Northeast Normal University

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The towering Northeast Normal University has its roots in Yan'an. On October 25, 1945, Chairman Mao Zedong met with the main leaders of Yan'an University and instructed the school to move to the Northeast and establish a "new type of Northeast University". In February 1946, Northeast University was established in Benxi. It is the first comprehensive university established by the Communist Party of China in the Northeast. It was located in Changchun in July 1949. It was renamed Northeast Normal University in April 1950. In September 1996, it became one of the first national "211 Project" key construction universities. In June 2004, the Graduate School was established with the approval of the Ministry of Education. In 2007, it was selected as a university for the construction of the national teacher education "985 Project" advantage discipline innovation platform. In September 2017, it was selected as a national "double first-class" construction university.

The school is run in two districts, and the majors are reasonable. The school currently has a free campus and a Jingyue campus. There are 26,997 full-time students and 1,671 full-time teachers, including 511 professors and 645 associate professors. The school has 22 colleges (departments), 81 undergraduate majors, 23 first-level disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees, 37 first-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees, 1 doctoral professional degree authorization point and 22 master's professional degree authorization points, as well as 22 postdoctoral research mobile stations. The disciplines cover 11 disciplines except military science and medicine, forming a talent training system with clear levels and diverse types.

Distinctive characteristics and remarkable results. The school is based on education and teaching. Over the past 70 years since its establishment, it has formed a distinctive school-running feature of "serving basic education" and is known as the "cradle of people's teachers." In the 1950s, Cheng Fangwu, a famous educator and principal in my country, proposed the idea of ​​running a school to serve primary and secondary education. The school pioneered correspondence education for Chinese teachers. In the 1980s, the school took the initiative to serve rural basic education and embarked on a "Changbai Mountain Road" that is well-known in the basic education community. In the 1990s, the "Excellent Teacher Project" was implemented to train excellent teachers for basic education. In the new century, the "Educator Training Project" was launched to explore the "U-G-S New Model of Teacher Education". The "Excellent Teacher Project" and the "U-G-S New Model of Teacher Education" have successively won the first prize of national teaching achievements in higher education.

Scientific research strengthens the school and has fruitful results. The school takes scientific research as the foundation of strengthening the school. In recent years, the school's discipline construction has made a historic breakthrough. In the national "World-Class Universities and First-Class Discipline Construction Universities and Construction Disciplines" announced in September 2017, six disciplines including Marxist theory, world history, mathematics, chemistry, statistics, and materials science and engineering were selected into the ranks of world-class discipline construction, ranking 19th in the country and first among 211 colleges and universities. In the fourth round of subject evaluation by the Degree Center of the Ministry of Education, there are 6 A-level subjects (including Marxist theory rated A+) and 15 B-level subjects. 34 subjects were selected as characteristic high-level subjects in Jilin Province. The school currently has 1 national engineering laboratory for drug gene and protein screening and 14 ministerial key research bases, and 2 key research bases for humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, namely the Center for Research on World Civilization History and the Institute of Rural Education. In recent years, it has won four second prizes in the National Natural Science Awards, including two in the field of materials science research, one in the field of statistics research, and one in the field of chemistry research; it has won four first prizes in the seventh and eighth Outstanding Scientific Research Achievements Award for Higher Education Institutions (Humanities and Social Sciences), including three in the field of history research and one in the field of Marxist theory research.

Open education to help development. The school has established cooperative exchanges with 297 universities and research institutions in more than 30 countries and regions including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, South Korea, Japan, and Russia. In 2015, the Rutgers Newark College of Northeast Normal University was established in cooperation with Rutgers New Jersey State University in the United States. The school has established Confucius Institutes in South Korea, Spain, the United States, Canada, and Mongolia. The National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have respectively established the "International Chinese Teacher Training Base", "Chinese Language Education Base", "Education Aid Base", and "China-ASEAN Education Training Center" in our school. The Preparatory School for Chinese Students Going to Japan is located in our school.

The stars are bright and talented. The school has a group of famous experts and scholars at home and abroad. The poet and lyricist of "The Song of the Chinese People's Liberation Army" Gong Mu (Zhang Songru), writers Xiao Jun and Wu Boxiao, literary historian Yang Gongji, linguist Sun Changxu, historians Li Xun, Ding Zemin, Lin Zhichun, educator Chen Yuanhui, musicians Ma Ke and Lu Ji, pathologist Bai Xiqing, mathematician Zhang Dexin, nuclear physicist Wang Lin, geographer Ding Xizhi, ornithologist Fu Tongsheng, biologist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Hao Shui, one of the founders of school sports in New China Yang Zhongxiu, large-scale group gymnastics choreographer artist Yang Ruixue, "Red Theorist" Zheng Derong and other famous scholars have worked and lived here. Over the past 70 years since its establishment, the school has inherited the red gene and carried forward the spirit of "strengthening teachers to serve the country, seeking truth and creating". It has trained and sent more than 300,000 graduates of all levels and types to the country, and a large number of outstanding talents have stood out in the field of education, such as Lu Jiaxi, a teacher at Baotou No. 9 Middle School who won the first prize of the National Natural Science Award for solving the world-famous mathematical problem, Feng Zhiyuan, a teacher who moved China, Guo Lihua, a national model teacher, Dou Guimei, a national special teacher, and Ma Xianhua, one of the top ten teachers in the country. At the same time, it has also cultivated various talents represented by famous ecologist Academician Zheng Guangmei, physicist Academician Sun Changpu, geographer Academician Liu Xingtu, and famous writer Zhang Xiaotian. The "four real qualities" of Dongshi people, "firm beliefs, solid knowledge, simple people, and down-to-earth style", have been widely recognized by the society.

Inherit the classics and shape the new, and strive to go far. New era, new mission, new journey. Northeast Normal University will take the successful convening of the 15th Party Congress of the school as an opportunity to practice the concept of "respectful education, creative education", adhere to moral education, deepen connotation development, improve the quality of education, and strive to advance the process of building a world-class normal university.