Based on the new characteristics and trends in the development of chemistry discipline, the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering established the Department of Applied Chemistry in 2014. With the goal of "consolidating the foundation and facing applications", adhering to the leadership of party building and focusing on talent cultivation, we are committed to build up a platform that serves the main battlefield of the economy and places equal emphasis on teaching and research.

The current full-time teaching staff of the Applied Chemistry Department all have doctoral degrees, and many have overseas exchange backgrounds, forming a teaching and research team with national and provincial talents as the core.

The Applied Chemistry Department recruits more than 120 undergraduates majoring in applied chemistry every year. Applied chemistry is selected as the first batch of national first-class undergraduate specialty construction sites and the first batch of 5-star specialty in Jiangxi Province. Based on the two doctoral degree authorization points - Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Technology, a complete training system for master's and doctoral students was constructed. The platforms such as Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory, Jiangxi Provincial Engineering Research Center and Mobile Postdoctoral Research Station have laid a solid foundation for cultivating high-end talents with solid professional knowledge, good professional application ability and innovative thinking.

The Applied Chemistry Department has formed a relatively stable research directions around the core needs of economic development. Energy and Environmental Catalysis Technology is committed to the development of new energy materials and the development and application of new nanocatalytic materials. Organic Functional Materials focus on the development and application of high-performance organic composite materials; Rare Earth Separation and Purification develops new extraction and crystallization separation technologies, and advanced synthesis technologies in order to solve the technical problems in the extraction and separation of rare earth metal resources and the manufacture and application of high-end materials in China. Analytical Testing and Computational Chemistry combines mathematics, statistics, and computer science and applies them to chemical and chemical engineering experiments, and it optimizes experimental conditions for chemical and chemical engineering problems, and extracts effective information from test data or experimental data to the greatest extent.

The Applied Chemistry Department adheres to scientific research as the focus and service as the demand. Over the past five years, more than one hundred projects have been approved at the national, provincial and industrial levels, which accounts for tens of millions of yuan. In addition, hundreds of academic papers have been published in high-level academic journals. All these lay a foundation for the development of Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering and Technology.

As a part of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, the Applied Chemistry Department continues to refine the direction, highlight the feature, and work hard to create first-class disciplines and first-class high-level school goals.