1. Master of Science in Resource Utilization and Plant Protection
Profile of the Major (field)
Resource Utilization and Plant Protection is a major (field) based on the two-way demand of national food security and green development of agriculture, including two cultivation directions: agricultural resource utilization and plant protection.
Hainan is located in the tropics, where is rich in water, heat, light, plants and other agricultural resources. It is China's important base for breeding southern seeds, winter melons, vegetables and tropical fruits, as well as an ideal place for developing efficient tropical agriculture. After more than 30 years of development, the tropical efficient agriculture has become an important pillar industry in Hainan and an important component of the tropical modern agriculture. However, while the rich agricultural resources are suitable for the development of tropical modern agriculture, certain climate-soil factors and irrational utilization of agricultural resources have also brought many ecological problems to Hainan: such as acidification and quality decline of arable soil, frequent occurrence of harmful organisms, unscientific application of agrochemical products, unstable quality of agricultural products, etc., bringing a series of challenges and pressures to agro-ecological environment.
Currently, the practitioners in the field of agriculture are more concerned about the yield of agricultural products, economic benefits, and the efficient use of light and heat resources, while ignoring the quality of agricultural products and the efficient and safe use of resources such as soil and agrochemical products. This major (field) effectively combines the technology of efficient utilization of tropical agricultural resources and the technology of ecological environment and plant protection, and cultivates compound high-level talents who master the technology of efficient utilization of agricultural resources and the technology of ecological environment and plant protection, and who can also apply the professional technology to the research, application, development and promotion of modern agricultural production activities. The graduates of this major should master the solid basic theories, systematic professional knowledge, development trends, and related policies, humanities and social sciences in this field, who also need to master the latest technology and professional skills in this field and apply them to agricultural production practice.
Training Objectives
(1) Training objectives
The masters from Resource Utilization and Plant Protection Major (field) shall have qualifications for soil fertilizer, plant protection, agro-ecological environmental protection and governance. Applied high-level compound talents who are specialized in technology, operation, and management for administrative departments, industries, institutions and enterprises, new agricultural operation entities related to tropical agricultural production, agricultural technology research and agricultural technology services, such as tropical soil and fertilizer, agricultural ecological environment, tropical agricultural and forestry protection, agro-product quality safety, and so on, are trained in this way.
(II) Requirements on competence
1. Master the theory of socialism with Chinese characteristics; support the basic line, guidelines and policies of the Party; love the motherland, love agriculture, abide by the law and morals, be practical and innovative, and work hard to serve the national economic and social development, and love to serve "agriculture, rural areas and farmers".
2. Master the basic theories, the latest cutting-edge advances and technologies in the field of resource utilization and plant protection as well as the ability to integrate resource utilization and plant protection technologies into modern agriculture; master the corresponding professional skills in the field and be able to use these skills to solve the industrial problems related to the field of resource utilization and protection; be aware of innovation and entrepreneurship with the ability of organization and coordination, and the ability of dissemination of agricultural science and technology, and the ability to independently engage in the innovation of agricultural science and technology, agricultural science and technology management, and agricultural technology promotion.
3. Master a foreign language and be able to read foreign materials in this field.
Cultivation Mode and Study Period
(I) It adopts the cultivation mode combining course study, practical training and thesis research.
The credit system is adopted for the course study with a multidisciplinary and broadened cultivation mode. It establishes stable off-campus practice bases for postgraduates, strengthens practical training of postgraduates, promotes close integration of practice with course teaching and dissertation work, and emphasizes the awareness and ability of postgraduates to find out the problems and solve the practical problems in practice. The practical training shall be no less than 6 months.
(II) Dual tutorial system
Dual tutorial system shall be implemented on-campus and off-campus; the on-campus and off-campus tutors shall have rich practical experience and senior technical titles, with the on-campus tutors mainly guiding the students and the off-campus tutors participating in the guidance of the internship planning and design, implementation and dissertation, and so on.
It is a full-time 3-year study. For those who cannot complete the cultivation plan on schedule due to special circumstances, they have to submit an application for extension of the defense one year before graduation, and the extension shall not be more than 2 years after the approval of the university. All the expenses during the extended study period shall be taken care of by the students themselves (enlisted military personnel shall be executed according to the relevant documents of the university).
2. Master of Environmental Science and Engineering
Environmental Science and Engineering of Hainan University is an engineering discipline, which was granted a second-level master authorization site for environmental engineering in 2004, a bachelor authorization site for environmental science in 2005, and a first-level master authorization site for environmental science and engineering in 2017. This discipline is also the only first-level discipline of environmental science and engineering in Hainan, shouldering the important responsibility of researching environmental protection technology in tropical zones and implementing the construction of the National Ecological Civilization Pilot Zone (Hainan). Hainan is the pivot point of the "Belt and Road" initiative, the service base of the South China Sea development and the important site for the construction of the free trade port, which attaches great importance to ecological environmental protection. The discipline takes advantage of Hainan's location, and advocates the applied development idea of "based on Hainan, serving the local area, going to Southeast Asia and connecting with the world" according to its own characteristics. It carries out basic research and technological research and development around the hot environmental issues in the tropical zone in order to make breakthroughs in solving the environmental problems of the tropical zone and the construction of the ecological civilization, so as to become an important technological force of the environmental protection of Hainan Province.
