Hubei Normal University

Hubei Normal University (Hubei Normal University) is located in Huangshi City. It is a provincial comprehensive key normal undergraduate university with a focus on humanities, social sciences, science, and engineering, with teacher education as its feature and serving basic education as its main body. It has the right to confer master's degrees. It is an applied undergraduate construction university of the National Industry-Education Integration Development Project, a domestic "Double First-Class" construction university in Hubei Province, and a selected university in the "Hubei Higher Education Institutions Innovation Capacity Improvement Plan" (Hubei Province 2011 Plan).

Hubei Normal University is a provincial key undergraduate normal university with education, literature, science, and engineering as its main disciplines, teacher education as its feature, and service to basic education as its main body. It has the right to confer master's degrees. It is an excellent school for the national undergraduate teaching level assessment, an applied undergraduate construction university for the national industry-education integration development project, and a domestic "double first-class" construction university in Hubei Province.

The school is located in the central urban area of ​​Huangshi City, with a planned area of ​​2,002 acres and a total school building area of ​​more than 600,000 square meters. The school is surrounded by rivers and lakes, with mountains and water storage. The green square, winding paths, flowerbed parks, pavilions, image sculptures, calligraphy and painting corridors and other natural and cultural landscapes are scattered and complement each other. The scenery is pleasant and the environment is beautiful. It has been rated as "Advanced Greening Unit in Hubei Province", "Advanced Health Unit in Hubei Province", "Safety and Civilization Unit in Hubei Province", "Garden-style Unit in Hubei Province", "Civilized Campus in Hubei Province" and "Best Civilized Unit in Hubei Province". It is an ideal place for studying and cultivating sentiments.

There are 19 teaching and research units, 11 first-level discipline master's programs, 7 professional degree master's programs, and 72 undergraduate majors. There is 1 domestic first-class discipline construction discipline, 3 provincial advantageous and characteristic discipline groups, 6 provincial key disciplines, 3 national characteristic majors, 4 national first-class undergraduate majors, 26 provincial first-class undergraduate majors, 7 provincial brand majors, 12 provincial teaching teams, 14 provincial excellent grassroots teaching organizations, 1 national quality course, 1 national quality resource sharing course, 4 national first-class courses, 12 provincial quality courses, 7 provincial quality resource sharing courses, 3 provincial quality video open courses, 2 provincial quality online open courses, 24 provincial first-class undergraduate courses, 1 national course ideological and political demonstration project, 2 provincial course ideological and political demonstration projects , 1 new engineering research and practice project of the Ministry of Education, 1 national professional comprehensive reform pilot project, 6 provincial professional comprehensive reform pilot projects, 8 Hubei strategic emerging (pillar) industry talent training plan projects, 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center, 7 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 3 provincial virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, 2 provincial virtual simulation projects, 6 "Jingchu Outstanding Talents" collaborative education plan projects, 2 provincial key laboratories, 2 provincial engineering research centers (engineering laboratories), 4 provincial key research bases of humanities and social sciences, 1 provincial collaborative innovation center, 6 provincial demonstration internship training bases, 1 college student innovation activity base. 8 provincial graduate education innovation bases (workstations).

The school has a strong faculty, with 1,189 full-time teachers, 140 professors, and 379 associate professors. 387 people have doctoral degrees and 511 people have master's degrees. Among the teachers, there are 56 provincial key contact experts, 4 Hubei famous teachers, 11 people enjoying special government allowances from the State Council, 16 people enjoying special allowances from the Hubei Provincial Government, 11 candidates for the Provincial New Century High-level Talent Project, 7 provincial cross-century subject leaders, 8 provincial cross-century academic backbones, 5 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions to the province, 2 provincial young top talents, 13 experts with outstanding contributions in Huangshi City, and 5 winners of the Zeng Xianzhi Education Fund Award.

The library has a paper collection of 1,778,572 volumes, 3,492,404 volumes of electronic books (including electronic journals), 3,797,400 volumes of books in the library (including 2,021,000 volumes of electronic books), 90 Chinese and foreign databases, and has achieved management automation, resource digitization, and service networking. It is an "Excellent Library of Hubei Universities". The campus network has been opened, and it is a city node unit of the China Education and Research Network, a provincial "Advanced Unit for Campus Network Information Construction", and "Top Ten Excellent Websites of Hubei Universities".

