yunnan nationalities university

Yunnan University for Nationalities is a comprehensive university that trains senior professionals of all ethnic groups. It is a provincial key university jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the Yunnan Provincial People's Government. The school was founded on August 1, 1951. It was originally named Yunnan Nationalities College. It is one of the earliest ethnic higher education institutions established in the People's Republic of China. It was renamed Yunnan University for Nationalities in April 2003. It has gone through 70 years.

Since its establishment, the school has always been highly valued and cared for by the leaders of the Party and the country. Party and state leaders Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Zhu De, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping have met with representatives of our teachers and students; Zhou Enlai, Peng Dehuai, Chen Yi, Panchen Erdeni Qoigyijanzan, Li Lanqing, Li Tieying, Simayi Aimaiti and others have visited the school in person, caring about the growth and progress of teachers and students of all ethnic groups and the construction and development of the school.

The first president and vice president of the school were Generals Zhou Baozhong and Zhang Chong, vice chairmen of the Yunnan Provincial People's Government. Since the establishment of the school, a group of academic celebrities, such as Professor Ma Yao, a famous ethnologist, historian, and educator, Professor Wang Ningsheng, a famous ethnologist and archaeologist, Professor He Yaohua, a famous historian and ethnologist, Professor He Shaoying, a famous ethnologist and anthropologist, and Professor Xie Benshu, a famous historian, have become the founders and backbone of the school's teaching, scientific research, and discipline construction and development.

The school has now become a comprehensive university with complete disciplines and distinctive school characteristics, covering 10 disciplines including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, management, and art. It has formed a discipline and professional structure with ethnology, sociology, ethnic languages ​​and literature, and Southeast Asian and South Asian languages ​​and cultures as its advantages and characteristics, with equal emphasis on arts and sciences, and coordinated development of multiple disciplines. The school has 2 postdoctoral research stations, 2 first-level doctoral programs, 16 first-level master programs, 11 second-level master programs (excluding second-level master programs covered by first-level disciplines), 16 professional master programs and 76 undergraduate majors, including 11 national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 18 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites, and 29 majors have entered the ranks of first-class undergraduate major construction sites of the "Double 10,000 Plan". There are currently 11 provincial key disciplines and advantageous and characteristic disciplines, 8 national characteristic majors, and 26 provincial advantageous and characteristic majors.

The university has the "National Demonstration Base for Traditional Sports of Ethnic Minorities", "National Research Center for the Development of College Counselors (Yunnan University for Nationalities)", "Training and Research Center for Ideological and Political Work Teams in Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education (Yunnan University for Nationalities)", "Western Grassroots Legal Talent Education and Training Base of the Ministry of Education", the State Ethnic Affairs Commission-Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Chemistry of Ethnic Medicine Resources, and the Ministry of Education Minority Preparatory Education and Training Base. The school currently has 33,344 students, including 27,244 undergraduates, 3,765 postgraduates, 108 doctoral students, 321 international students, 3,231 minority preparatory students from colleges and universities across the province, and 187 junior college students at the Shangri-La school site; there are also 18,967 continuing education students. There are 1,770 faculty and staff, including 222 with senior professional titles, 394 with deputy senior professional titles, 568 with intermediate professional titles, 586 with junior and lower professional titles, 427 with doctoral degrees, and 1,001 with master's degrees. The school currently has 1 national social science leader, 1 national new century talent, 1 cultural celebrity and "four batches" talent of the Central Propaganda Department, 5 people enjoying special government allowances from the State Council, 1 national outstanding teacher, 1 national model teacher, 1 "cross-century outstanding talent" of the Ministry of Education, 5 chief experts of major projects of the National Social Science Fund, 55 people selected for the Yunnan Province High-level Talent Training Support Plan (including: 2 Yunling Scholars, 8 teaching masters, 5 cultural celebrities, 39 young top talents, 1 industrial technology leader), 14 people selected for the Yunnan Province High-level Talent Introduction Plan (including: 13 young talents and 1 industrial talent), 11 people enjoying special allowances from the provincial government, 8 Yunnan provincial-level teaching masters, 14 young and middle-aged academic and technical leaders in Yunnan Province, 13 reserve talents and innovative talents for young and middle-aged academic and technical leaders in Yunnan Province, 1 "four batches" talent in Yunnan Province, 1 high-end scientific and technological talent introduced by Yunnan Province, and 2 members of the Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education. The school covers an area of ​​2,550 mu, with a building area of ​​819,500 square meters. It has more than ten national and provincial research institutions and talent training bases, 1 ethnic museum, and nearly 20,000 cultural relics. The library has more than 2.4 million paper books of various types and nearly 1.3 million electronic books.

