Changchun Normal University

Changchun Normal University is located in the beautiful northern spring city - Changchun. It is an important training base for basic education teachers and applied senior professionals in Jilin Province. It is an applied research-oriented provincial normal university with the right to confer doctoral degrees. It is also a higher education institution with a long history of running schools and glorious revolutionary traditions.

The school was formerly the official Changchun Normal School founded in 1906 (the 32nd year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu), and is the birthplace of normal education in Jilin Province. Over the past 100 years, in different historical periods, the school has been renamed Changchun Prefecture School, Changchun County Normal School, Jilin Changdao Normal School, Jilin Provincial Second Normal School (abbreviated as Second Normal School), and Changchun Normal School. In 1958, the municipal government established Changchun Normal College on the basis of Changchun Normal School. In 1981, the Ministry of Education officially approved the establishment of Changchun Normal College. In 2013, the school was renamed Changchun Normal University.

The school is known as the "Changchun Revolutionary Base Camp" and the "Cradle of Changchun Revolution". On the campus of the then-named "Second Normal School", the first student patriotic revolutionary movement in the history of Jilin Province was launched, the first branch of the Communist Party of China in Jilin Province, the "Changchun Branch of the Communist Party of China", was established, and the first systematic publication of Marxist theory in Jilin Province, "Autumn Sound", was edited and published. The school is the birthplace of the Communist Party of China organization in Jilin Province, the source of the patriotic movement, and the birthplace of the dissemination of Marxist theory.

The school has 77 undergraduate majors, covering 9 disciplines including literature, science, history, education, management, law, engineering, art, and economics. There are more than 1,500 faculty and staff and more than 20,000 full-time students. At present, it recruits students from 29 provinces, cities, and autonomous regions across the country. The school has 20 teaching units and 15 research institutes.

The school has won 5 national teaching achievement awards; there are 9 national first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 1 national undergraduate comprehensive reform pilot major, and 3 national characteristic professional construction sites; there are 3 national first-class courses, 2 national quality resource sharing courses, 1 national quality online open course, and 1 national quality video open course; there is 1 national teaching team, 7 members of the Ministry of Education's Higher Education Teaching Steering Committee; there is 1 national off-campus practical education base for college students.

The school has won 48 provincial teaching achievement awards; there are 3 provincial talent training model innovation experimental zones, 1 Jilin Province Basic Discipline Outstanding Student Training Base, 1 Jilin Province Transformation and Development Demonstration Secondary Branch, 1 Jilin Province Transformation and Development Demonstration Professional Group; there are 2 Jilin Province "Dual-qualified and Dual-capable" teacher training bases, 6 Jilin Province Higher Education Research Bases, 5 Jilin Province Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centers, 1 Jilin Province Higher Education Engineering Innovation Training Center; there are 8 provincial first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 10 Jilin Province characteristic high-level majors, 9 Jilin Province characteristic majors, 3 Jilin Province Local Undergraduate College Transformation and Development Pilot Professional Groups, 2 There are 10 pilot programs for innovation and entrepreneurship education reform in Jilin Province's colleges and universities, and 2 pilot programs for excellent engineer education and training programs in Jilin Province's undergraduate colleges and universities; there are 5 first-class courses in Jilin Province, 18 quality courses in Jilin Province, 41 excellent courses in Jilin Province, 24 provincial quality online open courses, 2 Jilin Province "Course Ideology and Politics" demonstration courses, 2 Jilin Province college course ideological and political teaching reform "discipline education demonstration courses", 6 provincial demonstration virtual simulation experimental teaching projects; there are 10 provincial excellent teaching teams, 2 provincial "Course Ideology and Politics" teaching teams, 3 Jilin Province college teacher studios; there are 3 Jilin Province college students' off-campus practical education bases. It has been approved by the Ministry of Education's smart teaching pilot project, the Ministry of Education's "LEGO Technology Education Innovation Talent Training Program" project, and the Ministry of Education's "Regional Technical Education Teacher Training Base for the Three Northeastern Provinces", "Jilin Province Support Xinjiang and Tibet Education Training Base", "Preschool and Primary School Teacher Education Provincial and Municipal Co-construction Base", and "Jilin Province Higher Education Provincial Teacher Teaching Development Demonstration Center".

