This University is located in Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Huzhou has convenient transportation facilities because Shanghai is nearby in the east and Hangzhou in the south. It is situated on the south side of the lake Tai Hu with Suzhou and Wuxi on the north side of the lake. Huzhou is a progressive city with a sound economy and rich heritage.
This University enjoys a high prestige as a normal school. The campus is surrounded by beautiful scenery with a graceful river and a landscaped campus that lends itself to an atmosphere of learning. HCT has comfortable dormitories, full modern classroom buildings and laboratories, a large sports arena and sports field and a library that is consistently being upgraded to meet the needs of the growing population of teachers and students.
The campus lies on more than 54 hectares of the land with more than 220,000 square meters of teaching building. 12 schools are founded in the college to meet the educational needs: School of Humanities, School of Law and Business, School of Foreign Languages, School of Sciences, School of Life Sciences, School of Medicine, School of Information Engineering, School of Arts, School of Physical Education, School of Education Science and Technology, School of Adult Education, School of Qiouzhen, and 10 research institutes which offers 34 special fields of learning covering literature, law, history, economy, administration, education, science, engineering, medicine, etc. Currently the number of full-time students in attendance is 9,000 with more than 5,000 students receiving continuing education service.
This University is proud of its teaching staff. Great emphasis is put on obtaining qualified staff. The faculty has been selected from all over China and several foreign countries. Continuing education is required to keep the faculty grounded in current methodology, knowledge, social issues and economic development. A lot of faculty members have been recognized for their publishing, leadership abilities and for their excellence in teaching.
This Universitys desires to strengthen its international academic exchange program by developing cooperation with colleges and universities in China and abroad. Now we have been awarded the qualification to accept the foreign students. Professor Gu Mingyuan, the chairman of the Chinese Education Institute and advisor in the doctoral program at Beijing Normal University has been selected as the chief consultant and part-time professor at This University. Our college has established sister college relationships with a large number of colleges and universities from all over the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Philippine, Hong Kong and Macao . Lu Zenqi and Lu Zenyong who are the current presidents of the Asian-African Textile Company have donated money for the improvement of the educational facilities on our campus and enjoy as honorary presidents of This University.
The administration, faculty and students are proud of This University. They are all striving to make HTC comprehensive university with its own characteristics and influence on society graduating highly qualified students ready to meet the needs of a modern, rapidly developing China.
School of Law and Business:
It is a school aiming at cultivating specialists on Economy, Social Management, Information Management, Financial Management, Tourism Management, Ideology and Politics Education and who may become lawyers, law consultants and teachers in politics. Currently there are 36 qualified faulty. 17 of them are professors or assistant professors and 19 holding a MA degree. At present more than 1000 students are studying in this school.
School of Education Science and Technology:
It is a school with special characteristics in the university. Currently there are 49 teachers, 22of whom are classified as associate professors and above and 9 teachers are postgraduates. The school includes 2 departments: Elementary Education Department and Education Administration Department. The courses are primarily centered on Primary School Education, Public Administration and so on which are on a four-year basis. Another 2 majors are on three-year basis: Pre-school Children Education and Primary Education. There are currently 841 students.
School of Physical Education:
The School of Physical Education was founded in 1978. It has two four-year majors which are Physical Education and Social Physical Education. Currently there are more than 30 teachers on staff , half of whom have advance training in their specific areas of expertise. 338 students are currently enrolled in the program. There are excellent training facilities, which include gymnasiums sport stadium, exercise rooms, and a track and field playground. There are also facilities for students to play basketball, volleyball, tennis, ping-pong, football, body building.
School of Humanities
With the largest number of qualified teachers who are the most experienced faulty in our college , the School of Humanities distinguishes itself from other schools. There are 39 teachers in the school, of whom 9 are professors and 12 assistant professors. Among them 16 teachers are postgraduates and 3 are with doctor's degree. Students may choose from three departments to study: Chinese Department, History Department and Mass Media Department. There are currently a total of 817 students.
