Progress in renaming Xiamen Institute of Technology
1.At the end of March, 2023, at the first congress of Xiamen Institute of Technology in the Communist Party of China (CPC), the strategy of "two five-year two-step" was formally put forward, in which the name change plan was explicitly mentioned and the specific time nodes were mentioned:
"In the next five years, it will be renamed Xiamen University of Technology (2023-2025), and the school will be initially built into a high-level Universities of Applied Sciences with a certain reputation in the country."
In addition, it was proposed at the meeting that the school will be built into a family-friendly, open and international domestic first-class high-level Universities of Applied Sciences during the "50th anniversary of its founding" (2026-203 1).
2. As early as June 5438+1October 18, 2023, at the sixth meeting of the 15th People's Congress of Xiamen, Xiamen clearly expressed its support for the renaming of Xiamen Institute of Technology in 2023. According to this news, the direction of renaming the school is basically determined.
In addition, according to the previous renaming of colleges and universities, the renaming of colleges and universities needs to be upgraded on the basis of the original running, and it needs to be evaluated and reviewed by provincial and national expert groups, and finally the Ministry of Education decides to rename it.
3. According to the five-year plan of Xiamen Institute of Technology and Xiamen's position, the name change is only a preliminary plan at present, and there is still a clear distance between the completion of implementation and the success of applying for the name change.
Education construction of Xiamen Institute of Technology;
The school covers an area of 1.927 mu, with a building area of more than 500,000 square meters, and the total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment is 520 million yuan. At present, there are 18 colleges and departments, offering 64 undergraduate majors, 4 master's degree authorization points for first-class disciplines and 8 master's degree authorization points. There are nearly 20,000 full-time students (including graduate students and international students). There are nearly 1200 full-time teachers.
The school has carried out diversified and all-round cooperation with more than 60 high-quality universities such as Australian National University of orel, Malaysian University of Science, university of regina, Newcastle University, Wellington Victoria University, Ryukyu University and Jeonbuk University.