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Gansu Normal University for Nationalities is located in Hezuo City, the capital of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, at the junction of the three provinces of Gansu, Qinghai, and Sichuan, the gateway to Tibet in the interior.
The predecessor of was the Hezuo National Teachers College, which was founded in October 1984. On May 16, 1986, Hu Yaobang, the then General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, wrote the name of the school in Gannan during his inspection. In March 2009, the school was upgraded to Gansu Normal University for Nationalities, which is the only provincial normal university for nationalities in Gansu Province. In May 2013, it was determined that the National Civil Affairs Commission and the Gansu Provincial People's Government jointly built a school.
The school occupies an area of nearly 1,000 acres, with a total school building area of 312,800 square meters, including a total area of 156,600 square meters of teaching and administrative buildings, and a total area of 33,900 square meters of experimental training rooms. The total value of fixed assets is about 773 million yuan, the total value of teaching and research equipment is 15 million yuan; the collection of various books is 2,200,574, and the paper books are 788,600. There are 148 on-campus experiment and training rooms and 111 off-campus practice and training bases. The campus network achieves full coverage.
The school has 700 faculty members, including 506 full-time teachers, accounting for 72% of the total faculty; 51 professors, 152 associate professors, and 356 teachers with a master’s degree or above, accounting for 63.2% of the total number of full-time teachers; associate senior or higher titles There are 187 teachers, accounting for 37% of the total number of full-time teachers. 2 experts with special government allowances from the State Council, 1 national model teacher, 1 national outstanding teacher, 1 provincial-level teaching teacher, 2 leading talents in Gansu Province, 3 outstanding talents in ethnic minority areas of Gansu Province, and “555” talents in Gansu Province Project 1 person, 12 people of Gansu Province "Garden Award", 13 people of Gansu Province General Higher Education "Young Teacher Achievement Award", and 2 people of the "Four Batches" Talent Training Project of the Propaganda and Cultural System of the whole province.
The school enrolls students mainly in Gansu, and faces 18 provinces and regions including Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Guizhou, Guangxi, Shandong, Henan, Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning. At present, there are 10,554 ordinary students at school, which are composed of 25 ethnic groups including Han, Tibetan, Hui, Yugu, Baoan, and Dongxiang. Ethnic minorities account for 68%, making it one of the colleges with the largest number of Tibetan students in the interior.
The school now has 16 teaching departments (departments), 51 undergraduate majors and directions, covering 9 disciplines such as education, science, literature, law, history, and art. It has 1 national characteristic specialty construction site, 4 provincial characteristic specialty, 2 provincial teaching teams, 9 provincial quality courses, and 26 provincial and departmental teaching achievement awards. Established 1 National Civil Affairs Commission Humanities and Social Sciences Key Research Base, 2 National Civil Affairs Commission Key Construction Disciplines, 1 National Civil Affairs Commission Key Research Center, 2 Provincial Key Disciplines, 1 Provincial Key Laboratory and 2 Provinces Level key research and cultivation base. Existing Gansu Provincial Tibetan Ancient Books Document Compilation Center, China Tibetology Research Center "Chinese Dadian·Tibetan Scrolls" compilation workstation, Amdo Tibetan Culture Research Center, Hetaomin Cultural Research Center, Northwest Minority Education Research Center, and Alpine Ecology 12 research institutions including the System Research Institute. Since the promotion, school teachers have published 2,101 papers, of which 22, 49, and 104 papers are included in SCI, EI, and CSSCI respectively; 142 patents are authorized; 99 special (translated) books have been published and 118 textbooks have been published; 307 scientific research projects have been undertaken. Among them, there are 25 national and ministerial projects, 38 provincial-level projects, 45 department-level projects, 18 horizontal projects, and 181 school-level scientific research projects; 12 projects are awarded at the provincial level and above.
In recent years, the school has been guided by the scientific development concept, fully implemented the party’s educational policy, followed the law of higher education development, implemented the "National Medium and Long-term Education Reform and Development Program (2010-2020)", based on its own school-running foundation and development advantages, Established the school-running philosophy of "Run Sunshine University with Sunshine Quality", determined the development ideas of leaping construction, transformational development, deepening connotation, and improving quality, further clarified the school's thinking, clarified the school's positioning, highlighted the school's characteristics, and clarified the development goals.
Guiding ideology for running a school: guided by the scientific development concept, firmly grasp the development trend of modern higher education, closely follow the requirements of economic and social development in ethnic areas, closely focus on their own actual and differential advantages, take development as the main line, and reform as the driving force. To ensure the quality, improve the training system, highlight the characteristics of running a school, expand the function of running a school, innovate development ideas, accelerate the pace of application-oriented transformation, improve the level of running a school and the ability to serve regional economic and social development, and strive to build the school into a high-level and distinctive school in the region An applied university for nationalities.
Orientation of running a school: service-oriented, based on Tibetan areas, facing the province and surrounding ethnic regions; in running disciplines, focusing on teacher education, taking into account the training of special application talents in the region; in terms of running a school, general undergraduate education Mainly, taking into account adult education and vocational education; in terms of talent training standards, we strive to train socialist builders and successors who are "politically reliable, rooted in the grassroots, and appropriate for business" that fully meet the requirements of ethnic regions.
School-running characteristics: Ethnic normal education characteristics: Establish a professional system of teacher education that meets the needs of basic education in ethnic areas; highlight the training of Tibetan and Chinese bilingual talents, and strengthen the education disciplines with ethnic basic education as the main direction. Cultural characteristics of the Tibetan area: Take advantage of Gannan’s location as the center of Amdo Tibetan culture, strengthen the discipline of Tibetan culture, and build the school into a document collection center, scientific research center, and cultural dissemination center in the Amdo Tibetan area, forming a reflection of the social and cultural characteristics of the Tibetan area Professional and professional direction. Characteristics of plateau economy: guided by the pillar industries of the service area, strengthen the disciplines of plateau ecology and ethnic regional economics, form a group of disciplines closely integrated with the plateau regional economy, and provide various services for the optimization and upgrading of the economic and industrial structure of Tibetan areas.
Since the establishment of the school, the school’s party committee has united and led the entire school’s teachers, students and staff, based on the plateau, arduously pioneering businesses, pioneering and innovating, and advancing with the times, effectively giving full play to the talent training base, scientific research platform, cultural heritage window and maintenance of social stability. The role of the position has successively trained more than 20,000 qualified talents in ethnic areas, and made due contributions to promoting ethnic unity, maintaining social stability in ethnic areas, accelerating economic and social development in ethnic areas, and building a harmonious society. In 2009 and 2014, the school was awarded the honorary title of "Model Group of National Unity and Progress" twice by the Gansu Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government; in 2012, it was named the first batch of the province by the Propaganda Department of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee, the United Front Work Department of the Provincial Party Committee, and the Provincial Civil Affairs Committee. National Unity and Progress Education Base"; In 2013, it was identified as the 11th batch of "Advanced Units in the Construction of Spiritual Civilization" in Gansu Province; in 2015, it was awarded the National University Campus Culture Construction Excellent Achievement Award by the Ministry of Education.