Hunan Normal University

Hunan Normal University was founded in 1938 and is located in the historical and cultural city of Changsha. It is a key university in the national "211 Project", a national "Double First-Class" construction university, a key "Double First-Class" construction university jointly built by the Ministry of Education and Hunan Province, an excellent university in the undergraduate teaching work level assessment of ordinary higher education institutions of the Ministry of Education, and a "world-class discipline construction university" in Hunan Province. The school covers an area of ​​nearly 3,000 acres and has a construction area of ​​1.31 million square meters. The main campus is nestled in Lushan Mountain in the west and Xiangjiang River in the east. It has beautiful scenery and is one of the "400 Best" greening units in the country.

The university has 24 colleges and currently enrolls students in 89 undergraduate majors. Its undergraduate and graduate education covers 11 major disciplines, including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, medicine, management, and art. The school has 6 national key disciplines, including ethics, English language and literature, modern Chinese history, developmental biology, theoretical physics, and basic mathematics. Foreign language and literature has been selected as the national "world-class" construction discipline. Five disciplines, including education, mathematics, philosophy, Chinese language and literature, and biology, have been selected as Hunan Province's "domestic first-class construction disciplines". 15 disciplines, including law, Marxist theory, sports, journalism and communication, physics, chemistry, geography, music and dance, fine arts, political science, psychology, Chinese history, ecology, theoretical economics, and statistics, have been selected as Hunan Province's "domestic first-class cultivation disciplines"; it has 21 first-level disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees, a professional degree authorization category for doctoral students in education, 34 first-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees, and 24 professional degree authorization categories for master's degrees, as well as 20 postdoctoral research mobile stations; it has the Hunan Normal University Moral Culture Research Center, a key research base for humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, and the State Sports General Administration of Sports. It has a key research center for social sciences and a collaborative innovation center for socialist moral culture with Chinese characteristics co-built by the province and the ministry; it has a talent training and scientific research base for the national basic disciplines of liberal arts in Chinese language and literature and history, a national talent training base for life sciences and technology, a national cultural quality education base for college students, the Hunan Normal University Center for Basic Education Curriculum Research of the Ministry of Education, a national red classic art education demonstration base, a national outstanding legal talent education and training base, a national outstanding middle school teacher training program implementation college, a national outstanding doctor education and training program project pilot college, a Chinese excellent traditional culture inheritance base (Huagu Opera), a college selected for the Ministry of Education's Sports and Aesthetic Education Immersion Action Plan, a national language and writing promotion base and other 17 national talent training and scientific research bases (centers); it has a national key laboratory of freshwater fish developmental biology co-built by the province and the ministry, and two national and local joint engineering experiments for petrochemical new materials and resource refinement and animal peptide drug creation The university has 12 key laboratories, 3 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, including the Engineering Research Center of Polyploid Fish Reproduction and Breeding Technology of the Ministry of Education and the Genetic Breeding Center of Carp and Crucian Carp of the Ministry of Agriculture; 3 Hunan Province "2011 Collaborative Innovation Centers", and 4 Hunan Basic Disciplines Outstanding Student Training Bases in Biological Sciences, Physics, Chinese Language and Literature, and Philosophy; 17 Hunan Provincial Key Laboratories, 1 Hunan Engineering Technology Research Center, 1 Hunan International Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Base, 1 Hunan Germplasm Resource Bank, 4 Hunan University Key Laboratories and 5 Hunan University Industry-University-Research Cooperation Demonstration Bases; it is the first batch of provincial key think tanks in Hunan, with 3 provincial professional characteristic think tanks such as the Moral Culture Research Center, the "Belt and Road" Cultural Exchange and Communication Research Center, and the Ecological Environment Protection Rule of Law Research Center; it has 8 Hunan Social Science Research Bases, 6 Hunan University Philosophy and Social Science Key Research Bases, and 2 Hunan Social Science Popularization Bases; it has national characteristic majors There are 9 construction sites, 38 national first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 18 Hunan first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 4 national talent training model innovation experimental areas, 10 national quality courses, 2 national curriculum ideological and political demonstration courses, 9 national quality resource sharing courses, 28 national first-class undergraduate courses, 6 national quality video open courses, 3 national bilingual teaching demonstration courses, 10 national teaching achievement awards, 4 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 2 national college students' off-campus practical education bases, and it is the project implementation unit of the "National College Students' Innovative Experimental Program", the "National Deepening of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform" demonstration university, the top 50 universities with typical experience in innovation and entrepreneurship in the country, and the Ministry of Education's Ideological and Political Work Backbone In-service Doctoral Degree Special Program Enrollment Unit, and the Ministry of Education, Hunan Province College Ideological and Political Work Team Training and Research Center, the Ministry of Education College Network Ideological and Political Work Center (Hunan).

