Shanghai Ocean University

Shanghai Ocean University is a public university in Shanghai, China. The university changed its name to the current name on 6 May 2008, authorized by the Ministry of Education The People's Republic of China, and the whole school was to be moved to Lingang New City in August 2008. The origin of SHOU can be traced back to Jiangsu Provincial Fisheries School founded in 1912. In 1904, Zhang Jian, a well-known industrialist and educator, proposed “Fisheries rights are relatedto ocean rights” to defend encroachment on fishery resources and safeguard the sea rights of China. He proposed to the Qing Government to establish a fishery school. Later on, with assistance of Huang Yanpei and fund-raising efforts of Zhang Liu, the first president, the school was formally founded in 1912as one of the earliest fishery schools in China. The university consists of nine schools: Fishery, Oceanology, Food Science, Economics and Trade, Information, Humanities, Further Education, Vocational and Technical Education, AIEN (Sino-Australian Cooperated). In addition to one state-level key discipline, two municipal-level key disciplines, three department-level key disciplines, and the right of conferring doctorate of aquaculture (the first level state discipline which covers two second-level disciplines), the university has 14 graduate programs, 23 undergraduate specialties and 18 specialties for junior college students. There are 10000 regular students (including Ph.D. students, graduates, undergraduates and students of higher vocational school) and 3700 students for further education. Of the staff members 200 teachers hold senior academic titles (professor and associate professor). The Shanghai Ocean University library has a collection of 460,000 books featured with fishery science.