The discipline currently has more than 30 doctoral supervisors and master supervisors (including external supervisors); It has two provincial key laboratories (engineering centers) and one municipal key laboratory; The research funds for each research team are sufficient. Adhering to the multidisciplinary horizontal alliance, it has established good cooperative relations with many environmental protection enterprises, design institutes and scientific research colleges and universities inside and outside the province, set up several scientific research and teaching practice bases, and set up a joint training mode. It formed a characteristic tropical zone taking into account China's national conditions and built a senior environmental science and engineering talent cultivation base with the characteristics of tropical zones, excellent professionalism, strong scientific research and engineering capabilities, and core socialist values.
Discipline research direction:
1. Tropical zone water environment pollution control and water resources protection: based on physical, chemical, biochemical, biological and ecological principles, and assisted by the use of software simulation means, it studies tropical zone environment wastewater treatment and reuse, ecological restoration of the water environment, drinking water sanitation and safety, ecohydrology and water resources protection, and other technologies, which is committed to the application of engineering and social services, and strives to become the most important technical force in Hainan, so as to spread to Southeast Asia.
2. Tropical zone solid waste resource utilization and environmental materials: based on physical, chemical, biochemical and biological principles, with resource utilization as the goal, it is dedicated to the study of solid waste environmental effects and safe treatment and resource utilization in tropical zone, such as domestic garbage, sludge, agriculture, forestry and industrial and others, and carry out in-depth development of tropical zone solid waste environmental mechanism and resource commercialization, such as soil conditioning agent, a new type of environmental materials and other key technologies, forming a research and demonstration of the characteristics of the tropical zone.
3. Environmental behavior and environmental effects of pollutants in tropical zones: study the environmental behavior and toxicological effects of pollutants (such as microplastics, antibiotics, organic pollutants, heavy metals, pesticides, and new types of pollutants, etc.) between land-freshwater and seawater with a combination of theoretical and experimental methods, and provide basic information and technological guidance on the control of environmental pollution in tropical zones, with an aim to forming a research on the characteristics of tropical zones and forming cooperative research with countries in Southeast Asia and other parts of the world.
4. Environmental planning, management and guarantee technology in tropical zones: based on the principles of ecological civilization construction and green development, it will devote itself to research on environmental planning, environmental evaluation, environmental management, environmental economy and policy, environmental monitoring and simulation, energy and environment in tropical zones, so as to realize the sustainable development of the ecological environment and strive for the formation of special research in tropical zones.
Training Objectives
1. Basic knowledge cultivation objective: The students shall systematically master the relevant basic theories and professional knowledge of the discipline, including the study and mastery of Marxist theories/knowledge, the basic theories/knowledge of the major as well as the theories/knowledge of other relevant disciplines.
2. Basic quality cultivation objective: the students shall have a high scientific literacy, a sense of historical mission and social responsibility to devote oneself to science and technology and serve the society, a rigorous and realistic scientific attitude and good academic ethics, and establish a concept of legal system to protect intellectual property rights and to respect other people's research results.
3. The objective to cultivate basic ability: The students shall have the ability to acquire knowledge, including good information query ability, academic communication ability, etc. with a clear judgment on the research methodology, research process, and the scientificity and value of the research results in the field of environment; They shall have a good ability to conduct scientific research, be able to use scientific methods, objectively analyze problems, solve problems, and have the ability to participate in the practice of engineering, as well as have other related abilities, such as learning ability, scientific research innovation ability, ability to protect intellectual property rights, and respect for the research results of others.
4. Cultivation of innovation ability: Encourage students to pursue innovative thinking and cross-field scientific research ability, and cultivate the ability to engage in innovative scientific research in their own disciplines and related fields "independently".
Cultivation Mode and Study Period
The postgraduate program is offered on a full-time basis.
The training of postgraduates in this program is based on the combination of course study and scientific research work, and on individual guidance by the supervisor or guidance by a team of supervisors. The supervisor (group) plays a leading role in the cultivation process. The program encourages graduate students to think independently and be brave to innovate. Under the premise of guaranteeing the basic requirements, the specific cultivation methods can be flexible.
The basic duration of postgraduate program is 3 years, and the number of years of study shall not exceed 5 years. The first year is required to complete the course study, as well as train the experimental and research skills, and review the literature, determine the topic, and prepare the opening report, and the second 2 years are mainly for experimental and thesis work. Among them, the main parts of course study, dissertation topic selection report, mid-term report, dissertation writing and defense must be completed on campus.
