Nanchang Normal University

Nanchang Normal University (formerly Jiangxi Education College) is a public undergraduate normal university in Jiangxi Province. It currently has two campuses, Changbei and Qingshan Lake. It is the Jiangxi Education Cadre Training Center, Jiangxi Primary and Secondary School Teachers Remote Training Center, Jiangxi Primary and Secondary School Teachers Training Credit Management Office, a national language and writing promotion base, a national conservation-oriented public institution demonstration unit, and a national party building work model branch cultivation and creation unit. It is a pilot university for the comprehensive reform of "three-dimensional education" in Jiangxi Province, a red culture propaganda base in Jiangxi Province, the third batch of mass entrepreneurship and innovation demonstration bases in Jiangxi Province, the Jiangxi National Nutrition and Health Education Research Center, and the Jiangxi Tourism Application Talent Training (Training) Base. The school has won the Ministry of Education's College Ideological and Political Work Excellent Project, the National May 4th Red Flag League Branch, the Seventh China International "Internet +" College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition Gold Award, Jiangxi Province May 1st Labor Award, Jiangxi Province Comprehensive Management Advanced Unit, Jiangxi Province Civilized Campus, Jiangxi Provincial Civilized Unit, Jiangxi Province Water-saving University, Jiangxi Province College Grassroots Party Building "Standardization and Normalization Informatization" Construction Pilot Unit, Jiangxi Province Ordinary College Graduate Employment Work Excellent School and Advanced Unit and other honorary titles. Jiangxi Province Research and Travel Research Association, Jiangxi Province Mental Health Association, Jiangxi Province Genealogy Association, Jiangxi Province Public Administration Society, Jiangxi Province Tourism and Culture Research Association, Jiangxi Province College Photography Society, Jiangxi Province Food Education Society (Preparatory) and other provincial-level associations and Jiangxi Education Society Middle School Principals Research Association, Primary School Principals Research Association, Kindergarten Principals Research Association are located in the school.

Long history. As one of the eight earliest undergraduate colleges in Jiangxi Province, Nanchang Normal University started from the small auditorium of Yuzhang Middle School in Nanchang City, changed its name six times, moved its site ten times, and changed its system several times, and has gone through a difficult and fruitful school-running process. Its predecessor was the Jiangxi Provincial Secondary Teacher Training School established in 1952. It was renamed Nanchang Normal College in 1956 and Jiangxi Education College was established in 1958. Comrade Shao Shiping, the first governor of Jiangxi Province in New China, personally wrote the name of the school. In 1969, it merged with Jiangxi Normal College and Jiangxi University of Arts, and became a part of Jinggangshan University and Jiangxi Normal College. Jiangxi Education College was restored in 1979. In 1981, the Ministry of Education held a national conference on education colleges in our school, and promulgated the "Interim Provisions on Strengthening the Construction of Education Colleges" (Guofa No. 130) after the meeting. In April 2013, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, it was restructured and renamed Nanchang Normal College, laying a new milestone in the history of the school's development. In 2019, the school successfully passed the undergraduate teaching qualification evaluation of the Ministry of Education. In 2021, it successfully carried out the certification of teacher education majors for the first time. It was listed as a key construction unit for the awarding of new master's degrees in Jiangxi Province during the "14th Five-Year Plan", marking that the school's career development has reached a new level and opened a new journey.

High level of teachers. Since its establishment, a group of nationally renowned experts and scholars have emerged in the fields of logic history, academy history, school management psychology, ancient book compilation, exegesis, topology, and Chinese teaching theory, including Zhou Wenying, Li Caidong, Li Kuang, Lv Xiaowei, Deng Zhiyuan, Wu Dongxing, and Yuan Mu. The school currently has 808 faculty and staff, of which 30.3% have senior professional titles and 68.9% have master's and doctoral degrees. A large number of teachers have won national projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation and the National Social Science Foundation, as well as national honors such as National Excellent Teachers and State Council Special Allowance Experts. Nearly 100 famous experts and scholars such as Academician Ouyang Ziyuan have been hired as honorary (visiting, part-time) professors. A large number of research results have been affirmed by provincial and ministerial leaders. Theoretical articles have been adopted by the People's Daily Internal Reference, and the school has undertaken the drafting of the "Opinions of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the People's Government of Jiangxi Province on Promoting the Construction of an Educational Power" and the annual "Jiangxi Basic Education Development Report" (Basic Education Blue Book).

Distinctive characteristics. The school is rooted in basic education for development, rooted in the land of Ganpo to run a university, and is concerned about the old areas of Jiangxi to cultivate talents. It "starts" with teacher training and "develops" with teacher education. It undertakes the social responsibility of training qualified primary and secondary school teachers in the early days of the founding of New China, and shoulders the historical responsibility of compensatory education for basic education teachers after the reform and opening up. The mission of the times for the revitalization and development of teacher education in the new era. Based on the school-running tradition of "taking teachers as the main body, rooting in the local area, and highlighting application", adhering to the school motto of "moral cultivation, erudition and education", adhering to the value pursuit of "establishing teacher ethics, casting teacher soul, correcting teacher style, and strengthening teacher ability", nurturing the school-running spirit of "red initial heart, tempering innovation", and establishing the school-running philosophy of "student-centered, demand-oriented, and quality-based". Among the undergraduate majors of the whole school, normal majors account for 56%, building a "four-in-one" teacher education system, improving and strengthening the discipline and professional groups of teacher education, further strengthening curriculum education, and vigorously strengthening curriculum ideological and political construction. The preschool education major was rated as a first-class major in the province. Focusing on the needs of Jiangxi's economic and social development, we promote the coordinated development of non-teacher education majors and teacher education majors, respond to Jiangxi's strategies of strengthening education, culture and tourism, and create a professional group integrating culture and tourism. We now have a number of provincial professional comprehensive reform pilot projects, provincial university talent training model innovation experimental areas, provincial industry-education integration education demonstration projects, provincial cultural and artistic science key research bases, and Jiangxi Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Key Research Bases and other provincial research platforms, actively cultivating and forming the "543" school-running characteristics of "five youth ideological and political education, four-in-one, and three-party collaboration".

