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Office of Scientific Research (OSR) is to serve scientific research, promote scientific research development, and further create a favorable environment for researchers in NYNU. OSR has four divisions: the Division for General Affairs, the Division for Natural Science Management, the Division for Social Science Management, and the Division for Discipline Construction, Science and Technology Development. The office is mainly responsible for scientific research, foreign science and technology development and collaboration, academic communication, scientific and technological achievements, funding, institutes, teams, confidentiality, information collecting and analyzing, and intellectual property right protection.

Research Institutes and Centers

1. Center for Han Culture

   Center for Han Culture is the key research base of HenanHumanities and Social Sciences.Founded as Research Office for Han Culture in 1986, it then developed into Research Institute for Han Culture in 2002. In 2004, it merged with Research Institute for Zhuge Liang and was renamed Center for Han Culture. In August 2005, it was formally granted as the key research base of HenanHumanities and Social Sciences.

   The center includes four institutes: Institute for the History of Han Dynasties, Institute for Literature and Folklore of Han Dynasties, Institute for Art of Han Dynasties, and Institute for Zhuge Liang. It also has four assisting institutions: Culture Academy of Wolong, two Museums, Information and Literature Room, and Han Paintings Museums of Nanyang.

   The Center has been focusing on three areas: Nanyang regional culture research with Han stone gravings as its core, ancient institution history and politics and culture research of China with Han Dynasties as its core, and ancient Chinese ideology history with ideology in Han Dynasties as its core.

A list of themonographs on Han culture written during 2009-2014

1)On the Thought History of Han Dynasties, Zheng Xianxing, Henan University Press, 2009

2)Sociological Studies on Han Stone Gravings, Zheng Xianxing , Henan University Press, 2009

3)Research on Traditional Chinese Medicine in Han Dynasties, Liu Taixiang, Henan University Press, 2009

4)Research on Music Culture in Han Dynasties, Feng Jianzhi, Henan University Press, 2009

5)Research on Images of Gods in Han Paintings, Niu Tianwei, Research on Music, Dance, and Acrobatics in Han Dynasties, Henan University Press, 2011

6)Political Civilization in Han Dynasties, Liu Taixiang, Henan University Press, 2011

7)Research on Folk Beliefs and Shenanigan Images in Han Dynasties, Zheng Xianxing, Henan University Press, 2011

8)On History of Historiography Thought in Han Dynasties, Zheng Xianxing, Henan University Press, 2014

9)Research on Hostages Phenomenon in Han, Wei, Jin, South and North Dynasties, Gao Erwang, Henan University Press, 2011

10)On Literature and Confucianism in Late Western Han Dynasty, Zeng Xiangxu, Henan University Press, 2010

11)On Han Stone Gravings in Nanyang and Economics in Han Dynasties, Yang Yunxiu, Henan University Press, 2009

12)Research on Decoration Art in Han Dynasties, Xu Yongbin, Henan University Press, 2014

1. Research Base on the History of Eastern Han Dynasty

   As the cooperated body with Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the base aims at studying history of Eastern Han Dynasty and seeking for the essence of traditional culture.The base has mainly researched in four areas: political systems and culture in Eastern Han with Liu Xiu and Zhuge Liang as the representatives, history of ideas on science and technology and culture in Eastern Han with Zhang Heng’s ideas as the core, Chinese traditional medicine in Eastern Han with Zhang Zhongjing and his theories as the core, irrigation and water conservancy in Eastern Han with Du Shi as the representative.

   3. Research Base on Central China Folk Art

   The base is one of the seven folk art research bases set up by the Ministry of Culture. Founded in 2009, it consists of four institutes: Institute of Quyi Inheritance and Protection, Institute of Quyi History, Institute of Quyi Music, and Institute of Folk Songs in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

   The base has 21 researchers, including 12 professors, 7 assistant professors, 9 doctors, and 9 masters. Among the 9 part-time members, some are famous experts in intangible culture research in China.

