Minzu University of China

Minzu University of China is located in Haidian District, Beijing, where many universities are located. It is adjacent to the National Library in the south and Zhongguancun Science Park in the north. The campus environment is elegant, simple and beautiful, with a strong humanistic atmosphere and distinctive ethnic characteristics. The Fengtai campus, located on the shore of Qinglong Lake, was officially opened in September 2021. It has the characteristics of Chinese classics and landscape campus style, which thoroughly improves the matching degree of "big culture" and "small space", and provides a new starting point for the leapfrog development of Minzu University of China.

Minzu University of China is a university with distinctive characteristics established by the Party and the State to solve China's ethnic issues and cultivate minority cadres and senior professionals. The school originated from the Yan'an Nationalities College established in 1941. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, with the approval of the central government, the Central Institute for Nationalities was established in Beijing in 1951, with Ulanhu as the first president; in November 1993, it was renamed Minzu University of China; in 1999 and 2004, the school successively entered the national "211 Project" and "985 Project"; in 2002, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, the Ministry of Education, and the Beijing Municipal People's Government signed the "Agreement on the Joint Construction of Minzu University of China", which accelerated the pace of school reform and development; in 2017, it successfully entered the ranks of "Double First-Class" Class A universities. The current party secretary of the school is Zhang Jingze, and the president is Guo Guangsheng.

The leadership of the party and the state has always been very concerned about and attached great importance to the construction and development of Minzu University of China. Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and other older generation party and state leaders have met with representatives of teachers and students of the school 17 times. When the school was renamed Minzu University of China in 1993, Comrade Jiang Zemin wrote the new name for the school. In June 2001, Comrade Zhu Rongji visited the school and proposed the goal of "building Minzu University of China into a world-class ethnic university" on behalf of the central government. In the same year, leaders such as Hu Jintao and Li Lanqing personally approved the "Request for Further Running Minzu University of China" jointly submitted by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, the Ministry of Education, the State Planning Commission, and the Ministry of Finance. In 2009, Comrade Xi Jinping pointed out during his inspection of the school: "Minzu University of China plays an important role in my country's higher education system and the cause of ethnic unity and progress, and has made important contributions to the cause of ethnic unity and progress in the country and to the economic, social and cultural construction of ethnic regions." After 70 years of development and construction and the unremitting efforts of several generations, the school has become an important highland for practicing the political foundation of the school, an important position for forging a strong sense of community of the Chinese nation, an important base for cultivating outstanding talents of all ethnic groups, an important base for research on ethnic theories and policies, and an important base for inheriting and promoting the excellent traditional Chinese culture.

At the beginning of the school, a group of academic celebrities, such as Pan Guangdan, Wu Wenzao, Fei Xiaotong, Weng Dujian, Wu Zelin, Feng Jiasheng, Yang Chengzhi, Lin Yaohua, Fu Lehuan, Yu Daoquan, Wen You, Ma Xueliang, Wang Zhonghan, etc., taught at the school and became important founders of the school's teaching, scientific research and discipline construction. The total number of faculty and staff is 1,945, including 1,159 full-time teachers, of which 698 are professors and associate professors, accounting for 60.2% of the total number of full-time teachers. Among them are well-known experts and scholars such as Dai Qingxia, Mou Zhongjian, Hu Zhenhua, Liu Bingjiang, Ma Yue, Mi Ruoru, Li Kuizheng, Yang Shengmin, Jin Binghao, Banban Duojie, and many young and middle-aged newcomers who continue to emerge, and have gradually become leaders in the academic world. In addition, the school hires a group of foreign experts to teach every year. The school currently has 3 distinguished professors of the "Yangtze River Scholars Program" of the Ministry of Education, 1 young scholar of the "Yangtze River Scholars Program" of the Ministry of Education, 15 experts with outstanding contributions from the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, 2 national teaching masters, 1 national model teacher, 23 Beijing teaching masters, 131 people enjoying special government subsidies from the State Council, and 10 innovation teams at or above the provincial and ministerial levels. The school has established exchange and cooperation relations with more than 200 universities and research institutions in 46 countries and regions, including 30 world-class and first-class universities such as the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, the Humboldt University of Berlin, and the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Every year, a group of famous scholars with important influence in related disciplines come to the school to visit, lecture and exchange.

The university currently has 1 academic department and 23 colleges, with 67 undergraduate majors covering 11 disciplines, 27 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, 6 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 5 postdoctoral research mobile stations, 3 national key disciplines, 26 provincial and ministerial key disciplines, and 4 provincial and ministerial cross-cutting key disciplines. Among them, urban ethnology, ethnic art, mass spectrometry imaging and metabolomics are high-tech disciplines in Beijing universities, 22 national first-class undergraduate major construction points, 7 Beijing first-class undergraduate major construction points, 1 Beijing key construction first-class major, 1 four-ministerial co-construction research base for the Chinese nation's community consciousness, 2 national basic humanities disciplines talent training and scientific research bases, 1 Ministry of Education key research base for humanities and social sciences, nearly 40 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, Beijing Engineering Technology Research Center and other scientific research platforms established or commissioned by the provincial and ministerial levels, 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center, and 5 Beijing experimental teaching demonstration centers. In 2018, the school was approved by the Beijing Municipal Education Commission as a Beijing University Student Entrepreneurship Park.

The university enrolls students from 31 provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, and Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. It currently has 19,390 full-time students, including 12,075 undergraduates, 184 minority preparatory students, 5,938 master's students, and 1,193 doctoral students. Among the undergraduate and preparatory students, the proportion of minority students is nearly 50%. The university is a recipient of "Chinese Government Scholarship", "International Chinese Teacher Scholarship" and "Beijing Foreign Student Scholarship" international students, with nearly 500 international students from more than 50 countries studying at the university. Since its establishment, the university has sent more than 200,000 graduates of various ethnic groups to the country. Among them, there are nearly 1,000 well-known experts and scholars, nearly 100 minority provincial and ministerial leaders, nearly 1,000 prefecture-level leaders, and more than 10,000 county-level leaders. They have made outstanding contributions to the country's national unity and development in different positions. Minzu University of China has become a cradle for cultivating outstanding minority talents and role models of national unity.

The university currently covers an area of ​​380,000 square meters, with a campus building area of ​​592,000 square meters and more than 200,000 square meters of teaching and administrative buildings. The new campus is located on the shore of Qinglong Lake in Fengtai District, Beijing, covering an area of ​​810,000 square meters. The first batch of nearly 5,000 students officially moved in in September 2021. The school has more than 5 million books and e-books of various types, and the collection of books and documents on ethnology and Chinese minority languages ​​and literature ranks among the top domestic universities. The school press is the publishing base for national ethnic discipline textbooks and works. The journal agency edits and publishes "Journal of Minzu University of China (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition)", "Ethnic Education Research" and "Chinese National Community Research" "Journal of Minzu University of China (Natural Science Edition)" and many other influential academic journals. The National Museum has more than 50,000 precious ethnic cultural relics and has become a base for students' patriotic education and teaching practice.

At present, all teachers, students and staff of the school are deeply studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially General Secretary Xi Jinping's important thoughts on strengthening and improving ethnic work, with the main line of forging a strong sense of community of the Chinese nation, comprehensively promoting the implementation of the five major strategies of quality-based school, talent-based school, characteristic-based school, management-based school and open school, and striving to promote the construction of "Double First-Class" with the spirit of reform and innovation and the courage to overcome difficulties, so as to start a new journey of school development and create a new situation for the school's cause. (The above data is as of September 30, 2021)