Jilin University (JLU; ; often abbreviated JLU or ) is a leading national

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located in

Changchun Changchun (, ; ), also romanized as Ch'angch'un, is the capital and largest city of Jilin Province, People's Republic of China. Lying in the center of the Songliao Plain, Changchun is administered as a , comprising 7 districts, 1 county and 3 ...

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. It is under the direct jurisdiction of China's Ministry of Education. It is a Chinese Ministry of Education Class A Double First Class University. It is strongly supported by state key projects such as Double First Class University Plan, former Project 985, Project 211 and Project 2011. Jilin University is consistently ranked as one of the most prestigious universities in China, and has research projects in automobile engineering, chemistry, computer science, electrical engineering and biology be identified as internationally renowned. In 2017, the university is supported to achieve Class A "world-class" academic status under the Double First Class University Plan by China. JLU's alumni include the Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China Liu Yandong.

History

Founded in 1946 as the Northeast College of

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, Jilin University merged with many universities and colleges and changed its name many times. In May 1948, the Northeast Administration College merged with the Harbin University and was renamed Northeast Academy of Science. In November 1948, the Northeast Academy of Science moved to

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and restored the name of Northeast Administration College. In 1950, it was renamed as Northeast People's University. After the

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broke out, it was relocated to

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. In 1958, it was renamed Jilin University. In 2000, the former Jilin University, the former Jilin University of Technology, the former Norman Bethune University of Medical Sciences, the former Changchun University of Science and Technology (established 1951) and the former Changchun Institute of Posts and Telecommunications combined to form the current Jilin University. On August 29, 2004, the former University of Military Logistics also merged with JLU. The university established a campus in

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in 2003.

Academics

The university has seven campuses in six districts that are home to 47 colleges covering 13 academic disciplines, including

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, law,

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engineering Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more speciali ...

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people ...

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military science Military science is the study of military processes, institutions, and behavior, along with the study of warfare, and the theory and application of organized coercive force. It is mainly focused on theory, method, and practice of producing mi ...

and art. The university has five

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, one national engineering laboratory, six national-local joint laboratories, one national engineering and technology research center, six humanities and social science key research bases of the Ministry of Education, ten key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, five engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education and 18 key laboratories of other ministries. It is a comprehensive and national key university. JLU offers a variety of degree programs. It has 129 undergraduate programs, 304

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programs, 244

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programs, and 42 centers for post-doctoral studies, 47 first-class university and discipline construction projects. There are 73,702 full-time students, with 27,397 postgraduate students, 43,260 undergraduate and college students, over 2,000 overseas students. There are 6,657 faculty members in total, among which there are 2,110 professors and 1,618 doctoral advisors. There are 43 members of Chinese Academy of Sciences or Chinese Academy of Engineering (including 33 adjunct members), 7 senior professors of philosophical and social sciences, 20 members of assessment group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, 29 involved in the “ Ten Thousand Talents Program”, 8 national-level outstanding teachers, 5 chief experts in research and construction projects of the Marxism theory in the central government, 6 chief scientists in the national “

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”, 15 young and middle-aged experts with prominent contribution, 59 selected in the “ Changjiang Scholars Program”, 33 winners of the “ National Outstanding Youth Fund”, 31 winners of “ National Excellent Youth Fund” and 90 selected in “Changbai Mountain Scholars” in Jilin Province.

Rankings and reputation

Jilin University was one of the Project 985 universities in China to appear in the world’s top 500 universities in the first global university ranking in 2003, according to the ''

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.'' The joint '' THE-QS World University Rankings'' 2005 ranked Jilin University =245th in the world. As of 2021, the CWTS Leiden Ranking table 2021 ranked Jilin University at 11th in the world based on their publications for the time period 2016–2019. In 2021, it ranked 70th among the universities around the world by ''

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2021/22 ranked Jilin University at 105th globally. Jilin University ranked 223rd worldwide and 23rd nationwide in the Center for World University Ranking (CWUR) 2022/23.

