Fuyang Normal University

Fuyang Normal University is a multidisciplinary undergraduate school, focusing on undergraduate education, while also undertaking graduate training tasks. The school is located in Fuyang, a thousand-year-old historical and cultural ancient city, a Chinese characteristic charming city, and a national civilized city. This place is blessed with beautiful scenery and rich humanities. It is the birthplace of Laozi and Zhuangzi culture, the hometown of Guan and Bao, and the hometown of the Three Caos. Yan Shu, Ouyang Xiu, and Su Shi once served as officials here. It has the reputation of "a granary of 10 billion, a county of good fortune in Yinghuai, a famous city of calligraphy, and an ecological water city". The school is adjacent to the ancient Yingzhou West Lake, which gathers the splendid Changhuai River for thousands of miles, gathers the outstanding talents of the Three Pure Lands and Guanying, has a superior geographical location, convenient transportation, and a beautiful and pleasant environment.

The school was founded in 1956, began to recruit undergraduate students in 1977, established Fuyang Normal College in 1978, and obtained the "excellent" grade in the undergraduate teaching level assessment of the Ministry of Education in 2008. Graduate training was started in 2009. In 2019, it was renamed Fuyang Normal University and approved as a doctoral degree project construction unit in Anhui Province. In 2005 and 2014, it won the second prize of national teaching achievements twice. Over the past 60 years since its establishment, the school has developed into a provincial local university with distinctive characteristics of teacher education, initial application advantages, coordinated development of multiple disciplines, and great influence. It has successively sent more than 100,000 graduates to the society. The quality of talent training has won wide acclaim, and the service to regional economic and social development has achieved remarkable results. It is known as "the cradle of basic education in northern Anhui, the base for talent training, the platform for scientific and technological innovation, and the window for cultural construction".

The school currently has 21,267 full-time undergraduate students and 746 graduate students, covering an area of ​​1.1434 million square meters and a school building area of ​​853,600 square meters. The school has 17 teaching colleges and a continuing education college, with 72 undergraduate majors covering 11 disciplines. It currently has 6 first-level academic master's degree awarding points and 9 professional master's degree awarding points. The school currently has four provincial key disciplines, including Chinese linguistics and philology, ancient Chinese literature, educational economics and management, biochemistry and molecular biology, one provincial major discipline construction project in "biology", three national characteristic majors, including physics, mathematics and applied mathematics, and Chinese language and literature, and four majors, including Chinese language and literature, mathematics and applied mathematics, physics, and chemistry, have been approved as national first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, one of the first batch of national online first-class courses, 16 provincial first-class professional construction sites, one national pilot reform of the education and training program for outstanding agricultural and forestry talents, and one national innovation and entrepreneurship training base for college students; it has built two Anhui Provincial Key Laboratories, including Environmental Hormones and Reproductive Development, and Degradation and Monitoring of Environmental Pollutants, two Anhui Provincial University Engineering Technology Research Centers, including Anti-Aging Chinese Herbal Medicine, Biomass Conversion and Pollution Prevention and Control, three Anhui Provincial University Key Laboratories, including Embryonic Development and Reproductive Regulation, Regional Logistics Planning and Modern Logistics Engineering, and Information Functional Material Structure and Devices, as well as four Anhui Provincial Key Research Bases for Humanities and Social Sciences, including the Northern Anhui Cultural Research Center, the Migrant Workers Research Center, the Anhui Wushu Culture Research Center, and the Fuyang Normal University Branch of the Chinese Poetics Research Center. The total value of teaching and research equipment is 330.017 million yuan, and there are 2.0767 million paper books. It has 41 Chinese and foreign network resource databases such as the China Journal Full-text Database and the Elsevier ScienceDirect Electronic Journal Library, as well as self-built special databases such as the Northern Anhui Cultural Research Database and the Migrant Workers Research Database.

The school currently has 1,058 full-time teachers, more than 94% of whom have a master's degree or above, of which 27% have a doctorate; 398 senior professional and technical personnel, including 145 senior professional and technical personnel; 86 people including Anhui Provincial Academic and Technical Leaders and Reserve Candidates, Anhui Provincial Outstanding Talents, Enjoying State Council or Provincial Government Subsidies, National Outstanding Teachers, Baosteel Outstanding Teachers, Anhui Outstanding Teachers and Teaching Masters; 356 doctoral and master's supervisors. 109 part-time teachers including Academician Liu Depei, former Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Academician Chen Guoliang and Academician Fang Weihai of the Chinese Academy of Sciences were hired.

The school attaches great importance to teaching and research. In the past five years, the university has undertaken 1,045 scientific research projects of various levels and types, including 546 projects at the provincial and ministerial level and above, 281 horizontal cooperation projects, and won 22 scientific research achievement awards at the provincial and ministerial level and above; published 2,405 academic papers, including 899 journal papers of the second category and above, and obtained 609 national authorized patents; published 199 books. It sponsored and published the Journal of Fuyang Normal University, Fuyang Normal University News, and Anhui Basic Education.

The school continues to highlight the characteristics of practical education, and strives to cultivate high-quality talents with social responsibility, innovative spirit and practical ability. In the past five years, our students have won 794 national subject competition awards and 3,930 provincial subject competition awards, ranking 185th in the "2016-2020 National General College Student Competition Ranking (Undergraduate TOP300)", and ranked first among the shortlisted normal colleges in Anhui Province; students have presided over 2,179 scientific research projects of various types, including 599 national projects of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program. Graduates have fast role transformation, strong practical ability, strong development potential, and high social satisfaction.

The school has always adhered to the socialist direction of running schools, strived to create a healthy and progressive campus cultural atmosphere, and has long insisted on carrying out a series of brand second-classroom activities such as the "Future Teachers" Vocational Skills Competition and the College Students' Science, Technology, Culture and Art Festival. It has successively won the "National Advanced Unit for College and Technical School Student Volunteers' "Three Going to the Countryside" Social Practice Activities", "National Advanced Unit for Youth Legal Education", "Anhui Civilized Unit", "Anhui Province Advanced Higher Education School for Party Building and Ideological and Political Work", "Anhui Province's First Batch of Pilot Units for Comprehensive Reform of Colleges and Universities", "Anhui Education System Advanced Collective", "Anhui Province's Advanced Unit for Popularization of Social Sciences", "Anhui Province's Excellent Teaching Management Unit", "Anhui Province's Advanced Unit for Student Aid", "Anhui Province's Ordinary College Graduate Employment Work' Model Unit", "Anhui Province's First Batch of Provincial Entrepreneurship Colleges", "Anhui Province's Ordinary Colleges and Universities' Demonstration School for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education for College Students" and other honorary titles.

Standing at a new historical starting point, the school will always adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the Party's education policy, firmly establish the new development concept, implement the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, uphold the school motto of "virtue, erudition, self-victory, and diligence", and carry forward the school spirit of "hard work, self-improvement, virtue and education, truth-seeking and pragmatism", adhere to innovation-driven, deepen comprehensive reform, actively connect with the needs of economic and social development, seize the major opportunities of "double first-class" construction, and strive to build a high-level normal university to make new and greater contributions to economic and social development.

(Updated on October 15, 2021)