About Journal of Guizhou Institute of Technology

Journal of Guizhou Institute of Technology

The Journal of Guizhou Institute of Technology, published in Chinese as Guizhou Ligong Xueyuan Xuebao, is the academic journal of Guizhou Institute of Technology in Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province in south-western China. It is the scholarly journal of a very young provincial engineering institution: the host was established only in 2013, in response to Guizhou's strategy of strengthening the province through industry and its strategy of urbanisation, and the journal publishes the institute's engineering and applied-science research. That youth matters for how the journal should be understood. It is not the long-established journal of a historic comprehensive university, but the publishing record of a new, application-oriented undergraduate institute built around mining, materials, big data and equipment manufacturing for the province's industrial base. No ISSN was attested in the sources consulted for this profile, and no founding year, issue frequency or indexing claim for the journal itself is asserted here where sources do not state it.

A Journal of Guizhou's Youngest Undergraduate Institute

Guizhou Institute of Technology is described in institutional profiles as a full-time public provincial undergraduate college with engineering as its main body and the coordinated development of engineering, science, management and economics. Its journal carries that same identity into print. In the Chinese university system, an institutional journal — a xuebao — is sponsored by its host institution, which bears editorial responsibility for it, and it provides a peer-reviewed home for the research of the institution's own staff and for scholarship in the fields the institution teaches. For Guizhou Institute of Technology, that means a journal whose natural centre of gravity is applied engineering and applied science: the work produced in its laboratories, its provincial research platforms and its industry-facing teaching programmes, published in Chinese for a primarily Chinese academic readership.

How the Host Was Founded in 2011–2013

The institute's creation was a deliberate act of provincial policy. Profiles of the institution record that it was founded in July 2011, when Guizhou proposed its strategy of strengthening the province through industry and began preparing a new institute of technology on the site of the former Caijiaguan campus of Guizhou University in Guiyang. The Ministry of Education approved the institute in April 2013 — institutional histories give the formal establishment date as 18 April 2013 — and it began admitting students from 2013. Guiyang government sources describe it as a polytechnic institute established to meet the province's need for applied talents in science and engineering under its industrialisation and urbanisation strategies. The journal therefore dates, in institutional terms, from a host created for a specific economic purpose: to supply engineers and applied researchers for Guizhou's industrial development, rather than to reproduce a general research university.

Two Campuses: Caijiaguan and the Gui'an New Area

The institute is based in Guiyang but teaches across two campuses that together tell the story of its founding. Its Caijiaguan campus, in Yunyan District on Caiguan Road on the bank of Aha Lake in south-western Guiyang, covers about 866.7 mu and occupies the ground on which the institute was first prepared. Its newer Gui'an campus stands on Doctor's Road in the university town of the Gui'an New District, covering approximately 1,757 mu. Gui'an New Area, established by the State Council in 2014 as a national new area between Guiyang and Anshun, was developed as a demonstration area for ecological urbanism and as a centre for China's big-data computing industry, in the same year that Guizhou was designated the country's first big-data comprehensive pilot zone. The university town there has gathered a dozen universities, including Guizhou Institute of Technology, forming the province's largest concentration of students and young scientific and technological talent. A journal published by an institute split between an established Guiyang campus and a new campus inside that development zone sits, physically as well as intellectually, inside Guizhou's newest economic geography.

Colleges, Majors and the Shape of the Teaching Base

The breadth of the journal's potential authorship follows the breadth of the institute. Chinese reference sources list fourteen secondary colleges — covering resources and environmental engineering, mining engineering, materials and metallurgy, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, information engineering, chemical engineering, light industry, civil engineering, architecture and urban planning, transport engineering, pharmaceutical engineering, economics and management, and science — together with basic teaching departments. Institutional profiles have recorded the institute's growth in stages: an earlier profile counted sixteen colleges and twenty-four undergraduate majors with about 11,505 full-time undergraduate students, while a later profile counted eighteen colleges and thirty-three undergraduate majors with 11,528 full-time undergraduates and 193 international students. Undergraduate programmes named in admissions materials include resource exploration engineering, environmental engineering, machine design, manufacture and automation, electrical engineering and automation, civil engineering, water conservancy and hydropower engineering, chemical engineering and technology, pharmaceutical engineering, safety engineering, project management, network engineering, brewing engineering and flight vehicle manufacturing engineering. A journal serving that teaching base must accommodate subjects ranging from underground mining to brewing and aircraft manufacture.

Students, Faculty and International Opening

A Guiyang government profile of the institute recorded 863 faculty members, including 79 professors and 376 associate professors, with 222 staff holding a doctorate and 455 holding a master's degree; other institutional profiles from the institute's first decade give figures in the same range, including 758 teaching staff in an earlier count. Those numbers describe a teaching-led undergraduate institution building its research capacity quickly, and they explain the function of its journal as a developmental as well as a disseminating outlet: it is one of the venues through which a young faculty establishes a publication record. In April 2016 the institute was officially approved to recruit international students, and in January 2017 it became one of the first batch of national demonstration colleges for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform. In 2017 it also initiated the China-ASEAN University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Alliance, serving as its rotating chairman unit and permanent secretariat unit — an outward-facing role that placed a three-year-old Guiyang institute at the centre of a regional university network.

