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   General Information about the
   Construction of Laboratories

  There are altogether 13 schools and departments offering undergraduate programs in CUG.The current students of all types total over 1,000. The university now owns 5 national key disciplines, 8 key disciplines of provincial and ministerial level. Moreover, 23 majors have been authorized to grant Master¨s Degree, 10 have been authorized to grant Doctor¨s Degree. The university also runs 2 post-doctoral working stations and 2 top doctoral disciplines.


  There are 63 laboratories of various types, including 1 key laboratory of Ministry of Education, 7 open (key) laboratories or engineering centers of provincial and ministerial level. Furthermore,9 laboratories of basic subjects have regarded by the evaluation initiated by the Provincial Education Committee as sufficient for teaching and researching.


  The university presently owns 11828 sets of lab facilities with a total value of 120 million yuan, including 145 sets of large apparatus worth 42.92 million yuan. A cross-disciplinary lab system with reasonable structures and multifunctions has been formed on the whole. Meanwhile, with a large number of internationally advanced large apparatus, the university has primarily shaped a facility management system with reasonable configuration and abundant common resources.
  There are also enough area for teaching and the scientific research in CUG, covering about 41062 square meters (building area).The proportion of various types of spaces are quite rational with good surroundings. All this has reached the standards and met the demands set by the State Ministry of Education.


  The university has been striving for effective laboratory constructions and laboratorial teaching reforms for many years and has as a result harvested outstanding achievements.All this have assured the quality of teaching for experimental classes. CUG now offers altogether 293 experimental subjects and 1425 projects.


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