School of Foreign Languages
Currently with a faculty of 67 including 7 foreign teachers and nearly 1000 students the school of Foreign Languages is one of the largest schools in This University. Among the teaching staff one third of whom are assistant professors and postgraduates. To improve its education quality, many teachers have been assigned to study abroad. There are two departments: English Department and Japanese Department. Advanced facilities including 6 phonetic labs and rich materials are available, and favorable environment has been crated for students to learn foreign languages here.
School of Arts:
The school of Arts has 70 teachers of whom 16 are assistant professors and above, 7 postgraduates and 15 lectures. Presently there are more than 650 students in the program. This school offers 5 majors of study, they are Fine Arts, Arts Design, Music Education, Music Performance, and Computer Graphic Design. The environment and teaching facilities here are perfect. The brand-new building here is like an icon which outstands itself from others.
School of Science:
The School of Sciences is one of the schools with a large scale and high level. Among the faculty of 35 teachers 51.3% are professors and assistant professors. There are currently 860 students in the school. This school has two departments, they are Mathematics Department and Physics Department including three majors, they are Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Information and Computer Studies and Physics.
Teachers in this school have made great achievements in the field of scientific research and published in well known educational periodicals in China and abroad. It has maintained friendly and academic cooperation with Beijing University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University and many other famous universities in China.
School of Information Engineering:
The School of Information Engineering has the most potential of development with a brilliant future. There are currently 37 staff members including 3 professors , 14 doctors and postgraduates. This school has two departments: Computer Department and Electronic Engineering Department, and a lab center which offers four basic computer laboratories and eight specific laboratories.
School of Life Science:
The School of Life Sciences is a modern program of study with an impressive well-equipped experimental classroom building. The 379 students in the school are served by 26 teachers consisting of 3 professors, 6 assistant professors, 1 doctor and 8 postgraduates. The staff is active in science research. Many of the faculty have published research articles in educational periodicals both in China and abroad and have been recognized for their excellent work by educators on the city and provincial level. This school has two departments, they are Chemistry Department and Biology Department which include Biologic Engineering, Chemistry, Fine Chemistry Technology. Chemistry and Environmental Studies are part of the curriculum offered.
School of Medicine:
The School of Medicine is a newly built one with 50 teachers. There are 7 postgraduates and 17 teachers with honored titles. The school offers Public Management to four-year students in oral diseases and injury. The school provides three-year students training in Nursing, Community Medicine, Midwife Practices, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the knowledge of Sanitation Regulation in China. The school has established comprehensive cooperation with medical colleges in and out of China.
The school has accepted the oversees students from America to study Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Profile of Huzhou City
Huzhou is situated in northern Zhejiang Province, on the south bank of Taihu Lake. Being close to Shanghai to the east and Hangzhou to the south, it is the converging point of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui Provinces. Huzhou has a total area of 5817 square kilometers and a population of 2.62 million. Under its jurisdiction are Deqing County, Changxing County, Anji County, as well as three urban districts of Chengqu, Nanxun and Linghu. Its eastern area is part of a plain with its water regions, where as its west is hilly, in a configuration popularly claimed as "5-part hills, 1-part water and 4-part farmland". Huazhou is an important city in the Yangtze River Delta, designated as one of the 14 key cities to "plan ahead and develop beforehand" in conjunction with Eastern Shanghai. Since 1978, its economy is developing fast, keeping on a sustainable and healthy expansion. As a result, its comprehensive economic strength and the people's livelihood have been improving steadily.
Huzhou has long been known as "Home of Silk, Land of Fish and Rice, City with Rich Cultural Heritage". It was first built 2300 years ago. Huzhou is one of the birthplaces of silk culture in the world. It is also known as the producer of Hubi Writing Brush, which tops the list of the "4 Treasures of a Study".
Huzhou's economy depends on industrial development. Apart from refurbishing the traditional silk textile, minerals and building materials, we have been nurturing 4 special industries of modern textiles, mechanical and electrical products, new-style building materials, fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals. And our fine chemicals industry is founded on one of the national production bases.
The climate of Huzhou is typical of subtropical monsoon regions, with clear-cut seasonal demarcation. Huzhou people are polite and orderly, and its environment clean and tidy.
