As one of China's coastal provinces, Hainan Province is currently promoted by the Grand Strategy of Hainan Free Trade Port, and its economic strength will certainly rise to a higher level, but the lack of high-quality higher education resource support has become one of the main bottlenecks restricting the economic and social development of Hainan Province to a certain extent. To this end, on the one hand, Hainan Province vigorously supports the development of local universities and supports Hainan University to carry out "double first-class" construction; on the other hand, it is also vigorously introducing the layout of foreign universities, such as the Sanya Research Institute of Henan University, the Sanya Research Institute of Nanjing Agricultural University, the South China Sea Research Institute of Northwest University, and so on.
Recently, another university from the mainland plans to meet the requirements of changing the name of the university during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, that is, Hainan Tropical Ocean College. The school pointed out in the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Hainan Tropical Ocean College (2021-2025)": "The conditions for benchmarking renamed universities and new doctoral authorization units require strengthening construction, and generally meet the conditions for university setting and doctoral authorization unit declaration." "It means that the next five years will become a critical period for Hainan Tropical Ocean College to become a university."
Hainan Tropical Ocean College currently has two campuses in Wuzhishan and Sanya, covering an area of 1487.1 acres, with more than 1200 faculty members, including more than 810 full-time teachers, more than 18,200 full-time students, including 197 master's degree students, and full-time public general undergraduate provincial universities jointly built by the People's Government of Hainan Province, the State Oceanic Administration, the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, the Sanya Municipal People's Government, the Sansha Municipal People's Government and other parties.
Hainan Tropical Ocean College is not weak in running the school, in terms of teaching staff: more than 630 doctoral and master's degree teachers, 4 double-employed academicians, in addition to many high-level talents including special experts of the State Council, provincial excellent experts, key experts of the provincial party committee contact service, etc.; in terms of discipline construction, the school has 3 master's degree authorization points, and has determined the direction and field of five characteristic disciplines such as marine science and technology, tropical marine life, tropical marine ecological environment, marine island tourism, and ethnic groups, and 6 provincial key disciplines At the level of scientific research platform construction, there are many high-level scientific research platforms such as the Hainan Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology, the Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Fishery Resources Conservation and Utilization, the Hainan Provincial Key Laboratory of Modern Marine Ranching and the Engineering Technology Research Center (in preparation).
I believe that Hainan Tropical Ocean College will be able to meet the requirements of changing the name "university" in the next few years, but the plan does not mention what the new school name is, many netizens left a message suggesting that the word "tropical" in the school name be removed, and it is more appropriate to directly rename Hainan Ocean University.