Hechi University (HCU) has over 70 years of history since its foundation in 1951. With the approval of Education Ministry of China and the People’s Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, HCU was upgraded to a comprehensive undergraduate university in 2003.
The University is located in Yizhou City in the northwestern part of Guangxi Autonomous Region. Yizhou City, which has a long history of over 2,100 years and a rich cultural legacy, is set in a picturesque landscape with convenient transportation. HCU’s campus boasts of wonderful environment, being surrounded by beautiful mountains and clear water.
HCU has two adjacent campuses: the east and west. The total campus covers an area of over 40 hectares. The teaching and research equipment is worth more than 120 million yuan. Computer networks covers all over HCU.
HCU insists on taking social demand as orientation, trying hardly to improve quality education. Students’ societies are quite active. At present, there are more than 70 different societies and clubs for students. In recent 3 years, the students have earned over 500 awards in various national and provincial competitions. Undergraduates here enjoy a colorful campus life.
HCU has over 900 teaching and administrative staff. There are more than 600 members of the teaching faculty, of which about 200 are associate professors and professors. 78% of the academic staff hold a master’s or a doctor’s degree. There are over 16, 000 full-time students studying for either degrees or diplomas from 19 provinces of China.
The running-school ideology: Taking Teachers as the Foundation of School-Running and Taking Students as the Foundation of Education. HCU, at present, has 13 faculties, 50 majors, covering 9 disciplines, including economics, law, pedagogy, literature, history, science, engineer, management and art.
We keep firmly to a featured scientific research road with the integration of production, teaching and research, primarily forming a scientific research pattern which is based on the minority nationality areas of the Red River Basin in the northwest of Guangxi, focuses on the development of Non- material cultural resources and featured natural resources and develops scientific research in tandem with serving local economic society.
HCU has established regular exchanges and cooperation with many universities and institutes abroad. In particular, HCU is working with a number of colleges and universities in Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Indonesia with whom it is carrying out extensive academic exchanges and cooperation.
