Mianyang Normal University

Mianyang Normal University is a full-time undergraduate college in Sichuan Province. The school is located in Mianyang, a national civilized city and the birthplace of Li Bai, a Chinese science and technology city known as the "hometown of wealth and happiness and the Silicon Valley of the West".

Spring and Autumn change, and the fire is passed on. In 2002, approved by the Ministry of Education, Mianyang Normal University was established by merging the former Mianyang Normal College and Mianyang Education College. In 2006, it became a bachelor's degree-granting institution. In 2011, it was approved to become a pilot unit of the "Service National Special Needs Project" and began to recruit master's degree students in environmental engineering. Since its establishment, the school has accumulated the spirit of "unremitting self-improvement, hard work, pragmatic innovation, and pursuit of excellence", the school-running philosophy of "education-oriented, serving the local area", the school motto of "virtue, erudition, practice, and perseverance", the teaching style of "promoting literature and encouraging education, and stopping at perfection", and the style of study of "stressing both learning and thinking, and integrating knowledge and action". A total of more than 120,000 outstanding students have been trained for the country.

Huang Zhong knocks lightly, Jiu Gao Hongjian. The school currently has the High-tech Campus, Youxian Campus and Fenggu Campus. The campus covers an area of ​​nearly 2,000 acres and a construction area of ​​more than 460,000 square meters. It has built modern libraries, teaching buildings, laboratory buildings, stadiums and other service facilities. There are 16 secondary colleges and 52 full-time undergraduate majors, covering 9 major disciplines. Strengthen the construction of the talent team, flexibly introduce one academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and many provincial and municipal title talents such as the State Council Special Allowance Expert, Sichuan Provincial Academic and Technical Leader, Sichuan Emei Plan Expert, Sichuan Academic and Technical Leader Reserve Candidate, and Mianzhou Talent Training Plan. Six people have been awarded honorary titles such as "National Excellent Teacher", "Sichuan Excellent Teacher", "Sichuan Teacher Ethics Model", "Sichuan May 1st Labor Medal", and "Sichuan Teaching Master", and two people have been selected as typical representatives of teacher ethics in Sichuan universities. A talent training system for postgraduate education, full-time undergraduate and junior college higher education, adult undergraduate and junior college higher education, and international student education has been formed, with more than 19,000 postgraduates, full-time undergraduate and junior college students, and international students.

Promote culture and encourage education, and stop at perfection. Focusing on the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, the school is based on the school-running positioning of "teaching-oriented, local-oriented, application-oriented, and normal-oriented", and adheres to "strengthening normal education, refining arts and sports, and making applications practical", cultivating excellent teachers serving basic education and high-quality application-oriented talents needed for regional economic and social development. The school has been approved for 1 national first-class course, 23 provincial first-class undergraduate courses, 10 provincial first-class professional construction sites, 7 provincial "Excellence Plan" projects, 6 provincial application demonstration majors, 14 provincial application demonstration courses, 6 national and provincial "Four New" projects, 4 provincial innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration courses, 1 national course ideological and political demonstration course, 1 teaching master and team, and won 1 project for the construction of ideological and political theory courses in colleges and universities of the Ministry of Education, 1 provincial course ideological and political demonstration major, 2 demonstration teams, 10 demonstration courses, 1 provincial boutique online open course, 4 provincial college experimental teaching demonstration centers, and 1 provincial virtual simulation experiment project. In 2021, it won 5 first prizes and 3 second prizes in the provincial teaching achievement award.

Innovation and entrepreneurship have become a trend. The school has built an excellent teacher training model for innovative education, integrated innovation and entrepreneurship education into the whole process of talent training, and achieved fruitful results. The school has established the China Association for Science and Technology Innovation Studio, the China Creation Society Experimental Base, and the Sichuan Youth Science and Technology Innovation Education Base. In the past five years, students have won more than 1,600 national and provincial awards in competitions such as "Internet+", "Challenge Cup" and "Chuang Qingchun", and have been approved for more than 800 national and provincial innovation and entrepreneurship projects.

Teaching and learning complement each other and serve the local area. The school insists on scientific research serving local economic construction and social development, building a scientific research pattern of "one mountain, one water and one city", and has built 1 Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory, 4 Sichuan Provincial Social Science Key Research Bases, 2 provincial high-level research teams, and 5 Sichuan Provincial University Key Laboratories (Engineering Research Centers). In the past five years, it has undertaken 138 national and provincial scientific research projects, and achieved a zero breakthrough in major bidding projects of the Ministry of Education. Won 104 scientific research achievement awards at or above the municipal level, including 3 Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Awards. Establish cooperative relations with more than 70 local governments, enterprises, universities, and research institutes in and outside the province, and carry out all-round cooperation in talent training, scientific research and other aspects. Actively participate in the national rural revitalization strategy, fully support the poverty alleviation in Pingwu County and Santai County of Mianyang City, Rongtang County of Aba Prefecture, Butuo County, Yanyuan County, and Muli County of Liangshan Prefecture, and make positive contributions to the development of local economic, social, cultural and educational undertakings. Give full play to the characteristics of teacher education, promote the professional growth of primary and secondary school and kindergarten teachers, and train more than 40,000 primary and secondary school teachers in the past three years.

Educate people with culture and educate people with culture. The school focuses on cultivating campus culture, implementing theme education month, festival day activities and "one college, one product" construction. Collect and organize nearly 3,000 national and provincial intangible cultural heritage project lists, and the venue education model won the National Excellence Award. The "Dream Voice" choir has performed in and outside the province many times. The series of brand activities such as the College Students' Science, Culture and Art Festival, the Society Style Festival, and Volunteer Service have become a beautiful landscape, forming a "broad, elegant, interesting, and lively" campus cultural atmosphere. In 2020, the school was awarded the title of "National May Fourth Red Flag Youth League Committee".

Open schooling and international integration. The school vigorously promotes international cooperation and exchanges along the “Belt and Road” initiative, and has successively cooperated with many universities and scientific research institutions in countries and regions such as Germany and the United States to carry out teacher training, scientific research cooperation, academic exchanges, student exchanges and other activities.

Strings and songs sing the elegance, and the splendor continues. At present, all teachers and students of the school adhere to the school motto of "virtue, erudition, practice, and perseverance", carry forward the Mianshi spirit of "self-improvement, hard work, pragmatic innovation, and pursuit of excellence", and firmly adhere to the development strategy of "strengthening normal schools, refining arts and sports, and making applications practical". In accordance with the "three-step" strategy, we will forge ahead in the new era, seize new opportunities, and achieve new leaps, and strive to build the school into a regional first-class applied university with distinctive characteristics and outstanding advantages!

(Data as of December 2021)