Pingxiang College is located in Anyuan (Pingxiang, Jiangxi), the birthplace of the world-famous China workers' movement. Chen, an outstanding geographer and cartographer in China, the founder of remote sensing application and GIS science, and a senior academician of China Academy of Sciences, served as honorary chairman. Founded in 1978, the school is a full-time public higher education institution approved by the Ministry of Education. Over the years, the school has adhered to the scientific, forward-looking, practical and diverse nature of running a school, adhered to the road of development, perfection, expansion and efficiency increase, and strived to cultivate and bring up practical, compound, competitive and creative talents with innovative spirit and practical ability, and achieved good school-running benefits. The school has accepted and passed the provincial school spirit construction inspection, school running level evaluation, college party building work evaluation, student dormitory evaluation, college teaching work evaluation, basic teaching laboratory evaluation, library evaluation, "two courses" teaching evaluation and primary school and kindergarten teacher training evaluation. Every evaluation has been fully affirmed by the experts of the evaluation team. In the inspection of school spirit construction organized by the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Department of Education, the inspection team evaluated it as "running a school with ideas, managing the school with strategies, teaching in an orderly manner and ensuring quality"; In the evaluation of the running level of colleges and universities in the whole province, the experts in the evaluation group believe that "going up and down Qi Xin, the running direction is clear, the management is strict and standardized, and the teaching quality is high"; In the evaluation of the Party building work organized by the Education Working Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, the experts of the evaluation group believe that the school "strives for adaptation in transition, innovation in adaptation and development in innovation, and the school presents a good development trend". Through these evaluations, it not only promotes the improvement of the level and conditions of running a school, but also urges the school to constantly explore ways to realize the extraordinary development of colleges and universities under the new situation. The school has successively won the honors of "National Advanced Collective of Mass Sports", National Advanced Institute of Public Relations Education, Civilized Unit of Building School Spirit in Jiangxi Province, Advanced Unit of Greening in Jiangxi Province, Advanced Unit of Preventing and Curing SARS in Jiangxi Education System, Advanced Unit of Enrollment and Publicity in Jiangxi Province and Excellent Unit of Domestic Security in Jiangxi Province. More than 1 10 thousand talents in various fields of socialist construction have been trained, and many of them have become business backbones and leading cadres in all walks of life.
Under the leadership of the Party and the government, through the hard work of teachers and students, the school has developed into a new socialist institution of higher learning with large scale and good conditions, which integrates science, engineering, literature, finance and art. The existing campus area is 1080 mu and the development land is 1502 mu. The building area of the school building is 208,000 square meters, the total assets of teaching instruments and equipment are 35.68 million yuan, and there are 623,300 books and materials. At present, there are 63 laboratories of various types and education and teaching practice bases 108. At present, there are 10 departments such as Chinese Department, Foreign Languages Department, Economics and Political Science and Law Department, Primary Education Department, Mathematics Department, Mechanical and Electrical Department, Chemical Engineering Department, Computer Department, Sports and Art Department, Modern Education Technology Center, etc., with a total of 1 1 teaching departments, 4 undergraduate majors and 38 specialist majors. There are 6642 full-time students and more than 4000 adult education students.
The school has a strong faculty, with 553 on-the-job teaching staff and 374 full-time teachers, including professors, associate professors 125, doctors, doctors 1 person, 35 masters, and 58 masters, who enjoy the special allowance from the State Council and the provincial government/kloc-0. In recent years, our school has hired many foreign teachers to teach. At present, there are 7 foreign teachers in our school. The school hired Professor Peng Xiaofeng, a doctoral supervisor of Tsinghua University Thermal Energy Engineering Department, Professor Chang Zengyi, a doctoral supervisor of Peking University Institute of Biology, Professor Yang Xinhui, a doctoral supervisor of Nanjing Normal University, and Professor Chen, a doctoral supervisor of Fujian Normal University, as honorary professors, and served as the heads of the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, the Department of Chemical Engineering, the Department of Economics, Politics and Law and the Department of Chinese respectively. Honorary professors such as Chairman of Hong Kong Writers Association, Chairman of World Chinese Writers Association, Wang, a famous Hong Kong poet, Zhang Wenhai, academician of China Academy of Engineering, and doctoral supervisor of Dalian University of Technology were invited. The quality of school education and teaching is improving day by day, and it has achieved good results in many unified examinations and various competitions in the province. It has also carried out cooperation in running schools at home and abroad, international exchanges, short-term study abroad and other projects, and officially started the "2+ 1" mode study abroad class in September 2005. Teachers' scientific research ability has been gradually enhanced. More than 3,000 papers have been published by the faculty, including 14 papers in internationally renowned journals SCI and EI. In recent years, he has published more than 50 papers in core journals. He published more than 100 books, and undertook and completed more than 60 research projects, provincial scientific research projects and provincial teaching and research projects with World Bank loans. The school enrolls students for the whole country.
At present, the school party committee and administration are leading all the teachers and students to further emancipate their minds, renew their concepts, forge ahead with determination in reform, constantly improve the conditions for running schools, vigorously improve the quality of teaching, and strive to build the school into a comprehensive undergraduate college-Anyuan College in 2006.