Suzhou University is located in Suzhou, a famous historical and cultural city known as "paradise on earth". It is one of the first universities listed in the "211 Project" and "2011 plan" of the state. It is a University jointly built by the Ministry of education and the people's Government of Jiangsu Province, the State Administration of science, technology and industry for national defense and the people's Government of Jiangsu Province. It is a key comprehensive university of Jiangsu Province. Suzhou University, formerly known as Soochow University (founded in 1900), is the first university in China to be organized by the discipline system of modern universities, which is the pioneer of modern higher education and the elite of Chinese and Western culture. In the history of China's higher education, Soochow University was the first university to carry out postgraduate education and grant master's degree, to carry out professional education of law (British and American Law) and to establish a journal. In 1952, with the adjustment of departments in mainland China, Sunan normal college was established by the combination of the school of Arts and science of Soochow University, Sunan Institute of culture and education, and the Department of mathematics and physics of Jiangnan University. In the same year, it was renamed Jiangsu normal college. In 1982, it was renamed Soochow University. Since then, Suzhou sericulture College (1995), Suzhou Silk Institute of Technology (1997) and Suzhou Medical College (2000) have been incorporated into Suzhou University. From the bright stars in the period of the Republic of China to the pioneering and innovation in the era of the Republic of China, from the insistence on the context of normal education to the strategic transformation and return of comprehensive universities, from the leapfrog development of multi University Merger to the first-class reconstruction and glory, Suzhou University has made a significant contribution to the history of higher education in China.

    For more than a century, generations of Su adults have always adhered to the school motto of "keeping the heaven and the earth upright, making the ancient and the modern perfect", adhered to the principle of academic supremacy, learning for application, advocated freedom and openness, tolerance and accumulation, and pursued excellence, insisted on erudition and practice, and was committed to cultivating model citizens with "the spirit of freedom, outstanding ability, independent personality, and social responsibility" During the period of running the school, more than 500000 professional talents were sent to the society, including Xu Deheng, Zhou Gucheng, Fei Xiaotong, Lei Jieqiong, sun Qimeng, Zhao Puchu, Qian Weichang, Dong Yinchu, Li Zhengdao, Ni zhengri'ao, Zheng Bijiang, Yang Tieliang, Cha Liangyong and other elite pillars and celebrities; Tan Jiazhen, Chen Ziyuan, Yu Mingfang, song Daxiang, Zhan Qi More than 30 academicians of the two academies, including min, have made important contributions to national construction and social development.

    Suzhou University has 12 disciplines, including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management and art. The university has 30 colleges (departments), 27615 full-time undergraduates, 10471 full-time masters, 2689 part-time masters, 711 on-the-job masters, 1859 full-time doctoral students and 3271 international students. The university now has 131 undergraduate majors, 50 first-class discipline master's programs, 24 professional degree master's programs, 28 first-class discipline doctor's programs, 1 Professional Degree Doctor's program, and 30 post doctoral mobile stations. The university has 1 national first-class discipline, 4 national key disciplines, 20 advantageous disciplines in Jiangsu Universities, and 9 key disciplines in Jiangsu Province during the 13th five year plan. Up to now, 13 disciplines of school chemistry, physics, materials science, clinical medicine, engineering, pharmacy and toxicology, biology and biochemistry, neuroscience and behavioral science, molecular biology and genetics, immunology, mathematics, computer science and agricultural science have entered the top 1% of the global basic scientific indicators (ESI), and two disciplines of chemistry and materials science have entered the global basic 1 ‰ before scientific index (ESI).

    The university has 2 national talent training bases, 1 national innovative talent training demonstration base, 3 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 National virtual simulation experimental teaching demonstration center, 2 National virtual simulation experimental teaching projects, 2 national talent training model innovation experimental areas, and 1 National off campus practical teaching base for college students. One national 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center (leading unit), one key research base for Humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of education, one national key laboratory jointly established by the Ministry of education, one national engineering laboratory, two national and local joint engineering laboratories, two national joint research centers for international cooperation, three national public service platforms, one national university science and Technology Park, and one national key laboratory training base In Jiangsu Province, there are 1 national key laboratory cultivation and construction site, 4 collaborative innovation centers, 21 provincial and ministerial key research bases, 30 provincial and ministerial key laboratories, 11 provincial and ministerial public service platforms, and 4 provincial and ministerial engineering centers.

    At present, there are 5221 faculty members in the University, 2738 of whom have deputy senior professional titles or above, including 1 Nobel Prize winner, 8 academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Academy of engineering, 5 academicians of developed countries, 29 winners of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 38 winners of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 1 outstanding talent of "ten thousand talents plan" and 10 leading talents of science and technology innovation of "ten thousand talents plan"“ There are 3 young top talents in the ten thousand talents program, 6 members of the discipline evaluation group of the academic degree evaluation committee of the State Council, and a relatively strong and reasonably structured teaching staff has been initially formed.

