Capital Normal University

Capital Normal University was founded in 1954. Its history can be traced back to Tongzhou Normal University, which was established in 1905. It is a national "double first-class" university and a "provincial-ministerial co-construction" university between Beijing and the Ministry of Education. The school's current disciplines and majors cover liberal arts, science, engineering, management, law, education, foreign languages, and art. Over the past 60 years, it has trained more than 200,000 senior professionals of various types and is an important base for talent training in Beijing.

The school currently has 18 first-level disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees, 14 postdoctoral mobile stations, 25 first-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees, 1 doctoral professional degree category, 16 master's professional degree categories, 18 second-level discipline degree-granting points outside the catalog, and 9 interdisciplinary degree-granting points. There are 4 national key disciplines, 1 national key cultivation discipline, 8 first-level key disciplines in Beijing, 12 second-level key disciplines in Beijing, 2 first-level key construction disciplines in Beijing, 13 second-level key construction disciplines in Beijing, 4 first-level key cultivation disciplines in Beijing, and 2 interdisciplinary key disciplines in Beijing; 1 Beijing National Center for Applied Mathematics, 1 provincial and ministerial co-construction national key laboratory cultivation base, 3 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 1 key research base for humanities and social sciences of provincial universities under the Ministry of Education, 1 engineering research center of the Ministry of Education, 1 key laboratory of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center, 1 national virtual simulation experimental teaching center, 1 national virtual simulation experimental teaching project, and 1 Beijing-level virtual simulation Experimental teaching projects, 1 national international science and technology cooperation base, 1 national language committee research base, 1 national intellectual property pilot university, 1 Ministry of Education science and technology achievement transformation base, 1 Beijing university high-end innovation center, 1 Beijing laboratory, 11 Beijing key laboratories, 1 Beijing science and technology achievement transformation platform, 1 Beijing intellectual property pilot unit, 2 Beijing college engineering research centers, 1 Beijing engineering technology research center, 1 Beijing engineering laboratory, 1 Beijing social science and natural science collaborative innovation research base, 4 Beijing college municipal off-campus talent training bases, 7 Beijing experimental teaching demonstration centers, 17 provincial and ministerial research (institutes, centers) and laboratories.

The university consists of 31 schools and departments (centers), including the School of Arts, the School of History, the School of Political Science and Law, the School of Education, the School of Teacher Education, the Capital Institute of Basic Education Development, the School of Psychology, the School of Foreign Languages, the School of Marxism, the School of Management, the School of Music, the School of Fine Arts, the School of Mathematical Sciences, the Department of Physics, the Department of Chemistry, the School of Life Sciences, the School of Resources, Environment and Tourism, the School of Information Engineering, the School of Primary Education, the School of Preschool Education, the International Demonstration School of Geospatial Information Science and Technology, the Basic Department of Liangxiang Campus, the School of Continuing Education, the Beijing-Jiangxi College, the International Culture College, the Chinese Calligraphy Culture Research Institute, the Yandu College, the Chinese National Studies Education College, the Aesthetic Education Research Center, the Cultural Research Institute, and the Interdisciplinary Science Research Institute, as well as the College English Teaching and Research Department and the Physical Education Teaching and Research Department. There are 1 junior college major and 59 undergraduate majors. The total number of students of all types is 28,191. Among them, there are 292 full-time through-train students, 258 junior college students, 11,826 undergraduates, 7,415 master's students, 1,175 doctoral students, 7,627 adult education students, and 1,227 foreign students. It has formed a comprehensive and multi-level school-running pattern and education system from junior college students to undergraduates, master's students, doctoral students and postdoctoral students, from full-time to adult education, and international student education.

The school currently has 2,503 faculty members, among which 407 have senior professional titles, 633 have associate senior professional titles, 1,163 have doctors, and 443 have masters. Teachers with master's degrees or above account for 95% of the total number of full-time teachers. At present, the school has a group of experts and scholars with certain influence at home and abroad, such as academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, academicians of the Russian Academy of Engineering, academicians of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, sponsors of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, national-level talents, selected in the "Beijing Scholars Program", the Capital Science and Technology Leading Talent Training Project, selected in the Beijing Distinguished Professor Support Program, selected in the Beijing High-level Talent Introduction Funding Program, Beijing Innovation Team Construction Program, Beijing Science and Technology Rising Star, selected in the Young Top Talent Cultivation Program, selected in the Great Wall Scholar Cultivation Program; 5 members of the Discipline Evaluation Group of the State Council Academic Degree Committee, 11 members of the Discipline Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, 11 members of the Basic Education Teaching Steering Professional Committee of the Ministry of Education, 6 selected as national cultural celebrities and "four batches" talents, 15 selected as Beijing cultural celebrities and "four batches" talents, and 3 innovation teams of the Ministry of Education. In addition, 65 teachers of the school have won the Zeng Xianzi Teacher Award of Normal University, the Ho Ying-Tong Young Teacher Teaching Award and the Scientific Research Award.

