Minnan Normal University

Minnan Normal University is a key university in Fujian Province and a "double first-class" university in Fujian Province. It was established in the spring of 1958. In 1963, under the personal advocacy and care of Premier Zhou Enlai, the State Council approved the establishment of Fujian Second Normal College, thus opening the door to undergraduate education in our university. In 1986, with the approval of the former State Education Commission, Fujian Second Normal College was reopened and renamed Zhangzhou Normal College. In 1992, it obtained the right to confer bachelor's degrees. In 2000, it successfully passed the first batch of undergraduate teaching work qualification evaluation of normal colleges by the Ministry of Education. In 2003, it was added as a master's degree awarding institution by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee. In 2007, it was listed as a key university in Fujian Province. In 2008, it passed the undergraduate teaching level assessment of the Ministry of Education with excellent results. In 2012, it was approved to serve the special needs of the country for the doctoral talent training project of Minnan culture and cross-strait exchanges. In April 2013, it was renamed Minnan Normal University. In 2017, it was determined to be a university for the construction of doctoral degree awarding and cultivation units in Fujian Province from 2018 to 2020. In 2018, it became a first-class discipline construction university in Fujian Province. In September 2018, the doctoral talent training project serving the special needs of the country passed the review of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee with unanimous votes. In 2020, it became a national first-class professional construction university. In 2021, it was approved as a doctoral degree awarding unit.

The school currently has two campuses, Beijiangbin and Yuanshan, covering an area of ​​about 2,000 acres. There are 68 undergraduate majors, covering ten major disciplines including literature, engineering, science, education, management, economics, law, art, agriculture and history, with more than 20,000 full-time undergraduates and graduate students. There are 1,343 full-time teachers, of which 658 have senior professional titles; 567 have doctoral degrees, 13 experts have enjoyed special government allowances from the State Council, 33 Minjiang scholars, 2 people in the "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program" of the Ministry of Education, and more than 130 outstanding experts and famous teachers at the provincial level and above.

The school insists on cultivating people with moral integrity, takes talent cultivation as the central task, continuously deepens education and teaching reforms, and continuously improves the quality of talent cultivation. At present, it has 14 national undergraduate teaching projects, 1 national teaching achievement award, and has been approved as a national language and writing promotion base; 148 provincial undergraduate teaching projects, 28 provincial teaching achievement awards, and 99 provincial education and teaching reform research projects.

The school currently has 1 first-level doctoral program (Chinese language and literature), 1 doctoral talent training program serving national special needs (research on Minnan culture and cross-strait exchanges), 7 first-level master's programs (Chinese language and literature, mathematics, chemistry, psychology, Marxist theory, education, optical engineering), 12 professional degree master's programs (education, social work, journalism and communication, applied psychology, electronic information, applied statistics, translation, resources and environment, Chinese international education, tourism management, landscape architecture, art), covering 11 disciplines. 4 disciplines (groups) (Chinese language and literature and Minnan culture discipline group, mathematics, chemistry and environment discipline group, education) were selected as plateau disciplines in Fujian Province, and 5 disciplines (food science and engineering, computer science and technology, psychology, information and communication engineering, applied economics) were selected as applied disciplines in Fujian Province.

The school adheres to the strategy of developing the school through academics, aims to enhance scientific research innovation and social services, and continuously strengthens disciplines, talent teams and scientific research construction. The school currently has 27 provincial (ministerial) scientific research innovation platforms and humanities and social sciences research bases, and 6 provincial university science and technology innovation teams. Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, the school has undertaken a number of research tasks for national-level projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Social Science Foundation of China, and its research results have won 33 provincial and ministerial scientific research awards. The school actively carries out social service work, establishes industry-university-research cooperation with 29 enterprises and institutions, takes the lead in establishing two provincial collaborative innovation centers, including the Regional Rural Teacher Development Collaborative Innovation Center and the Fungus Health Industry Collaborative Innovation Center, and establishes the Institute of Applied Technology of Minnan Normal University to promote the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements of the school.

The school actively carries out foreign cooperation and exchanges, and has established cooperative relations with many universities in Europe, America, Japan and Southeast Asian countries. The school actively carries out projects such as 2+X international undergraduate courses, international vocational education self-taught undergraduate courses, international master's preparatory courses, 4+2 study in Japan and the Overseas Learning Center of the University of Auckland, and vigorously promotes Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools. The school gives full play to its geographical advantages over Taiwan, maintains a good and stable inter-school exchange and cooperation relationship with universities in Taiwan for a long time, actively promotes the study of Minnan culture and cross-strait exchanges, and carries out joint training of talents between Fujian and Taiwan. The school has the qualifications to jointly recruit undergraduate, master and doctoral students from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas Chinese, as well as the qualifications to recruit students from Taiwan without examination.

The school adheres to the school motto of "Broad Learning, Reasoning, Ambition and Practice", is rooted in southern Fujian, based in Fujian, and facing the whole country, and has provided a large number of outstanding professionals for the society. Since its establishment, it has trained more than 90,000 graduates of various types. They have the courage to fight and make achievements in their respective positions, and have won wide praise from the society. Party and state leaders Fang Yi, Peng Chong, Peng Peiyun, as well as leaders of the Ministry of Education and Fujian Province, have successively written inscriptions for the school or visited the school to inspect and guide the work, fully affirmed the school's development achievements, and placed high hopes on the school's future prospects. All the main leaders of the party and government of Zhangzhou City have visited the school on-site to work and fully support the development of the school.

At present, the school is holding high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on education and the spirit of the National Education Conference, following the "five-in-one" overall layout and the "four comprehensive" strategic layout, bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's important requirement that "Fujian has no reason not to run education well", unswervingly implementing the new development concept, adhering to and strengthening the party's overall leadership over education, and comprehensively implementing the party's education policy. With the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, the theme of promoting high-quality development, and reform and innovation as the fundamental driving force, the "construction of a new Minnan Normal University" is the main line, actively serving the national strategic needs of "national unity, China-ASEAN people-to-people bonds, and the construction of a united front for overseas Minnan people", serving the revitalization and development of the former Central Soviet Area, cultivating socialist builders and successors with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor, building new advantages for development in the new stage, and accelerating the pace of building a high-level normal university that is "well-known in Southeast Asia, distinctive in characteristics, and integrated in multiple disciplines", and making new and greater contributions to the all-round promotion of the development and transcendence of higher education quality in Fujian in the new era.

(Data cutoff time March 2022)