About Journal of Guangxi University of Science and Technology

Journal of Guangxi University of Science and Technology

The Journal of Guangxi University of Science and Technology is a Chinese-language academic journal published in Liuzhou, in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of southern China. Its Chinese title is Guangxi Keji Daxue Xuebao. The journal is the house scholarly publication of Guangxi University of Science and Technology, the comprehensive, engineering-rooted university of Liuzhou — described in the batch record for this profile as south China's major inland industrial and automobile-manufacturing city. The university was formed in 2013 by the merger of Guangxi University of Technology and Liuzhou Medical College, which gave the journal an unusual inheritance: a single university title serving engineering, medicine and the full range of a comprehensive university's disciplines. It is distinct from the journals of Guangxi University in Nanning, and from the similarly named journal of Guangxi Science and Technology Normal University in Laibin.

A Merger University: Engineering Meets Medicine

Guangxi University of Science and Technology was approved by the Ministry of Education on 18 April 2013 and established by merging the former Guangxi University of Technology with the former Liuzhou Medical College. Reporting at the time noted that the merger made the new institution the first comprehensive university in the city of Liuzhou, and the first university in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region with medical education as part of a comprehensive institution, offering undergraduate and graduate programmes in sciences and arts to some 18,000 students. The university is directly under the People's Government of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It operates three campuses — Donghuan, Liushi and Liudong — covering an area of nearly 4,000 acres, and its programmes span nine university disciplines including medicine, engineering, management and the arts and education. A journal serving such a university must accommodate laboratory engineering, clinical and public-health medicine, and humanities and social-science research between the same covers or in related editions, and that breadth defines the title.

The Engineering Lineage: From Nanning in 1958

The engineering side of the university began in Nanning in 1958, when the Guangxi regional government established the institution that became Guangxi University of Technology. University operations were suspended during the period from 1961 to 1982. In 1982 the institution was re-established by amalgamating Guangxi Light Industry College, Guangxi Mechanical Engineering College and Guangxi Institute of Petroleum and Chemical Engineering to form Guangxi University of Technology. In 1985 the university moved from Nanning, the capital of Guangxi, to Liuzhou, where it became the city's only university of its kind. It began joint postgraduate programmes with other universities in 1990 and was approved to award master's degrees in February 2006. The light-industry, mechanical and petrochemical colleges folded into it in 1982 explain the applied character of its engineering inheritance: this was an institution assembled to serve the industries of Guangxi, and its research tradition — continued in the modern university's journal — is rooted in machinery, materials, chemical and light-industrial engineering and in the manufacturing economy of Liuzhou.

The Medical Lineage: Liuzhou Medical College

The medical side of the 2013 merger has its own long history. Liuzhou Medical College was originally formed in 1951 and was upgraded to college status by the Ministry of Education in 2003. For decades it trained doctors and medical staff for Liuzhou and its surrounding region, in a city whose population is dominated by industrial workers and their families. When it merged with Guangxi University of Technology in 2013, medicine became one faculty among many in a comprehensive university rather than the whole of a single-purpose college. For the journal, the consequence is that medical research — clinical studies, pharmacy, public health and medical education connected with Liuzhou's hospitals and industrial population — entered the remit of a title that had an engineering university's heritage. Readers tracing Liuzhou medical scholarship across the 2013 boundary should therefore look to the Journal of Guangxi University of Science and Technology as the successor venue of the merged institution, while remembering that the medical college's earlier publications belong to its own pre-merger history.

Liuzhou: The Industrial City Behind the Journal

Liuzhou is Guangxi's industrial centre and its second largest city, a national historical and cultural city and a transport, trade and logistics hub for southwest China. Its defining modern industry is automobile manufacturing. SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile, the joint venture between SAIC Motor, General Motors and Guangxi Automobile Group, was founded on 18 November 2002 and is headquartered in Liuzhou, producing vehicles under the Wuling and Baojun brands; Guangxi Automobile Group itself traces its history to a Liuzhou power machinery factory established in 1958, the same year the university's engineering predecessor was founded in Nanning. Dongfeng Liuzhou Motor adds a second major vehicle maker, and steel and machinery industries complete the city's industrial base. The university works within this economy: institutional accounts describe a board system established with the Liuzhou municipal government and large local enterprises and a city-university joint meeting system promoting school-enterprise cooperation. The journal is the publishing expression of that relationship, carrying applied engineering and industrial research produced in China's great inland car city.

