Yangtze Normal University

Yangtze Normal University

Yangtze Normal University (Chinese: 长江师范学院) is a full-time, comprehensive institution of higher education under the leadership of the Chongqing Municipal Government of the Peoples Republic of China. The campus is located in Fuling District, at the conjunction of the Yangtze and Wu Rivers, the historic capital of the ancient Ba Tribe. It is the only teachers college in the ecological and economic zone of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area and the minority area in South-East Chongqing.

History

The history of the university can date back to 1901 (the 27th year of Emperor Guangxu), as the Fuling Official Academy of Classical Learning. It was founded as a college in 1982, was renamed Fuling Teachers College in 1993, and promoted to university status in 2001 by merging Fuling Teachers College and Fuling Education Institute. In 2006, Fuling Normal University changed its name to Yangtze Normal University with the ratification of the Ministry of Education. The university has received some honorable awards in recognition of its campus facilities, forestry programs and its commitment to community services, such as “Civilized School in Chongqing”, “Chongqing 100 Top Afforested Units”, “National 400 Top Afforested Units”, “Advanced Units of Social Practice Activities by National Higher School Students” and “Advanced Units of Protecting Mother River”.

Present

The university has two campuses (Jiangdong & Lidu), occupying an area of 1,700 acres, with a built area of 400,000 square meters. There is a full-time enrollment of over 13,200 students, who can share a variety of teaching and laboratory facilities with a value over fifty million Yuan. The library, equipped with an electronic reading-room with 120 seats, has a collection of over 1,000,000 books and 160,000 copies of E-books, and subscribes to more than 2,000 Chinese and overseas periodicals. Additionally, there is a biochemistry experiment building, a complex laboratory building, a teaching building for art students, an education and training center, an athletic field with a 400-meter standard track, a gymnasium, and a basketball hall. The University has 1,320 faculty and staff, including 720 full-time teachers, of whom 160 are associate professors, and 41 are professors. Furthermore, there are more than 100 doctors and masters degree holders, 20 part-time professors and 4 foreign teachers. The university has made great strides in its building and research specialties. Now, the university comprises eighteen departments (or colleges), providing thirty-five specialties for undergraduate students.The programs fall into eight disciplines, namely literature, science, law, engineering, economics, and science of management, education and historiography. There are five key disciplines of the university level; Modern Chinese Literature, Ancient Chinese Literature, Education of Marxist Theory and Education in Ideology and Politics, Physical Chemistry, and Condensed Matter Physics.

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There are eleven research institutes in the university, including the “Three Gorges Culture and Customs Research Center”, the “Wujiang Economic and Culture Research Center” and the “Primary Education Research Center”. It is also the only Center of Preparatory Courses for Ethnic Minority Education in Chongqing and is the Research Center of Immigration Training for the Three Gorges Area, the Center for Teacher Training for Primary and Middle School in Chongqing and the key research center for Humanities and Social Sciences in Chongqing.

Since 2001, more than seventy students have received national awards in National English Contest for College Students, National Mathematics Contest in Modeling, National Teaching Skills Contest for the English Majors of Higher Normal Schools and National Applied Information Technology Contest.

Since 1982, more than 30,000 students have graduated from this university and become the back-bone teachers and the leaders in schools in Southeast Chongqing. Since 2001, the university has trained over 7000 teachers for primary and middle school in Chongqing.This is a tremendous contribution to local economic and social development. At the same time, the university has trained many qualified teachers for Tibet and the minority area in Southeast Chongqing.

External links

* [http://www.yznu.edu.cn/ Official website of Yangtze Normal University]


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