High-quality Teaching Faculty and Advanced Facilities

FJNU attaches the greatest importance to recruiting talented researchers and distinguished scholars for its teaching staff. Maintaining a high-quality, properly tiered, and professionally dedicated faculty has been its top priority. Right now, it has a 2,600-strong teaching and auxiliary staff. Its faculty counts more than 700 full and associate professors, among whom two have been elected members of the Eurasian Academy of Sciences, seven have received the honorific title of “Young and Middle-aged Experts with Distinguished Services,” two are members of the subject-specific advisory groups under the State Council Commission for Regulating Academic Degrees, six are “Professors Extraordinaire” or “Minjiang Scholars”, one has been honored as “China’s Distinguished Teacher”, six as “Fujian’s Distinguished Teachers,” and 22 as “Fujian’s Distinguished Experts”, to mention just a small fraction of the countless honors and recognitions won by FjNU scholars.

The multiplicity and diversity of FJNU’s programs and the high quality of its faculty have translated into a constant upgrading of its teaching and research. In recent years, FJNU has won 19 top national awards for its excellence in teaching and in text-book compilation. 15 of its course offerings have been designated as the nation’s or the province’s “best-designed courses.” 5 among its state-sponsored pilot studies on reforming China’s basic education have been cited nationally as the best of its kind, and 50 teaching-related studies have won similar awards within the province. In recent years, the university has won and undertaken over 100 state-sponsored research projects in various fields, and more than 3,000 sponsored by ministerial and provincial agencies. Altogether, FJNU’s researchers have won close to 700 awards and prizes, of which 16 were the three most prestigious national awards (i.e., the State Sciences Award, the State Technological Invention Award, and the State Technological Progress Award), and an additional 17 were other national awards.

FJNU is also noted for its fine facilities for teaching and research. Its library holds a collection of as many as 2.86 million books. Whereas the number marks it out as one of the largest libraries in normal universities throughout China, the library is famed internationally for its very impressive collections of ancient texts, rare books, rubbings of engraved tablets, photographs, calligraphic works and paintings, Fujian’s local cultural and historical documents, early editions of foreign language publications, and major newspapers published during the historic period known as the May Fourth Movement. The University is equipped with over 7,000 computers for teaching and research, over 100 multimedia classrooms, and more than 30 language laboratories. Among its facilities for conducting pedagogical and scientific experiments are a university computation center, an analyzing and testing center, a center of modern educational technologies, in addition to the 70-odd research institutes and centers run by different colleges. A high-speed intranet serves all its campuses, and it is expanding rapidly to cater to the ever-increasing needs of the university community