    Suzhou university regards personnel training as the central work of the University, with morality as the foundation, with responsibility, innovation, application and international talents as the orientation, with the integration of general education and professional education as the guidance, with the emphasis on improving the comprehensive quality of students, strengthening the professional foundation and cultivating the ability of innovation and entrepreneurship

     Suzhou university regards personnel training as the central work of the University, takes morality as the foundation, takes cultivating outstanding talents with sense of responsibility, innovation, application and international as the orientation, takes the integration of general education and professional education as the guidance, and focuses on improving the comprehensive quality of students, consolidating the professional foundation, and cultivating the ability of innovation and entrepreneurship, so as to actively deepen the systematic reform of personnel training Reform, constantly improve the quality of personnel training. The school of nanoscience and technology of the university has been listed as one of the first 17 national pilot colleges in China, and has become a special zone for the reform of higher education system and mechanism. The school has set up three academies to actively explore the new mode of talent cultivation. Among them, Jingwen academy is positioned as the "second classroom" outside the professional education, Tang Wenzhi academy carries out liberal education in the "first classroom", and Ziqing academy is committed to building a test ground for top-notch innovative talents in "new engineering". In 2018, the school won 5 national teaching achievement awards, including 1 first prize and 4 second prizes. In recent years, the school students have won more than 200 national awards every year. In 2013, our university successfully held the 13th "Challenge Cup" national college students series of science and technology academic competition. In 2019, in the 16th "Challenge Cup" competition, our University won one more first prize, one second prize and four third prizes. In the past four Olympic Games, Chen Yanqing, Wu Jingyu, Sun Yang and Zhou Chunxiu, four students, have won the good performance of "hardware, silver and copper". Mr. Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee, sent a special letter to thank them.

    The university has implemented the strategy of "stand up to heaven" in science and technology innovation and achieved fruitful results in scientific research and innovation. In 2018, the field of Humanities and Social Sciences won 37 national level projects, including 4 major projects and 3 key projects; 21 achievements won the 15th Zhejiang society science outstanding achievement award in Jiangsu Province, including 3 first prizes; 18 achievements won the Jiangsu Education Science Research Achievement Award, including 3 first prizes; 1 achievement won the 7th Lu Xun Literature Award, and 1 person won the title of "Jiangsu famous social science expert" 。 In the field of natural science, it has won 326 NSFC projects, ranked 19th among universities in China in terms of number of projects, and ranked first among local universities for seven consecutive years, ranking among the top 20 universities in China; it has won 3 key special projects and 6 topics in the national key R & D plan; 3 achievements have won the excellent achievement award of scientific research in Universities of the Ministry of education, including 2 first prizes for scientific and technological progress; 20 achievements have won Jiangsu Province Provincial Science and technology awards, including 6 first prizes. In 2018, the school applied for 1745 intellectual property rights and granted 1186 intellectual property rights (including 159 international patent applications and 24 authorizations). In 2017, there were 4460 papers included in the three major searches, of which 2659 papers were included in scie, 1283 papers were included in China's outstanding international scientific and technological papers, ranking 23rd and 21st respectively in Colleges and universities across the country; according to the nature index released by Nature Publishing Group, the 2018 nature index of Suzhou University ranked 46th in global institutions, ranking 9th in Colleges and universities across the country. In the list of "highly cited scientists" in 2019 released by the global leader of professional information and analysis services, Suzhou University was cited 19 times, ranking the fifth in the national universities.

    In accordance with the development idea of "driving domestic first-class with international fame", the school comprehensively and deeply promotes the process of education internationalization. The university has established inter school communication relations with more than 200 universities and research institutions in more than 30 countries and regions. The school recruits more than 3000 international students from more than 80 countries or regions every year. Since 2007, the university has cooperated with Portland State University to establish Confucius Institute of Portland State University. In 2010, it was selected into the "20 + 20 cooperation plan of Chinese and African universities" of the Ministry of education and assisted in the construction of Lagos University in Nigeria. In 2011 China one belt, one road's first overseas university in Laos, was founded in Laos. It has become an important post and cultural name card of the national "one belt and one road" initiative in 2011.

    Suzhou University has four campuses: tiancizhuang campus, Dushu Lake campus, Yangcheng Lake campus and future campus, covering an area of 4586 Mu and a building area of more than 1590000 square meters. The school is rich in books and materials, with a collection of more than 5 million books, more than 400000 Chinese and foreign periodicals, more than 1.1 million Chinese and foreign electronic books and periodicals, and 82 Chinese and foreign databases. The university has three journals, i.e. Journal of Suzhou University, philosophy and Social Sciences, education and science, law, algebra collection, modern silk science and technology, Chinese hemorheology, language and semiotics research, etc. In the past five years, the Journal of Suzhou University (PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES EDITION) has been reprinted and edited by the authoritative secondary documents such as Xinhua digest and the people's Congress copy of newspaper materials, and its reprint volume has been ranked in the top ten of the Journal of comprehensive university. According to the report on AMI comprehensive evaluation of Chinese Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (2018) issued by China Academy of Social Sciences evaluation in 2018, the Journal of Suzhou University (PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES EDITION) and the Journal of education and Science Edition) are both rated as the core journals of Chinese Journal of Humanities and social sciences. According to the CSSCI source period issued by China Social Sciences Research and evaluation center of Nanjing University in 2019 Journal of Suzhou University (PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES EDITION) is still the core source journal of CSSCI. Journal of Suzhou University (education and Science Edition) is the first source journal of CSSCI.

    Facing the "13th five year plan", all Su adults are holding a high attitude, open mind and global vision, following the times, taking advantage of the land, seeking harmony with others, and insisting on talents to strengthen the school and quality