Introduction
The university is located in Changchun Jingyue New and High-tech Industrial Development Zone, a national new and
high-tech industrial development zone. There is Jingyuetan National 5A Forest Park in the east, Xinlihu National
Water Conservancy Scenic Spot in the south, and Yitong River, the mother river of Changchun in the west. The
campus covers an area of 948000 square meters, with a total building area of 454000 square meters. The university
library has a collection of more than 1.4 million books, and the total value of teaching and scientific research
equipment is 437 million yuan. The campus planning is scientific and reasonable with complete functions. The
university constantly improves the humanistic environment, cultural facilities and landscape construction,
optimizes the learning environment, and fully meets the needs of students to become useful persons.
The university has more than 16000 full-time students, including more than 15000 undergraduates, 1400
postgraduates and more than 100 full-time overseas students. The university has more than 1300 teaching staff,
including 880 full-time teachers, more than 50% of whom have senior professional and technical titles, more than
370 have doctoral degrees, and 420 are doctoral and postgraduate tutors. The university has gathered more than 100
high-level experts and scholars such as academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, senior experts
directly contacted by the Central Government, senior professors in the field of philosophy and social sciences,
national outstanding young and medium-aged experts, personnel enjoying the special subsidies granted by the
government of the State Council, returned students with outstanding contributions to the state and “excellent
talents in the new century”, “Changbaishan scholars” and “Changbaishan skilled teachers” of the Ministry of
Education, senior experts in Jilin Province, the first-level, second-level and third-level candidates for
top-notch innovative talents in Jilin Province, outstanding contribution young and medium-aged experts from Jilin
Province, leaders of cross-century academic disciplines in Jilin Province, the first batch of 100 science and
technology leaders in Jilin Province, the first batch of discipline leading professors in Jilin Province, famous
teachers of Jilin Province, excellent teachers in Jilin Province, and leaders of brand specialties in Jilin
Province, the cross-century backbone teachers, architectural masters of Jilin Province and survey and design
masters of Jilin Province. The university has 19 schools (departments) including the School of Architecture and
Planning, the School of Civil Engineering, the School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering. The university
has 11 master’s degree authorized primary disciplines, including architecture, civil engineering, environmental
science and engineering, material science and engineering, surveying and mapping science and technology,
management science and engineering, urban and rural planning, design science, applied economics, Marxist theory,
safety science and engineering; The university has 11 master’s degree authorization categories, including
architecture, machinery, resources and environment, energy power, civil water conservancy, transportation,
landscape architecture, social work, electronic information, engineering management and art, etc. Civil
engineering is a first-rate class A discipline with high-level characteristics in Jilin Province; architecture is
a “first-rate class B discipline” with high-level characteristics in Jilin Province; material science and
engineering, management science and engineering, environmental science and engineering are the “superior
characteristic disciplines class A” of Jilin Province with high-level characteristics. Smart city science and
engineering is a “new interdisciplinary subject” with high-level characteristics in Jilin Province.
The university adheres to carry out scientific research around the major needs of national and regional economic
and social development, and supports high-quality education and teaching and high-quality social services with
high-level scientific research. The university’s research in the fields of green buildings in severe cold areas,
water environment treatment and protection in the Songhua River basin, building disaster prevention and
mitigation, urbanization construction planning, facilities and real estate management (FM), Building Information
Collaborative Design (BIM), restoration and utilization of historical buildings is at the advanced level in China.
