Sichuan Tourism University
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Sichuan Tourism College is the first full-time undergraduate university in China named “Tourism” and sponsored by the People’s Government of Sichuan Province. It is the first full-time undergraduate university named “Tourism” in China, approved by the Ministry of Education in 2013 and established by the merger of Sichuan Higher Institute of Cuisine and Sichuan Agricultural Management Cadre College. In September 2021, the university was selected as the fifth batch of national non-traditional representative project protection units. The school adheres to the orientation of “local and application-oriented”, clearly defines the idea of “one main line and four persistent”, shoulders the historical mission of “strengthening tourism and serving the country”, continuously deepens the education and teaching reform, inherits the excellent Chinese tourism and culinary culture, and cultivates applied talents to adapt to the economic and social development.
The main campus is located at 459 Hongling Road, Longquanyi District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, covering an area of 672,000 square meters (1,008 acres). The school has concentrated scenic spots such as Emei, Qingcheng, Jiuzhai, Huanglong, Minshan, Minjiang River, Leshan Buddha and Dujiangyan into the campus, and has built a national AAA-level tourist attraction—Leisure Food Culture Park, forming a unique pattern of campus in the scenic area and scenic area in the campus, with seamless connection between classroom and real scenery. Culture and tourism complement each other. The university has built rock climbing sports field, comprehensive training hall for leisure sports, Chinese Tang ball practice field, beach volleyball field, tennis court, badminton court, swimming pool and other leisure sports facilities, and various laboratories at all levels that can meet the needs of teaching and research of various disciplines and majors, and has built a “nine-in-one” pattern of teaching, research, competition, double creation, training, sightseeing, leisure, food and fitness. The “nine in one” pattern is established. The school motto of “read ten thousand books, travel ten thousand miles” inspires the teachers and students of the college to know and act in unison, and to walk steadily and far; the school spirit of “perseverance and determination, specialization and innovation” guides the generations of people of the college to move forward and forge ahead.
The school has 10,080 full-time students, including 9,294 undergraduates. There are 14 secondary colleges, including College of Culinary Arts, College of Food, College of Hilton Hotel Management, College of Sports and Leisure, College of Tourism and Culture Industry, College of Economics and Management, College of Information and Engineering, College of Foreign Languages, College of Arts, College of Health Industry, College of Big Data and Statistics, College of Continuing Education, College of Marxism, College of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Among them, Hilton College of Hotel Management is the second college in the world established by our university in cooperation with Hilton Hotel Management Group. The school offers 28 undergraduate majors in culinary and nutrition education, food science and engineering, exhibition economics and management, hotel management, leisure sports, tourism management, building electrical and intelligent, landscape architecture, business English, logistics engineering, etc., covering seven disciplines, including management, engineering, literature, science, education, art and economics. At the same time, the school also offers specialties such as Chinese and Western cooking and golf.
The university has established 2011 Sichuan Cuisine Industrialization and Internationalization Collaborative Innovation Center, 2011 Sichuan-Tibet Tourism Industry Competitiveness Enhancement Collaborative Innovation Center, Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory of Culinary Science, Sichuan Provincial University Sichuan Cuisine Industrialization Engineering Research Center, Sichuan Provincial University Sichuan-Tibet Wisdom Tourism Engineering Research Center, Chinese Food Culture Institute, Sichuan Cuisine Development Research Center, European and American Food Culture Research Center, China Logistics Association The provincial-level research institutions such as Industry-University-Research Base of China Society of Logistics, National Vocational Skill Identification Institute, Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Chinese and Foreign Humanities Exchange, etc.; provincial and municipal social science research platforms such as Gourmet and Tourism Culture Popularization Base, Research Base for Refined Governance of Megacities, etc.; Mountain Tourism Research Institute, Golden Dragon Fish International Culinary Research Institute, Sichuan Cuisine Specialty Seasoning Research Institute, Li and Taste Sichuan Tourism College Joint Sichuan Seasoning Research Institute, Hotpot Industry Collaborative Innovation Joint Laboratory, Potato Deep Processing Research Institute, Longquan Mountain B&B Research Institute and other research institutions jointly built by the university and enterprises; there are food processing and testing experimental teaching demonstration center, Western Tourism Development Research Center, Rural Leisure Tourism Research and Design Center, Institute of Higher Education, Red Culture Education Institute and other research and teaching institutions. The university is the vice director unit of Catering Teaching Steering Committee of Ministry of Education, the chairman unit of National Catering Education Committee of China Culinary Association, the vice chairman unit of World Federation of Chinese Cuisine and the chairman unit of International Education Branch, the vice chairman unit of China Hotel Association, and the vice chairman unit of Industry-Education Integration Union of Applied Universities in Chengdu-Chongqing Region Twin Cities Economic Circle.
