Nanchang Institute of Technology is a private ordinary undergraduate (second-tier) college approved by the Ministry of Education, which was founded in May 1999; In April 2001, it was upgraded to a higher vocational college with the approval of the People's Government of Jiangxi Province, which was named Jiangxi Aerospace Science and Technology Vocational College; In May 2005, approved by the Ministry of Education, it was upgraded to the first batch of private undergraduate universities in Jiangxi Province and named Nanchang Institute of Technology(NIT). Nanchang Institute of Technology was conferred by the State Ministry of Education and entitled the academic degree granting authority ratified by Jiangxi Academic Degree Committee to confer Bachelor’s degree in April 2009. NIT was the first batch of private colleges and universities in Jiangxi Province which successfully passed the qualification evaluation of undergraduate teaching at one time by the State Ministry of Education in 2012. The expert group unanimously commented that Nanchang Institute of Technology is an outstanding leader of private education. NIT has signed the contract of joint training of postgraduate students with East China Jiaotong University in April 2015, which has been formally carried out recently. In April 2017, it was listed by the Academic Degrees Committee of the People's Government of Jiangxi Province as an authorized Master Degree construction unit of the “13th Five Year Plan”; In February 2018, it was named by the Ministry of Education as a characteristic school of national defense education; In November 2018, it successfully passed the review and evaluation of undergraduate teaching by the Ministry of Education. The expert group agreed that Nanchang Institute of Technology is a national demonstration private university with distinctive national defense education characteristics and remarkable achievements in educating people with military spirit. In 2021, it was listed by the Academic Degrees Committee of Jiangxi Provincial People's Government as the authorized Master Degree construction unit of the “Fourteenth Five Year Plan”.
NIT is located in Hero City, Nanchang, Jiangxi province. adhering to the school motto “Science, Objectivity, Virtue and Innovation” with the mission of “ Hangtian scientific education, Revitalizing the Chinese nation”. Based in Jiangxi, NIT cultivates high-quality and innovative talents for national economic and social development by facing the world, focusing on the development of social industrial structure and paying attention to the demand for social talents.
Its campus occupies a total area of more than 3000 mu, more than 900,000 square meters of which are the building area. NIT has 19 colleges, including College of Computer Information Engineering, College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, College of Electronics and Information, College of Aerospace and Aeronautics, College of Architectural Engineering, College of New Energy and Environmental Engineering, College of Business Administration, College of Finance and Economics, College of Humanities Education, College of Foreign Languages, College of Music, College of Fine Arts and Design, College of Media, College of Physical Education, College of Law, College of Medicine, College of International Exchange, College of Continuing Education, College of Marxism. The number of full-time students is 31,000.
The total assets of the university amount to $3.2 billion, of which the total value of teaching and research equipment is $197 million. It has 1 national vocational education training base, 3 provincial experimental demonstration teaching centers, 244 (263) laboratories and 255 (365) practice and training bases. The total area of the university library is 53,000 square meters, including 30,000 square meters of graphic information center, 5,426 (5,757) reading seats, 3,050,000 books and documents, and 190 (1,901,125) electronic books, 16 various kinds of Chinese and foreign databases, such as Cnki, Super Star, Wanfang, Emerald, etc, which is rich in books and digital resources.
Scientific planning of disciplinary layout, highlighting the characteristic development. Setting “ Reinvigorating Gan through science and education and strengthening Jiangxi through science and technology" as the goal, Nit actively docks and serves areas of economic and social development, builds a service system of disciplines of local economic and social development, with the existing 69 undergraduate majors, covering eight disciplines: engineering, science, literature, economics, management, law, education, art and so on. In order to displace development and actively cultivate new disciplinary and professional growth points, NIT has applied for aviation majors such as helicopter piloting technology, flight technology and aerospace engineering. The flight technology major has been rated as provincial first-class specialty of characteristic construction. In order to develop its features, the university has actively applied for a number of emerging majors, such as new engineering majors such as intelligent manufacturing engineering, robotics engineering, data science and big data technology, and Internet of Things Engineering; new business majors such as financial technology and financial engineering, and new medical majors such as nursing and rehabilitation therapy. At present, NIT has formed five major clusters of disciplines with comparative advantages, which support the development of the new-generation information technology industry, the advanced manufacturing and aviation industries, the modern service industry, the cultural and creative industries, and the industries of energy conservation and environmental protection, new energy and new materials. School professional construction has achieved effective results. Two disciplines, New energy science and engineering and Military law, were listed as “the twelfth five-year plan” key disciplines of Jiangxi province. There are 1 national-level featured specialty, 6 provincial characteristic specialties, nearly 100 co-operative education project of the Ministry of Education, 3 provincial outstanding engineers training plans, 3 provincial professional comprehensive reform pilot projects, 2 provincial talent training mode innovation experimental areas, and 15 provincial excellent courses (excellent resource-sharing courses).
