Jiangsu Normal University is a university jointly established by the People's Government of Jiangsu Province and the Ministry of Education, and is a high-level university in Jiangsu. The predecessor of the school was the Cultural Accelerated School for Demobilized Cadres of the Southern Jiangsu Military Region, founded in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province in 1952. The distinguished Lieutenant Liu Xiansheng will be the first principal. In 1956, the school was temporarily named "Jiangsu Province Middle School Teacher Training Class" (Wuxi Teachers College Preparatory Office), and it was officially included in the enrollment of ordinary higher education. In 1957, Jiangsu Teachers Technical College was established. The school moved north to Xuzhou in 1958, and merged with Xuzhou Teachers College in 1959 to establish Xuzhou Teachers College. In the early 1960s, the layout of colleges and universities across the country was adjusted, and the beloved Premier Zhou Enlai instructed: "Xuzhou is a vast area and there must be a university", so the school was retained. From then on, the school took root in northern Jiangsu, worked hard and developed gradually. In 1979, it began to recruit graduate students, and in 1981 it became the first batch of master's degree-granting units in the country. In 1996 the school was renamed Xuzhou Normal University. In 1999, the Xuzhou Industrial School under the former Ministry of Coal Industry was merged. In 2011, the school was renamed Jiangsu Normal University.
In the history of school development, there are famous Chinese linguist Professor Liao Xudong, famous poet and modern Chinese literature research expert Professor Wu Benxing, dramatist and ancient Chinese literature historian Professor Wang Jinshan, Chinese ancient literature research expert Professor Wu Ruyu, educator Professor Liu Baichuan, Psychology Professor Zhang Huanting, historian Professor Zang Yunpu, geographer Professor Luo Qixiang and a group of well-known experts and scholars at home and abroad. Since the establishment of the school, the teachers and students of the school have been adhering to the school motto of "Advocating Virtue, Encouragement, Inspirational and Mindfulness". After unremitting efforts, various undertakings have developed rapidly.
The school has 4 campuses, Quanshan, Yunlong, Kuiyuan, and Jiawang, covering an area of 2047 acres and a school building area of 812,000 square meters; the total value of teaching and research equipment is 531 million yuan; the library has 2.84 million books. The school has 22 professional colleges and the first non-independent legal person Sino-Russian cooperative school approved by the Ministry of Education, Jingshu College, Continuing Education College, International College, and the Joint Engineering College of St. Petersburg Peter the Great University of Technology, Jiangsu Normal University. Independent College of Science and Humanities. There are currently 63 undergraduate enrollment majors, 34 first-level discipline master's programs, 13 master's degree categories, 1 doctoral talent training program for national special needs, 1 post-doctoral research station, covering 11 disciplines. Have the right to apply for the grant of master's degree and the right to exempt graduate students with the same academic ability. At present, there are more than 18,000 ordinary full-time undergraduates (excluding the School of Science and Humanities of the Independent College), and more than 3,100 doctoral and master students. Since its establishment, the school has sent nearly 200,000 graduates to the society. A large number of Jiangsu Normal University alumni with outstanding achievements are active in politics, economy, culture, science and technology, and education at home and abroad.
The school adheres to the fundamentals of establishing morality and cultivating people, deeply promotes the reform of education and teaching, and effectively improves the quality of talent training. In 2004, he won the excellent grade in the undergraduate teaching work level evaluation organized by the Ministry of Education. In 2015, it passed the undergraduate teaching work review and evaluation of the Ministry of Education with high quality. In recent years, it has won 2 national teaching achievement awards (including 1 first prize), 49 provincial teaching achievement awards (including 3 special awards), and the second prize of the first national postgraduate education achievement award; won the national level There are 4 characteristic specialty construction sites, 2 pilot projects for comprehensive reform of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" of the Ministry of Education, 4 projects of the first phase of the Provincial Brand Professional Construction Project, and 11 provincial "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" key majors (categories). There are 1 national teaching team and 2 provincial excellent teaching teams; 9 national quality resource sharing courses have been approved, 6 national quality textbooks and planning textbooks, 48 provincial excellent quality courses, and provincial online opening There are 7 courses, 45 provincial-level excellent textbooks and 45 key textbooks. Obtained 1 national off-campus practice education base construction project for college students, undertook 2 reform projects of the Ministry of Education's outstanding teacher training plan, and 1 reform project of the provincial-level excellent teacher training plan. Obtained 46 "Special Projects Supported by the Central Government for Local Finance", with 3 national-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 national-level demonstration virtual simulation experiment teaching project, 18 provincial-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, and 1 provincial-level virtual simulation experiment teaching platform There are 2 provincial-level online open virtual simulation experiment teaching projects. The school was identified by the Ministry of Education and the National Language Commission as the first batch of "National Language Commission Language Application Training Base", the only training institution in the country for the subject (field) of "Classic Recitation Education", and was awarded "National Standardized Model School of Language and Writing" .
