The university houses 8 provincial level key laboratories, 6 provincial level university innovation team, 9 key bases of humanity and social science, among which Ocean Economics and Sustainable Development Center is among the most important humanity and social science research organizations in the Ministry of Education. In the last 5 years, the teaching stuff has published more than 300 books, 5401 academic articles, 367 of which are included in SCI, 100 in RI, ISTP, or SSCI, has got 106 patents approved and received 448 awards for scientific research.