"Journal of Yunnan University for Nationalities (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition)" is included in the "Comprehensive Humanities and Social Sciences" core journal of the "Overview of Chinese Core Journals" 2020 edition (i.e. 9th edition). It is a source journal of the Chinese Social Science Citation Index (CSSCI), a core journal of the AMI Comprehensive Evaluation of Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences, a core journal of Chinese science and technology, and an "Excellent Journal" of the First Yunnan Provincial News Publishing, Radio, Film and Television Award. "Journal of Yunnan University for Nationalities (Natural Science Edition)" has been selected as a source journal of the "China Science and Technology Paper Statistics Source Journal" (China Science and Technology Core Journal) since 2012, and has been rated as an excellent science and technology journal of Chinese universities and a characteristic science and technology journal of Chinese universities.

The school pays attention to foreign cooperation and exchanges and is an important window for the country and Yunnan to open up to the outside world. Since its establishment, more than 100,000 heads of state, dignitaries, experts, scholars and international friends from more than 80 countries and regions, including Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Dr. Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State, King Harald V of Norway, and President Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam, have visited Yunnan Nationalities University and given it good comments.

The school began to recruit foreign students in 1981 and foreign master's students in 1992. It is one of the earliest universities in Yunnan Province to recruit foreign students and conduct Chinese teaching as a foreign language. It has established cooperative exchanges with more than 80 universities or academic institutions in more than 20 countries, including the United States, Norway, Japan, and South Korea. In recent years, the school has actively integrated into the national "Belt and Road" construction, served Yunnan's leapfrog development, and closely focused on the school-running goal of "based in Yunnan, serving the border, and radiating Southeast Asia and South Asia". It has played the "three cards" of education opening up to the outside world with the South Asia and Southeast Asia Language and Culture College, Lancang-Mekong International Vocational College, and China-India Yoga College as the main body, promoting language communication, cultural communication, and heart-to-heart communication with South Asian and Southeast Asian countries, and serving as an important bridge for building a community with a shared future for mankind. At the same time, the school pays attention to domestic cooperation, and has signed strategic cooperation agreements with the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Institute of Religious Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Yunnan Baiyao Group, Lijiang, Dehong, Shangri-La, Xishuangbanna and other scientific research institutes, universities and cities to carry out substantive research work. Over the past 70 years since its establishment, the school has always taken it as its mission to be based in the frontier, serve the frontier, and serve the unity, prosperity and development of ethnic groups.

Most of the first-generation bachelors, masters, doctors, experts, scholars, party and government management cadres, education experts, and entrepreneurs among the 25 ethnic minorities living in Yunnan were trained by our school, especially the ethnic cadres in the 29 ethnic autonomous counties of Yunnan, most of whom graduated from our school. (The school offers 13 minority language majors for 12 ethnic groups, including Tibetan, Dai, Lisu, Lahu, Jingpo, Wa, Naxi, Yi, Hani, Zhuang, Miao, and Bai. It is the school with the most minority language majors in the country.)

