Overview 　

Shihezi University is a national "211 Project" key construction university, a national western development key construction university, and a provincial joint university. It is a "central and western university basic capacity building project" and a "central and western university comprehensive strength improvement project" (one province, one School) was selected as a college. In 2017, the school was selected as a national "double first-class" construction (first-class discipline) university, the first batch of national demonstration universities for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, and the third batch of "national colleges and universities practice education innovation and entrepreneurship base". 

In 2018, the school was selected as a university of the Ministry of Education and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps "Ministry-provincial Joint Construction". In 2019, the school was selected as the second batch of "National Party Building Work Demonstration Colleges" cultivation and founding unit. In 2020, the school was awarded the "National Civilized Campus". 　　

The predecessor of the school was born in September 1949 on the march of the Chinese People's Liberation Army to liberate Xinjiang. In April 1996, it was formed by the merger of Shihezi Agricultural College, Shihezi Medical College, XPCC Teachers College and XPCC Economics College. 　　

The school always adheres to the school positioning of "based on the Corps, serving Xinjiang, facing the country, radiating Central Asia, and looking at the world", adheres to the school philosophy of "service as the purpose, development through contribution", and adheres to the "education of people with the spirit of the Corps for the maintenance of stability" The school-running characteristics of "Services at Frontiers" has become an important force for maintaining stability and safeguarding borders and building borders. 　　

The school currently has 11 majors in economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, and art. The school has 94 undergraduate majors, 8 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 26 first-level discipline master degree authorization points, 20 master degree authorization categories, 4 post-doctoral research mobile stations, and 2 post-doctoral research workstations. There are 1 national first-class construction discipline, 1 national key discipline, and 10 autonomous region key disciplines. The three disciplines of clinical medicine, agricultural science, and chemistry are among the top 1% of ESI in the world. There are 12 national-level first-class professional construction sites, 8 national-level first-class courses, and 18 provincial-level first-class professional construction sites. There are 3 national teaching teams, 2 national teaching teachers, 4 national quality courses, 3 quality video open courses, 2 quality resource sharing courses, 5 national characteristic professional construction projects, and 1 experimental teaching demonstration center. A. The school is a pilot university for the Ministry of Education's outstanding (doctors, engineers, agricultural and forestry talents) education and training programs, and has 6 pilot programs for the outstanding talent training programs. The school also has a national university student cultural quality education base and an off-campus practice education base. 　　

The scientific research of the school closely focuses on the major national and regional strategic needs, in-depth implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy, with the deepening of the reform of the scientific research system and mechanism as the driving force, strengthening basic research and applied research, promoting the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and giving full play to the advantages of large-scale integration and strong application of disciplines. 

Adhere to the road of integration of production, education and research, in the "desert oasis area of high-efficiency agriculture and ecology, animal genetic improvement and disease control, Xinjiang local and ethnic high-incidence prevention, high-efficiency storage and deep processing of Xinjiang agricultural products, Xinjiang special botanical resources and development, chemical green technology And new material technology, Xinjiang characteristic agricultural production mechanization technology and equipment, XPCC’s economic and social development" and other research fields with geographical advantages and characteristics have made breakthroughs. 

During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, more than 1,000 projects at the provincial and ministerial level and above were approved, such as the National Key Research and Development Program, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Philosophy and Social Science Major Bidding Project, and the Corps Major Science and Technology Program, and 2200 major scientific and technological achievements have been obtained. More than 160 items have been awarded at the provincial and ministerial level or above, and 1 third prize of the 8th Higher School Scientific Research Outstanding Achievement Award (Humanities and Social Sciences). 

The school currently has 2 national key laboratory cultivation bases jointly established by the province and the ministry, 2 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 1 key laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture, 1 key laboratory of the Health and Health Committee, 10 key laboratories of the Corps, and national 3 international science and technology cooperation bases, 2 engineering centers of the Ministry of Education, 1 national and local joint engineering research center, 2 national and local joint engineering laboratories, 1 national university science and technology park, 1 national new rural development research institute, corps project 3 Technology Research Centers, 2 Ministry of Education 2011 Collaborative Innovation Centers jointly established by the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Education, 4 Corps Collaborative Innovation Centers, 1 University Disciplinary Innovation and Intelligence Introduction Base ("111" Plan), National Clinical Medical Research Center Corps Branch Center Two, one research center of the National Civil Affairs Commission, four key humanities research bases in the autonomous region and the XPCC, and two new-type science and technology innovation think tanks in the XPCC. 　　

The school has good teaching and scientific research conditions. The campus area is 1.794 million square meters, the school building area is 1.261 million square meters, the laboratory and internship area area is 269,700 square meters, and the green coverage rate is 41%. It has a number of landmark buildings such as well-equipped libraries, gymnasiums, swimming pools, track and field stadiums, standard stadiums, halls, comprehensive teaching buildings, museums, and 4 affiliated hospitals. 　　

The school has 2581 faculty members, 1860 full-time teachers, 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 2 distinguished professors of the "Changjiang Scholars Award Program" of the Ministry of Education, 2 young scholars, 1 chair professor, and the chief scientist of the national "973 Program" project There are 2 people, 314 professors and 652 associate professors. It has 2 innovation teams from the Ministry of Education, 1 Huang Danian-style teacher team, 10 people selected into the "New Century Excellent Talent Support Program" of the Ministry of Education, and 83 experts at or above the provincial and ministerial level. 　　

The school recruits students from 31 provinces (cities, districts) across the country, and currently has 41,840 students, including 22,532 ordinary undergraduates, 1,461 ordinary junior college students, and 5,575 master and doctoral students. The employment rate of undergraduate graduates of the school has been in the forefront of Xinjiang universities for many years. It has successively won the honorary titles of "National Advanced Collective for Employment of General College Graduates" and "50 Universities with Typical Employment Experience of National Graduates". 　　

The school has extensively carried out foreign exchanges and cooperation, established an international education center, and established a Confucius Institute in Kazakhstan. It has successively carried out multi-level and wide-ranging exchanges and cooperation with more than 70 universities and scientific research institutions in the United States, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Austria, Japan, South Korea and other countries. There have been 32 countries in succession. More than 1,350 people came to the school to study. 　　

The school actively expands inter-school, school-site, school-enterprise exchanges and cooperation. Since 2001, Peking University has been supporting Shihezi University for a long time. In 2010, Peking University was the leader unit, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, East China University of Science and Technology, and Huazhong Agricultural University were the deputy team leaders, Chongqing University, Jiangnan University, and Foreign Economic Relations The university team of the University of Business, Nanjing Normal University, and South China Agricultural University as the member units supported Shihezi University; in 2018, China Agricultural University assisted in the establishment of the agricultural engineering discipline of our school. 

The school has signed inter-school cooperation agreements with more than 30 domestic universities such as Zhejiang University, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi Normal University, etc.; with the third division, eighth division, tenth division, fourteenth division, Manas County, Shawan County, More than 30 units in Heshuo County and other corps and autonomous regions have signed school-site cooperation agreements; they have established school-enterprise partnerships with more than 30 companies including Xinjiang Tianye, Xinjiang Tianfu, Tianshan Aluminum, and Xinjiang Western Animal Husbandry. 　　

Taking advantage of the new era of revitalizing higher education in the central and western regions and the comprehensive deepening of reforms by the Xinjiang Corps, Shihezi University is moving towards the goal of building a first-class, internationally renowned and high-level university with characteristics in the western region!