There are a college student activity center, a college student film and television center (Hushi University Auditorium), a standard plastic sports field, a comprehensive sports training hall, and sports venues such as tennis, basketball, and volleyball. The National Industry-Education Integration Engineering Experimental Building, a modern library, a gymnastics training hall, and a swimming pool have been included in the construction plan. The college student entrepreneurship base is the first batch of demonstration bases and incubation demonstration bases in Hubei Province. The school's music school teaching building and practice base-"Hushi University Theater" is located in the Qingshan Lake Scenic Area on campus. It is a modern landmark building in Huangshi City. It is known as the "water lotus" and is the main venue of the Huangshi area of ​​the 8th China Art Festival. Its teaching facilities and functions are at the first-class level in universities across the country.

The school's scientific research and social service capabilities have been steadily improved. It has 14 provincial and ministerial scientific research platforms and 6 municipal scientific research platforms, including 1 National and Regional Research Center of the Ministry of Education, 2 provincial key laboratories, 5 provincial key research bases for humanities and social sciences, 4 provincial engineering centers and R&D centers, 1 provincial enterprise-school joint innovation center, 1 provincial collaborative innovation center, 5 municipal key laboratories, and 1 municipal industrial technology research institute. Six new provincial innovation teams have been added. In the past five years, more than 370 scientific research projects at the provincial and ministerial levels have been approved, including more than 110 national social science projects and natural science projects. Won 18 scientific research awards at the provincial and ministerial levels, including 2 Ministry of Education Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Awards (Humanities and Social Sciences). Actively serving the economic and social development needs of Hubei Province and Huangshi City, an industrial research institute has been established, and new provincial and municipal think tanks have been established. Relevant experts and scholars have provided a large number of high-level ideological and theoretical achievements and decision-making consulting solutions for party and government agencies and social groups at all levels, providing strong scientific and technological support for the development of local pillar industries. The school was awarded the "Advanced Unit for Science and Technology Services in Hubei" and "Advanced Unit for Scientific and Technological Progress".

The school has carried out extensive international exchanges and cooperation, and has established long-term cooperative relations with more than 40 universities and educational and scientific research institutions in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Switzerland, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Singapore, Kazakhstan, India, Japan and other countries. The school has long insisted on hiring foreign teachers, well-known experts and scholars to teach and give lectures, accepting overseas students to study and pursue degrees, sending teachers to study, teach and conduct cooperative research abroad, and sending students to foreign universities for further study. At present, the school has established 1 Confucius Institute and 8 Confucius Classrooms in Northern Ireland in cooperation with the University of Ulster in the UK. The school's Sino-foreign cooperative education projects are constantly expanding, and the international cooperative education pattern is good.

The school has 57 student clubs and nearly 350 internship bases at home and abroad, including 1 national practical education base, 7 provincial internship and training bases and provincial demonstration bases. The school's campus cultural activities, scientific and technological innovation activities, and college students' social practice activities are very active, providing a broad space for cultivating students' innovative consciousness, practical ability, and improving their comprehensive quality. The school optimizes the undergraduate enrollment major structure, scientifically formulates enrollment plans, and enrolls students from 27 provinces (cities, regions), striving to meet the needs of candidates. The school implements the employment priority strategy, strengthens the effectiveness of employment education, promotes full and high-quality employment of graduates, and has an employment rate higher than the provincial average and similar colleges. It is an "Advanced Collective for Employment of College Graduates in Hubei Province", "Advanced Unit for the Implementation of the Hubei Rural Teachers' Aid Action Plan" and "Advanced Unit for Hubei Province's 'Three Supports and One Assistance'".

In the 48 years since its establishment, the school has trained more than 100,000 graduates of various types, and the vast majority of graduates are rooted in the front line of basic education in Hubei Province. The school has become the backbone of higher normal education in Hubei Province and an important base for training basic education teachers in Hubei Province. Standing at a new historical starting point, the school firmly establishes a new development concept, comprehensively deepens education and teaching reforms, continuously accelerates connotation construction, vigorously promotes transformation and development, and strives to create a distinctive, domestically first-class, high-level normal university, and make greater contributions to my country's normal education cause and local economic construction and social development.