One
of the University¡¯s significant strengths is its strong
faculty, which includes scholars who have earned national
and international reputations in their fields. At present,
more than 1,200 full-time academics and faculties work
for Fuzhou University, including more than five hundred
professors and associate professors. Among them, there
are one academician, two awardees of the National Science
Foundation Prize for Outstanding Youth, one professor
honored as Minjiang River Scholar, forty-eight doctor¡¯s
degree supervisors and eight national experts. Honorary
professors of Fuzhou University include Nobel Prize-winning
scientists, Dr. Chen Ning Yang and Sir Aaron Klug, and
Professor Cheng Siwei, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee
of the National People¡¯s Congress.
The University consists of twenty-one colleges. There
is one post-doctoral research station. The University
offers thirteen PhD degree programs, sixty-eight master¡¯s
degree programs, and forty-seven bachelor¡¯s degree programs.
The University supports a national basic science research
and teaching personnel training base, a national key specialities
and eight provincial ¡°211 project¡± key specialities.
Fuzhou University is in the forefront of research
in several areas. The University runs the nation¡¯s only
Engineering and Research Centre for Chemical Fertilizer
Catalyst Agents. It supports forty-five research institutes.
Many projects conducted at the University have received
provincial and national awards.