The university has two key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, namely, the “lab of water environment in
Songhua River and Liaohe River basin” and the “lab of comprehensive energy conservation of buildings in cold
regions”. At present, the university has 35 provincial (ministerial) level or above scientific research platforms,
including the major demand collaborative innovation center of universities of water resources and water
environment in the Songhua River and Liaohe River basin in Jilin Province, key laboratory of building electrical
comprehensive energy conservation in Jilin Province, Jilin building integration technology collaborative
innovation center, Jilin structure and earthquake resistance technology innovation center, Jilin green and
ecological building materials cross-regional cooperation technology innovation center, Jilin new energy and
environmental science and technology innovation center, Jilin cold green building technology engineering research
center, the first batch of university-enterprise joint technology innovation laboratory of “new building
materials” in Jilin Province, Jilin building industry development research base, Jilin construction culture
research base, including. In recent years, the university has undertaken more than 120 national scientific
research projects, including major national science and technology projects, national key R & D plans, national
natural science foundation projects, national social science foundation projects, national art foundation projects
and more than 1000 vertical scientific research projects at all levels; the university has won more than 300
awards from the governments at all levels, including 2 second prizes of National Science and Technology Progress
Award, 1 second prize of National Technological Invention Award and 1 first prize of Science and Technology
Progress Award of the Ministry of education. The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s
Republic of China awarded the university the honorary title of “advanced unit of science and technology in the
national construction system”.
The university has set up 53 undergraduate specialties, with the deep integration of discipline chain, specialty
chain and building industry chain, and has built a number of advantageous specialties (groups) serving the
development of regional and building industry. Six specialties, including safety engineering, civil engineering,
surveying and mapping engineering, environmental engineering, water supply and drainage science and engineering,
and geological engineering, have passed the engineering education certification first, achieved international
substantial equivalence, and entered the “first formation” of global engineering education. Six civil engineering
specialties, including architecture (undergraduate specialty), civil engineering, building environment and energy
application engineering, water supply and drainage science and engineering, engineering management, urban and
rural planning, have passed the national civil engineering education evaluation. The university has five
provincial pilot specialties of “excellent engineer education and training plan”, two provincial “talent training
mode innovation experimental zones”, one provincial “professional comprehensive reform experimental zone”, two
provincial innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration specialty construction sites, and two provincial top
talent training bases for basic disciplines. In “double-ten-thousand plan” for the construction of first-class
undergraduate specialties of the Ministry of Education, nine specialties, including architecture, civil
engineering, building environment and energy engineering, road and bridge and river crossing engineering,
inorganic non-metallic material engineering, surveying and mapping engineering, engineering management,
environmental design, water supply and drainage science and engineering, were selected as the national first-class
specialty construction points and 7 specialties, including urban and rural planning, building electrical and
intelligent, water supply and drainage science and engineering urban underground space engineering, geological
engineering, safety engineering, environmental engineering and traffic engineering were approved as the
first-class professional construction points in Jilin Province. In recent years, the university has won 29
national and provincial teaching achievement awards, among which the Practice of Engineering Talent Training
Reform in Local Colleges and Universities for Professional Needs” won the second prize of national teaching
achievement awards in 2018. The university strives to improve the quality of personnel training, and focuses on
enhancing students’ innovative spirit, practical ability and sense of social responsibility. It takes promoting
students’ all-round development and adapting to social needs as the fundamental standard of the quality of
personnel training. It is committed to cultivating and bringing up applied senior professionals with the “solid
theoretical foundation, solid practical ability, simple ideological style” and international vision and innovation
ability, forming the “three practical” talent training characteristics. The university attaches great importance
to innovation and entrepreneurship education. It is one of the first batch of demonstration universities in China
to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education. In 2017, it was rated as one of the “top 50
universities with typical experience of innovation and entrepreneurship in China” by the Ministry of Education. In
2018 and 2020, it was rated as “China’s typical model university of entrepreneurship and innovation” by China
Internet News Center; it has been identified as “mass entrepreneurship and innovation demonstration base of Jilin
Province” and “college students innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration base of Jilin Province” by Jilin
Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Jilin Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security,
Jilin Provincial Department of Education and other departments.The university strives to create the campus culture
that advocates science, preciseness and realism, and is good at creation. It has been awarded the “pilot
university of three-comprehensive education reform in Jilin Province”, “civilized campus in Jilin Province”,
“civilized unit in Jilin Province” and “national demonstration unit of factory affairs (university affairs)
openness and democratic management” and the honorary title of “May 1st Labor Certificate” in Jilin Province. The
university constantly strengthens the construction of teachers’ ethics, and strives to create a team of teachers
with ideals and beliefs, moral sentiment, solid knowledge and benevolence”. The “energy and environment teachers
innovation team in the Songhua River and Liaohe River basin” was identified as one of the first batch of Huang
Danian-type teachers team in the colleges and universities of Jilin Province. In recent years, dozens of teachers
have won the honorary titles of “National March 8 Red Flag Bearer”, provincial and municipal labor model,
provincial and municipal outstanding Communist Party members and advanced individuals with teachers’ ethics. The
university vigorously strengthens the education of students’ humanistic quality and scientific spirit, strives to
improve students’ personality, temperament, self-cultivation and other internal qualities, integrates the
requirements and tasks of ideological and moral education into students’ study and life, and organizes and carries
out campus cultural activities with brand characteristics. In recent years, the university has repeatedly achieved
outstanding results in various activities of college and university students across the country and in Jilin
Province. It is rated as the national excellent organization unit.