Facilities

There are more than 50 multimedia and language learning audiovisual classrooms. Special attention has been paid to the construction of 20 basic science laboratories. The university library claims a collection of 7.57 million books and is designated as the library of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO),

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(UNIDO) and

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. It serves as the Comprehensive Information Center of Liberal Arts of the Education Ministry, the only Foreign Scientific Text Book Center in Northeast China, and the National Humanities and Social Science Higher Education Books Import Center. It is one of the seven centers of China Academic Library and Information System (CALIS) Center in Northeast China. Several campuses have gymnasiums, stadiums, and arenas for basketball, volleyball, table tennis and artistic gymnastics. The Nanling Campus Stadium, which has a grass soccer field surrounded by standard synthetic racetracks, has 10,000 seats. There are tennis and basketball courts throughout the campus. Jilin University has established ties with more than 289 universities, colleges, and research institutes in 39 countries/districts. Over 2,000 foreign students currently attend the university.

People

Notable alumni

* Du Qinglin - politician, vice chairman of

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, Head of the United Front Work Department of the

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. * Hu Huaibang - chairman of China Development Bank. * Li Congjun -former President of China's

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. * Liu Qibao - head of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee. *

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- 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner * Liu Yandong - Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China *

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- first minister of the

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. * Wang Gang (politician) -Director of the

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* Wang Gongquan - liberal activist, main leader and financial backer of the New Citizens' Movement * Wang Yongqing - Secretary-General of the

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* Wang Jiarui - Vice Chairman of the

, director of the

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from 2003 to 2015. *

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- former Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission of the People's Republic of China, party chief of Minister of Land and Resources * Xu Xianming - China's leading authority on human rights law * Yin Weimin - Minister of Human Resources and Social Security and a deputy head of the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party. * Zhang Jun (politician) - Chinese politician and former judge, serving currently as the Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection the country's top anti-corruption body, and the Minister of Justice. He formerly served as Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice of the People's Republic of China and Vice President of the Supreme People's Court.

Notable faculty

* Andrey Baykov - Russian international relations scholar, Vice-Rector of Moscow State University of International Relations. *

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- Emeritus Professor at the

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, fellow of the

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* Yury Gogotsi - leading Ukrainian scientist in the field of material chemistry, professor at

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, founder and director of the A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute * Chen Jia'er - nuclear physicist, an

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and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. * Han Dayuan - President of the Chinese Constitutional Law Society in Renmin University of China * Huai Jinpeng - computer scientist, party secretary of the

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- member of the South West Africa People's Organization and National Assembly of Namibia, Deputy Speaker of Parliament. *

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- professor at the department of Computer Science in

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- founder of China's geomechanics, first present of former

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(now as College of Earth Sciences, Jilin University). * Lawrence Lau - Hong Kong economist and the former Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. * Long Yifei - Associate Dean of Renmin University of China Law School * Alan MacDiarmid - winner of

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. * Wilma Olson - professor at the BioMaPS institute for Quantitative Biology at

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., visiting professor at the Polymer Chemistry Department of the Jilin University. * Helmut Ringsdorf -

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, known for being the first to propose covalently bonding drugs to water-soluble polymers. * Steve Smith (academic) - international relations theorist, Vice Chancellor of the

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and Professor of International Studies. * Song Yuquan, materials scientist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. * Sun Weiguo - president of Xihua University * Tang Aoqing or Au-Chin Tang, theoretical chemist, President of Jilin University, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences * Wang Xianghao - mathematician who introduced the Grunwald–Wang theorem, correcting an error in Wilhelm Grunwald's original statement and proof of this. * Yevgeny Yasin - prominent Russian economist, academic supervisor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. * Ying Xu - computational biologist and bioinformatician, chair professor in the Institute of Bioinformatics at the University of Georgia * You Xiaozeng -Chinese inorganic chemist, educator and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. * Zhou Ji (Tsinghua University) - "Changjiang Scholar" distinguished Professor, at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, of

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* Zhou Qifeng - Chinese chemist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, President of

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. * Zhu Wenxiong - Chinese linguist. *

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- renowned Chinese nuclear physicist, head and first director of Jilin University Department of Physics