Guangxi University

Guangxi University is a famous university in southern China. It is also a university with the longest history, the largest scale and the strongest comprehensive strength in Guangxi, and one of the top 100 universities in China.

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Historical evolution

Guangxi has higher education, starting from the sports school founded by Governor Huang huaisen outside Wenchang gate in 1899. However, the modern universities with real significance in Guangxi started from Guangxi University.

Bagui University

Guangxi Provincial University (Wuzhou, 1928)

In 1925 (the fourteenth year of the Republic of China), the New Guangxi school headed by Li Zongren and Huang Shaohong unified Guangxi and decided to set up Guangxi University in order to cultivate talents in Guangxi.

In the winter of 1927, Huang Shaohong, chairman of Guangxi Province, invited Ma Junwu, a doctor of engineering studying in Germany, a native of Guangxi Province, to return to Guangxi to organize Guangxi University, and formally established the Preparatory Committee of Guangxi University. Huang Shaohong himself served as the chairman.

At the beginning of 1928, the infrastructure construction of Guangxi University began, which lasted for half a year. The local government held a grand opening ceremony, and Ma Junwu was employed as the first president. At the beginning of taking office, he put forward the tenet of "rejuvenating China and developing Guangxi" to Guangxi University. At that time, there were very few senior high school graduates in Guangxi, so the first time Guangxi university enrolled preparatory students. Although he is a preparatory course, Ma Junwu has hired 13 professors from Shanghai and other places to teach in the University. The school is located in butterfly mountain, Hexi District, Wuzhou City, which is the first of higher education in Guangxi.

In June 1929, the school was closed because of the Guangdong Guangxi war.

In May 1931, Guangxi decided to resume Guangxi University and began to recruit students in July of the same year.

 

Education in Guangxi Province

National Guangxi University (Guilin, 1939)

In 1936, due to the prediction of the outbreak of the comprehensive anti Japanese War, the Guangxi provincial government moved Guangxi University from Wuzhou Dieshan to Guilin Yanshan, and established the Provincial Normal College as the College of grammar and law of Guangxi University. Guangxi University expanded from three colleges of science, engineering and agriculture to five colleges of science, engineering, agriculture, medicine and grammar. The scale and discipline connotation of the college were greatly expanded. Two years after the beginning of the comprehensive anti Japanese War, many young people from other provinces went into exile in Guilin. The source of students and teachers of Guangxi University expanded rapidly. Its original provincial nature could not accommodate the development of Guangxi University.

 

 

In 1937, Guangxi military medical school, the predecessor of Guangxi Medical University, was established.

On August 22, 1939, the 420th session of the executive yuan of the national government passed a resolution to change the provincial Guangxi University into the national Guangxi University from the second semester of this year. On September 5, the Ministry of Education issued the "measures for changing Guangxi provincial university into the national Guangxi University", and appointed Ma Junwu as the president of the national Guangxi University. On October 10, Guangxi University held a national and welcoming ceremony for President Ma Leaders of Guangxi military administration and education administration such as Ren, Huang xuchu and Lei Peihong attended the meeting.

 

On August 1, 1942, Guangxi provincial Guilin Normal University was upgraded to national Guilin Normal University. During the Anti Japanese War, there were 38 national universities and colleges. Guangxi University and Guilin Normal University were among them.

In the summer of 1944, the Japanese invaders invaded the south, Changsha and Hengyang were occupied one after another, Guangxi was in urgent need, and Xida had a holiday to evacuate in advance. In September, the school moved to Rongxian. In November, Liuzhou entered a state of war, and the school moved to Rongjiang, Guizhou.

In September 1945, Japanese fascists surrendered, and Guangxi University moved back to Guangxi from Rongjiang, Guizhou Province, temporarily living in Zhegu River, Liuzhou.

In the spring of 1946, the students launched the "back to Wu movement" and moved back to Wuzhou butterfly mountain. In September, he moved back to Guilin, and the school headquarters was located in jiangjunqiao. After returning to Guilin, Guangxi University ran schools in jiangjunqiao central radio equipment factory and Liangfeng, with a campus area of more than 5000 mu. By 1948, there were 261 staff and more than 2000 students.

On March 16, 1950, the people's Government of Guangxi Province made a decision in February to merge the national Nanning Normal University into Guangxi University. A total of 358 teachers and students from the seven departments of education, Chinese, history and geography, English, mathematics, physics and chemistry, and natural history of Nanning Normal University moved from Nanning to Guilin, merged into Guangxi University, and established the normal college of Guangxi University.