Those who complete the study tasks stipulated in the cultivation plan in advance and pass the defense of the dissertation can graduate earlier with the approval of the university, but the shortest period shall not be less than 2 years.
3. Master of Ecology
Introduction to Discipline
Ecology is the main discipline among the "double first-class" construction of our university. The discipline closely follows the university's philosophy of "Tropical, Oceanic and Special Zone", and carries out ecology teaching and scientific research in a comprehensive and systematic way, with distinctive regional characteristics and advantages.
The discipline is supported by the State Key Laboratory, the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education and other platforms, with more than 1,200 m2 and 4 field training platforms. The instructor team is well-structured, specializing in training high-level academic talents for colleges and universities, scientific research institutes, and enterprises and institutions.
The discipline of Ecology of Hainan University includes four stable basic main disciplines, and each direction is closely connected and integrated. The basic information of each direction is introduced as follows:
Plant ecology
Plant ecology is the traditional direction of ecology at Hainan University, which can be traced back to the pioneering work of Mr. Lin Ying, vice president of the Ecological Society of China and editorial board member of Vegetation of China, and Mr. Zhong Yi, the "King of Hainan Plants". This direction takes plant diversity and vegetation in the tropical region as the main research object, and adopts the means of vegetation inventory and permanent samples, plant classification and system, plant and other organisms interactions, molecular ecology and biogeography to explore the vegetation structure, the formation and maintenance mechanism of plant diversity, and protect all those plants, so as to serve the construction of the Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park and the National Pilot Area of Ecological Civilization (Hainan). Focus on: 1) basic issues of vegetation ecology in Hainan; 2) plant diversity conservation; 3) plant migration and evolution in Hainan Island and the South China Sea region.
Ecosystem ecology
Starting from the formation of ecosystem productivity with physiological foundations, with the biogeochemical cycle of carbon, nitrogen, and water as the core, and the long-term positioning and monitoring of ecosystems, ecosystem control experiments, isotope tracing technology, vorticity related technology, vegetation remote sensing, ecosystem process modeling models as the main technical means, the focus of research is on: 1) the formation of ecosystem carbon sinks, the improvement of water use efficiency, CO2 fertilization effect, biogeographical feedback of ecosystems under global warming, and the impact of human activities on the functional pattern of ecosystem services; 2) The structure, function, and dynamics of typical tropical ecosystems, including forest, coastal, and farmland ecosystems; 3) The impact and mechanism of microorganisms on the functions of farmland ecosystems.
Restoration ecology
Take forest, coastal and farmland ecosystems in tropical areas as research objects, adopt ecological principles and methods to control and repair polluted, degraded or damaged ecosystems, and research the restoration theories and techniques of damaged ecosystems, with focus on: 1) carrying out biomonitoring of the environmental quality of tropical islands, early warning of pollution, source analysis and ecological risk assessment; 2) the pollution process and ecological effects, and research on pollutant environmental behavior and its ecotoxicological effects; 3) taking ecological prevention and management as the main means, it focuses on pollution prevention, degradation and damaged habitat restoration techniques for coral reefs, seagrass beds, mangroves, farmland and wetlands.
Sustainable ecology
Ecological principles and methods are adopted to study the ecological security and coping strategies, ecological value assessment, ecological function excavation, and establishment of ecological civilization and culture in tropical zones, providing theoretical and data support for the establishment of scientific ecological replenishment mechanism and the establishment of indicator system of ecological civilization demonstration zones, etc. In the context of rapid development of science and technology, it changes the behavior mode of people, economic and social development mode on the basis of new energy sources and a more reasonable allocation of resources, to achieve the win-win goal of environmental protection and economic development, while reflecting the role of ecology in serving social development. Provide theoretical support and technical guarantee for the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port. Focus on: 1) research on the ecological protection and utilization of marine and land resources in tropical zones; 2) monitoring and comprehensive value assessment of protected ecosystems in tropical zones; 3) regeneration mechanism and sustainable utilization of renewable resources.
Training Objectives
Focusing closely on firming students' ideals and beliefs, with love for the Party, love for the country, love for socialism, love for the people, and love for the collective as the main lines, it guides students to establish their moral character and ambition, to build up a correct world outlook, outlook on life, and values, and to firmly establish their beliefs in Marxism, socialism and communism, and to cultivate qualified builders and reliable successors of socialism.
Comprehensively master the basic theories, fundamental knowledge and experimental skills of the discipline of ecology; be able to skillfully apply the technical methods of modern ecology to grasp and develop cutting-edge theories, solve key or hotspot problems, and serve the needs of the society; be able to independently carry out scientific research in ecology and achieve corresponding innovative ideas or technical achievements.
Be able to skillfully use foreign languages and computers to meet the needs of practical work; have a healthy body, a sound personality and a good psychological quality; be able to meet the requirements of higher education institutions, scientific research institutions, governmental agencies, enterprises and other high-end talents in ecology.
