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.