The university library has more than 1.07 million paper books and 700,000 electronic books, and has purchased 29 comprehensive databases, thematic databases, examination resources, electronic books, dissertation testing and other kinds of database resources covering all disciplines and majors of the university; it has built a wired-wireless integrated 10 Gigabit campus network.
There are 823 faculty members, including 475 full-time teachers, 225 of whom have associate or senior titles, accounting for 47.37% of the total; 412 teachers have master’s degrees or above, accounting for 86.74%; 228 teachers are “double-teacher and double-competent”, accounting for 48%. There are 2 experts with special allowances from the State Council, 3 members of the Education Commission of the Ministry of Education, 1 National Model Worker, 2 winners of the National May Day Labor Medal, 1 National Technician, 46 Chinese food safety experts, experts in non-foreign heritage, culinary masters, baking masters, etc., 13 academic and technical leaders and reserve candidates from Sichuan Province, 4 outstanding experts with outstanding contributions from Sichuan Province, 14 members of the Education Commission of Sichuan Province There are more than 60 people who have won the honorary titles of Sichuan May Day Labor Medal, Youth May Fourth Medal, 38th Red Flag Hand, Famous Teacher of Teaching, Tourism Expert, Top Ten Athletes, Chengdu Sichuan Cuisine Famous Chef, Yidu Craftsman, etc.
There are 1 national teaching team, 8 provincial teaching teams, 13 provincial “first-class, characteristic, advantageous, application-oriented demonstration, comprehensive reform pilot” majors, 2 national high-quality resource sharing courses, provincial “first-class, undergraduate application-oriented demonstration, high-quality online A total of 58 courses have been established, including “first-class, undergraduate application-oriented demonstration, open, innovation and entrepreneurship education demonstration, and curriculum thinking and government demonstration”; 1 national vocational skills appraisal institute; 3 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 2 provincial off-campus practice education bases for college students, 166 experimental training rooms with various characteristics, 189 teaching practice training bases, 1 provincial new engineering project, and 1 provincial new liberal arts project. The Ministry of Education has been awarded 36 projects of University-Industry Cooperation and Collaborative Education; 3 provincial government teaching achievement awards in the past two sessions.
From 2018 to 2021, the university won 1 national silver award and 12 national bronze awards in the “Internet+” competition, 11 provincial gold awards, 35 provincial silver awards and 58 provincial bronze awards.
The school insists on the integration of industry and education, school-enterprise cooperation and internationalization. The university has signed cooperation agreements with 29 universities (institutions) in 14 countries (regions), such as France and Italy; the university is the initiator and director of “China-ASEAN Tourism Education Alliance” and participates in ASEAN tourism education cooperation; the university has joined the EU I The school is one of the only 4 institutions in China to join the EU’s Erasmus+ Higher Education Capacity Enhancement Project for Sustainable Tourism Talents. Long-term cooperation with Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Australia, the United States and other countries to carry out overseas internship employment program. The university has established stable cooperative relationships with 12 departments and bureaus, including Sichuan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Sichuan Provincial Forestry and Grassland Bureau, Meishan City, Ziyang City, 27 local governments and related associations, research institutes, universities and enterprises, carried out a large number of collaborative education and cultural tourism project construction, developed 14 standards for the local (industry), and formulated industrial development plans for tourism, Sichuan cuisine, outdoor sports and other industries for the provincial and municipal governments and It has built a comprehensive and diversified cooperative education mechanism of industry-education integration and school-enterprise cooperation.
After years of construction and development, the school is rooted in Sichuan, facing tourism, establishing moral education, strengthening tourism and serving the country, cultivating applied talents and serving the local area with a clear positioning, consolidating the status of teaching center, greatly improving school conditions, and making remarkable achievements in talent training, scientific research, social services, cultural heritage and innovation, and international exchange and cooperation. Teachers and students of the university will gather wisdom, reform and innovation, work together and overcome difficulties to build the university into a distinctive application-oriented university and strive hard!
