Nanning Normal University

Nanning Normal University is located in Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is an undergraduate normal university run by the People's Government of the Autonomous Region. Nanning is located in the subtropics and south of the Tropic of Cancer. It is the core city of the Beibu Gulf urban agglomeration, the central city of the Beibu Gulf Economic Zone, the comprehensive transportation hub connecting the southwest region to the sea, the permanent venue of the China-ASEAN Expo, and the important gateway city for the organic connection of the national "Belt and Road" Maritime Silk Road. The city is full of green and evergreen all year round, and is known as the "China Green City".

The four campuses of Nanning Normal University, Wuhe, Wuming, Mingxiu and Changgang, are located between the green land and green mountains of Nanning, covering a total area of ​​3,383.1 acres. The school library has a collection of 2.2443 million books and 2.8308 million electronic books. It is a project school of the National Central and Western College Basic Capacity Construction Project (Phase II), the second batch of national demonstration colleges for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, a pilot school of the Ministry of Education's Data China "Hundred Schools Project", an excellent school for the Ministry of Education's undergraduate teaching level assessment, a school entrusted by the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Precision Poverty Alleviation Work Effectiveness Third-Party Evaluation Group, the first batch of undergraduate enrollment schools in Guangxi, a project construction unit for Guangxi's newly added doctoral degree-granting units, a first-class discipline construction unit in Guangxi, and a model school for the rule of law in the autonomous region in 2019. It has successively won honors such as the National Advanced Unit for National Unity and Progress, the National Language and Character Standardization Demonstration School, the National Advanced Unit for School Sports and Health, the National Advanced Unit for Mass Sports, the National Excellent School for Military Training in Colleges and Universities, the National Advanced Unit for School Art Education, the National Demonstration Base for Volunteer Assistance to the Disabled, and the National Model Workers' Home.

A forging ahead development process. The predecessor of the school was the Guangxi Secondary School Teachers’ Training College, which was founded in October 1953. It was renamed Guangxi Teachers’ Training College in December of the same year; it was renamed Nanning Normal University in July 1960, merged into Guangxi University for Nationalities in September of the same year, and restored to Guangxi Teachers’ Training College in September 1961; it was renamed Guangxi Education College in July 1966; it started full-time general undergraduate education in December 1978; it was renamed Nanning Normal University in February 1979; it was renamed Guangxi Normal University in May 1985; it started full-time postgraduate education in June 1998; in December 2002, Nanning Normal School for Nationalities, founded in 1905, was merged into the school; in January 2015, the school’s Wuhe campus was put into use; on November 30, 2018, the school was approved by the Ministry of Education and renamed Nanning Normal University; in August 2019, the school’s Wuming campus was put into use. In more than 60 years of school-running practice, the school has condensed the school motto of "cultivating both moral and talented people, integrating knowledge and practice", and has trained more than 130,000 applied senior professionals serving basic education and local economic and social development. As of the end of September 2021, there are 22,204 full-time undergraduates, 2,954 postgraduates, 230 junior college students, and 287 preparatory students.

A more and more complete school-running platform. The school's current disciplines cover 10 disciplines, including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, management, and art. There are 70 general undergraduate majors, 17 first-level disciplines authorized by the master's degree, 1 second-level discipline not covered by the first-level discipline authorized by the master's degree, and 13 master's professional degree authorization points. There are 2 academician workstations in applied mathematics and surveying and mapping geography. There is 1 key laboratory of the Ministry of Education, 3 key laboratories of the autonomous region, 2 engineering technology research centers of the autonomous region, 4 key laboratories of Guangxi universities, 1 key research base of humanities and social sciences of Guangxi universities, and 5 provincial and ministerial base centers. It has been identified by the Ministry of Education as the National College Counselor Development Research Center, the College Ideological and Political Work Team Training and Research Center, and the National Language Promotion Base. It has been identified by the Autonomous Region as the China-ASEAN Vocational Education Research Center, the Guangxi Vocational Education Development Research Center, the Guangxi Guangxi-Taiwan Humanities Exchange Research Center, the Autonomous Region Demonstration Teacher Education Base, the Guangxi Education Science Key Research Base, the Guangxi College Student Entrepreneurship Demonstration Base, and the Guangxi Undergraduate Education Development Research Institute. It has a number of key research bases of the Propaganda Department of the Autonomous Region Party Committee, intangible cultural heritage inheritance bases, school-enterprise co-construction science and technology innovation platforms, provincial teacher teaching development centers, and provincial teacher innovation and entrepreneurship development centers. It is one of the first batch of Guangxi characteristic college construction projects approved for construction, a key Marxist college in the region, a training base for the Guangxi "National Compulsory Education Project in Poverty-stricken Areas", a training base for principals of primary and secondary schools in Guangxi, a training base for preschool teachers in Guangxi, a training base for the pilot project of teaching reform in basic education schools in Guangxi, a pilot university for the training reform project of the "dual-teacher teaching" model in Guangxi, a continuing education base for professional and technical personnel at the autonomous region level, a training base for leaders in poverty alleviation and entrepreneurship in Guangxi, a comprehensive demonstration base for cultivating new professional farmers at the autonomous region level, and a training base for agricultural managers in Guangxi. There is 1 national off-campus practice education base for college students, 28 autonomous region-level postgraduate joint training bases, 5 autonomous region-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, 6 autonomous region-level virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, and 34 autonomous region-level teacher education practice bases.

