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　　University of Jinan is a comprehensive university under the administration of Shandong Province and Jinan City, with the former as the main administrator. The university, authorized to confer bachelor's，master's and doctor's degrees, is mainly committed in offering courses for bachelor candidates and is actively developing education for master candidates, and its enrollment and job market cover the whole country. Jiang Minhua, academician of CAS, the noted material scientist, is acting as honorary president of the University. C):eJE^aV8Iz92:?P13-
　　The university was instituted in 1948. Over the past 50 years, it has provided nearly 100,000 graduates for the country, with former Vice Chairman of CPPCC, president of CAE and academician of both CAS and CAE Song Jian as one of them. ?o)Kt*yPefclL
　　The university has two campuses, occupying an area of around 2500 mu(170 ha.), with various constructions occupying an area of over 880,000 square meters. Its fixed assets exceed 1 billion RMB. The university has good teaching conditions and experimenting equipments whose library,occupying an area of 40,000 square meters , is equipped with a digital system, an information searching system and a collection of 1,700,000 books, 3200 kinds of journals in Chinese and foreign languages and has introduced a large-sized Internet database of 5000GB. The campus computer network in the pioneering position nationwide is connected with the China Education and Research Network and Internet, acting as a window facing the whole world. L$`_XdiU#}xRW
　　The university consists of 20 schools and 2 teaching centers, and offers 4 first-level and 41 second-level specialties for master candidates. In addition, the university has the right to confer the engineering master degree and has been authorized to be the unit for the students of the same educational level to apply for master degree. The university offers 61 programs for bachelor candidates, covering literature, sciences, engineering, law, management science, economics, pedagogy and history and has formed a feature of paralleling arts and science in importance, broad and intense basis, interdisciplinary and highlighting implication and creativity. The university places special importance on discipline construction and has established 5 key disciplines and key labs of provincial and state level, 5 centers and bases for engineering and technological research and also social science research bases of provincial level and 32 university research institutes and centers in addition. The number of the students on campus has reached 32,000 and that of part-time students 11,000. QZx(NkO@m/hAfGN7OhX3
　　The university has 2300 members of faculty and staff, among whom 160 are full professors, 600 associate professors, 160 doctors and 600 masters, 24 provincial and municipal top talents, 7 young specialists with "outstanding contribution made to Shandong Province". 18 of the faculty enjoy special subsidy from the state government, 16 of them are titled "Excellent Teachers" by the state or provincial governments and 14 of them received Zeng Xianzi Education Found Award. |l?&7Ss@8;bS*.m/\Gr
　　In order to enhance the teaching quality, the university focuses its efforts on teaching task, intensifying routine administration of teaching, improving the system of teaching quality inspection and optimizing the style of teaching and learning. It adopts a chain of measures to promote the teachers' performance and introduce high-level talents. It has also established some special teaching posts for the disciplines and talents concerned to develop more effectively. 85&QboCZY06#wBcP=uy_
　　The university also attaches great importance to research and development, incessantly intensifying the reform of research administrative system by which research work has received breakthroughs for some consecutive years, especially in the state key scientific and technological research projects. In recent years, the university has undertaken more than 300 "863" and "973" research programs and programs financed by the National Sciences Foundation, Social Sciences Foundation and State Key Scientific and Technological Plans. 34 teaching research results and over 100 scientific research results received state or provincial awards. 1=-p％ST&@M9F7Lq`q!
　　The university has been active in exchanges and cooperation with educational institutions abroad, and has established relations with tens of colleges and universities respectively of the U.S., U.K., Germany, France, Canada, Australia, Russia, Japan and South Korea, and has employed over 100 well-known international scholars as part-time professors or visiting professors. \2D％]D{Rv._|O4uHK(=