The school actively implements the strategy of strengthening the school with talents, and the construction of the teaching staff has achieved remarkable results. There are 1,560 full-time teachers, 295 professors (including 53 doctoral supervisors), and 611 associate professors. Among the full-time teachers, doctors account for 54%, and the percentage of teachers with overseas training experience is 38.1%. At present, our school has 2 "Changjiang Scholars", 1 national "Ten Thousand Talents Program" teaching teacher, 5 national "Thousand Talents Program" experts, 4 of them have been selected into the "New Century Excellent Talents" support program of the Ministry of Education, and 2 of them won the national Outstanding Youth Fund, 2 people were selected into the "Hundred Talents Program" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 9 Jiangsu special professors; 11 double-appointed academicians, 50 "Yangtze River Scholars" and national "Outstanding Youth" talents; 24 people are entitled to the State Council government Special allowance, 4 person-times won "National Advanced Worker", "National May 1st Labor Medal", "National Model Teacher", "National Excellent Teacher" and other honors, 1 person won the China Overseas Chinese Contribution Award, 4 people were selected as "Jiangsu Province University Teaching Teachers" ”, 12 people were awarded the title of “Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions in Jiangsu Province”, 8 people were talents of the Provincial “Double Innovation Program”, 21 people were the training targets of the “Six Talent Peaks” of the province, and 105 people were selected as the “333 High-level Talent Training of the Province” Project", 157 people were selected into the provincial "Blue Project"; there are 20 national-level provincial-level teaching and research teams.
The school focuses on subject construction and scientific research, and the level of connotation construction has been steadily improved. There are currently 6 provincial superior disciplines and 12 provincial key disciplines. Chemistry and engineering disciplines have entered the top 1% of the ESI ranking. There are 2 collaborative innovation centers in Jiangsu universities and more than 30 provincial and ministerial scientific research platforms. In the past five years, 420 national-level scientific research projects have been approved, including 138 projects from the National Social Science Fund (8 major projects, 7 key projects), and 280 from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Published 4366 scientific research papers in indexed academic journals such as SCI/EI/CPCI/SSCI/A&HCI/CSSCI, including 370 papers in SCI Zone 1 and Zone 2 Top journals, and published papers in world-class journals such as Science, Nature, PNAS, etc. 7 articles. The Nature Index entered the "Top 100 Universities in Mainland China", ranking 54 in 2016, 8th in Jiangsu Province, and 428th in the world. In 2017, the school was shortlisted in the US News 2018 World University Rankings, ranking 123rd among universities in mainland China. It has won 12 scientific research outstanding achievement awards from the Ministry of Education and 106 provincial natural science and social science outstanding achievement awards. The research results of "Chinese Students and the Development of Social Sciences in the Republic of China" were selected into the National Philosophy and Social Sciences Achievement Library. A number of influential think tank results have been formed in the “Belt and Road” national language service system and regional social and economic development. 2 think tank reports have been approved by the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, and 9 think tank research reports have been approved by the leaders of Jiangsu Province. Form a high-level scientific research platform construction, high-level scientific research projects, high-level scientific research results "triad" scientific and technological innovation system.
