16 Facts About Yunnan University

Yunnan University is a National Key University in Yunnan Province, China.

Currently, Yunnan University is one of the Double First Class Universities and former "Project 211" universities in China authorized by the central government to be specially developed.

Yunnan University has been included on the list of the key national universities for the "China Western Development" program.

Yunnan University was founded in December 1922 by General Tang Jiyao, the warlord who controlled Yunnan Province in the 1920s.

In 1946, Yunnan University had five faculties and 18 academic departments, and was included in the Concise Encyclopædia Britannica as one of the fifteen most prestigious universities in China.

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Again like all other Chinese universities, Yunnan University experienced a difficult period from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s due to events such as the Cultural Revolution.

Yunnan University is situated in the city of Kunming, the provincial capital of Yunnan noted for its mild climate.

Yunnan University has now developed into a National Key University with a large group of academic professionals offering courses covered by a comprehensive curricula in the fields of the liberal arts, law, science, technology, economics, and management.

Yunnan University currently has the following schools, colleges and institutes under its administration:.

Additionally, Yunnan University has 16 centers for research and development, 25 research institutes, ten research offices, and four teaching-oriented service centers.

Yunnan University has a publishing house which has produced over two million volumes of various academic works.

Yunnan University has from the very beginning attached great importance to the pursuit of scientific research, closely following international disciplines.

Yunnan University has a sizable herbarium, believed to be the second oldest in the province after the Kunming Institute of Botany.

Biological Technology Corporation of Yunnan University is the first enterprise in China that owns an independent intellectual property right in the field of the single clone antibody research, and its products of contraceptive test paper, and sterility test paper have been adopted for codifying China's national standards.

Yunnan University has a secondary school, a secondary school of foreign language and a kindergarten affiliated to it.

Yunnan University Fund is an acting council member of the Fund of Universities and Colleges of China.