Chapter 1847: Competition in College Towns
Niu Ruyi said: "Due to the large increase in the number of students, some schools are more nervous about classrooms, laboratories and teaching facilities, especially the dormitory has been insufficient. ”
"During this period of time, we have been in contact with major universities, and found that most colleges and universities have the idea of building new campuses, after all, the scale of higher education enrollment should continue to expand, and now only one freshman has expanded, and the school's facilities are no longer enough.
Niu Ruyi concisely reported what he had learned to Bao Feiyang: "Most of the universities in Pujiang are in the city center, and if you want to expand in situ, it is very difficult, not to mention whether you can demolish the surrounding buildings, and the cost of demolition is also very high. Colleges and universities hope to expand in situ, but it is unrealistic, and the next best thing to do is to build new communities. From the perspective of the university itself, they naturally hope to build a new campus close to the old campus, so that they can also use the teaching facilities of the old campus, and the professors do not need to run on both sides. ”
Niu Ruyi said: "At present, the city and the major universities have basically determined the plan to build a new campus, and the city has also clearly proposed to build a university town. Pujiang Normal has been building a new campus in Nanpu Riverside two or three years ago, this time Jianghang District proposed to expand the construction scale of Nanpu Riverside University Town, and all districts are currently competing for the University Town project, but as far as the preparation work is concerned, in addition to Jianghang District, it is our Huixun District that has done the most adequate. ”
"We have been in contact with major universities, and among several key universities under the ministry, Tongqi University has the most positive attitude, after all, we have recently cooperated with Tongqi University in more projects, and everyone's cooperation status is also relatively good, they are striving for the possibility of building a new campus nearby, if not, they will choose to cooperate with us......
"Aurora University is also trying to build a new campus nearby, but it is difficult for Gaopu District to come up with a plot of land that meets the requirements of Aurora University, but Chunshan District is also fighting for it, and they plan to build a university town in Xinwan Town, which is adjacent to Gaopu District, where there is now a Pujiang University Xinwan Campus......"
Pujiang University is also in the tide of university mergers that began in 93, Pujiang City merged a number of colleges and universities in the city, merged to form a comprehensive university, and it is also the largest university in Pujiang City at present, because of the merger of many universities, so it also has several campuses.
Niu Ruyi said: "The first choice of Aurora University is Gaopu District, followed by Xinwan Town, although they are also very optimistic about the advantages of our Huixun District, but I estimate that they are more likely to choose Xinwan Town." ”
"Pujiang Jiaotong University and Pujiang Normal University will obviously continue to expand their campus in Punan, Pujiang University of Technology, formerly known as Pujiang Institute of Chemical Technology, they are more inclined to build a campus in Jingshan, and then Pujiang Ocean University and Pujiang University of Finance and Economics have a relatively positive attitude, and the attitude of Pujiang University of Foreign Chinese is similar to that of Aurora......"
Niu Ruyi handed a material to Bao Feiyang while speaking, it should be said that Niu Ruyi's work is still relatively solid, not only with the major undergraduate colleges and universities in Pujiang, including colleges and universities, higher vocational schools, as well as sports schools, music academies, film schools, etc.
Bao Feiyang nodded: "The work of the head of Ruyi District is good, with these works in the early stage, we can do the work of these colleges and universities in a targeted manner in the next step to achieve the planning goals of Huixun University Town." ”
Bao Feiyang stretched out his hand and knocked on the cover of the material: "However, the construction of the university town cannot blindly seek more and more complete, the original plan is to put all the universities together, in fact, in addition to the main area of the university town, we can also provide suitable schools in other places." ”
Bao Feiyang flipped through the materials, pointed to the Pujiang Ocean University above and said: "The Ocean University must be taken down, and a new campus can be built for them on this side of Jianghaizui, and Jianghaizui will build a cross-sea bridge in the future to connect the deep-water port of Yangshan Island, which is the most suitable for Ocean University." ”
The planned university town in Huixun District is close to Chunjiang High-tech Park, far away from Jianghaizui, compared with the original community of Pujiang Ocean University on the edge of the Pujiang River, there is no advantage, but Jianghaizui is different, and the construction of a new campus in Jianghaizui, Pujiang Ocean University will also live up to its name.
