To fully implement the national strategy of building a manufacturingpowered country, proserve highquality development of Fujian Province and the newtype industrialization drive of Fuzhou, and accelerate the cultivation of highcaliber talents and highlevel innovation platforms in advanced manufacturing, the School of Advanced Manufacturing of Minjiang University was founded in July 2026. Tracing its educational roots back to 1958, the school has gone through developmental phases including the Department of Physics and Electronic Information Engineering of Minjiang University (2002) and the Department of Intelligent Manufacturing under the School of Physics and Electronic Information Engineering (2018). Following the university’s official renaming to Minjiang University in March 2026, it was established by integrating the Department of Intelligent Manufacturing and the Engineering Training Center.

Upholding General Secretary Xi Jinping’s educational philosophy of “striving not for the largest scale, but for optimal quality and responsiveness to social needs”, the school adheres to the talentcultivation guideline of “valuing fundamentals, strengthening practical training, integrating industry and academia, and boosting innovation”. Rooted in Fuzhou, oriented toward Fujian and radiating across Southeast China, it closely follows the highend, intelligent and green transformation of the manufacturing industry. It commits itself to fostering highquality applied talents with allround development in morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor education, solid engineering foundations, outstanding practical capabilities, innovative awareness and competence to tackle complex engineering problems, who can underpin the development of regional advanced manufacturing.

Centered on Mechanical Engineering, the school integrates multidisciplinary resources from Electronic Information, Automation and Artificial Intelligence. It prioritizes research directions such as extreme manufacturing, specialpurpose robots and precision instruments, advances organized talent training and scientific research, and actively responds to regional industrial demands. The school offers two undergraduate majors: Mechatronic Engineering and Robotics Engineering. It recruits postgraduate students for Electronic Information (Control Engineering track). Currently, it hosts approximately 400 fulltime undergraduates and 40 postgraduate students (including jointlycultivated candidates).

The school boasts a wellstructured, highlevel faculty of over 40 faculty and staff members. More than 85% of fulltime teachers hold doctoral degrees. Its faculty includes one recipient each of the National Science and Technology Innovation Leading Talent, National HundredThousandTenThousand Talent Project, National Young and Middleaged Expert with Outstanding Contributions, Special Government Allowance of the State Council, IET Fellow, IIAV Fellow and ISCM Fellow. There are 1 ClassA, 4 ClassB and 2 ClassC highlevel talents of Fujian Province, together with one each of Fujian HundredThousandTenThousand Talent Project recipient, Outstanding Young Scientific Research Talent of Fujian Provincial Universities, Young Teaching Expert and Young Teaching Rookie of Fujian Provincial Universities. A teachingresearch team has taken shape, led by national highlevel talents and supported by youngandmiddleaged backbones, featuring rational composition and vigorous vitality.

The school possesses solid scientificresearch platforms and fruitful research outputs. It hosts research platforms including the Fujian Provincial University Key Laboratory of Advanced Motion Control, Fujian Provincial Engineering Research Center for Safety Control of Intelligent Ship Navigation, and Fuzhou Municipal Industry Technology Innovation Center for Intelligent Transformation and Digital Transition of Mechanical Manufacturing Equipment. It conducts collaborative research targeting common technical challenges of regional industries. In recent years, faculty members have won 5 Fujian Provincial Science and Technology Progress Awards, presided over more than 20 national and provincialministerial projects, and obtained over 50 authorized invention patents. In teaching, faculty have won the Second Prize of National University Teachers’ Teaching Innovation Competition, the First Prize and the Second Prize of Fujian Provincial University Teachers’ Teaching Innovation Competition, and the First Prize and Second Prize of Fujian Provincial University Young Teachers’ Teaching Competition.

Guided by engineeringeducation concepts, the school adopts projectoriented teaching to strengthen students’ engineering practical competence. It runs an Engineering Training Center equipped with CNC machining centers, industrial robot workstations and intelligent manufacturing units, building a practiceeducation platform closely aligned with industrial requirements. Over the past three years, students have won more than 120 provincialministeriallevel and above awards in competitions such as robotics and artificial intelligence contests. The average postgraduate admission rate exceeds 24%, ranking among the top across the university. Longterm partnerships have been built with leading enterprises in highend equipment manufacturing, textile & garment, electronic information and other sectors to jointly construct internshiptraining bases and joint laboratories. Graduates are qualified for R&D, engineering application and project management in fields including intelligentequipment & robot system integration, planning & operationmaintenance of digital workshops and smart factories, and application of precisionprocessing & intelligentdetection technologies, with promising career prospects.

Shouldering the mission to serve the national manufacturingpower strategy and support Fujian’s “555X” industrial cluster initiative and Fuzhou’s “358X” strategic industrial clusters, the School of Advanced Manufacturing will uphold moral education as its fundamental task, deepen industryeducation integration, strive for scientifictechnological breakthroughs, and forge ahead toward building a highlevel engineering school with distinctive features and prominent strengths. Pooling efforts for excellence, pursuing pragmatism and distinction, the school will cultivate talents, deliver research outcomes and make contributions amid the tide of newtype industrialization, writing new chapters for highquality development of regional advanced manufacturing.