In March 1951, the people's Government of Guangxi Province, in accordance with the spirit of the national higher education conference held by the central Ministry of education and with the approval of the Central South Bureau of the Communist Party of China, decided to merge the undergraduate part of Guangxi Xijiang University into Guangxi University.

In early 1952, Chairman Mao Zedong wrote the name of Guangxi University. On October 23 of the same year, the two departments of Agronomy and forestry of Guangxi Agricultural University established Guangxi Agricultural University independently.

In 1953, the Ministry of higher education of the Central People's government decided to abolish Guangxi University and adjust all its faculties and departments. During the adjustment of colleges and departments, Guangxi University was suspended, and teachers and students, equipment and books and materials were transferred to 19 universities in central and South China.

On October 17, 1953, a total of 53 teachers and 258 normal college students from the departments of Chinese, foreign languages, history and geography, mathematics, physics, chemistry and education in the College of culture and education and the College of science of Guangxi University were incorporated into Guangxi Normal University (now Guangxi Normal University). Among them, the mechanical engineering department and electrical engineering department (electric power part) with the earliest and strongest teachers were merged into Huazhong University of Technology (now Huazhong University of science and Technology), the electrical engineering department (part) and chemical engineering department were merged into South China Institute of Technology (now South China University of Technology), the civil engineering department with a long history was merged into South China Institute of Civil Engineering (now Hunan University), the mining and metallurgy department was merged into South China Institute of mining and Metallurgy (now Central South University), and the agriculture and metallurgy department was merged into South China University The college is merged into Huazhong Agricultural College (now Huazhong Agricultural University), South China Agricultural College (now South China Agricultural University) and Jiangxi Agricultural College (now Jiangxi Agricultural University).

 

The main body of national Guangxi University is divided into Guangxi Normal University (now Guangxi Normal University) and Guangxi Agricultural University (later merged into Guangxi University).

 

Rebuilding the West University

Guangxi University

In February 1958, Guangxi Agricultural University moved from Guilin to Nanning. In the same year, the Central People's Government approved the restoration and reconstruction of Guangxi University in Nanning.

 

In 1961, Guangxi Institute of technology and Guangxi Institute of science and technology were merged into Guangxi University.

In 1962, Guangxi Forestry University was incorporated into Guangxi Agricultural University.

 

In 1978, the University was awarded the master's degree authorization unit and the first batch of four master's degree programs.

In 1992, Guangxi Agricultural University was renamed Guangxi Agricultural University.

In March 1997, the Ministry of Education approved the merger of the former Guangxi University and the former Guangxi Agricultural University to form a new Guangxi University.

In 1998, the University was approved as a doctoral degree authorization unit, and the first batch of three doctoral degree programs.

In 1999, the school was approved to enter the national "211 Project" project construction school ranks.

In 2001, the University was identified as the counterpart of South China University of technology to support Guangxi University.

 

In 2004, the University was approved as a University jointly built by the Ministry of education and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

 

In 2006, the University was selected as the National College Students' cultural quality education base.

 

In September 2011, the school was selected into the second batch of "excellent engineer education and training plan" of the Ministry of education.

In November 2012, the school was selected into the first batch of "excellent legal talents education and training plan" of the Ministry of education.

 

In the same year, the University was identified as one of the 14 key universities in the "comprehensive strength improvement project of universities in central and Western China".

In July 2013, the University established the "Midwest University Alliance".

In September 2014, the school was selected into the first batch of "excellent agriculture and forestry talents education and training plan" by the Ministry of education.

 

In June 2015, it was rated as a national university with typical employment experience by the Ministry of education.

 

In January 2017, it was recognized by the Ministry of education as one of the first batch of national demonstration universities to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education. In September, the University was selected into the list of national "double first-class" and world-class discipline construction universities.

 

In March 2018, the Ministry of education and the people's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region signed the "agreement of the Ministry of education and the people's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on the" ministry region joint construction "of Guangxi University; in the same month, the first project of the University was selected into the first batch of national new engineering research and practice projects of the Ministry of education. In May, the University was selected as the first-class discipline construction university in Guangxi.

 

In February 2019, the people's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region decided to focus on supporting Guangxi University and other universities to build first-class universities of the same kind in China.

 

academic research

Construction achievements

Research project funds

In 2016, Guangxi University obtained a total of 1171 scientific research projects, with contract funds of 232.48 million yuan and school funds of 225.32 million yuan; 113 national self science fund projects, with direct funds of 43.729 million yuan; 18 national social science fund projects, including one major project; 10 humanities and social science research projects of the Ministry of education, including one major project; and one university demonstration of Marxism One construction project of the college and excellent teaching and research team.

 

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