The Prospect of Nankai University

Strategic Objective

By 2010, Nankai University will be built into a moderate-scaled, reasonable-structured, distinctive-characterized, internationally renowned research university with high academic levels. It will increase significantly its quality of teaching, academic standards and overall educational strength, Which will enable some preponderant disciplines to come top in the international field. It will eventually become the important base in our country to train the high-level and creative personnel, to promote the innovation of knowledge and technology, and to serve the development of economics and society.


Historic mission and development principle

Exploring scientific and technological progress of the world and following the trail of the development of human culture, Nankai will centralize our/its advantages to reach the advanced international level in certain fields or directions and achieve great breakthrough in the progress of science and technology and the cultural construction.

Nankai University will adapt to the developments of an innovation-oriented country, attempt to seek the cut-in point and find the right place in the national creational system in order to achieve great leaps in the fields of the basic research and advanced technology which satisfy the strategic needs of our country.

We will also adapt to the open-up policy of Tianjin Binhai New Area, create conditions actively, seek opportunities and expand space for the regional economy and social development.

Strategic focus

Comprehensively promote quality education, adhere to the people-centered education, school-based personnel to enhance students¡¯ innovation and practical ability, and pursue a comprehensive upgrade of the ideological and ethical quality, scientific and cultural quality and health quality.

Comprehensively improve the quality of education and deepen the teaching reforms; strengthen scientific research and innovation system and intensify efforts to build a team of qualified personnel; focus on the construction of the preponderant disciplines, improve the ability to offer service to the society, and improve the quality of education and teaching and scientific research.

Take the coordinated development as the main line, and insist on the scale, structure, quality and efficiency of the university; speed up structural adjustment, and promote the comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development of our university.
Take the system innovation as the focal point, explore the construction of the system of a modern university, establish a sound system of regulations, and give fresh impetus to the development of the university.


Strategic initiatives

To achieve the strategic target of establishing a high level university, the university raised five strategic initiatives in the seventh party convention: implement the "talent-school" strategy, attract and cultivate talents to create high level team contingent; implement the "strong discipline" strategy, carefully develop the preponderant or specialized disciplines of Nankai University, build quality academic system; implement the "upgrading the quality of education" strategy, pursue outstanding teaching and nurture high-quality personnel; guarantee to improve students¡¯ basic quality and innovation ability to meet the needs of society and their own development; promote "scientific and technological innovation" strategy, carry forward the good tradition of academic and scientific research to enhance scientific research ability and launch a series of high-level research results; carry out the "internationalization" strategy, cast the vision further into the context of globalization and upgrade international competitiveness of Nankai University.

Entering the 21st century, Nankai University will firmly grasp the pulse of the times, carefully develop core competitiveness; and try every effort to raise its ability and level in the academics, scientific research and providing social service, and commit itself to cultivate various specialists and scholars.With further and constant exploration in the fields of educational, technological and institutional innovations, Nankai University aims to make its unique contribution to the progress of human civilization.