Liaoning Shihua University
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About LIAONING SHIHUA UNIVERSITY LIAONING SHIHUA UNIVERSITY was founded in 1950 in Dalian,Liaoning Province, which was the first petroleum school in China. In 1953,LIAONING SHIHUA UNIVERSITY moved to the city of Fushun, Liaoning Province. In March, 2002, under the ratification of the Ministry of Education, the name of the university was changed from Fushun Petroleum Institute into Liaoning University of Petroleum & ChemicalTechnology. It is a state-owned, non-profit making institution of higher education and the first of its kind across China. For the past 52 years since its foundation, LIAONING SHIHUA UNIVERSITY has fostered turned out more than 40,000 students for China’petrochemical industry. LIAONING SHIHUA UNIVERSITY covers an area of over 2000 mu, with the building area of 355.000 square meters, and possesses 758.000 volumes of books. The asset totals 0.32 billion yuan, with the teaching and researching instruments worth 70 million RMB. At present, LIAONING SHIHUA UNIVERSITY has 12.000 students of different levels (507 graduates, 7277 undergraduates). The working staff exceeds 1450, including 850 teachers. There are 412 professors, associate professors and other technical personnel with senior academic or technical titles,14 doctoral tutors, and 103 master tutors.15 teachers enjoy the State Council Special Allowance,1 teacher has been selected into the 1st、2nd level of talents of the National hundred-thousand-ten thousand talents project,2 teachers have been chosen as national outstanding teachers;11 have been selected into the 1st、2nd level of talents of provincial hundred-thousand-ten thousand talents project,32 teachers have been chosen as provincial or ministerial outstanding experts, disciplinary leaders and outstanding teachers;9 have been chosen as provincial and ministerial model workers. LIAONING SHIHUA UNIVERSITY has also engages over 200 part-time professors at home and abroad, including 10 academicians from the Academy of Science of China and the Academy of Engineering of China. The university has 10 majors which have the qualifications for conferring master's degrees, and 3 fields conferring master's degree of engineering. In the university, the on-job students can also apply for their master's degrees. The university has 29 undergraduate majors,10 of which are administered by the state,2 second degree majors and 19 junior degree majors. The university now has 11 schools and colleges: School of Petrochemical Technology, School of Mechanical Engineering, School of Information Engineering, School of Science, School of Foreign Studies, School of Humanities, School of Physical Education, Shunhua College, Vocational and Technical College and College of Adult Education. In addition, the university has 6 teaching and research centers: Analysis and Testing Research Center, Petrochemical Research and Development Center, Mechanical Research and Development Center, Industrial Control Research and Development Center, NEU(Northeastern University)-Alpine & LIAONING SHIHUA UNIVERSITY Research and Development Center, and Computer Center. Chemical Technology, Applied Chemistry and three other specialties are the key disciplines of provincial and ministerial level. The university has the qualifications for enrolling foreign students and sending students to study abroad. LIAONING SHIHUA UNIVERSITY enjoys favorable and high-level teaching and research conditions, with over 2,600 pieces of large or medium-sized advanced instruments and equipment. It also has a high-speed campus network which can be connected with over 2,000 work stations and more than 20 multimedia classrooms (seats totaling 5,900) with advanced apparatus. LIAONING SHIHUA UNIVERSITY attaches much importance to the reform of teaching and the improvement of the staff-training programs. In October, 2001, it obtained a good result in Random Quality Evaluation of Undergraduate Course Teaching as the first experimental unit. LIAONING SHIHUA UNIVERSITY is of comparatively high level in terms of scientific and research. In the year of 2000, 15 papers were published in "SCIE", ranking 117 in all the colleges and universities in China,23 in "EI", ranking 58,3 in "ISTP", ranking 124,and 175 in journals and magazines of statistics source in China, ranking 149. LIAONING SHIHUA UNIVERSITY has developed a good relationship with 12 foreign universities, including Edinburgh University, U.K. and Ufa University of Petroleum Technology, Russia. At present, LIAONING SHIHUA UNIVERSITY has developed into a multi- disciplinary university with petrochemistry as its distinctive feature, and Engineering, Science, Economics, Management, Literature, Law and Education as major subjects. On August 21,2001,Lilanqing, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau and vice Premier of the State Council, inspected LIAONING SHIHUA UNIVERSITY and expressed his positive comment on the styles of the administration of the university and the achievement made in the previous years. He also pointed out the direction to building a modern university in accordance with the needs of the twenty-first century. In the new century, LIAONING SHIHUA UNIVERSITY has set up its grand blueprint: by the end of the Tenth Five-Year Plan, LIAONING SHIHUA UNIVERSITY will be developed into a modern petroleum and chemical university, with its own strengths and features, high teaching and research level and competitive power, which has its foothold in Liaoning Province and keeps in view China, serving petroleum and petrochemical industries as well as the local economic and social development. |
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