Hunan University of Information Technology, abbreviated to HNUIThenceforth, approved by Ministry of Education ofthe People's Republic of China and administrated by the People's Government of Hunan Province, is an institution of higher learning which offers a range of undergraduate degree programs.It is located in Mao tang Industrial Park, Economic and Technological Development Zone, Changsha, which is the hometown of Zhu Rongji, the former premier of the State Council. HNUIT is composed often schools, namely School of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, School of Management, School of International Business, School of Arts, School of General Education, School of Marxism, School of Continuing Education,School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Department of Information Technology Studies.H NUIT has well established a variety of disciplines including Engineering, Management, Economics, Arts and Literature, offering over 30 full-time undergraduate degree and associate degree programs. Until now, there are approximately 18, 000 full-time students enlisted in the university.
Concept and Philosophy
HNUIT sets itself a development goal to establish a world-class technological university of with Chinese characteristics, and it designates“remaining committed to the education cause to serve the motherland”as its tenet.The standards of running the university are“information alization, ecological ization and internationalization”. Its motto is“Never cease to exert ourselves; always dare to be pioneers”.Its spirit and core values are“Developing a good moral character; Pursuing a superior quality; Enjoying an excellent taste; Building a unique brand.”Its development concept is“Great Innovation, Cultural Richness, Distinguishing Features, High Quality and Mutual Sharing”.The objective of its talent cultivation program is to cultivate socialist builders and successors“who have political frm ness, a sound personality, a healthy mental ty, physical fitness and a high degree of professional skills, who show a frm belief, abroad horizon,a high aspiration, a keen sense of mission, and a deep love to the Communist Party of China, to China, to the Chinese people and to HNUIT, as well as who enjoy their all-round development in morals, intelligence, physical fitness,aesthetics, and labor education.”
Infrastructure and Facilities
The campus features the 4 "five landscapes"—five lakes, five gardens, five bridges and five squares, which are shaded by trees, surrounded by hills and lakes, pavilions and platforms, as well as flourishing woods and tall bamboo bushes.A changing location means a new charming scene.Therefore, H NUIT is renowned as“one of the most beautiful universities in China”.Its environment-friendly student apartments, equipped with advanced facilities, enjoy a refined style and a home like atmosphere, which are hailed as“one of the most comfortable student apartments in Chinese universities”.In addtion, advanced modern education and teaching facilities grand theater, gymnasium, music hall,artificial intelligence center, big datacenter and mentalhealth education center―are among the first-class ones in Hunan and enjoy a leading position in China.This university is well equipped with the most advanced multi-screen interactive smart classrooms among Chinese universities, with the“top information superhighway”fully covered by wired and wireless access,and with the smart campus of“one center, three clouds”(digital center, cloud platforms of teaching, management and social service) Moreover, it is among the first batchof5G campus construction pilot schools in Hunan. As a result,HNUIT is known as“the pioneer of information technology personnel training anong Chinese universities”.
Faculty and Staff
Following the standards of “elitismofmanagement teams, diversification of teaching teams and professionalization of service teams”, HNUIT has established“high-caliber talent teaching teams”represented by professors and doctors, "innovation-talent teaching teams" represented by young professors, and“practical teaching teams”represented by enterprise executives and senior technical experts.Moreover, it has established a five-level evaluation system for teachers' teaching ability, and carried out a subsidy system for special talents entitled as“HNUIT Scholar”“Chief Expert”or“Associate Professor(appointed by H NUIT only) ”, which has helped build a high-quality, high-standard and high-caliber team with noble morality, exquisite workmanship, reasonable structure, deep passion, broad horizon, high aspiration and a strong sense of mission.
Sharing Mechanism
Adhering to the principle of sharing development achievements with teachers and students, the university has enacted a package of welfare policies covering“five security systems”(Insurance systems of income, housing, medical care, elderly care, and children's education) , “six free accesses”(Free access to teachers'apartment buildings, university shuttle buses, its affliated kindergartens, fitness centers, annual physical examinations as well as vacation and recuperation) , and“six subsidies”(Subsidies of supplementary insurance, for special difficulties, weddings and funerals,marriage, il ness and hospitalization, university funds for employees'children and tours for outstanding faculty members and their families) .It has also founded a mechanism of honors for excellent teachers, including“Teacher of Great Attainments”, “Teacher of Major Contributions”and“Teacher of Good Virtues”.It has established the“Scholarship of H NUIT Outstanding Students” and a five-level award aid system for students from poverty-stricken families,which aim to fulfill the promises of“not letting one single student of H NUIT dropout of school due to financial difficulties”and of“making outstanding talent more excellent”.In addition, it has conducted many programs to give counterpart support to enterprises and village schools with which NHU IT has built cooperative relations.