Focusing on education and teaching reform, strengthening the quality of training. In order to deepen the reform of education and teaching, the school adheres to the principle of coordinated development of knowledge, ability and quality, and strengthens the cultivation of professional application skills on the basis of attaching importance to knowledge imparting. The training program of “3 platforms + interface” was constructed, and the “four real” practical teaching system: “curriculum experiment + concentrated vocational skills training in each semester + teaching practice + second classroom practice” was designed, a “principal in charge, vice principal in charge, three-line monitoring, multi-point support, quality assurance system implemented at the grass-roots level” and “ three-line quality control system separated from management, supervision and evaluation” have been formed. In the past 6 years, students have won 3,200 prizes in the national and provincial Mathematical Modeling contests, Electronic Design Contests, Challenge Cup National Undergraduate Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition and other competitions. In 2021, there were a total of 1003 prizes, including 9 first prizes, 11 second prizes and 32 third prizes at the international level. 4 grand prizes, 125 first prizes, 261 second prizes, 569 third prizes at national level. In the World Space Model Championship, our teachers and students won four gold, one silver and four bronze medals on behalf of the Chinese team, especially in the rocket altitude record and recovery events, by defeating Russian and American team to win the championship. Thanks to the solid basic knowledge of the students in our school, beginning ability and adaptiveness, high engagement in the jobs and accordance with the major degree, our students are well received by employment unit.Every year our school graduate employment rate is higher than the entire provincial average level of employment. For five consecutive years, NIT was named as an advanced unit"the Jiangxi provincial ordinary university graduate employment work. Over the past 20 years, our school has cultivated more than 198,000 outstanding graduates for the society, some of whom have worked in military units and enterprises such as China Aerospace Science and Industry, Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, China Astronaut Training Center and Huawei Group. The school has also trained a large number of outstanding entrepreneurs with assets of over 100 million yuan, such as Yong Zhijun, chairman of Jiangxi Zhonglian Energy Development Co., LTD., Zhang Yi, chairman of Shanghai Income Asset Management Co., LTD., and Huang Pingxin, chairman of Virgin Angel Group. In recent years, the school has formed a pleasing situation of "prosperous imports, smooth exports and guaranteed intermediate quality".
Vigorously implementing the talent project, highlighting the strategy of strengthening the school. Combining school strategic development target, NIT puts forward the project of talent plan to strengthen the construction of teaching staff in a phased manner, preliminary builds a faculty team of adequate quantity, reasonable structure, good quality, strong teaching and scientific research ability which can meet the needs of the school development, and provide a strong protection for personnel training and scientific research. NIT has nearly 1,600 full-time teachers, of whom 82% have master's degree or above. Teachers with senior professional titles account for more than 33% of full-time teachers. Among the full-time teachers of the university, 10 are granted special allowance by The State Council, 2 experts of the provincial New Century Million Talents Project, 1 expert of the provincial Jiangxi Poyang 555 Project, 2 young and middle-aged academic leaders in colleges and universities, 19 young and middle-aged backbone teachers in the province, and 2 provincial teaching teams. Ouyang Ziyuan, chief scientist of China's Lunar Exploration Program and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is appointed as the honorary president of the University, and Academician Wang Zikun of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is appointed as the honorary director of the Academic Committee of the University.
Nanchang Institute of Technology adheres to the philosophy of governing the university by experts, and education by experts. There are 8 doctors and 11 professors among the school leaders. The current Secretary of the Party Committee and supervisor, Professor Xu Jinan, Doctor, is a doctoral supervisor of Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics; The current president, Professor Fan Yanbin, Doctor, was the former Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Vice President of Foshan University of Science and Technology. He is one of the experts in undergraduate teaching qualification assessment board of the Ministry of Education, and an expert in the examination and evaluation of undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education. Leaders of each major all have senior titles, with more than 20 years of teaching management experience and excellent teaching experience. At the same time, we also hire a group of double-qualified teachers from industries and enterprises with practical experience and strong practical ability to teach in our school, which lays a good foundation for our school to cultivate innovative application talents.
Building platforms for connecting scientific research and industries and enhancing the commercialization of achievements. In recent years, NIT has built a number of high-level platforms for scientific research and innovation, which helps achieved rapid improvement of scientific research level, obvious enhancement of scientific research capacity, effective transformation of scientific research results, and continuous improvement of local service ability.
