Fujian Higher Education
Fujian has 66 state universities and colleges. It has 29 first class discipline centres and 252 second class discipline centres for PhD education, and 500 Master Degree education centres in its universities. They cover 10 main disciplines. Among those, centres of studies in chemistry, oceans, environment and resources sciences have established their own institutions in their respective specialties, making Fujian a centre of excellence in those disciplines. Fujian has renowned national universities such as Xiamen University, Fuzhou University, Fujian Normal University.
Fujian is at the third position in China for the number of academicians in the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Fujian has now 15 scholars working at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and at the Chinese Academy of Engineering (in all 119 scientists from Fujian have worked there in these two organizations' history). Fujian has 5,200 types of research institutions and 1.43 million professional and technical people. Currently, Fujian has established 35 statelevel and provincial-level key laboratories,21 engineering (technical) research centres, 13 industrial technological development bases and test bases. There are 121 local government departments' independent research institutions, 100 provincial-level enterprise technical centres.
Source : Ministry of Commerce People's Republic of China
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