Bao Feiyang said again: "Tongqi University must be taken down, I will personally talk to President Jiang, as for the ...... of Aurora University"
Bao Feiyang tapped his fingers on the table, there is no doubt that Aurora is the best university in Pujiang, and its academic prestige in the country and even internationally is also very high, which is not comparable to Pujiang Jiaotong University and Tongqi University, and other universities together cannot catch up with Aurora. If Aurora is willing to build a new campus in Huixun University Town, then Huixun University Town will be the best university town in Pujiang.
However, in terms of his heart, Bao Feiyang feels that it may not be a good thing for Aurora University to move to Huixun District, Aurora is a university with a relatively strong traditional liberal arts subject, of course, this does not mean that Aurora's science and engineering majors are not strong, in fact, some science majors of Aurora are also very strong.
Although Bao Feiyang has repeatedly emphasized the construction of the academic level of the university town, whether it is Tongqi University or the cooperation with Xingang University of Science and Technology, they are stronger in fact, in this sense, the temperament of Aurora University and Huixun University Town does not match.
Bao Feiyang's positioning of Huixun University Town is a world-class engineering higher education and scientific research base, and Bao Feiyang's attitude is not necessarily to seek perfection, but to be strong. Therefore, whether it is from the perspective of resource investment or mutual promotion and synergy, Huixun University Town will definitely be biased towards engineering. Of course, while parting to the subject, other subjects will also develop, and they will also pursue first-class, but in terms of resource investment and comprehensiveness, it will definitely be worse.
"Here at Aurora University, I'll look for a chance to visit ......"
Bao Feiyang was reluctant to give up the famous school of Aurora after all, he said to Niu Ruyi: "In addition to a few famous schools, Pujiang Institute of Technology also has to fight, Tianjiang Park has coal chemical industry and new materials, not far from Jingshan Chemical Industry Park, in addition, Pujiang Institute of Science and Technology, Pujiang University of Technology, Pujiang Medical College must strive for, colleges and universities and higher vocational education should also increase their efforts......
According to the planning of the university town of Huixun District, the whole university town includes two areas, east and west, and the west area is close to the Chunjiang High-tech Park, which is dominated by undergraduate colleges and universities, and it is necessary to build a scientific research highland. The eastern district is adjacent to the Tianjiang Economic and Technological Development Zone, and is dominated by junior colleges and higher vocational schools, training technical engineers and high-level technicians. In the middle of the two areas, an international tourist resort is planned.
According to the plan, Bao Feiyang first visited Jiang Kaitai, president of Tongqi University, Jiang Kaitai is an academician of the Academy of Engineering, as the president of Tongqi University, the level is also higher than Bao Feiyang, as Niu Ruyi said, Tongqi University's attitude towards Huixun University Town is indeed more positive.
Tongqi University and Aurora University are next to each other, and Gaopu is also a traditional university town, but in the past, there was a lack of planning, and the whole city of Gaopu was similar to the pattern of the old city, which was relatively chaotic.
"I spent a few years at Cambridge and then worked in Munich and Switzerland, so personally, I really wanted the quieter, more pragmatic academic atmosphere of European universities......
Jiang Kaitai smiled and shook his head: "However, if Tongqi University wants to develop, it is necessary to keep up with the pace of peers, I, the president, are often running funds for the construction of the school, running funds for the school's scientific research projects, the country has put forward the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, and expanded the scale and investment in higher education, but the competition has become more intense, especially Tongqi University is located in Pujiang, with Aurora and Jiaotong University, as well as Pujiang Institute of Technology and Pujiang Normal These schools are catching up, and we dare not slack off at any time." ”
If a school of this level of Tongqi University is placed in other identities other than Pingjing and Jiangnan, it will basically be supported by key support. However, Pujiang City has two famous schools, Aurora and Pujiang Jiaotong University, as the third Tongqi University received less attention, and later when the 985 project was just launched, the first batch of Pujiang to enter the list was also Aurora and Jiaotong University, in fact, in terms of history and international popularity, Tongqi University is not much inferior to Aurora and Pujiang Jiaotong University.