Research & Innovation Competence Continuously Growing
Since the merging of four universities in 1996, the university has got two national awards of teaching achievements, 41 provincial awards of teaching achievements and has undertaken eight state projects of teaching innovation as well as 11 provincial level projects concerning the same areas. From 1997 to 2011, the university undertook 718 research programs above department level, among them 231 programs are national(37 natural science research programs and 18 social science research programs)and 199 research programs at the provincial (123 natural science research programs and 76 social science research programs). There are a group of programs having nation-wide influence such as national 937 Project, the project of the State Natural Scientific Funds and the Projects of Excellent Youth Scientific Funds. Some of the Scientific Research Achievements take the lead in the nation or in the province. Up to now, 483 academic books and 6,542 essays have been published publicly. According to the statistics of the essays from universities and college provided by China Science and Technology Information Office, in the years of 1999, 2000 and 2001 the scientific essays collected in SCI (SCIE) rank as No.49,No.44 and No.62.According to the Rank on the Internet given by the book of The Evaluation of the Universities in China, our university ranks within the first 100 universities. By the rank announced in 2003, our university ranks as No.90 among all the universities in China.No.9 Normal Universities in China and is No.4 among over 30 provincial Normal Universities.
Since the year of 2002, the annually funds for research has rapidly increased from ￥6 millions to ￥42.29 millions in 2008. There are 143 newly-undertaken state research projects, including 112 natural science programs and 31 social science programs. The university has undertook some state key research programs with significance, for example, programs of National “973” Plan, State “863” Plan, Plans, key programs and special programs, for example, key programs on transferring agricultural research into technology and transgenic industry development program sponsored by National Science Foundation, Key Program of Pre-study Plans of State Science and Technology Ministry, Key programs of National Social Science Foundation and The state key project of Qing-dynasty History and so on. Some of the achievements produced from these programs, which published in Science、The Plant Cell、Inventions, Mathematical、Advances in Mathematics, Astrophysical Journal are first-level both home and abroad.
Taking the advantage of basic theory studies, the university starts putting more emphases on applied science studies, such as medicine intermediate development, the new-type of wheat, the industrialization of ultrafine-grained materials and the deepening study on Yao-zhao culture, land assessment and planning, ecological environment protection and development. These studies has significantly enhanced the ability of HNU to serve local economy development.
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