Outstanding Achievements in Humanities and Social Sciences

A series of measures haven been taken at Xiangtan University (XTU) to innovate and promote studies on humanities and social sciences, including the “Project-driven and Achievement-oriented” idea implementation, and such measures taken as innovation mechanism, reform innovation, and enhancing encouragement. Therefore remarkable achievements have been made in those fields and scientific research level improved during the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2010-2015).

From 2010 to 2015, XTU has published 32 papers in SSCI and A&HCI, 81 first-class academic articles and 746 second-class ones, 2,308 papers on CSSCI source journals and 650 books on humanities and social sciences. The books include 310 monographs, 273 compilations, 26 translations, 23 reference books, and 16 ancient book collations. Its 33 results passed the Hunan provincial social science achievements appraisal, including 7 leading ones and 16 advanced ones. A national key publishing project during the "12th five-year plan" period called the "Revolutionist Collections: Progressive Periodicals from 1915-1949" was officially published by Xiangtan University Press in 2015. The Collections systematically collected 151 revolutionist periodicals founded directly by the Communist Party of China (CPC) and those founded due to the influence or support of CPC during the New-Democratic Revolution period (1919-1949). It comprises of 428 volumes with over 300 million Chinese characters. Its publication has an extremely important position and role in the victory of China's new-democratic revolution, the Marxism with Chinese characteristics, and the cultivation and formation of the revolutionary spirit of the Chinese Communist Party.

Since 1995, XTU has won 216 prizes at provincial or ministerial levels, including 5 second prizes and 5 third prizes at the Higher Education Institution Scientific Research Outstanding Achievement Awards (Humanities and Social Sciences) held in 1995, 1998, 2003, 2006, 2009 and 2012; 1 first prize of the Third Outstanding Achievement Award in China Legal Science in 2015; 1 second prize of T.K. Ann Outstanding Paper Award in International Trade in 2010; 1 second prize of the Second Outstanding Achievement Award in State Ethnic Affairs and Ethnic Problems in 2010; 2 special prizes, 20 first prizes, 46 second prizes and 84 third prizes at the Outstanding Achievement Awards of Philosophy and Social Science held in 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016 and 2017.

XTU Outstanding Achievement Awards for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education during the 12th Five-Year Plan Period

No.	Prize Winner(s)	Name of Awards	Name of Awarded Projects	Grade of Awards
1	Tang Zhengmang, Gao Qirong, Zou Huabin, Liu Xiaoli, Li Zhihong, and Zhang Haiyan	Sixth Higher Education Institution Scientific Research Outstanding Achievement Award (Humanities and Social Sciences)	Sixty Years of Grain Work in New China	Second Prize
2	He Zhen, Chen Yanhong, Yang Chang, Zhong Ying, and He Zuocheng	Sixth Higher Education Institution Scientific Research Outstanding Achievement Award (Humanities and Social Sciences)	Study on Co-construction and Sharing of E-governance Information Resources	Second Prize

XTU Outstanding Achievement Awards for Philosophy and Social Sciences of Hunan Province during the 12th Five-Year Plan Period

No.	Prize Winner(s)	Name of Awarded Projects	Grade of Awards
1	Peng Guofu, Sheng Mingke, Yan Hongtao, and Yu Minjiang	Research on Performance Evaluation and Model Innovation of Local Government Public Utilities Management	Special Prize
2	Ji Shuihe	Retrospect and Prospect: On the Study of Marxist Literary Theory in New China and Its Future Trend	First Prize
3	Yang Xiangrong	Art Modernity and Contemporary Aesthetic Arts	First Prize
4	Wu Jianxiong	Judicial Research Report on “Building A Cage of Regulations for Power” and Preventing Duty Crimes	First Prize
5	Yu Jianzhong	Suggestions on Formulating the Guidelines for the Conduct of Communist Party Members	First Prize
6	Chen Daixiang, Fang Hongjiao, Li Fuqing, Wang Limei, and Jiang Bo	Study on Hunan	First Prize
7	Yan Jiahua	Mao Zedong's Democratic Political Thoughts and Contemporary Chinese Political Civilization Construction	First Prize
8	He Zhen, Chen Yanhong, Yang Chang, Qiu Zhuangli, and Xiang Liwen	Study on Co-construction and Sharing of E-governance Information Resources	Second Prize
9	Xiong Hui	Leadership and Governance Style	Second Prize
10	Sheng Mingke	Research on Construction and System Arrangement of Service-oriented Government Performance Evaluation System	Second Prize
11	Huang Xianzhong	On the Virtue of Justice—Aristotle's Thought of Justice	Second Prize
12	Yan Jiahua	Research on Government Power Operational Mechanism Reconstruction in the Transition Period of Contemporary Chinese Society	Second Prize
13	Tang Zhengmang	Sixty Years of Grain Work in New China	Second Prize
14	Yang Siluo	Research on the Law of Knowledge Exchange from the Perspective of Network Citation	Second Prize
15	Liu Zhongwang	Study of Relationship Between Qu Qiubai and Russian Marxist Literary Theory (Paper)	Second Prize
16	Wang Xiangqing, and Li Fuqing	Study on Feng Qi’s Theory on Wisdom	Second Prize
17	Liu Yechao	The General Theory of the Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons	Second Prize
18	Liu Zhongwang	Study on Relationship Between Qu Qiubai and Russian Marxist Literary Theory (Monograph)	Second Prize
19	Lei Bingyan	The Study on Imperial Clans’ Crimes in Ming Dynasty	Second Prize
20	Peng Zhongwen	Research on Independent Innovation Model and Path of China's Equipment Manufacturing Industry	Second Prize
21	Ou Aimin, Ni Hongtao, Chen Hongmei, and Hu Junhui	Case Advancement of the Rule of Law in Hunan Province——A Case Study of the Legality Review of Normative Documents	Third Prize
22	Ni Hongtao	On the Right to Learn of College Students and Its Relief	Third Prize
23	Ji Chengming	Study on Salt Production Areas in Song Dynasty	Third Prize
24	Wang Xiezhou	Interpretation and Criticism of Chinese Archival Science Based on the Perspective of Academic Evaluation	Third Prize
25	Liao Yong’an	The Epistemological and Axiological Foundation of Civil Evidence Law	Third Prize
26	Yang Siluo	Research on Relevant Regulation and Application of Network Citation	Third Prize
27	Liu Zhongwang	Media New Technology and Popular Culture—Research on Modern and Contemporary Media Culture	Third Prize
28	Sheng Xinhua, Li Junhua, Zhu Jun, Liu Xiaoli, and Tang Zhiyan	Chinese Studies Series	Third Prize
29	Yang Xiangrong	Modernity and Distance: Simmel’s Aesthetics in the Perspective of Cultural Sociology	Third Prize
30	Wang Xiangqing	Feng Qi's Contribution to Chinese Philosophy in 20th Century	Third Prize
31	Peng Zhongwen	On High-tech Enterprises' Technological Innovation Strategy and Organizational Management	Third Prize
32	Liu Youhua	On Mechanism of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Intellectual Property	Third Prize
33	Li Yongchun	On Cai Hesen's Thought	Third Prize
34	Luo Ruchun	On the Identity Discourse in Light of Postcolonial Theory	Third Prize
35	Ju Fang, and Zhou Jianjun	Study on Real Estate Bubble	Third Prize
36	Fu Jicheng, and Zhao Xiaolan	The Argument on Ci Style in Tang and Song Dynasties: A Forgotten Topic in Ci-Poetics	Third Prize
37	Sheng Mingke	Suggestions on Network Public Opinion and Public Security Integrated Emergency	Third Prize