In the past ten years, Shenzhen has made great efforts to promote the construction of colleges and universities, and has opened 15 colleges and universities, with outstanding domestic and international rankings.


　　The leap-forward development of colleges and universities demonstrates the "Shenzhen Speed"

　　Yangcheng Evening News reporter Shen Tingting

　　On September 2, Beijing time, Times Higher Education released the 2022 World University Rankings. Two universities in Shenzhen continued their strong performance on the list. Among them, Southern University of Science and Technology ranked ninth among Chinese universities and tied for 162 in the world rankings; Shenzhen University ranked in China The university ranks 17th in the world ranking in the 351-400 range.

SUSTech and Shenzhen University ranked first and third in Guangdong universities respectively.

　　In the past ten years, Shenzhen has made great efforts to promote the construction of colleges and universities, and a number of high-level universities have been built. At present, Shenzhen has opened 15 colleges and universities.

In fact, the strength of some universities in Shenzhen, represented by Shenzhen University, has long surpassed many "211 Project" universities.

Last year, the number of doctoral programs of Shenzhen University increased to 17, which is the first in the country in the number of newly added doctoral programs.

"No one now says that Shenzhen is a place with poor higher education." A scholar from a Shenzhen university sighed.

　　Shenzhen University's international ranking improves by about 100 places every year

　　From Shenzhen University, you can clearly see Tencent's headquarters on Shennan Avenue, Binhai Avenue, and Shenzhen's two main roads.

The innovation legend of a university and an enterprise is a vivid footnote of Shenzhen's leap to innovation and the leap-forward development of higher education.

　　Since the establishment of the university, the international ranking of Shenzhen University has risen at a rate of about 100 per year, and the domestic ranking has climbed at a rate of about 10 per year.

In the four world authoritative university rankings (ARWU), USNews, QS and Times Higher Education (THE), Shenzhen University ranks 28th in China on average.

On March 25 this year, Shenzhen University's environmental science and ecology discipline entered the top 1% of ESI's global ranking, becoming the ninth discipline of Shenzhen University among the top 1% of ESI's global ranking.

　　On March 2, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced the global status of PCT patent applications in 2020.

Among the global educational institutions, Shenzhen University ranks third in the world with 252 PCT patent applications, first in China, second only to the University of California and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tsinghua University (231) and Zhejiang University (209). Fourth and fifth place.

　　Can a quality university be accelerated?

SUSTech achieved

　　Can high-quality universities "crash"?

The answer is usually no.

But Southern University of Science and Technology is creating miracles.

As a national experimental school for comprehensive reform of higher education, SUSTech only began preparations for its establishment in 2010.

As early as the 2019 Times Higher Education Global Young University Rankings, SUSTech ranked first among universities in Mainland China; in the 2020 Times Asian University Rankings, SUSTech ranked eighth among universities in Mainland China.

How can SUSTech achieve leapfrog development?

　　The large and comprehensive set of disciplines is not seen in SUSTech. Instead, "electronics" and "biomedicine" are the pillar industries and strategic emerging industries in Shenzhen.

SUSTech encourages the in-depth cross integration of different disciplines, and the discipline pattern of small and comprehensive, small and refined, promoting cross-cutting, and creating a system appears.

SUSTech has established a photonic industry innovation joint laboratory in collaboration with universities and enterprises, aiming to lead the development of the industry with leaping new technologies.

There are many laboratories like this in SUSTech.

　　In terms of teaching, SUSTech initially implemented the universal "2+2 academic system", but during the operation, it was found that some students need to enter the major earlier, so the school tried a more personalized mechanism such as the "1+3 academic system". For students to choose.

　　Statistics show that Southern University of Science and Technology has signed contracts to introduce 1044 teachers, including 44 Chinese and foreign academicians (22 full-time academicians signed and trained independently).

More than 90% of teaching and research teachers have overseas work experience, and more than 60% have work or study experience in the top 100 universities in the world. High-level talents account for more than 40% of the teaching staff.

　　Talents with outstanding achievements in colleges and universities are the key trick

　　What Shenzhen colleges and universities have such outstanding achievements?

Talent is the key move.

　　A reporter from the Yangcheng Evening News learned that there are 11 Nobel laboratories in Shenzhen, and 9 of them are relying on universities in Shenzhen to start their work.

In Shenzhen's Xili Lake International Science and Education City and Guangming Science City, universities and colleges gather together, and high-level scientific research institutions and platforms "get together".

　　The faculty of Shenzhen University is remarkable, with 592 professor-level teachers and 697 associate professors.

There are 23 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering, as well as academicians of the American Academy of Medicine and Biological Engineering, academicians of the Royal Academy of Engineering, academicians of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, academicians of the Japanese Academy of Engineering, and academicians of the Russian Academy of Engineering.

　　CUHK (Shenzhen) has introduced more than 360 world-renowned scholars, including 4 Nobel Prize winners, 2 Turing Prize winners, 17 domestic and foreign academicians, more than 40 national-level experts, and various high-level provincial and urban areas. More than 400 people were selected for the talent project.

　　The faculty of Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) has formed a talent pattern of "master + team" led by academicians.

At present, among the full-time teachers of the school, the doctoral rate of full-time teachers has reached 94%, 94 people have been selected into the national talent plan, and 256 people have been selected into the local talent plan.

　　Nowadays, the talent agglomeration effect of universities in Shenzhen has become increasingly obvious, and they have become an important carrier for the agglomeration and cultivation of high-level talents.

There are 15 colleges and universities in the city, with 6,999 full-time teachers, and 66% of them have doctorate degrees.

The city has more than 30 full-time academicians of the two academies and more than 500 national high-level talents.

　　Goal: Become an important higher education center in the South by 2025

　　"The really good talents come here, in fact, not for the high salary or the good campus environment you have, mainly because you can do something here and there is a stage where you can develop. "The President of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) Xu Yangsheng has stated many times that the school implements global recruitment and professors and scholars come from all over the world. Among them, there are reasons for Shenzhen and universities.

　　In 2020, explore to expand the autonomy of running colleges and universities in Shenzhen and carry out high-level Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools to be included in the "Shenzhen Construction of a Pilot Demonstration Zone of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics Comprehensive Reform Pilot Implementation Plan (2020-2025)".

Shenzhen seizes the opportunities for the construction of first-class universities and first-class disciplines, accelerates the accumulation of high-quality resources at home and abroad, and the development of higher education has entered the fast lane.

　　Four universities including Shenzhen University, Southern University of Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), and Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) have entered the new round of Guangdong Province's high-level university construction plan, and the admission scores for college entrance examination are among the top in the province.

　　Facing the new demand for innovation, the new "Shenzhen Speed" is being staged in the upsurge of university construction.

Shenzhen proposed to strive to reach about 20 colleges and universities by 2025, and strive to become an important higher education center in the South.

More than 30 disciplines have entered the top 1% of the world's ESI rankings.