Recently, a document was issued from the Department of Education of Zhejiang Province, revealing 93 provincial experiment teaching centers, four of which being on our campus, economy and management teaching center, media teaching center, technology and information center and law teaching center. Thus, we have already one national teaching center and seven provincial teaching centers.
In the year 2010, a project was approved by Zhejiang Educational Department to establish some experiment teaching centers on the basis of qualified laboratories in order to promote college students’ practical ability and innovation, experiment teaching reform and laboratory building, resource integration and sharing, so as to achieve overall promotion of Zhejiang higher education. The four experimental centers have gained financial aid of about 1.9 million yuan. The project design of these experiment teaching centers has been made on the basis of middle and long term development scheme, comprehensive reform of major and prominent engineer cultivation planning. A building contract was signed between the university and relevant departments at the requirement of program management, dividing the establishment task into series of subitems. The departments and the item managers also signed a contract, confirming the building target and duty to guarantee the effect of the project.
After three years establishment, these four centers have improved software and hardware of experiment teaching, finished the building task and achieved the building objective. On July the first, 2013, entrusted by Education Department of Zhejiang Province, a team of experts came to inspect these four teaching centers. The experts acknowledged the achievements of these teaching centers and praised its combination with the school features and its distinct accomplishment in university-enterprise cooperation. And these experiment teaching centers will continue the reform and innovation; strengthen communication and cooperation and learn from advanced experience so as to provide effective support for experiment teaching.