The school currently has more than 2,100 full-time teachers. Among them, there are 3 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (including 2 dual-appointed academicians), 3 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (including 2 dual-appointed academicians), 2 academicians of the European Academy of Sciences, 5 members of the Discipline Evaluation Group of the State Council, 9 candidates for the "Yangtze River Scholars Award Program", 4 national teaching teams, 2 innovation teams of the "Yangtze River Scholars and Innovation Team Development Program" of the Ministry of Education, and 1 of the first batch of "Huang Danian-style" teaching teams in the country; there are 10 candidates for the national "Million Talents Project", 77 recipients of special government subsidies from the State Council, 5 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions to the country, 10 recipients of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, 7 leading talents in philosophy and social sciences of the National "Ten Thousand Talents Program", 1 leading talent in scientific and technological innovation of the "Ten Thousand Talents Program", 6 cultural celebrities and "Four Batches" of the Central Propaganda Department, and 10 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions to the country. ” 2 young top talents, 7 winners of the National Natural Science Foundation of China Excellent Young Scientist Fund, 5 national teaching masters, 35 sponsors of the Ministry of Education's "New (Cross) Century Excellent Talents Support Program", 1 candidate for the Ministry of Finance's "Accounting Master Training Project", 1 young and middle-aged science and technology innovation leader of the Ministry of Science and Technology, 5 Hunan Science and Technology Leaders, 46 candidates for the Hunan "Furong Scholars" Award Program, 31 special experts of the Hunan "Hundred Talents Program", 76 candidates for the Hunan "New Century 121 Talent Project", 37 "General Higher Education Discipline Leaders" in Hunan Province, 1 "Social Science Expert with Outstanding Contributions" in Hunan Province, 16 "Outstanding Social Science Experts" in Hunan Province, 27 candidates for the Hunan "Huxiang Youth Talents" Support Program, and 27 people in the Hunan High-level Talent Aggregation Project.

The school has established cooperation and exchange relations with 197 universities and institutions in 47 countries and regions, carried out personnel exchanges, teaching and scientific research cooperation, and co-established Confucius Institutes with Kazan Federal University in Russia, Wonkwang University in South Korea, and Southern Utah University in the United States; and carried out Sino-foreign cooperative education projects with the National Glinka Conservatory of Music in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, the University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom, the University of Delaware in the United States, the Berlin School of Media Design in Germany, the University of St. Joseph's University in the United States, and the Jinghu Nursing College in Macau. The school has the Ministry of Education's Demonstration Base for Studying Abroad in China, the Ministry of Education's Overseas Study Training and Research Center, and the State Council Overseas Chinese Affairs Office Chinese Education Base. Three country and regional research centers, including the American Research Center, have entered the Ministry of Education's country and regional research center filing list. The school library has a collection of more than 4.1 million books, including more than 220,000 ancient books, and has subscribed to 115 various document databases. The school sponsors 14 publicly issued academic journals, including 7 national Chinese core journals; the school press is a "national top 100 book publishing unit" and a national first-level press.

Since its establishment, the school has sent more than 500,000 graduates to the country, trained a large number of international students and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and alumni are all over the world. There are more than 40,000 students on campus, including more than 12,000 graduate students and nearly 1,200 long-term and short-term international students, and a multi-standard and multi-level school-running pattern has been formed.

Facing the future, Hunan Normal University will always uphold the school motto of "benevolence, love, precision and diligence", take moral education as its fundamental task, be based in Hunan, serve the country, face the world, firmly promote the school's connotation development, innovative development, characteristic development, sustainable development, and harmonious development, and strive to build a high-level university with distinctive characteristics of teacher education, first-class in China, and internationally renowned.

(Relevant data statistics are as of December 2021)