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Brief Introcduction to Zhanjiang Ocean University
Covering a grassland area of over 300 hectares, ZOU offers
an ideal and peaceful environment for study and work.A teaching
building of 30,000sqms and student dormitories of 23,000sqms are
completed and occupied, while a modern multi-functional library
will be built soon. So far, the total area of campus structures
covers 250,000 sqms. ZOU comprises three institutes(Aquatic, Engineering
and Agricultural ), one college (Adult Education )and one department
(Economy and Trade) directly under its authority. Preparations are
made for a navigation , an economy and trade, and a sci-tech institute,
ZOU offers more than 30 specialized courses in aquaculture; marine
fishing science and technology; marine engineering; thermal energy
and power engineering; machine design; manufacture and automation;
navigation; food science and processing; architectural environment
and facilities; electronic information engineering; computer science
and technology;economics,agronomy; zoology; horticulture and economic
management, etc. In
addition , ZOU also offers two master degree programmes in aquaculture
and in aquatic products processing and preservation engineering,respectively.
These two branches, as well as ,the subject of marine pharmceuticals,
are designated as key disciplines in Guangdong Province and authorized
to recruit students from abroad. The total number of students, coming
from all parts of the country, has reached 7,000 and the faculty,
including 150 professors and associate professors,totals 1,100. ZOU possesses advanced teaching-, research-and laboratory
facilities, such as a comprehensive lilbrary, a computing centre,
an analysis and testing centre, electronic multmedia classrooms,
audio-visual laboratories and various other well-equipped installations.
There are also 14 organizations of scientific research, e.g. the
SCI-TECH Park, the Institute of Marine Organisms, the Institute
of Marine Ecomony and Technology, the Research Section of Marine
Pharmaceuticals, the Pearl Research Section (the only university
research centre of this kind in China), and the Museum of Aquatic
Organisms with more than 3,000 specimens on display. ZOU has also
set up its own teaching-, production and training basis in freshwater
and seawater aquaculuture; it owns a fishing net factory, two training
fishing vessels and a machinery workshop . At the same time, ZOU
cooperates closely with external enterprises for the training of
its students. At all times, ZOU has paid great attention to scientific research. A great many of the university's sci-tech research achievements have been applied and disseminated, and fine economic returns,as well as social benefits, have been obtained in the propagation of new technologies in pearl culture, fish and shrimp seedling and farming , and netcage culture. Futhermore, new methods of prevention and cure of fish diseases have been developed and breakthroughs in rice hybridization and the cultivation of fast-growing, high-quality strains of bananas have been reached.
Last but not least, ZOU has formulated its own guidelines for academic development;1.give priority to the establishment of academic courses;2.choose as main task the formation of a strong contingent of highly qualified teachers and 3.adhere firmly to the policy of educational and academic excellence. To realize these lofty aims. ZOU strives to invite talents in a wide variety of fields to come and work for the university. A Board of Trustees has been established so as to draw fully on the experience of those far-sighted members of society who are sympathetic to the cause of marine sciences and education, and not only willing to promote the gradual expansion of ZOU, but also prepared to support whole-heartedly the process of continual upgrading of the quality ofteaching and research and the propagation and economic and social application of research findings. (University attached elementary and middle school )
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Zhanjiang
Ocean University (ZOU) was established on Jan.10,1997. It was located
at Huguangyan, the famous scenic lake at the outskirts of the port-city
of Zhanjiang in southeastern Guangdong Province. The university
incorporates the former 62-year-old Fisheries Institute and the
39-year-old Agricultural College of Zhanjiang. ZOU is a multidisciplinary
ocean university with marine and aquatic sciences as the leading
subjects and science, engineering, agriculture, economics and management
as subordinated disciplines. In addition to its main task of providing
college-degree education, ZOU also offers postgraduate degree courses.
The applied sciences specialities are the dominant disciplines,
while the basic course subjects are subordinated to these. ZOU
is one of the universities designated as key projects in Guangdong
Province, and the total enrolment of full-time students will amount
to 8,000 in the year 2000, and to 10,000 by 2010.
Over the years, ZOU has successfully established academic
exchanges with several foreign countries such as the USA, Japan
and Australia and with the regions fo Taiwan, Hongkong and Macao.
World-renowned scientists like Niu Manjiang, the Chinese-American
biologist, Prof. Liu Jiangkang of the Institute of Aquatic Products
under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Prof. Suyama Michizo,
the famous Japanese aquaculture specialist, have been engaged as
emeritus professors of ZOU.
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