Good quality of education. The school has co-built a joint laboratory of poultry molecular breeding technology with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a food education base and a Chinese food education research institute with China Food Safety News Agency, and a Confucius Institute with Nanchang University and Udayana University of Indonesia. The school has established a Jiangxi National Nutrition and Health Education Research Center, which was established by the Jiangxi Provincial Health Commission and the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Education. It has cooperated with the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism to build a Jiangxi Tourism Application Talent Training Base. It has established a comprehensive strategic cooperative relationship with the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Nanchang Municipal Government, Zixi, Jinxi, Nanchang Economic Development Zone, Taihe, Nanfeng, Pingxiang, Ganxian District and other local governments. It has carried out school-enterprise cooperation with Zhengbang Group, Jiangxi Telecom and other enterprises to jointly build a school-enterprise cooperation base. It has established a number of provincial-level production-education integration education demonstration projects such as the Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory for Genetic Improvement of Local Chicken Breeds, the Jiangxi Tourism Industry Upgrading Research Center, and the Jiangxi Folk Dance Culture Research Center. Students have won the first prize of the National Normal Student Skills Competition, the China Robot Competition, the National Dragon and Lion Dance Championship, and other awards. They have won honors such as the China University Student Self-improvement Star, the Annual News Figure of College Students' Employment and Entrepreneurship, the Nomination Award for China University Student of the Year, and the Most Beautiful College Student in Jiangxi Province. The "Golden Ganpo" Jiangxi float show, edited, led and starred by 11 teachers and students, won the "Huamei Award", the highest award for local floats in the mass parade celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China. Teachers and students won the first and third prizes of the 2019 Ministry of Education National Classic Recitation Competition, and the number of first prizes in the "Red Walk-through" competition has ranked first among colleges and universities in the province for two consecutive years. Students were invited to Pakistan to participate in the 70th anniversary celebration of the founding of the People's Republic of China and to Indonesia to perform Chinese excellent traditional culture. The "Yixian Shengji Jinfeng Builds Dreams" college student poverty alleviation and agricultural innovation and entrepreneurship project represented Jiangxi universities in the 2019 National Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation Week, and was highly praised by Premier Li Keqiang and Wan Gang, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology, and won the gold medal in the 7th China International "Internet +" College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition in 2021. Liu Qi, then Secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee, came to the school to carry out a special investigation on implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's "3.18" important speech and strengthening the construction of ideological and political courses. He fully affirmed the school's educational results.

The training advantages are obvious. The school undertakes the Ministry of Education's national training demonstration project and provincial training, commissioned training, and aid training projects. The trainees are spread across 18 provinces across the country, covering 100 counties (cities and districts) in 11 prefecture-level cities in Jiangxi. The training effect has been praised by the Ministry of Education, the Provincial Department of Education, trainees, and experts every year. Since its establishment, the school has trained more than 130,000 primary and secondary school teachers and school (kindergarten) principals, and more than 4 million primary and secondary school principals and teachers through remote training and concentrated face-to-face teaching. The school has trained 90% of primary and secondary school principals and 80% of key teachers in Jiangxi, and has undertaken 6 consecutive Jiangxi famous principal training projects. Among the more than 2,400 provincial special-grade teachers, provincial primary and secondary school subject leaders and senior primary and secondary school teachers in Jiangxi, more than 800 have participated in centralized training at the school, and 100% have participated in school remote training. It has made important contributions to the professional development and lifelong learning of primary and secondary school teachers in Jiangxi.

Great social impact. The school has trained more than 145,000 undergraduate and junior college students, and a large number of well-known alumni working in basic education, enterprises (institutions), and party and government agencies have emerged. There are more than 180 national outstanding teachers, national model teachers, and advanced workers in the national education system, and more than 10,000 professors, doctoral supervisors, master supervisors, senior, special and other famous and excellent teachers, becoming the working "mother machine" of Jiangxi's education cause.

Facing the future, the school will be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, the National Education Conference, the National Undergraduate Education Work Conference and other meetings, deeply grasp the new situation and new requirements of high-quality development in the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, focus on the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, carefully draw up the "14th Five-Year Plan" development blueprint, further establish the positioning of the talent training center, strengthen the connotation construction of disciplines and majors, adhere to characteristic development, deepen teaching reforms, standardize teaching management, strengthen conditions construction, promote the high-quality development of all undertakings of our school, continue to work hard to build a distinctive and high-level applied general undergraduate normal college, and make new and greater contributions to building a prosperous, beautiful, happy and modern Jiangxi. (Data as of December 2021)