The university has built 2 state-level research platforms, the National Solar-heater Quality Testing Center, the Sino-Laos Joint Lab for Recyclable Energy Resources, 33 research bases or platforms, including the Ministry of Education’s Key Lab, Engineering Research Center, Key Lab of Yunnan Province, Yunnan Engineering Center, and Philosophy and Social Science Research Base, etc., and 13 innovation teams at the provincial and ministerial level, including Educational Innovation Team, Science and Technological Innovation Team of Yunnan Province, etc. The university also set up two provincial Collaborative Innovation Centers, the Collaborative Innovation Center for Geopolitical Environment of Southwest China and Borderland Development, and the Collaborative Innovation Center for Research and Development of Recyclable Energy Resources in Southwest China. In addition, it is equipped with two new think tanks, one for educational policy-making of Yunnan and the other for researches on geopolitical environment of Southwest China and implementation of “One Belt, One Road” program. In the past three years, YNNU has undertaken 1, 779 different research projects, its research funds totaling over 557 million Yuan, among which 159 projects are newly approved and initiated from National Natural Science Foundation, 65 funded by National Social Science Foundation, and 15 National Prestigious Key Projects, such as the National Sci-tech Support Plan, Technological Benefiting Project of National Ministry of Science and Technology, a Major Bidding Project of National Social Science Foundation and a Special Commission Project of the National Social Science Foundation of China. The faculty has published 428 academic books, 104 of them by publishers of the top class. And 834 out of the 8774 published journal papers have been listed by SCI, EI, and ISTP, and 733 by CSSCI. The university has won 122 awards for academic achievements, including 2 National Universities’ Academic Research Awards, 99 Yunnan Philosophy and Social Science Research Awards, and 9 Yunnan Science and Technology Awards. YNNU also has had 74 patents authorized, 116 software copyright registered, and three National Standard Projects approved and initiated by the Standardization Administration of the People's Republic of China (SAC).
Currently YNNU has a staff of 2373, many of whom are experts with honors awarded by the Central Government, specialists winning the State Council Special Allowance, members from the “100 Talents Program” of Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) or the state-level “Ten Million Talents Project”, winners of the state-level “Outstanding Teacher” and “Teachers as Role Models of the Country”, and of “Young Faculty Award” granted by the Ministry of Education, candidates for the “New-century Talents Development Program” by the Ministry of Education, and for “West Light” talents development project by CAS, and important experts of the national research project of Marxist Theory. Some teachers have also won the national awards of “Model Workers and Advanced Workers”. In addition, YNNU has invited about 100 well-known experts from 40 countries and regions as its Honorary Professors, Guest Professors or Adjunct Professors, including Professor Chen-Ning Franklin Yang, Nobel Prize winner in physics in 1957, Professor Yang Le, Professor Guo Bailing, Professor Dai Ruwei, and Professor Ouyang Ziyuan, CAS academicians, Professor Gehan Amaratunga from Cambridge University, academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering, U.K., Professor Christopher A. Pissarides, fellow of British Academy and winner of Nobel Prize in economics sciences in 2010, Professor Seymour Topping, former Administrator of the Pulitzer Prize, and former managing editor of the New York Times, the world-famous futurologist Dr. John Naisbitt, and Wu Jinlian, renowned economist.
Boasting of international visions and modern ideas, YNNU has been designated by the Ministry of Education and the Hanban as one of the ten key universities supporting Chinese teaching in neighboring countries. It is the Cross-Strait Exchange Center at the site of Southwest Associated University sponsored by the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, Chinese Language and Culture Education Base by Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council (OCAOSC), Teacher Training Base for the International Promotion of Chinese Language, and the TCFL Teacher Training Base for Southeast Asian Countries by the Hanban, one of the first Chinese universities approved by the Chinese government to establish Confucius Institute abroad and provide scholarship awarded by the Chinese Government and Confucius Institute Headquarters to overseas students, one of the first National Demonstration Bases for International Education, and Education Training and Research Center for Overseas Studies by the MOE, the HSK and CFL Test Centers and authorized to enroll students from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan area. Up till now, it has set up one Confucius Institute, three Confucius Classrooms, and six Chinese Culture Centers abroad. YNNU has established collaborative ties with over 160 overseas universities and research institutes from more than 60 countries, such as Great Britain, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other regions of China, including Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. It has enrolled more than 16,000 overseas students from 81 countries in the past, and currently 1,725 international students are studying here, the greatest number in Yunnan universities.
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