What the Journal Publishes

The batch record describes the journal as publishing the university's applied and comprehensive research, and the documented structure of the university supports a precise description of that scope without inventing editorial details. On the engineering side, its natural fields are mechanical engineering, vehicle engineering and automotive technology, materials, chemical and light-industrial engineering, civil and computer-related applied research — the disciplines inherited from the colleges merged in 1982 and demanded by Liuzhou's manufacturers. On the medical side, it can carry clinical, pharmaceutical and health research from the former Liuzhou Medical College's successor schools. Around those cores sit management, economics, arts and education research from the comprehensive university's other disciplines. No source consulted for this profile attests an ISSN, a publication frequency or indexing status for the journal, and none is stated here; the journal is characterised by its host and remit, which are firmly documented, rather than by bibliographic details that are not.

Research Training and Graduate Work

The university's history of graduate education gives the journal a more advanced research base than a purely undergraduate institution would have. Joint postgraduate programmes began in 1990, master's degree awarding approval followed in 2006, and in 2013 the new university was approved by the autonomous region's academic degrees committee as a doctoral degree granting project construction unit. Graduate programmes generate the kind of sustained, supervised research that fills university journals, and supervisors and their students are among the most regular contributors to Chinese xuebao. For the Journal of Guangxi University of Science and Technology, that means its pages can document not only faculty projects but the research training of engineers and medical graduates in Liuzhou — a function of particular value in a prefecture-level industrial city, where the university is the principal local centre of advanced technical and medical expertise and its journal the principal local record of that expertise in citable form.

Distinguishing This Journal from Similar Titles

Three distinctions protect readers from error. First, Guangxi University of Science and Technology in Liuzhou is not Guangxi University, the large Project 211 comprehensive university in Nanning founded in 1928; the batch record explicitly separates this journal from Guangxi University's Nanning journals. Second, it is not Guangxi Science and Technology Normal University in Laibin, a teacher-training institution whose Chinese name differs from this university's by the characters for normal education; their journals — Guangxi Keji Daxue Xuebao and Guangxi Keji Shifan Xueyuan Xuebao — are different titles. Third, within Liuzhou itself, this is the comprehensive university's journal, formed from an engineering university and a medical college; it should not be confused with specialist or trade publications of Liuzhou's automotive industry. Citations should therefore always carry the full university name and the city of Liuzhou, because abbreviated references to a Guangxi science and technology journal are genuinely ambiguous in this region.

The Journal's Role in an Automobile City

There is a particular interest in a comprehensive university journal published in a company-dominated industrial city. Liuzhou's economy turns on vehicle production at a very large scale — SAIC-GM-Wuling alone reported production of more than 1.5 million vehicles in 2024 — and on the supplier, steel and machinery industries around it. Such an economy continuously generates research questions in manufacturing engineering, materials performance, energy and vehicle technology, occupational and public health, logistics and regional economics. The university was assembled, moved and merged precisely to serve this city: moved to Liuzhou in 1985, made comprehensive with medicine in 2013, and governed in partnership with the municipal government and local enterprises. Its journal is where the resulting applied knowledge is formally published in Chinese for the national scholarly community. In that sense the Journal of Guangxi University of Science and Technology is not merely an academic by-product; it is part of the knowledge infrastructure of one of China's most important inland manufacturing cities.

Reading and Citing the Journal Today

For researchers, the journal is most valuable as a source on applied engineering in the Liuzhou industrial context, on medicine and health in an industrial prefecture, and on the development of a merger university in regional China. When following citations, note the institutional timeline: work published before 2013 under the predecessor institutions belongs to Guangxi University of Technology or Liuzhou Medical College, while the Journal of Guangxi University of Science and Technology, Guangxi Keji Daxue Xuebao, is the title of the merged university from 2013 onward. No ISSN was attested in the sources consulted for this profile, and none is given. The verified essentials are the host, the city and the inheritance: a Chinese-language comprehensive university journal, published in Liuzhou, Guangxi, by a university established in its present form on 18 April 2013 from an engineering institution founded in 1958 and a medical college founded in 1951, serving the automobile and industrial economy of south China's great inland manufacturing city.