   4. Research Base on Intangible Cultural Heritage of Henan

   The Research Base on Intangible Cultural Heritage of Henan, awarded by the Culture Department of Henan Province, was built in September 2010. Every year, the base holds Affecting and Accepting―Intangible Cultural Heritage Teaching Forum and works on inheriting and protecting the intangible cultural heritages in Henan. The forum has offered twenty three expert lectures with a total audience of 6,000.

   The faculty members have taken charge of five national art planned projects and twenty one ministerial programs and projects of Henan. They have published six books and seventy three articles, among which forty six are incore journals and thirty two in CSSCI source journals, also got twenty two national, provincial, or city prizes. Many of the research achievements were reproduced by Xinhua Digest or the Periodical Literatures of Renmin University of China.

   5. Research Base on Central China Opera―University Humanities and Social Sciences Key Research of Henan

   Research Base on Central China Opera―University Humanities and Social Sciences Key Research of Henan was built in November 2011. Taking excellent traditional art as its main research objects, it studies four areas: Chinese Traditional Opera, Quli, Music, Dance, Acrobatics in Han Dynasties, and Central China Traditional Music.

   6. Henan Provincial Engineering Laboratory of Insect Bio-reactor

   The lab was built in 2013 and supported by Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Funiu Mountain Insect Biology, Nanyang Sino-British Lausanne Insect Biology United Laboratory, and also Henan International United Key Laboratory of Insect Biology. With an area of 2800 square meters and the fully enclosed purifying air conditioning system, the lab is up to safe 10-thousand-grade purification laboratory standards. The lab owns 350 sets of equipment with a value of more than twenty million RMB.

   The faculty consist of forty four members and three invited experts home or abroad. The lab has over thirty graduates now and is recruiting joint graduates and overseas students.

   Granted many provincial and city research awards, the lab has undertaken more than ten national and twenty provincial projects. Over ten national inventions or patents have been approved. The team made up of key members of the laboratory is one of the Innovative Science and Technology Teams in Henan Province.

   With many medium and small enterprises producing biologicals in Henan, the lab has studied and developed biologicals and biological medicines by using the insect bio-reactor. Therefore, the lab has become a specialized research institute and industry chain on animal health pharmaceutical preparations, medicine producing, genetic engineering vaccine development and achievement transformation. It has offered technological support in talent exchange, project cooperation, consulting and staff training to Wanxi Pharmaceutical Co., LTD, Pukang Group, Tianguan Alcohol Plant, Changxu Biology and Technology Co., LTD, Antu Biology and Technology Co., LTD, and Shedian Alcohol Plant. It has also offered technological consulting and staff training to Nanyang Academy of Agriculture Science, Nanyang Animal Husbandry Bureau, Nanyang Science and Technology Bureau, and Nanyang Polytechnic College of Agriculture many times. Thus the lab has become an important base for biologicals, biopharming, and biological engineering industry research and development, application and talent cultivation in Henan.

   7. Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Funiu Mountain Insect Biology

   In 2005, Nanyang Sino-British Lausanne Insect Biology United Laboratory was built by Nanyang Normal University and the famous international agriculture research institution―the British Laosanne Research Laboratory. Approved by Science and Technology Department in Henan Province, the lab developed into Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Funiu Mountain Insect Biology in December, 2008.

   With an area of 2000 square meters, the lab owns 370 sets of equipment with a value of more than twenty million RMB. With big equipment like laser scanning confocal microscopes and flow cytometers, the lab is divided into over twenty functional districts, such asmolecularbiology, protein isolation andpurification, and freeze-dried laboratories.

   With insects as its main research objects, the lab researches on four areas: insect biochemistry and molecular biology, insects bioreactor and biological products development, Funiu Mountain resources entomology, and engineering enzymes creation. In recent years, the lab have undertaken seventeen national projects and more than 30 projects at or above provincial level, published more than 100 academic papers on Chinese or overseas journals, such as Science and Nucleic Acids Research. Besides, the faculty have published 17 academic monographs, applied and been approved over ten national inventions and patents. The team made up of key members of the laboratory was awarded the Innovative Science and Technology Team in Henan Province.

   The lab has twenty five members including six professors, five associated professors, one PhD supervisor, fifteen master tutors, one expert at national level, one national candidate of New Century Talents Project, two enjoying the state council special allowance. Now thirty graduates are learning for their master’s degrees at campus and the lab is recruiting joint training graduates and overseas students.