In 2003, the school was rated as an "Excellent School for Undergraduate Teaching" in the evaluation of the undergraduate teaching level of the Ministry of Education. Up to now, the school has 7 national characteristic majors and 10 Beijing-level characteristic majors; 25 national first-class professional construction sites and 8 Beijing-level first-class professional construction sites; 7 national teaching teams (including 1 Huang Danian-style teacher team in national universities), 9 Beijing-level teaching teams, 3 outstanding undergraduate education teams in Beijing universities, 3 outstanding undergraduate teaching management personnel in Beijing universities, 12 high-quality undergraduate courses in Beijing universities, and 12 high-quality undergraduate teaching materials and courseware in Beijing universities; 3 national-level talent training model innovation experimental zones; 1 municipal-level talent training model innovation experimental zone; 1 national-level off-campus practical education base for college students, 2 Beijing higher education demonstration on-campus innovation practice bases, 3 bases for the Basic Discipline Outstanding Students Cultivation Program 2.0, 12 national-level quality courses, 29 Beijing-level quality courses; 1 national-level bilingual teaching demonstration course; Ministry of Education There are 20 textbooks planned for the 11th Five-Year Plan, 5 national-level quality textbooks, 1 Beijing higher education classic textbook, 106 Beijing higher education quality textbooks, and 16 national-level planning textbooks for undergraduate general higher education during the 12th Five-Year Plan; 1 national quality video open course, 6 national-level quality resource sharing courses, 8 national-level quality resource sharing courses for teacher education, and 10 national-level first-class undergraduate courses; the school currently has 2 national-level teaching masters and 38 Beijing-level teaching masters; in 2020, our school was rated as an excellent school for the popularization of network learning space application activities by the Ministry of Education, and in 2008, our school became a "National Undergraduate Innovative Experimental Program" school; in the selection of outstanding teaching achievements, the school won 3 first prizes and 13 second prizes (including cooperative projects) for national-level outstanding teaching achievements, 117 Beijing-level outstanding teaching achievement awards, and 15 Beijing-level undergraduate teaching reform and innovation projects. Students have won many awards in national and Beijing-level competitions such as the Challenge Cup, Mathematical Modeling and Computer Application Competition, e-sports competition, and English speech. The training of high-level talents is remarkable, and the school has won 2 National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Awards, 8 National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Nomination Awards, and 9 Beijing Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Awards.

The school has 107 research institutes (centers) and Beijing University Science and Technology Park. Since the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", 1,823 scientific research projects at or above the provincial and ministerial levels have been approved. Among them, there are 589 National Natural Science Foundation projects, 57 National Key R&D Program projects and sub-topics, 11 "Science and Technology Support Program" projects and sub-topics, 9 "863" program projects and sub-topics, 17 "973" program cooperation projects, and 1 National Natural Science Foundation Innovation Research Group; 302 National Social Science Fund projects, and 34 National Social Science Fund major projects. Won 1 second prize in the National Science and Technology Award for Natural Sciences, 1 first prize in the National Science and Technology Progress Award (second unit), 14 Beijing Science and Technology Awards, and 120 awards at or above the provincial and ministerial levels. Edited and published "Chinese Guide" and "Middle School Chinese Teaching".

The school covers an area of ​​about 880,000 square meters and a total building area of ​​about 757,000 square meters. The school has excellent teaching and scientific research conditions, and the total assets of teaching and scientific research equipment are more than 168,551 million yuan. The school library has a collection of more than 14.9 million books and documents of various types, with a strong collection foundation, and is one of the backbone libraries of national documents. The school has a digital campus construction center, and a stable, complete and efficient campus network has been fully opened. In addition, it has built national standard plastic sports fields, gymnasiums, badminton halls, swimming pools and other sports venues.

The school is one of the institutions approved by the Ministry of Education to accept foreign students, and is also a Beijing-Hong Kong University Alliance School. The school is the only demonstration base for studying in China awarded by the Ministry of Education among Beijing's universities. It is the Ministry of Education's Chinese Government Scholarship Undergraduate Undergraduate International Students Preparatory Education Base, Beijing's "Belt and Road" National Talent Training Base, and one of the four universities selected as the first batch of "Beijing Chinese Education Bases" in Beijing.

The school actively carries out international cultural exchange activities. At present, it has established inter-school exchange and cooperation relations with 271 universities in 48 countries and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, covering undergraduate, master and doctoral students from 107 countries and regions, and established 4 Confucius Institutes, 2 independent Confucius Classrooms and 1 Confucius Classroom Coordination Office, namely the Confucius Institute at St. Petersburg State University in Russia, the Confucius Institute at the University of Venice in Italy, the Confucius Institute at the University of Piura in Peru, the Confucius Institute in Bremen in Germany, the Independent Confucius Classroom at the Hungarian-Chinese Bilingual School in Hungary, the Independent Confucius Classroom at Luxor University in Egypt, and the Confucius Classroom Coordination Office at St. Cloud State University in the United States. It has jointly trained 761 masters of education with Flinders University in Australia.

The Affiliated High School of Capital Normal University, the Affiliated Yuxin School of Capital Normal University and other affiliated schools are experimental bases for school education and teaching reform. The Affiliated High School of Capital Normal University is one of the first batch of municipal key middle schools and model high schools in Beijing.

The school has always attached great importance to party building and ideological and political work. In recent years, it has been rated as an "Advanced Higher Education Institution for Party Building and Ideological and Political Work" in China and Beijing by the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Ministry of Education, the Beijing Municipal Committee and the Municipal Government, and has won many honorary titles such as "Advanced Unit for Spiritual Civilization Construction in the Capital" and "Advanced Collective for Ideological and Political Work in Beijing".

In the future, Capital Normal University will be determined to innovate, forge ahead, and strive to build the school into a world-class normal university with Chinese characteristics.