Anhui Polytechnic University (AHPU) is located in the national open city: Wuhu city in Anhui province, with an easy access to Nanjing (about 40 minuets by fast train) and Shanghai (about 2 and a half hours by fast train). AHPU is a provincial, multi-disciplinary university with strength in engineering and one of the universities for priority development in Anhui. The schooling can be traced back to 1935 when the Spanish Catholic Church founded Anhui Neisi Technical School, which, thereafter, renewed its name as Wuhu Electrical Motor Manufacture School, Wuhu Mechanical School, Anhui College of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering , Anhui University of Technology & Science and Anhui Polytechnic University since 2010.
AHPU covers an area of 140 hectares ,with a total construction area over 500,000 square meters , a total asset for teaching and research equipment 258 million RMB and a collection of over 1.5 million books in the library. Its faculty totals approximately 1300, with over 1000 as full-time teachers, of which 85% have doctorate or master degrees. Besides, AHPU employs renowned scholars both at home and abroad as its guest professors, including academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, and introduces some high-level talents, including “The Yangtze River Scholars”, to be its leading scientists of disciplines. Currently, with disciplines covering engineering, science, humanities, management, economy, law and arts etc., AHPU comprises 14 schools, offering 74 undergraduate programs, among which 14 are national or provincial featured programs, 15 are national or provincial comprehensive reform programs and 12 are national or provincial “Excellent Talents Programs”. AHPU runs the master programs in 12 major disciplines and 7 professional master programs ,of which 5 are in engineering fields. Nowadays, AHPU is jointly constructing “School of international engineers” with Wuhu municipal government and thus initiates a new talent cultivation pattern characterized by a combination of “Industry, School, Research and Application” and an integrity of “Internationalization, Engineering, Industrialization and Diversity”. AHPU has established partnership with about 20 renowned universities from USA, UK, France, Germany, Italy, South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan Region to carry out joint-education programs, talent cultivation and scientific researches.
AHPU has been active in its scientific pursuits and has made a lot of advances. Among all the research projects, there are more than 80 under 863 Programs, National Natural Science Funds or National Social Science Funds and the like, over 30 designated by Ministry of Education or Ministry of Science and Technology and over 400 other projects by the provincial government. Over 40 research projects have got awarded at the provincial level. There are 1 provincial leading discipline (Controlling Science & Engineering), 6 provincial key disciplines (Mechanical Manufacturing & Automation, Detection Technology & Automatic Equipment, Textile Engineering, Fermentation Engineering, Management Science & Engineering and Design Art) and 15 national or provincial Sci-tech innovation platforms (National Engineering & Research Center jointly built with EFORT Intelligent Equipment Co.ltd, National Innovation & Service Center of Textile Industry, Wanjiang Collaborative Innovation Center for High-end Manufacturing Equipment, Research Center of Design and Arts etc.) The Analyzing and Measuring Center is of the provincial qualification for foods inspection. The “Journal of AHPU” has been selected as a journal source by “Chemistry Digest” of the United States and “Digest Magazine” of Russia.
AHPU sticks to the schooling principle of “Rooted in quality, Enhanced by talents and Renowned for features & harmony” and its education concept of “Honesty, Modesty and Assiduity”. With the motto of “Virtue and Knowledge, Truth and Innovation”, AHPU has been adopting the strategy of “Enhanced by talents, Driven by innovation, Open schooling and Characteristic development”. Stressing the qualitative development, AHPU aims to cultivate high-quality, application-oriented talents with social responsibility, innovative spirits, consciousness of entrepreneurship and practical abilities. As one of the “Top 50 Universities” for graduate employment in China and “The Model University” for students’ innovation education in Anhui, AHPU has been praised for 8 successive years by Anhui provincial government and awarded as the model among Anhui universities for five successive years for the great job done in graduate employment .
As the pioneering institution to carry out comprehensive reforms and all-round innovation reforms , AHPU is now advancing towards “a nationally well-known and provincially first-class local and characteristic high-level university” and contributing greatly to building Anhui into a modern, beautiful and completely well-off province with “Five Great Developments”.