The school attaches great importance to the teaching scientific research platform construction, now a group of high level scientific research innovation platform has been established, including 1 provincial key laboratory (Jiangxi solar photovoltaic materials key laboratory), 1 culture and art science and provincial key research base (Jiangxi GanJu music research center), 1 popular science education base at the provincial level, 1 municipal research base of humanities and social science, 20 university-level research institutes. In particular, the Key Laboratory of Solar Photovoltaic Materials of Jiangxi Province is awarded the honorary title of "Top Ten Provincial Key Laboratory of Jiangxi Province" through expert conference defense and field inspection and acceptance organized by the Provincial Science and Technology Department, which is a zero breakthrough for the private universities in the province.
In recent years, the university's scientific research capability has been significantly improved. It has been awarded 2 projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation, 4 projects supported by the National Social Science Foundation, 1 national major research, compilation and publication project, and nearly 100 industry-university cooperative education projects approved by the Ministry of Education. 1 long-term talent project of "Double Thousand Plan" in Jiangxi Province. There are three second prizes of Jiangxi provincial scientific and technological progress, 2 first prizes and second prize of outstanding teaching achievement, 1 second prize of the provincial education science outstanding achievement award, 2 social sciences publication prizes, one second prize, 1 third prize, more than 60 scientific research achievement awards at or above the provincial level, more than 680 provincial project, more than 500 national patents.The faculty has published 580 monographs and textbooks, and 9,480 academic papers, including 656 in Chinese, 412 of which have been included by SCI, EI, ISTP and CSSCI. In 2019, the popular science work of Chang 'e Surveying the Sky to See China, co-edited by Professor Qiu Xiaolin and Zhang Chuanjun, won the second prize of Jiangxi Province Science and Technology Progress Award, which is the only private university in Jiangxi Province that won the second prize of Jiangxi Province Science and Technology Progress Award. The ante-narrative on bronze wares and the Chinese narrative tradition, which was declared by President Fu Xiuyan, won the first prize of Jiangxi Provincial Social Science Excellent Achievement Award, and was the only private university in the province to win the first prize.
NIT attaches great importance to the transformation of scientific research achievements and patents, and has built a library of intellectual property rights and technical achievements of more than 50 cutting-edge science and technology projects, focusing closely on key industries such as electronic information, new energy, new energy automobile engineering, intelligent robotics and aerospace food. The communication, audio and video systems developed by our university have been awarded the designated procurement of military products by the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and become the preferred brand for various military types and supporting products for aerospace systems and other projects. The graphene conductive agent paste for high performance lithium-ion batteries researched by our university has been awarded the “Thousand Talents Plan” innovation project by high-level talents of Jiangxi Province. Talent long-term project, after the completion of this project, will promote the application value of graphene in the field of national defense. Independent research and development of industrial robots and other intelligent platforms and equipment, has achieved the transformation of results; research and development of photovoltaic power station adjustable bracket system design and development, photovoltaic power station circuit intelligent detection equipment, photovoltaic power station detection leakage equipment development, cleanable windproof intelligent bracket system design and development of solar power station equipment relevant devices have been transformed, and our scientific research achievements and patents have been continuously transformed into productivity, making due contribution to regional economic and social development.
The founders of the school, Qiu Xiaolin and Yang Xiuying, two professors who are passionate about education, take up the responsibility for the country, devote themselves to running the school, and both are far-sighted and profound in their thinking, leading the whole school staff to work together to create the splendor of private colleges and universities, making due contribution to the development of local economic construction. The achievements of the school were highly praised by the central and provincial leaders and affirmed by the society. Li Weihong, the then vice minister of national education, visited the school and praised the school for its right direction, correct purpose, clear thinking, good concept, strong characteristics and good leader. Zhu Hong, former vice governor of Jiangxi Province in charge of education, visited the school and praised the school for having a good legal entity, a good philosophy, a good faculty and a good leadership team. The school has developed well and healthily, cultivating a large number of applied talents with strong practical and hands-on ability for the economic and social development of Jiangxi, creating a good and fresh experience for the development of higher education, which is worthy of promotion. Chen Zhili, former vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, visited the school and praised the school as “magical and beautiful, with great characteristics”, giving full recognition to the achievements of the school.
Under the care, help and support of Jiangxi Provincial Education Committee and Provincial Education Department, the school always adheres to the direction of socialism, insists on moral education, never forgetting the original intention, carries forward the manned space spirit of “ being especially able to bear hardships, being especially able to fight, being especially able to tackle problems, being especially able to dedicate”, constantly strengthens the internal construction, keeps in mind the Party's education policy and the mission of "running a good education to the satisfaction of the people". The mission of "providing education to the satisfaction of the people" is to cultivate a new generation with all-round development of moral, intellectual, physical, social and aesthetic skills. All teachers and students of Nanchang Institute of Technology will continue to forge ahead and strive to build Nanchang Institute of Technology into a private university with obvious characteristics and high level, which is first-class in China and internationally famous.
