Gansu Political Science and Law Institute

　

　

Gansu Political Science and Law Institute, founded in 1956, is a provincial higher learning institution. Thanks to fifty years’ construction and development, especially the rapid growth in the recent years, GPSLI has become one of the key political and science and law institutions of the nation.

The institute is located in Anning District of Lanzhou, the capital and political, economic and logistic centre of Gansu province. The district is the centre of science education in Lanzhou. The campus is surrounded by friendly environment and cultural aura, can be easy to accessed by public. The institute covers an area of 974 mu and a total building area of 230,000 square meters. The library has a collection of books more than 970,000 and has over 2,000 Chinese and foreign journals and magazines. Now, altogether there are 10 departments under the institute, namely, Law Department, Public Security Department, Management Department, Humanity Department, Information Science and Technology Department, Administration Department, Art Department, Continuing Education Department, People’s Armed Force Department, East Modern Management Department. There are also 5 other teaching and researching departments, namely, Legal Science Research Institute, Political Science Research Institute, Western and Chinese Culture Research Institute, Civil and Commercial Law Research Institute and Procedure Law Research Institute. There are several laboratories and auxiliary departments on teaching and researching, which are Modern Educational Technology Centre, Material Evidence Technology Laboratory, Crime Psychological Testing Technology Centre, and Computer Laboratory. The institute also established Legal consultation service organizations such as Local Legislation Researching Centre for Gansu Province and Judicial Appraisal Centre for Gansu province. 

At present, GPSLI has 40 undergraduate majors, which include law, reconnaissance, frontier defense management, social work, politics and administration, business administration, administration, criminal activity science and technology, English, information science and technology, journalism, artistic design. The institute is authorized to grant bachelor degrees in legal science, management, arts, and economics as well as master degrees in civil and commercial Law, economic jurisprudence, criminal jurisprudence, constitutional jurisprudence and administrative jurisprudence, as well as, procedural law. Among them, civil and commercial law and criminal activity science and technology are provincial key disciplines.

There are about 626 faculty members, among whom 378 are full-time teachers and 135 are professors and associate professors. 124 of those teachers have master's degree or bachelor degree, 3 teachers enjoy the State Council special allowance，12 teachers attend Gansu provincial “555 initiative talents program” . The institute invited more than 80 famous experts and scholars serve as visiting professors.

The institute currently enrolls new students from 28 provinces and autonomous regions, which comes to about 10,000 students. By now, it has supplied the society with more than 8499 undergraduate students and junior institute graduates, more than 3147 adult graduates. It is estimated that, in the entire province politics and law system, 10400 in-service cadres received training in GPSLI. The institute has abundant teaching staff and scientific research achievements. In the recent 5 years, the institute undertakes 97 provincial and state research programs. Teachers published 1722 pieces of dissertation, among of which 167 achieve the national rank, 64 monographs and textbooks. At the same time, teachers attained 75 items of provincial and state achievement prize regard to scientific and teaching. The institute has 3 nationally published periodicals, namely, GPSLI Journal, Continuing Education School of GPSLI Journal, and GPSLI Magazine. Since 2004, periodicals have been selected as the source of CSSCT. The institute has established various relations of regular exchange and cooperation with well-known universities, meanwhile, holding various and multi-level academic seminars and lectures with domestic and foreign organizations. By now, the institute has launched bilateral exchange and cooperation program with APU and UCW.

In the new era, the institute will adhere to the principles as follows: accelerating development while keeping step with times, promoting reform while engaging in innovation, intensifying management while building a diligent and honest institute, focusing on implementation while creating a pragmatic working style, taking Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thinking of the “Three Represents” as the guide, carrying out scientific out-look on development, implementing Party’s education principle comprehensively. The institute will persist in schooling idea, which is bettering the institute by quality, characters and talents, managing the institute according to the law. The institute will continue to strive to build itself into a high-level with teaching as its focus, scientific research as impetus, principle building as leading, teaching staff’s upgrading as key, infrastructure as safeguard, educating undergraduate as main task. The teacher will work harder to forester comprehensive, applied and high-leveled talent with initiative and practice ability for the development of local economy and legislative work, even for the whole society, meanwhile, develops postgraduate education gradually.

The institute’s current Secretary of the Party Committee is Yao Peizhen; the President is Professor Wang Suyuan.