Brief Introduction to Tianjin University
As the first modern university in China, Tianjin University (TJU) was founded in 1895 with Peiyang University being its predecessor. It has been recognized nationwide and overseas for its motto of “Seeking Truth from Facts”, its ethos of “Precision in Learning and Strictness in Teaching” and its tradition of “Patriotic Dedication”. Supported by Chinese Ministry of Education, it is also one of the higher learning institutions to be included into the "985", "211" and "2011" Projects in the first batch. In 2017, Tianjin University was listed in the country’s “Double First-Class” university project.
Having put forward its principles characterized as strengthening Engineering, consolidating Science, revitalizing Liberal Arts, and flourishing Medical Science, Tianjin University has been adhering to the purpose of targeting at the major strategic demands and the top-notch scientific and technological development globally, as well as anchoring in the major area as to the national economy, which has been supported by top quality talents fostering based on the high-level scientific and technological research. Thus, it has formed a discipline layout featured by a harmonized multidisciplinary development covering such disciplines as economy, management, literature, jurisdiction, medicine, education, art and philosophy, with Engineering discipline being oriented. Established on talents training, discipline development and scientific research as a whole, TJU puts its emphasis on the reform and innovation of institutional mechanisms by bringing together all kinds of innovative elements inside and outside of the campus, integrates all kinds of innovative elements both inside and outside the university, continuously improves the standard of university management and the quality of talent training，strenuously combines research and teaching together, and also promotes industry development with research outputs and serves the country development for innovation as well.
Personnel, Talents and Reform Work
Tianjin University has been deeply implementing the strategy of talents strengthening the university with adhering to the principle of the Party exercising leadership over personnel management. In line with the constructive plan of “Double First-Class” project and the in-depth reforming of the personnel system, TJU has been furthering the comprehensive innovation following the inception of Peiyang campus, and putting much effort on the layout of the discipline development. As a result, TJU has been promoting the talents team building at each level, and fostering the circumstance in which the people nearby would feel delighted and the people afar would desire to join and the talents would feel convenient to innovate and create.
To establish a faculty team adapted to the identity of worldwide first-class university at a higher level, Tianjin University convened Tianjin University Talents’ Work Conference in 2015, officially launching the personnel system reform by making the pilot school as the scale point. To push forward the reform on faculty promotional mechanism, firstly, TJU has established the “Peiyang Faculty Career Development System” in TJU; secondly, it has improved the tenure system characterized by TJU; thirdly, it has implemented the classified management of faculty team, and fourthly, it has established the assistant professors program, etc., thus building institutional mechanisms which is adaptable to the personnel management of modern university system.
To build a first-class faculty well incorporated with the match the current standard acknowledged around the world, the third conference on talent was initiated on April 25, 2022, establishing the work policy as "vigorously training, actively introduce, continuous support, effective incentive, follow up service", thus furthering the talent introduction strategy and strengthening the talent training with a new chapter of the talent work for the university.