   8. Henan Provincial University Research Center of Agricultural Biomass Utilization Engineering and Technology

   Founded by School of Life Sciences and Technology, the center was approved by Education Department of Henan in October 2009. It mainly studies utilization of agricultural biomass such as crop straws, excrements of livestocks, aquaculture water, and rural living wastes, focusing on straw cellulose ethanol fermentation technology, straw based environmental protection material development and application technology, pretreatment technology of the crop straw gasification, crop straw liquefaction, efficient anaerobic fermentation process, key technology of two phase biogas production and its equipment, integrated application technology of biogas manure, efficient application technology of the matrix of straw and other agricultural and sideline products, and development and application technology of agricultural biomass chemical products. The center has twenty members including six professors, eight associate professors and seven doctors. During a long term of development and application research on agricultural biomass resources, the center, three unique research areas have been set up: biology energy sources, bioproducts, straw building materials. The center has undertaken ten projects of National Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of China, over thirty ministerial programs and projects of Henan, and three international cooperative projects, with nearly nine million RMB from project fundings at various levels. Over one hundred graduates have joined the campus practice teaching and technological innovative activities. In the past three years, the center has published over one hundred articles with over thirty collected by the Science Citation Index.

   9. Henan Provincial Laboratory for Natural Disaster Remote Sensing Monitoring

   Henan Provincial Laboratory for Natural Disaster Remote Sensing Monitoring was founded in 1998, formerly known as GIS and remote sensing experiment teaching center. Nanyang Normal University built the remote sensing mapping, geographic information system with an investment of more than 800,000 RMB. In 2005, in order to meet the needs of GIS specialty, the university built the surveying and mapping engineering laboratory with an investment of more than 600, 000 RMB. In 2007, in order to promote teaching and high-level scientific research, the university invested more than one million RMB to establish the remote sensing application and disaster research laboratory and purchased the satellite ground receiving station. In December 2009, the lab was examined by the experts sent by the Technology Bureau of Nanyang and approved as Nanyang Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing for Disaster Reduction. Then it became the provincial key laboratory cultivation base of the Education Department of Henan Province and was renamed as Henan Provincial Key Laboratory for Natural Disaster Remote Sensing Monitoring in 2012.

   The lab has sixteen members, 87.5% of whom are masters, 34.5% professors or associate professors, and 87.5% under forty five. In the past five years, the members have published over one hundred articles with over ten in core journals or indexes, more than ten textbooks, and undertaken two national projects, over ten ministerial programs and projects of Henan, and over ten social serving projects.

   10. Research Base of Henan Cultural Industry Development

   Founded in January 2014, the base is one of the earliest provincial cultural industry research platforms approved by Henan Provincial Party Committee Propaganda Department. Supported by School of Humanities, it absorbs experts to develop the regional cultural industry. Now it has fifteen full-time researchers, more than twenty part-time members. Since its foundation, based on the local economic and social development, the base has regarded the cultural inheritance and innovation of Central China as its duty, studied concerned industries: jade carving, cultural tourism, drama, film and television, Zhongyuan writers’ works, cultural exhibition. It has undertaken fourteen national projects, thirty six ministerial programs and projects of Henan, and over seventy other projects.

   11. Henan Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Intelligent Control of Petroleum Equipment

   Supported by Nanyang Normal University, Henan Provincial EngineeringLaboratory for Intelligent Control of Petroleum Equipment was approved by the Development and Reform Committee of Henan Province in April 2015. With an area of 2, 000 square meters, the lab has over 650 sets of equipment, fifty one researchers including thirty one full-time members.

   According to the strategic demands of sophisticated equipment industry in our province, the lab has studied and developed intelligent control technologies in oil drilling equipment, production safety explosion-proof equipment, gradually focused on the intelligent control of oil drilling equipment, equipment safety explosion-proof control and intelligent equipment manufacturing, also given consideration to technology research and development of complicated process intelligent control. It aims at promoting the intelligent level of petroleum equipment industry and driving mechanical and electrical equipment industries in auto-related parts in industrial concentration areas.

