Tianshui Normal University

Tianshui Normal University was founded in 1959. In 2000, it was upgraded from Tianshui Normal College to Tianshui Normal University. In 2013, it began to train master's degree students in education. In 2015, it was listed as the first batch of pilot colleges for transformation and development by Gansu Province. In 2018, it was listed as a master's degree awarding institution by the State Council Degree Office.

【School-running ideas and goals】The school adheres to the spirit of "survival in adversity and development in struggle", based on its own reality, keeps pace with the development of higher education in the new era, and has initially formed four major application-oriented professional groups: teacher education, engineering technology, business management, and culture, sports and art. It has clarified the school-running positioning of being based in southeastern Gansu, serving Gansu Province, and going to the whole of China, and the school-running ideas of actively serving national strategies and local needs, actively accepting the leadership of local party committees and governments, and actively serving regional economic and social development. It has determined the school-running goal of building a first-class, domestically well-known, and high-level application-oriented university with distinctive normal characteristics in the west.

【Department Settings】The school has 1 college, 17 secondary colleges, and 64 teaching departments (departments).

【School-running conditions】The school covers an area of ​​670 acres, with a school building area of ​​460,000 square meters; the library has 2.4 million books, 1,331 Chinese and foreign periodicals, and 40 databases; the teaching equipment is worth 241 million yuan, and the fixed assets are 1.069 billion yuan.

【Faculty】The school currently has 1,384 faculty members (including 740 full-time teachers), 111 professors (researchers), 306 teachers with associate senior professional titles, 210 teachers with doctoral degrees (including those currently studying), and more than 690 teachers with master's degrees. Among the faculty, there is one Huang Danian-style teaching team in national universities, 10 provincial teaching teams, 11 national outstanding teachers, national advanced workers, experts enjoying special allowances from the State Council, "Baosteel Education Fund Outstanding Teachers", and candidates for the New Century Outstanding Talents Support Program of the Ministry of Education; there are more than 100 leading talents in Gansu Province, outstanding experts, Feitian scholars, model teachers, winners of the Gardener Award, famous teachers, 4 batches of talents, winners of the Young Teachers' Talent Award, and candidates for the Longyuan Youth Innovation Talent Support Program.

【Talent Training】The school recruits students from 26 provinces (cities and regions) across the country, and currently has more than 17,000 students of all types, including more than 15,000 undergraduates and nearly 800 graduate students. It has trained hundreds of thousands of high-quality applied talents, mainly basic education teachers, for the society, and has been widely recognized by the society. The school was commended and rewarded by the State Education Commission for "training qualified teachers for basic education, with clear direction and remarkable achievements".

The school has built one Gansu Province Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture Inheritance Base, one University Student Science and Technology Park, and six Gansu University Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centers. In the past three years, students have won more than 100 national awards and more than 800 provincial awards in various professional competitions, especially in the National College Student Mathematics Competition (Gansu Division), ranking first among provincial universities for six consecutive years; the pass rate of the National Legal Professional Qualification Examination for law majors has been among the top universities in the province for three consecutive years; the women's hockey team has won the "Hongao Cup" National College Student Hockey Championship for six consecutive terms; the postgraduate entrance examination rate ranks among the top among similar provincial universities.

【Disciplines and Majors】The school currently has two first-class characteristic disciplines in Gansu Province, namely Chinese history and ecology, and eight provincial key disciplines, namely Chinese language and literature, Chinese history, ecology, electronic science and technology, chemistry, Marxist theory, education and mathematics. There are three first-level disciplines authorized to grant master's degrees (Chinese language and literature, Marxist theory, and chemistry), and six professional master's degree authorization points (Master of Education, Master of Electronic Information, Master of Machinery, Master of Sports, Master of Biology and Medicine, and Master of Cultural Relics and Museums). There are 61 undergraduate majors (including 2 national first-class majors, 2 national characteristic majors, 16 provincial first-class undergraduate majors, and 11 provincial characteristic majors). There are currently 12 provincial first-class undergraduate courses, 22 quality courses, and 2 quality resource sharing courses.

【Scientific Research】The school currently has 1 country and regional research center registered with the Ministry of Education, 12 provincial scientific research institutions, and 1 academician workstation.

In the past five years, the school has won more than 800 scientific research projects of various types, including 46 national projects and more than 190 provincial (ministerial) projects; more than 170 scientific research results have won awards, including 43 provincial (ministerial) awards; 6 provincial social science outstanding achievements first prizes; published 146 academic monographs (textbooks); published more than 2,100 scientific research papers in domestic and foreign academic journals, including more than 300 SCI and CSSCI source journals. The academic journal "Journal of Tianshui Normal University" sponsored by the school has won the title of "National Excellent Social Science Journal" many times, and the "Longyou Cultural Research" column has won the title of "National Excellent Column of Social Science Journal" many times.

[Exchange and Cooperation] The school adheres to open education and has established cooperative relations with more than 120 well-known domestic and foreign universities, enterprises, institutions and local governments. It has established counterpart assistance and cooperation relationships with more than 10 universities such as Xi'an Jiaotong University, Lanzhou University, and Shaanxi Normal University; jointly established more than 10 platforms such as "Gansu University Integrated Circuit Industry Development Research Institute", "Optoelectronic Display Materials Research Institute", and "Academician Workstation" with Tianshui Huatian Electronics Group, Dongxu Group, Tianrui Heavy Industry and other enterprises and institutions to jointly tackle technical bottlenecks and serve industrial development; built two international cooperation platforms, "Caucasus Research Center" and "China-Belarus Ecological Environment Research Institute", to carry out research in the fields of culture, ecology, and environment of the "Belt and Road"; established friendly and cooperative relations with more than 20 universities in the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany and other countries, and carried out various forms of exchanges and cooperation; since 2003, it has recruited foreign students and has trained more than 200 international students from 21 countries. Relying on the Gansu Rural Talent Education and Training Base, it has trained more than 6,000 new rural skilled talents for the region.

[Campus Culture] The school closely focuses on the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, and deeply practices the core values ​​of socialism. The red gene is continued with the red culture education experience hall, the Tianshui whirling drum dance and Tianshui lacquerware are used as the starting point to promote and develop regional culture, the moral education culture is cultivated with the teacher ethics model such as Zhang Hongxun, the Hanhaichao Literature Society, one of the top 100 humanities societies in the country, as a model to enrich the club culture, and the school history museum, museum, Huo Songlin Art Museum, Radar Literature Museum, and school art museum are used as carriers to highlight the characteristics of aesthetic education, and build a "five-in-one" cultural education system.

In 2005, it was awarded the honorary title of "National Civilized Unit" by the Central Civilization Committee, and in 2018 it was awarded the honorary title of the first batch of provincial civilized campuses, and in 2021 it was approved as a red gene inheritance demonstration school in Gansu Province.

(Updated in September 2021)