Hebei North University

Hebei North University is a government administrated multi-faculty university, which offers Bachelors Academic Degree programs and Master Academic Degree programs. The University was founded in May 2003 after approval by the Ministry of Education. It is made up of three former provincially-administrated institutions of higher learning in Zhangjiakou: Zhangjiakou Medical College(ZJKMC), Zhangjiakou Teachers College(ZJKTC), Zhangjiakou Advanced Postsecondary Agronomy School(ZJKAPAS). It's the only multi-faculty university in the north of Hebei Province.

The former Zhangjiakou Medical College(ZJKMC) was Bethune Hygiene Health School with Jinchaji Military Command, it was promoted to undergraduate college in 1982 and then successfully passed the undergraduate course teaching evaluation sponsored by the Ministry of Education. The former Zhangjiakou Teachers College was founded in 1923 and the former Zhangjiakou Advanced Postsecondary Agronomy School(ZJKAPAS) in 1954. All the three colleges have a long history and contribute greatly to talent, discovery, education, and social development.

The main courses of the university focus on full-time undergraduate education together with postgraduate, postsecondary and adult education. At present, all the registered students are 21405.

Up until now, the university has educated more than 54,000 students for the nation and more than four hundred overseas students from 29 countries.

The university boasts of 12 colleges, they are: Medical Technology College, Medical College, the first Clinical Medicine College, the Second Clinical Medicine College, Literature College, Science College, Agronomy and Horticulture College, Veterinary Medicine College, Foreign Language College and Adult Education College. There also three teaching departments, two scientific research centers as well as eight affiliated teaching departments in the university.

The university possesses a strong teaching force with 14002 on staff. It owns equipment for teaching and scientific research valued at $ 13 million, 140 million volumes of books in the library, as well as two affiliated hospitals and five nonaffiliated hospitals with 3000 patient beds. The first affiliated hospital, situated at the intersection of Hebei Province, Shanxi Province, Beijing and Inner Mongolia, is a first-class hospital with excellent environment and advanced infrastructure and equipment.

The existing academic areas of the university cover ten academic classifications, which are medicine, agronomy, literature, pedagogy, law, management science, history, economics, science and engineering, belonging to 76 academic areas of undergraduate and postsecondary specialized schooling. The clinical medicine is a traditional and specialized academic area, and while medical laboratory test and medical information management and information system were first set up among the universities in Huabei District, so did the forensic medicine among the universities in Hebei province.

The graduates are appreciated by their employers all the time and the schools quality has been approved by society. Up to now, the employment rate for medical undergraduates occupies high rank among other universities, while the employment rate of medical laboratory technician undergraduates is 100% and the supply of all agronomy undergraduates falls short on demand.

After many years of development, we possess numerous superior academic areas, such as pathology and path physiology, human anatomy, histology and embryology, pharmacology, clinical laboratory test diagnostics, mathematics, computer application, Chinese literature and linguistics, animal and plant reproduction, and veterinary, which have a strong influence in Hebei province, and even in the whole country. The papers taken by Science Citation Index have been increasing year by year and the ability of blazing new trails has been raised in the university. Pathology and path physiology, human anatomy, histology and embryology, pharmacology, etiology, crop cultivation and plowing, TCL internal medicine, preventive veterinary, ancient Chinese literature and basic mathematics are key academic areas in the university. Among them, we also offer a Master's degree in path physiology, human anatomy, histology and embryology, pharmacology, microbiology and immunology.

Path physiology and experimental diagnostics are two provincial elite courses. Path physiological division of the university takes the national lead in conducting lymphatic micro-circulation investigation in vivo, of which physiological and pathological investigation in lymphatic micro-circulation is characteristic and advantageous in Hebei province, with its research achievements being internationally advanced and getting provincial awards many times.

The staff of the university actively investigates and research new teaching methods to improving student ability and raising their quality, and has been applying them and receiving better results. According to the tenets of education, Broadening Knowledge, Enforcing Basic Knowledge, Improving Ability and Raising Quality, the syllable have been revised, the ratio of compulsory courses to elective courses has been adjusted and the content of quality education has been increased. In the university, the designated university elite courses and provincial elite courses have been constructed. After the necessary investments and implementation of the policy, not only were twenty-five courses elected as university elite courses, but also the quality of teaching staff has improved with experimental diagnostics and path physiology the two provincial elite courses.

At present, the university possesses eleven research institutions, which are pharmaceuticals research institution, lymph microcirculation and serious illness research institution, etiology and immunology research institution, psychiatry and psychology research institution, medical imaging institution, food-science research institution, animal husbandry research institution, economy research institution, culture resource and property research institution, applied chemistry research institution and art study and designing research institution. All the institutions play important roles in social development.

The university attaches great importance to the textbook edition. In the recent years, lots of professors hold the post of chief editor for many textbooks, such as: Pharmacology, Human Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, which are planned by the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health. Many of our textbooks, such as: our Pharmacology textbook, have got national prizes.

The university possesses a strong teaching force, with mentors of graduates at core and professors and associate professors as back bone. The university has 165 professors and 363 associate professors, while engaging more than 80 famous scholars from home and abroad as honorable professors or part-time professors. Among teachers on staff, 30 persons are provincial-managed excellent experts, government-subsidized experts, or middle-aged or young experts with prominent achievements. Professor Zhangjing, the only winner of the First National University and College Excellent Teaching Prize, was elected outstanding contributing expert in Zhangjiakou, and Niu Chunyu and Zhang Danshen were selected provincial excellent talents.

During recent years, the university has been increasing its investments in teaching and research infrastructure. The campus inter-net, medical testing center, DNA testing center, multi-media classrooms, frequency modulation and foreign language broadcasting station have been set up. In the library, there are 2922 kinds of journals, electronic reading rooms, documents disk checking system and more than ten kinds of databases, including PQDD, Spinger, and Link.

The university owns more than 236 practical bases with excellent condition for teaching practice. Among them, the First Affiliated Hospital of the Hebei, Shanxi , Mongolia Interchange , the largest and most comprehensive department , advanced equipment , high- level clinics , medical treatment, teaching , research, prevention , rehabilitation as one of the hospitals and the state class Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative

At present, 3 campuses has been constructed and put into use. That cover 1.14 million square meters, teaching and office complexes have been constructed in the east campus and 4000 students have moved into it. The west campus which had 300 million RMB worth of investment placed in to it in 2007.

The university has reinforced its cooperation with foreign higher learning institutions. Up to date, many scholars from these institutions in America, Canada, Australia, Japan and other countries are invited as guest professors in the university from time to time, while schooling cooperation agreements between the university and some universities in Germany, Australia, Mongolia and other countries have been reached. Lots of teachers have been sent overseas to study and gain experience, so the overall knowledge standard of the teaching staff has been rising and our university has benefited greatly.

The Journal Of Hebei North University (medical edition, social science edition and natural science edition) are in publication and distribution nationwide.

Coming in this new era, the teaching management system reform has come into effect and the inter management system strengthened. At the same time, all the amenities and infrastructure are being improved. in accordance with strategic plan based on graduates education, actively developing postgraduate education, adapting to social needs, serving local economy, reinforcing science construction, improving teaching quality, the leadership and staff are doing their best to build the university into a modern and open multi-faculty university and a symbol that represents hard work and determination . We believe that our vigorous multi-faculty university will one day be the best of its kind in the north of China.