A Brief Introduction to the Biological Base

For cultivating high-level talents in fundamental sciences, a batch of state-level bases for fundamental science research and teaching were founded. Yunnan University’s speciality of biology is among the third batch of the state-level bases in construction in November, 1994. Towards the end of 1997, Yunnan University instituted the school of life science and chemistry, following whose establishment the leadership.

The base began its enrollment in 1995 with an average annual acceptance of 32 people candidates. Now the base is authorized to confer bachelor’s degrees in biology, biotechnology and ecology, to grant master’s degrees in zoology, botany, ecology and microbiology and to confer doctor’s degrees in ecology. In 1998 the base was approved to institute a post-doctors’ exchange program on biology, and embarked on the enrollment of post-doctoral candidates in the very same year. In the base the subject of plateau and mountainous ecology and biological resources is one of the key subjects of “the Project 211” run by the State. The subjects of botany, ecology, molecular biology are the key subjects within Yunnan Province. The base possesses a zoic&hortus show-room where abundant samples are exhibited, and all kinds of teaching & research laboratories and teaching & practicing sites. The base is made up of the research institute of ecology&botany, the microbiology research institute of Yunnan province, the provincial key laboratory of microbe zymosis engineering and the key subject laboratory of “Project 211” under construction.