A knowledgeable and refined faculty. The school implements the "talent-strengthening school" strategy and actively innovates the talent introduction and cultivation mechanism. There are more than 1,200 full-time teachers, more than 1,000 teachers with master's degrees or above; the structure of the faculty is constantly optimized, with more than 600 teachers with senior professional and technical positions; there are 44 doctoral supervisors and 499 master's supervisors. The school currently has 104 national and provincial and ministerial talent titles and 14 teaching and research teams at or above the provincial and ministerial levels. In September 2017, the People's Government of Guangxi Autonomous Region appointed Academician Wu Peiheng of the Chinese Academy of Sciences as the honorary president of the school. In addition, the school also actively invites high-level experts and scholars from home and abroad to serve or give lectures at the school. In the past five years, 47 new visiting professors and part-time professors have been hired, including 1 academician, to achieve complementary advantages and resource sharing of high-level talents.

Teaching reform with distinctive features. The school has distinct characteristics of teacher education and has won a number of national teaching achievements: 4 characteristic specialty construction sites of higher education institutions of the Ministry of Education, 1 pilot project for comprehensive reform of undergraduate majors of the Ministry of Education, 9 national first-class undergraduate specialty construction sites, 8 second prizes (host) of national teaching achievements, 4 special prizes and 23 first prizes of provincial teaching achievements. There are 11 national first-class/quality courses, 89 autonomous region first-class/quality courses, and 3 exemplary modern industrial colleges of Guangxi general colleges. 3 master's degree theses were rated as national excellent master's degree theses; there is 1 national advanced class collective, 1 person was shortlisted for the top 200 "Chinese College Students of the Year", and 1 person won the National "May 1st" Labor Medal. Since 2016, the university has won 7,605 awards in various discipline competitions at the national and regional levels, including 473 national awards, including the first prize of the National Normal College Normal Students Teaching Skills Competition, the first prize of the National College Students Mathematical Modeling Competition, the first prize of the National College Students Electronic Design Competition, the first prize of the National College Students Advertising Art Competition, the first prize of the Chinese Classics Recitation, Writing and Speaking Competition, and the champion of the Guangxi Trial of the China "Internet +" College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. In the 5th National Normal Students Teaching Skills Competition held in December 2017, all three contestants of our school won first prizes, and the proportion of winning and winning first prizes ranked first in the country; in the 1st to 11th Guangxi Normal Students Teaching Skills Competition, 316 awards were won, and the number of awards and first prizes ranked first among Guangxi universities. Since 2004, the employment rate of school graduates has remained high and stable, and has won the honorary titles of "Advanced Collective for Employment of Graduates of Ordinary Colleges and Universities in the Region" or "Outstanding Unit for Employment and Entrepreneurship of Graduates of Ordinary Colleges and Universities in the Region" for 17 consecutive years. Graduates have made outstanding achievements in related industries, and many national and autonomous region-level model teachers, excellent teachers, and special-grade teachers have emerged, as well as a group of well-known alumni such as "Asian Female Flyer" Wei Yongli and Xin Yiwu, a famous writer born in the 1980s.

