amounted to 10,188,600 yuan; 726 articles of instruments were purchased. Now the university boasts 122 teaching laboratories, including eight provincial-level teaching demonstration centers— Digital Language Teaching Demonstration Center, Digital Simultaneous Interpreting Experimental Center, Broadband Multimedia Experimental Center, International Economy and Management Demonstration Center, Legal Studies Experimental Teaching Center, Digital Media & Art Teaching Demonstration Center, Computer Network Technology Teaching Center, and Computer Experimental Teaching Center. Teaching Staff By the statistical figure given in December 2018, the university has 1320 full-time teachers. According to the data in October 2014, there are 240 full professors, 358 associate professors, 48 PhD supervisors, 338 MA/MS supervisors, 10 teachers entitled to a special government allowance granted by the State Council, 3 teachers chosen as the leading figure in their disciplines in the national ambitious talent training program (by 2010, the country hopes to turn out several hundred outstanding scientists, engineers and theorists that can shine in the world of science and technology, several thousand pace-setters in their disciplines and technological fields in the country, and several ten thousand young scholars of great potentials that can lead their disciplines), 1 middle-aged teacher cited for his outstanding contribution, 13 teachers chosen as candidates for the elite talents supported by the Ministry of Education, 2 state-level teaching teams, 7 province-level teaching teams, and 1 state-level renowned teacher, 4 teachers included in the province-level Pearl River Scholars Program, 1 teacher chosen as a candidate for the national ambitious talent training program, 44 teachers chosen as candidates for Guangdong's ambitious talent training program(1n 1996, the Department of Education initiated a project to train 10 scholars that can exert influence on the domestic and overseas academic world, 100 original academic pace-setters in their respective disciplines, and 1000 leading scholars of potentials), 7 chosen as candidates for Guangdong Outstanding Young Teachers Program, 14 teachers having received financial support from Guangdong Talents Program, 11 teachers having won financial support from Guangdong Special Fund for Bringing in Talents, 42 teachers included in the university-level Yunshan Scholars Program. Since the start of the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011), the university has won 7 state-level key research programs in humanities and social sciences, ranking the 4th after Sun Yatsen University, Jinan University, and South China Normal University. Besides, it has captured more than 500 research programs financed by governments at different levels, including 7 state-level major programs, 4 state-level key programs, and about 80 other state-level programs,