平顶山学院英文简介

A B r i e f I n t r o d u c t i o n t o P i n g d i n g s h a n U n i v e r s i t y

Pingdingshan University, founded in 1977, is a full-time comprehensive university of general higher education. It is located in Pingdingshan city, which enjoys the titles of “the industry base for China’s important energies and raw materials, one of China’s best tourism cities, emerging industrial city, China’s hometown to folk art forms, hometown to ru porcelain culture, and hometown to China’s magic”. Its campus, surrounded by mountains and water lies bes ide the Pingxi Lake, and is covered with trees and flowers. It boasts of an ideal university for study with a beautiful environment and convenient facilities.

It occupies an area of 329.5 acres with a floor space of 429,000 square meters. The gross asset value reaches RMB￥0.6625 billion with such multifunctional parts for teaching and scientific research, sports and residents life. The teaching instruments and apparatus of the university have a total value of RMB￥59,000,000. The library houses over 1,000,000 books, 1400 kind of periodicals both in Chinese and foreign languages. It boasts of the first IPv6 laboratory and the model campus of next generation’s internet construction in Henan Province. The campus network center is the junction center of Pingdingshan Network, a sub-network center of Henan Education and Research Network. Points of Information (POI) are scattered here and there in the university for teaching and scientific research and residents Life. The whole campus is being modernized and digitalized.

It boasts of a teaching staff of nearly 1,000, of which 471 teachers have the MA certificates or P.H.D certificates and 197 teachers are associate professors and senior engineers. More than 60 teachers have such an honor as the Special Allowances Expert from State of Council, the

Top Expert at Provincial Level, the Winner of Zeng Xian-zi Education Fund, the Top Teacher and Teaching Staff at the National Level, the trans-century Academic and Technological Leaders in Henan Province, and the Young and Middle-Aged Leading Teacher from Institutes of High Learning. More than 60 people, including academicians from the academies as well as famous experts or professors are employed as part-time professors or guest professors.

It consists of such nine disciplines as literature, science, technology, law, history, management, education, economics, and medicine. It boasts of such 18 schools as School of Literature, School of News and Media, School of Foreign Studies, School of Ma thematics and Information Science, School of Economy and Management, School of Information Technology, School of Normal Education, School of Politics and Law, School of International Education Communications, School of Art Design, School of Nursing, School of Environment and Geographic Science, School of Sports, School of Music, School of Further Education and such 4 teaching departments as Department of College English, Department of Political and Ideological Theory, Center for Modern Education and Technol ogy, Center for Network and Computation. It consists of 63 undergraduate majors, including junior college majors. The major of Ecology has been awarded the title of the Key Discipline at Provincial Level; Such 4 majors as Primary Education, Electrical Engineering and Automation, Resource Environment and Urban & Rural Planning Management, Art of Broadcasting and Hosting have been ensured as the Pilot Majors of Provincial Course; 6 courses of such majors as Literary History of Modern and Cotemporary Times, Psychology of Primary Education, Intonation of Chinese and Broadcasting Pronunciation have been awarded the title of the model courses; Ecological Geography, Regional Economics, Culturology and Applied Chemistry have