of the National Society of Higher Education and the former vice minister of education. The former was hailed as an innovation in higher education by Prof. Zhou Yuanqing, president of the National Society of Higher Education and former vice minister of education.
The university has carried out extensive external academic exchanges and cooperation, and has signed a joint school agreement with Ocean University of China and Ocean University of Taiwan, the other two oceanographic universities on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. With the United States, Japan, Australia and other countries, as well as Hong Kong, Taiwan and other regions of the relevant universities and research institutions to establish a good academic exchanges and cooperation. A number of famous scholars at home and abroad have been employed as honorary professors, part-time professors and visiting professors.
The 21st century is the century of the ocean, and China's future development will certainly rely more on the ocean. The South China Sea accounts for more than two-thirds of China's marine land area, marine resources are extremely rich, the strategic position is very important, is China's 21st century, the most important resource replacement, is the Chinese nation to participate in the international economic competition is one of the most important strategic high ground. Guangdong Ocean University, as the only ocean university on the coast of the South China Sea, shoulders the historical mission of cultivating high-level marine science and technology talents, promoting marine science and technology innovation, and serving the development and utilization of resources in the South China Sea, is grasping the opportunity of the Ocean Century, continuing to emancipate the mind, deepen the reform, strengthen the management, and pioneering innovations, in order to build the school into a university of distinctive characteristics of marine and aquatic disciplines, with higher level of advantageous disciplines, and in line with the China's marine cause and Guangdong's economic and social development in line with the multidisciplinary marine university at home and abroad have a certain status and influence and strive.