   Discipline Construction

1. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology was one of the first group of provincial key disciplines in our university in 2009. And it was listed again in the eighth group of provincial key disciplines in 2012. It has already been renowned home and abroad. Prof. Hui Lifeng, the discipline leader and expert member of Nanyang Science and Technology Bureau, works on research and development of biomass energy and bio-based products, microbiological basis and key technology in the process of agricultural biomass utilization. He has also carried out more than ten national, provincial and municipal scientific research projects, published more than forty research papers, participated in or editing three works, and got several prizes. He has been granted several honor titles, such as Outstanding Young Teacher in Henan Province and Outstanding Teacher in Nanyang.

Supported by laboratories, such as Henan Provincial College Engineering and Technological Research Center of Agricultural Biomass Utilization(2009), Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Insect Biology(2009), and Nanyang Biomass Conversion Engineering Center, the subject owns a total lab area of 7,750 meters, a greenhouse of 500 meters, and 2,030 equipment worth sixteen million RMB. Part of the applied researches have been done under the cooperation with Pukang Group, Tianguan Group, and Shedian Group, which ensures the research achievements can be put into application and transformation.

2. Ancient History of China

Based on the research advantages of Center for Han Culture----the key research base of Henan Humanities and Social Sciences, Ancient History of China is one of the eighth group of provincial keydisciplines. Thedisciplinefocuses on three main areas: ancient politics and culture with Han Dynasties as the core, Nanyang regional culture with Han Stone Gravings as the core, and ancient ideology and culture of China with ideology in Han Dynasty as the core. The center includes four institutes: Institute for the History of Han Dynasties, Institute for Literature and Folklore of Han Dynasties, Institute for Art of Han Dynasties, and Institute for Zhuge Liang. It also has three unique exhibition halls: Cultural Relics Museum of Han Dynasties, Money Museum, and Han Stone Gravings Museum, which are rare in similardisciplines. It also has two teaching practice bases: Han Stone Gravings Gallery of Nanyang and Neixiang Local Magistrate’s Office.

Thedisciplinebase now has thirty professors, nine associate professors, and three lecturers. It has also invited many experts to be guest professors or part-time experts.

3. Inorganic Chemistry

Supported by the National Unique Major----Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry was appointed as the provincial key discipline in 2012. Owning laboratories with an area of 5,400 square meters, sixteen large analyzing instruments worth more than thirty million RMB, it has set up a relatively perfect and advanced platform for scientific research analysis and tests. The discipline focuses on three unique areas: inorganic photoelectric functional materials, functional complexes and bioinorganic chemistry.

Now it has twenty eight members including nine professors, associate professors, seven lectures. There are also twenty two PhDs, one Technical Academic Leader of Henan province, one Technical Academic Leader of the Education Department of Henan province, one Excellent Teacher of China, and one Excellent Teacher of Henan Province.

In the past three years, the discipline team has undertaken and completed thirty projects including nine national ones, twenty one provincial ones and others below provincial level with total funding of over 8.83 million RMB.

The faculty have published 148 articles, among which, 115 are in core journals, eighty are collected by the Science Citation Index or the Engineering Index. They have hosted or participated in editing or writing two monographs, one college textbook, four teaching notes, and obtained twelve patents.

4. Human Geography

In August 2012, School of Environmental Science and Tourism and School of Economics and Management cooperated, applied for the provincial key discipline and was approved. It mainly focuses on three areas: calamity geography, regional economy, and tourism resources developing and planning.

In view of the special geographical position and humanistic characteristics of Henan Province, regional economy studies urban and rural integration process with the characteristic of traditional agriculture, especially the development of traditional agriculture industry cluster.

Tourism resources developing and planning has become a highlight in Human Geography. With prominent regional features, its studies are closely combined with the tourist economic development needs of Henan Province.

With the satellite earth station and advanced techniques of satellite remote sensing, three dimension simulation, calamity geography works on early warning and surveillance of disasters, for instance, the research on warning and surveillance of earthquakes according to satellite remote sensing statistics. The studies aim at promoting scientific research strength, resilience of disaster prevention, and reduction.

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