Scope: Engineering and Applied Science

The listing on which this profile is based defines the journal by its host's work: it publishes the institute's engineering and applied-science research. That scope is anchored in the institute's formally recognised disciplines. Institutional profiles identify materials science and engineering as a provincial first-class construction and cultivation discipline and a provincial key discipline, geological resources and geological engineering as a provincial key discipline, and aerospace science and technology as a provincial characteristic key cultivation discipline. Management science and engineering, computer application technology and machinery manufacturing and automation are listed as provincial key support disciplines, alongside power systems and automation and chemical processes. The institute states that it focuses on building three characteristic subject groups — big data science and technology, new material development and utilisation, and aerospace and intelligent manufacturing. Read against those designations, the journal's scope is not generic engineering: it is engineering as practised in Guizhou, where mineral resources, karst geology, electric power and new materials meet a provincial big-data strategy.

Mining, Materials and the Province's Resource Base

Mining and materials give the journal much of its regional distinctiveness. Guizhou is a mountainous, mineral-rich province, and the institute maintains a mining engineering college, a materials and metallurgy college and a resources and environmental engineering college, with a national Huang Danian-style teacher team in resource exploration engineering among its honours. Its research platforms include a laboratory for the clean and efficient utilisation of phosphorite resources, an innovation team for concealed deposit exploration and an innovation team for heavy-metal in-situ regulation and ecological restoration. On the materials side it hosts the Guizhou 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center for Special Functional Materials, a provincial key laboratory for light metal materials preparation technology and an innovation team for aerospace light metal materials and welding technology. Research of that kind — how to find, extract and clean up after minerals in difficult karst terrain, and how to make light metals and functional materials for aerospace and manufacturing use — is exactly the applied record a provincial institute's journal exists to preserve, including local geological and industrial data that national journals may not carry.

Big Data, Electric Power and Intelligent Manufacturing

The second pole of the journal's scope is data. The institute hosts the Guizhou Key Laboratory of Electric Power Big Data, an agricultural big data research centre and an innovation team for intelligent optimisation and data mining, and it built a public research platform around high-density scientific and engineering computing and an analysis and testing centre. That infrastructure reflects its location: Guiyang and the Gui'an New Area became the centre of Guizhou's big-data industry, and an engineering institute with a campus in Gui'an is expected to produce research on power-system data, agricultural data and industrial optimisation as well as on physical plant. Combined with its mechanical, electrical and information engineering colleges and its aerospace and intelligent manufacturing subject group, this gives the journal a subject range that runs from sensor and power networks to manufacturing processes — the applied end of the digital economy as it is built in an inland province.

Research Platforms and Industry-Facing Institutes

Beyond its key laboratories, the institute built a wider platform structure that feeds its scholarly output. Sources list its academician workstation, the Guizhou Industrial Development Research Center, a fluorine and silicon materials engineering technology research centre, and industry-facing research institutes for Internet-plus industry technology, intelligent tourism industry development and health and pharmaceutical industry technology. Its provincial innovation teams also include fruit wine brewing engineering technology and energy chemical conversion new materials, reflecting its light industry and brewing programmes and Guizhou's food and drink industries. For readers of the journal, this platform list is the best guide to what its pages can contain: work emerging from named provincial laboratories, collaborative innovation centres and industry institutes, much of it undertaken with the explicit aim of serving Guizhou's industrial base rather than pursuing purely theoretical questions.

Publication, Identification and Readers

The journal is published in Chinese under the title Guizhou Ligong Xueyuan Xuebao, sponsored by Guizhou Institute of Technology in Guiyang, Guizhou. No ISSN and no CN serial number was attested in the sources consulted for this profile, so none is stated here; readers identifying the journal should rely on its Chinese title, its host institution and its Guiyang base rather than on an unverified serial number, and should not confuse it with the journals of Guizhou University or Guizhou University of Technology, different institutions with their own longer publishing histories. The journal's primary readers are engineering and applied-science researchers in Guizhou and in comparable provincial institutes elsewhere in China, together with industry practitioners following the institute's work on mining, materials, electric power and big data. For outside researchers, it is useful evidence of how a very young Chinese engineering institute builds a research culture: the provincial problems it chooses, the laboratory platforms it creates and the applied results it records in its own scholarly journal.

Standing and Outlook

The Journal of Guizhou Institute of Technology stands as the publishing voice of Guizhou's youngest undergraduate institution, an institute approved in 2013 that has since grown to two campuses, more than eleven thousand undergraduates, recognised provincial disciplines in materials, geological resources, aerospace, computing and machinery, and a platform network spanning phosphorite utilisation, light metals, electric-power big data and concealed deposit exploration. As the host consolidates its Gui'an campus and its three characteristic subject groups of big data, new materials, and aerospace and intelligent manufacturing, its journal can be expected to reflect that same applied profile. For now, it remains what its listing describes: the Chinese-language engineering and applied-science journal of Guizhou Institute of Technology, recording research built around mining, materials, big data and equipment manufacturing for the industrial development of Guizhou Province.