Education Quality
In order to ensure its high-quality, high-level and high-calibre development, H NUIT, guided and led by the Be i dou Open Laboratory of Changsha builtin cooperation with the National University of Defense Technology, supported by over 1, 000 university-enterprise cooperative enterprises, and relying on more than 100 laboratories and training centers supported by the state, provinces and municipalities, continues to climb towards high quality and excellence, and thus a win-win innovative and cooperative education mechanism of intercollegiate, university-enterprise,university-government and university-municipality has been established. It innovates the practice carrier of moral education by implementing the construction of the project“one school, one feature”, and by creating a new pattern of educating college students with four academies of“Gathering Intelligence”, “Gathering Capability”, “Gathering Ideas”and“Gathering Beauty”as well as by building amoral education practice platform of“Internet +4M(namely moral malls, moral banks, moral lecture halls, and moral documents) ”.All these endeavors are made to ensure the comprehensive promotion of the activities including“Theme education, moral education practices and social practices”, the joint construction of“university, its affliated schools and classes”as well as the comprehensive construction of “National, Provincial and University level”graded and excellent ideological and moral education mechanism for college students.Nowadays, HNUIT has formed a“Three-whole Education”system(Including whole-people education,whole-course education and whole-scene education) with vertical connection,horizontal connection and hierarchical progression.A diversified development mechanism has been constructed for graduates to obtain employment, start their own businesses, join the army, and take postgraduate school entrance examinations.Students'employment rates and quality indicators have always stood at the forefront of this field among colleges and universities in Hunan.
Achievements and Reputation
HNUIT has successively won more than 700 honorable titles.A few major ones are listed as follows:The Outstanding Collective in National Education System awarded by the Ministry of Education and by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security respectively; Excellence in the Evaluation of Talent-cultivating awarded by Ministry of Education; Outstanding Achievement for Safe Campus Construction awarded by Central Committee for Comprehensive Management; The First Prize of National Teaching Competition awarded by Ministry of Education; The Innovative Case of the Connotation Development of Private Universities in China awarded by Ministry of Education; Excellent School of E-learningSpace Application and Popularization Activity of the Ministry of Education; The Provincial Outstanding School of Higher Learning of Comprehensive Management; The Provincial Model University; The First Prize for Provincial Teaching Achievement in Higher Education; The Provincial Advanced University of the Party Construction; The Provincial Advanced Social Organization; The Provincial Civilized Model Campus;The Provincial Safety University; The Provincial Model University for Information Campus Construction; The Provincial Model University in Students'Employment and Entrepreneurship; Excellence in School- running among Provincial Private Regular Undergraduate Institutions. In the overall assessments or evaluations organized by the Party committees,governments, scientific research institutions, associations as well as third-party organizations, the university has always maintained the leading position among the same category of colleges and universities in Hunan and even in China, thus it has been highly commended by the leaders of the state and by people from all walks of life, and it has been widely acc laine das“one of the campuses with the best school spirit”among Chinese universities and colleges.
Goals and Objectives
Fully seizing the opportunities in the age of information technology marked by“Internet plus”, “Smart plus”, cloud computing, big data, block chain and 5G, H NUIT closely focuses on the talent demand orientation of various development strategies such as Made in China 2025, The Yangtze River Economic Belt, The Rise of Central China, Belt and Road Initiative, Building Changsha into a National Central City, and The Development Strategy of“Three-highlands and Four-new-mission”in Hunan and Modernized New Hunan so as to give full play to the following merits of H NUIT encompassing its favorable location, system and mechanism, ecological environment, opportunities of great development of new technologies and new industrial types in the newer a, as well as its motto一“Never cease to exert ourselves, always dare to be pioneers”.HNUIT dedicates itself to building a high-quality and high-level university with high-caliber personnel, which will boast a more profound belief, a more advanced philosophy, a more well-structured faculty team, a more well-built infrastructure, a more forward-looking stance in its building of new majors, a more excellent university spirit including better teaching spirit and learning atmosphere, a more charming environment on campus, a more profound campus culture, a more diversified pattern of educating qualified undergraduates, a bigger progress in the quality of their employment.All these efforts will make students feel more delighted at, parents more reassured about, teachers and students more proud of and the society more satisfied with. Located in Hunan and rooted in China, embracing the world and forging ahead into the future, HNUIT is fighting to develop itself to attain its offcial name—Hunan University of Information Technology.It is marching confidently towards the goal of building“a world-class technological university with Chinese characteristics”.