The employment rate and quality of the graduates continue to maintain a high level, and the university has been
repeatedly rated as the “advanced collective of employment management of college and university graduates in Jilin
Province”. The quality of graduates’ employment has been steadily improved. In recent years, the proportion of
graduates entering the first-tier cities in China and those entering the world and domestic top 500 enterprises
such as China Construction Corporation, China Railway Corporation, China Railway Construction Corporation, China
Communication Construction Group Co., Ltd., China Metallurgical Construction Group Co., Ltd. has reached more than
50%. Since its establishment, the university has trained more than 80000 graduates, who have been active in the
field of national urban and rural infrastructural construction, and become the backbone in the fields of
architectural research, design, construction and management.
In order to accelerate the modernization of school education and cultivate high-level international talents with
global vision and international competitiveness, the university has established cooperative and exchange relations
with more than 60 universities and scientific research institutions in more than 50 countries and regions,
including the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, Japan, South Korea and Singapore, etc. The university has
actively introduced advanced education concepts and high-quality education resources from developed countries, and
successively cooperated with the Pacific National University of Russia, Portland State University of the United
States, and Youngston State University of the United States to hold the undergraduate-level Sino-foreign
cooperative education projects in architecture, engineering management, civil engineering, electrical engineering
and automation; the university has carried out academic exchanges and scientific research cooperation with
University of Iowa, University of the Arts of San Francisco, University of Leicester and other foreign
universities and scientific research institutions through teachers’ exchange, students’ exchange and overseas
talent introduction; more than 100 experts and scholars, including foreign academicians of the Chinese Academy of
Engineering, are appointed as honorary professors and visiting professors, and more than 50 foreign experts and
scholars are invited to give lectures every year; each year, more than 300 teachers and students are sent abroad
for academic exchanges, scientific research cooperation, investigation and visits.Facing the important strategic
opportunity period of China’s economic and social development in the new era, the university adheres to the
discipline construction as the guide, focuses on the reform of system and mechanism, focuses on the improvement of
innovation ability, and adheres to the road of connotation development. All teachers, students and staff work hard
to overcome difficulties and make unremitting efforts for the goal of building a “teaching and research-oriented
socialist modern university with distinctive characteristics, first-class in the field and advanced in the same
category”!
Jilin Jianzhu University is a key university in Jilin Province, which is based on engineering, characterized by
civil engineering, supported and coordinated by science, engineering, literature, management, law, art, economics
and other disciplines. It is a university jointly built by the People’s Government of Jilin Province and the
Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. It is one of the first 100 demonstration universities in China to
deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education. It is a training base for senior professionals in
the field of urban and rural capital construction, a scientific and technological research and development base,
and a service base for industrial development decision-making consultation and technological innovation in Jilin
Province.
