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    Founded in 1978, China Jiliang University is the only institution of regular
undergraduate education for quality supervision, inspection and quarantine in
China. It implements the administrative system of joint construction by the
province and the ministry with the province taking the principal part. The
University has the right to confer master’s degrees. It features on engineering
majors and features in coordinated development of engineering, science, management,
law, literature, economics, medicine (pharmacy) and philosophy etc. It boasts
distinctive characteristics of university operation in measurement, quality,
inspection, standards and other aspects. The University all along insists on
the principle of “establish education in measurement, train students with
standards and build a university with quality” and has formed an operation
pattern in which undergraduate education is the main part and is supplemented
with postgraduate and continuing education for adults. It enjoys the right to
enroll international students and those from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Now
Mr. Zhuang Songlin, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is the honorary
president of the University. Lin Jianzhong is the university president.
    The University is situated in Hangzhou, a well-known historical and cultural
city and a world-famous touring and leisure resort. Occupying an area of 1580
mu (1,053,333m2), its fabulous environment makes it an ideal place for studying
and doing academic research. At present, there are a total of 17 colleges
(education department), which are, Electromechanical Engineering College,
Measurement and Testing Engineering College, Information Engineering College,
Scientific and Technological College of Optics and Electronics, College of
Science and Engineering of Materials, Quality and Safety Engineering College,
Economics and Management College, College of Science, College of Life Science,
College of Law, College of Humanities and Social Science, College of Foreign
Languages, College of Art Design, LiangXin College, Physical Education and
Military Department, Adult (Further) Education College and Engineering Training
Center. It also has an independent college (College of Modern Science and Technology).
    The University currently has 14 master’s degree programs, 42 undergraduate courses,of which 9 are the key specialities at provincial level. Now it has more than 16000 full-time undergraduates and postgraduates, among which over 6000 are from theCollege of Modern Science and Technology China Jiliang University. It also has over
4000 registered students for continuing education. The University has a teaching and
administrative staff of more than 1300 people, among which over 860 are full-time
teachers. 86% full-time teachers hold doctor or master’s degrees.
    The University first and foremost insists on emphasizing disciplinary construction,
and highlights the cultivation of features of disciplines. Now it has 1 state-level
inspection center, 1 “Key of the Keys” discipline, 4 key disciplines, 1 key
laboratory and 1 experiment base in Zhejiang province, 4 key disciplines constructed
by the State Bureau of Quality and Technical Inspection, and 3 Trial Teaching and
Learning Demonstration Centers and 1 Cultural Quality Education Base of Zhejiang
Province. During the recent years, the University has been in charge of more than
280 scientific research projects of and above the provincial and ministerial levels
among which over 80 are the projects of natural scientific funds of the state and
the province. Altogether more than 170 monographs, academic works and textbooks
have been published.
    The University places personnel cultivation as the foundation while focusing on
both teaching and learning, and puts improving the quality of talent training at
the place of the utmost importance. It continuously deepens the reform of education
and teaching and has gradually formed the features of talent training of “Cultivating
the high-quality talents with firm sense of quality, distinct consciousness of
standards and strong capability of measurement” The quality of sources of students
is rising in steadiness. The graduates are warmly welcomed by the employers. The bottom mark for enrolment eligibility for undergraduate students and the initial employment rate of the graduates take the lead among other colleges and universities of the province at all times. It has had over 36000 excellent graduates.
    The University adheres to the principle of open management. It actively conducts
international exchanges and cooperation and has established intercollegiate
cooperative relations with more than 20 institutes of higher education and scientific
research in Germany, France, U.S., Australia, U.K. and other countries for academic
exchanges, talent cultivation, cooperative education etc.. It has also assumed many
scientific research projects for international cooperation such as the topic of
“Enterprise and Market Oriented Standardization”of the project of “EU-Asia
Coupling”. On Sep. 21st 2007, the University won the Award for Higher Education of
ISO Standardization on the 30th Conference of ISO, which is the first of the world.