Academic research that keeps pace with the times. In the past five years, the school's scientific research results have won 5 national awards, including 1 first prize and 1 third prize in the Ministry of Education's Higher Education Scientific Research Outstanding Achievement Award (Humanities and Social Sciences); 69 provincial and ministerial awards, including 4 first prizes and 14 second prizes in Guangxi Social Science Outstanding Achievements, 3 Guangxi Literature and Art Creation Bronze Drum Awards, and 8 second prizes in Guangxi Science and Technology Awards. The Journal of Nanning Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition) was rated as "National Excellent Journal of Social Sciences in Colleges and Universities" by the National Association of Humanities Journals of Colleges and Universities in 2019, and was rated as "RCCSE China Core Academic Journal (A)" by Wuhan University in 2020. Since 2016, 60 articles have been reprinted (excerpted) by "Chinese Social Science Abstracts", "Humanities Academic Abstracts of Colleges and Universities", and "China Renmin University Photocopied Newspapers and Periodicals" and other publications.

Determined to expand educational openness. The school insists on open education and has established cooperative relations with more than 70 colleges and universities in more than 20 countries and regions. Cooperate with Cardiff Metropolitan University in the UK to organize the undergraduate education program of "Tourism Management", and cooperate with Taiwan's Jinan University to organize the undergraduate education program of "Electronic Information Engineering". Co-build the Thai Language and Culture Center, the China-Malaysia Overseas Chinese Literature Research Center, the Guangxi-Taiwan Early Childhood Education Development Center, the Guangxi-Taiwan Minority Instrumental Music Research Center, the Guangxi-Taiwan Social Work Practice Exchange Center, and the Korean Culture Center with universities in Thailand, Malaysia and other countries and Taiwan. The school actively develops the education of international students in China. It is a school of higher education quality certification for international students in China by the China Education International Exchange Association. It is a student receiving unit for the "Chinese Government Scholarship", "Chinese Government Silk Road Scholarship", "Guangxi Government ASEAN Scholarship" and "Guangxi Chinese Language Education Base". The number of international students continues to increase every year. The school is a student receiving unit in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, recruiting students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and cooperating with universities in Hong Kong, Macao and other places to hold the "Hong Kong, Macao and Mainland University Teachers and Students Exchange Program" every year. It has hosted international academic conferences such as the International Human Brain Development and 2017 Brain Science Summit Forum, the 2019 International Symposium on Remote Sensing Monitoring of Ecosystems under the Background of Global Climate Change, the 2019 ASEAN Civilization Mutual Learning and Communication International Academic Symposium, the 2020 China-ASEAN Vocational Education Development Forum, and the 3rd International Academic Symposium on Language Teaching and Research.

Colorful campus culture. The school is a pilot unit for innovation of the key work of the Communist Youth League of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League. It has won the honorary title of Advanced Unit for the National Summer "Three Going to the Countryside" Social Practice Activities of College and Technical School Volunteers 12 times, and was rated as the "Excellent Project Office" of the National College Student Volunteer Service Western Plan, and won the Ministry of Education's Outstanding Achievement Award for Campus Culture Construction, the National College Student Art Performance Activity Award, the National "Advanced Group of Youth Volunteer Service to Fight the New Coronavirus Epidemic", the District's Advanced Typical Volunteer Service Organization for Learning from Lei Feng Volunteer Service, and the National College Integrity Culture Works Competition Award. The "Hongshuihe" website was selected as one of the top 100 websites in colleges and universities in the country twice, and there are 56 school-level student clubs, of which 5 are outstanding student clubs in colleges and universities in the district. In 2019, the teaching activity of Yiban Excellent Courses ranked fourth in the country and first in the district among colleges and universities, and in 2020, it won the National Yiban Excellent Workstation.

A truth-seeking and pragmatic development goal. Entering the new era, the school is guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, implements the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, takes improving the quality of talent training as the core, takes the construction of "Double First-Class" as the main line, adheres to the connotative development path, focuses on building a modern university system, focuses on building a high-quality faculty, focuses on building a high-level talent training system, focuses on improving the ability to serve economic and social development, focuses on improving the level of international exchanges and cooperation, focuses on cultivating a cultural brand that marks the new image of the school, focuses on building a high-quality service guarantee system, and strives to build the school into a high-level normal university with distinctive regional characteristics.

(The above data and content are updated on November 17, 2021)