The school has become a cradle for the cultivation of high-level and high-quality talents in China, especially in the southwest, an important base for studying ethnic issues and ethnic relations, and an important window for the country and Yunnan to open up to the outside world. Focusing on the goal of forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, the school has built an education system for national unity and progress with "six integrations" to vigorously promote exchanges and integration among all ethnic groups. In 1999, 2005 and 2009, the school was awarded the title of "National Model Unit for National Unity and Progress" by the State Council three times. In 2016, it was awarded the title of "National Demonstration Unit for the Creation of National Unity and Progress", and was awarded the titles of "Yunnan Civilized School" and "Yunnan National Unity Demonstration School".

In recent years, the school has formed a good situation of "team unity, campus harmony, and career development" around the school's orientation of ethnicity, frontier and internationality, and has achieved good results, forming its own characteristics and highlights: In order to better serve the training of ethnic minority talents, in 2013, based on the original preparatory education college, the Yunnan Higher Education Ethnic Minority Preparatory Education Base was established in our school, building a bridge to higher education for ethnic minority students and cultivating and delivering high-quality ethnic minority undergraduate students for colleges and universities inside and outside the province.

The base has been commended by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and Yunnan Province for many times and won the "National Model Collective for Ethnic Unity and Progress". In December 2017, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed in his reply to the college student Alinur Alim: Spread the belief that all ethnic groups are one family to more people's hearts, and be a practitioner, promoter and guardian of ethnic unity in the new era. In order to actively respond to the "Belt and Road" initiative, on May 15, 2015, under the joint witness of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Indian Prime Minister Modi, Yunnan Nationalities University and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations signed a memorandum of understanding on the joint construction of the Sino-Indian Yoga College. The Sino-Indian Yoga College was established in our school, becoming the world's first yoga college outside of India. In November 2017, Premier Li Keqiang made important instructions on the construction of the college, and the main leaders of the Ministry of Education and the State General Administration of Sports respectively made special instructions. After six years of construction and development, the college has pioneered yoga academic education in colleges and universities across the country. It has now become the National Fitness Yoga Theory Research Center of the State General Administration of Sports. The college is committed to becoming a standard setter, rule maintainer, industry leader and even the founder of the Chinese yoga discipline in the dissemination of yoga in China.

In order to further integrate into the national strategy and give play to the regional advantages, in December 2014, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Education of China agreed to add Yunnan Nationalities University as the second batch of China-ASEAN Education and Training Center organizers. In December 2016, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs approved the establishment of the Lancang-Mekong Vocational Education Base on the basis of the China-ASEAN Education and Training Center. After years of construction, the school has now established 8 training bases at the China-Myanmar, China-Vietnam and China-Laos border ports, 3 training bases in Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia, and training bases in the Kunming and Dehong areas of the China (Yunnan) Free Trade Pilot Zone, providing more than 40,000 professional and technical personnel training for the Mekong countries.

In order to broaden the scope of Lancang-Mekong vocational education cooperation, the school has established Lancang-Mekong International Vocational College, Lancang-Mekong Vocational Education Alliance, Lancang-Mekong International Cooperation Research Institute and other multi-level and multi-field in-depth promotion of Lancang-Mekong vocational education cooperation, enriching and enriching the school's construction achievements in serving the national strategy. Premier Li Keqiang, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, leaders of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee and Government, and administrative leaders of the Guangxi Autonomous Region Party Committee have all highly praised the construction achievements of the Lancang-Mekong Vocational Education Base. In addition, the construction of Lancang-Mekong Vocational Education Base has been included in the "Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Five-Year Action Plan (2018-2020)", the State Council, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Yunnan Provincial Government and other policy documents, becoming a project jointly discussed, built and shared by the six Lancang-Mekong countries and rated as a "national-level education foreign cooperation and exchange project" by the Ministry of Education. After 70 years of hard work, in the future, the school will continue to focus on connotative development, constantly explore and build a modern university system, rooted in Yunnan, facing the whole country, radiating Southeast Asia and South Asia, and strive to move forward steadily towards a high-level ethnic university, a model school for ethnic unity, and a model school for "three styles" construction under the background of the national "double first-class" construction.