Qiongtai Normal University

The predecessor of Qiongtai Normal College is Qiongtai Academy, which was founded in 1705. Qiongtai is the nickname of Qiongzhou, and also the nickname of Qiu Jun, a famous scholar in Qiong in the Ming Dynasty and a scholar of Wenyuange. It is named after "Qiongtai". The second is to inherit the past sages and inspire the students. In 1902, the academy was reorganized into a new school and renamed "Qiongzhou Fuzhong School" with a normal school attached. Later it was renamed "Guangdong Provincial Sixth Normal School".

Qiongtai Normal University is a provincial public full-time undergraduate college organized by the Hainan Provincial People's Government. It is located in Haikou City, Hainan Province, China's largest free trade port and the only tropical island. The old campus is located in the ancient city of Fucheng, with green trees on the campus. Hidden away, you can fully appreciate the cultural heritage of Qiongzhou Prefecture for thousands of years; the new campus is located in the Jiangdong New District of the Free Trade Port, adjacent to the Dongzhaigang Mangrove Nature Reserve and adjacent to Meilan International Airport. It not only embraces the prosperity of the provincial capital city, but also enjoys the world-class wetlands. Jingmei.

The school was formerly known as Qiongtai Academy, which was founded in 1705. "Qiongtai" is the alias of Qiongzhou, and also the alias of Qiu Jun, a famous Neo-Confucian official, literary master, and Wuyingdian scholar from Qiong in the Ming Dynasty. It was named after "Qiongtai". The first is the place of ambition, and the second is the person of ambition, inheriting the virtuous people from the past to encourage the learning of the future generations. During the academy period, Qiongtai Academy, as the only government-run school in Qiongzhou, was known as the best place for Qiongzhou students to study, cultivate themselves, and become officials during the imperial examination era. In 1902, Qiongtai Academy was officially renamed Qiongzhou Prefecture Middle School, and Hainan's new education system began. Qiongtai is the cradle of cultivating early revolutionary leaders in Qiongya. Among the 13 prefectural committee members at the first Qiongya Congress of the Communist Party of China, there were 9 teachers and students in Qiongtai. The main leaders of the Qiongya Revolution Wang Wenming, Yang Shanji, and Feng Ping, General Zhou Shidi of the People's Liberation Army, Xie Fei, the only woman who participated in the Red Army's Long March in Hainan, and Fan Huiguo, a famous contemporary Chinese mathematician and educator, all visited Qiongtai. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Qiongtai served as the main base for the training of preschool and primary school teachers in Hainan. It has delivered more than 80,000 professionals of various types to the society, including Xing Fuyi, former president of the China Society for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language and tenured professor of Central China Normal University. , Professor Wang Kafa, former vice president of South China Normal University, Zeng Weifen, "the most beautiful rural teacher in the country", Ye Limin, "the famous principal of primary and secondary schools in the Ministry of Education" and other outstanding graduates. The school has gone through academies, schools, secondary normal schools, junior colleges, and undergraduate colleges. For more than 300 years, it has been singing and teaching tirelessly. It values ​​literature and education and cultivates talents. It is a fertile ground for young students to study and become talents.

The school currently has two campuses in Guilinyang and Fucheng, covering an area of ​​1,067 acres. There are currently 907 faculty and staff and 12,217 full-time students. Among the teachers, there are national-level candidates for the “New Century Hundreds and Thousands of Talents Project”, experts enjoying special government allowances from the State Council, national model teachers and other national-level talents. There are also outstanding experts who have made outstanding contributions in Hainan Province, famous teaching teachers in Hainan Province, and Hainan Provincial Committee and Provincial Committee. The government directly contacts provincial-level talents such as key experts and outstanding talents in Hainan Province. The kindergarten affiliated to the school has won the honorary title of "National Outstanding Educator", "National March 8th Red Flag Bearer" and "Hainan Provincial Model Worker".

As a cultivation and construction unit of the "Provincial Model University for Party Building Work" and a provincial comprehensive reform pilot unit of "Three Complete Education", the school adheres to the leadership of party building, fulfills its historical mission of educating people for the party and educating talents for the country, and adheres to the main responsibility of teacher education. , taking root in Hainan to run education. The school recruits students from 28 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) across the country. It has a preschool education college, a teacher education college, a college of Marxism, a college of literature, a college of science, a college of information science and technology, a college of foreign languages, a college of music, a college of physical education, and a college of fine arts. 11 teaching units including the School of Management offer 25 undergraduate majors, including 13 teacher majors, covering 7 disciplines including education, literature, engineering, science, art, management, and law. It has three provincial-level key disciplines including education, Chinese language and literature, and design, and two provincial-level first-class majors including preschool education and science education. At present, about 50% of primary school principals, 70% of kindergarten principals, and 80% of key kindergarten teachers in Hainan Province have studied in Qiongtai.

The school serves the construction of a free trade port with Chinese characteristics, cultivates teacher education characteristics, and creates a highland for primary school and preschool education teacher training. It has three key research bases in philosophy and social sciences in Hainan Province, including the Hainan Province Primary School and Early Childhood Education Research Base, the Hainan Province Research Base for the Integration of Moral Education in Large, Middle, and Primary Schools, and the Hainan Province Qiongya Red Cultural Inheritance and Innovation Research Base; as well as the Computer Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, There are 2 provincial teaching demonstration centers including the Preschool Education Teaching Demonstration Center; Hainan Provincial Key Laboratory of Children’s Cognition and Behavioral Development, Hainan Provincial Early Childhood Teacher Training and Research Center, and Hainan Provincial Mandarin and Character Application Training and Testing Center.

"The title on the gold list once asked us for the tripod pen. To win the title of Toad Palace, you must borrow the ladder from here." Riding on the east wind of the Hainan Free Trade Port, the school consolidates its roots, upholds integrity and innovates, absorbs the essence of three hundred years of excellent college culture, continues the school’s red spiritual blood, forges ahead, moves forward courageously, and contributes to the construction of a free trade port with Chinese characteristics , and strive to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!

(Relevant data as of January 2022)