The school currently has 1 "High-level Doctoral Talent Training Project Serving the Special Needs of the Country", 12 first-level disciplines for master's academic degree authorization points, and 6 master's professional degree authorization categories. It has been identified by the Jilin Provincial Degree Committee as a doctoral degree authorization unit for project construction, and education, Chinese history, and chemistry are doctoral degree project construction disciplines. There are 8 high-level disciplines with Jilin characteristics, including 1 first-class discipline of Class B, 4 advantageous and distinctive disciplines of Class A, and 3 advantageous and distinctive disciplines of Class B. The school is the first batch of pilot units for professional degree graduate education of Master of Education (Vocational and Technical Education) identified by the State Council Degree Office. At the same time, it undertakes and implements the "Rural School Education Master Teacher Training Program", "Minority High-level Backbone Talent Training Program" and "Special Master Recruitment Program for Retired College Soldiers". The school currently has 545 graduate tutors, including 22 doctoral tutors and 120 off-campus practice tutors. The scale of graduate training is expanding year by year. Through the implementation of the "double tutor" and "three tutors" system, the construction of high-quality courses, the construction of internship bases, and graduate innovation projects, the reform and innovation of graduate education have been promoted, and gratifying results such as the first prize in the National Master of Education Discipline Teaching Skills Competition have been achieved.

The school has 32 national and provincial scientific research platforms, including the "National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Natural Drug Separation, Purification and Activity Screening Technology" which is a national scientific research platform established by the National Development and Reform Commission, and the "Jilin Province Photofunctional Materials Engineering Research Center", "Key Research Base for Northeast Nationalities and Territories", "Jilin Province College Students' Marxism Education Research Base", "Jilin Province Clean Government Construction Research Base" and other provincial scientific research platforms. Since the 12th Five-Year Plan, the school has obtained 1,879 scientific research projects at all levels and types, including 61 National Natural Science Foundation projects, 49 National Social Science Foundation projects, and 6 National Art Foundation projects. In 2016, it broke through the establishment of major national social science projects for the first time; won 282 scientific research achievement awards at all levels, including 83 provincial and ministerial scientific research achievement awards; published 9,806 academic papers, including 2,483 Chinese core and three major search papers; published 465 academic works, textbooks, etc.

The school has 12 recipients of special allowances from the State Council, 1 national outstanding teacher, 1 national technical expert honorary title, 1 "Changbai Mountain Scholar", 3 "Changbai Mountain Skilled Teachers", 5 senior experts and senior experts in Jilin Province, 23 young and middle-aged professional and technical talents with outstanding contributions in Jilin Province, 1 outstanding professional and technical talent in Jilin Province, 45 candidates for first, second and third level candidates of Jilin Province's top innovative talents, 1 of Jilin Province's 100 high-level innovative and entrepreneurial talents, 10 famous teachers in Jilin Province, 2 famous teachers of "Course Ideology and Politics" in Jilin Province, 6 outstanding teachers in Jilin Province, 1 model of teacher ethics in Jilin Province, 1 model of economic and technological innovation in Jilin Province and 1 May 1st Labor Medal in Jilin Province, 5 recipients of special allowances from Changchun Municipal Government, 6 experts with outstanding contributions in Changchun City, and 4 model teachers in Changchun City.

The school's foreign exchanges and cooperation have made new progress. The school has established cooperative exchange relations with more than 50 universities in more than a dozen countries including Australia, Russia, the United States, France, Spain, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, the United Kingdom and Taiwan. It has carried out 5 undergraduate Sino-foreign cooperative education projects with Southern Cross University of Australia, Kemerovo State Cultural Academy of Russia, and Saginaw Valley State University of the United States. Credits are mutually recognized with universities in the United States, Russia, France, Spain, Japan, South Korea and other countries. In cooperation with relevant foreign organizations, the "French Cultural Center", "French Higher Education Promotion Center of Jilin Province", "Spanish Cultural Exchange Center", "Pushkin Institute Russian Cultural Center", "Russian Cultural Education Center", "Japanese Cultural Center", "African French National Research Center" and other institutions have been established, and joined the Sino-Russian Cultural and Art University Alliance and the Sino-Russian Transportation University Alliance.

Since its establishment, the university has trained more than 100,000 basic education teachers and other specialized talents for socialist construction. Among them, Li Yuanchang, one of the "Top Ten" teachers in primary and secondary schools, a national model worker, and a "good teacher who wholeheartedly dedicates himself to rural education", Li Jinhua, one of the "Top Ten" excellent teachers in the country, Meng Xin, a famous director of CCTV, and Wang Chunli, a national "March 8" red flag bearer, are outstanding representatives of our outstanding graduates. In 2009, the university established the Changchun Normal University Education Foundation, which broadened the exchanges and cooperation between the university and alumni at home and abroad and all walks of life. After the unremitting efforts of several generations of Changchun Normal University people, the school's educational strength has been significantly enhanced, the campus has changed with each passing day, the social reputation has been significantly improved, and the school's various undertakings have continued to develop steadily.