The school actively expands new ways to serve the local economic and social development, and its social service capabilities continue to be demonstrated. Based on the needs of basic education reform and regional economic and social development, explore the formation of a "15-year consistent system" innovative talent training model; lead the establishment of the Huaihai Economic Zone Rural Excellent Teacher Education Alliance; be approved to open the first IELTS center in the Huaihai Economic Zone. Established school-city strategic partnerships with local governments such as Xuzhou, Lianyungang, Yancheng, Suqian, Ningxia Zhongwei, Manzhouli, Inner Mongolia, etc.; cooperated with Xuzhou and Lianyungang to jointly build the "Belt and Road" Research Institute of Jiangsu Normal University; established a school-site co-construction carrier platform, There are more than 180 production-university-research cooperation bases such as school-enterprise joint R&D centers. The University Science Park was approved as a national technology business incubator, a national university student technology entrepreneurship practice base, and established Jiangsu Normal University Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Jiangsu Normal University Laser Technology Co., Ltd. and other discipline companies. The Technology Transfer Center was approved as a National Technology Transfer Demonstration Institution, and the National Normal University Innovation Technology Co., Ltd. was established to explore innovative businesses such as equity investment and technology services. As the only cadre education and training base in Jiangsu Province in northern Jiangsu, in 2017, it was approved to enter the special training base for cadres transferred to the military from Jiangsu Province. The school takes the initiative to play its service function, and continues to make active efforts to promote the in-depth cooperation between schools and enterprises, and fully integrate into the local economic and social innovation-driven development strategy.
The school has accelerated the process of internationalization of running a school, and international exchanges and cooperation have developed in-depth. As the first batch of "universities qualified to accept foreign students", "Chinese government scholarship students entrusted training universities" and "Jiangsu target schools for studying in Jiangsu", it has successively established friendly cooperative relations with 69 universities in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Russia and other countries. , Has accepted foreign students from 46 countries and regions to study in the school. In 2017, there were more than 700 registered international students, including more than 350 graduates. Jointly established Confucius Institutes with two universities in the United States and Australia. The Confucius Institute at Miami Dade College was awarded the title of "Global Excellent Confucius Institute", and the Confucius Institute at Queensland University of Technology in Australia was awarded the title of "Global Advanced Confucius Institute". Approved the Confucius Institute Scholarship Program-Qualification for undergraduate and master's training in Chinese to international education. Established the world's first overseas Mencius College in Malaysia. There are now national and regional research institutions such as the “Belt and Road” Research Institute (the CIS National Research Center), the Pakistan Research Center, the Australian Research Center, the Ibero-American Research Center, and the National Language Commission Advanced Institute of Language Proficiency, including 3 The list of selected national and regional research centers of the Ministry of Education. Cooperating with Harvard University, University of Edinburgh, University College London and other well-known universities to jointly build scientific research platforms such as genomics laboratory, medicinal, food and plant laboratory, deaf cognition center, education big data science and engineering key laboratory. Cooperate with universities in the United States, Australia, Japan, Russia, Belarus and other countries to carry out cooperative education and credit mutual recognition projects, and cooperate with Harvard University, the University of Hong Kong and other world-renowned universities to carry out teacher and manager training projects.
The school insists on being student-oriented, and strives to build a platform for various students to grow and become talents. In recent years, our students have won the "Challenge Cup" National College Students Extracurricular Academic Technology Competition Special Prize, "Creating Youth" National College Student Entrepreneurship Competition Gold Award, National College Student Mathematical Modeling Competition First Prize, China Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award, Chinese Youth Volunteers There are 2 gold medals in the service project competition, the first prize of the National College Students Art Performance, the first prize of the comprehensive category of the 10th National Minority Traditional Sports Games, and the first prize of the "Toshiba Cup" China Normal University Science and Normal Student Teaching Skill Innovation Competition. He has been awarded four times by the National Excellent Project Office of the University Student Volunteer Service in the Western Region, and won the Excellent Organization Award of the University Student Volunteer Service in Northern Jiangsu for eight consecutive years. The school's women's football team has won the Chinese University Women's Football Championship many times, and the main players have been selected for the national team to participate in the Olympic Games and the Women's World Cup. The school is a research base for mental health education for college students in northern Jiangsu Province, and a training and research base for counselors in Jiangsu Province. The school was awarded the "National May Fourth Red Flag Youth League Committee", "National Advanced Unit of "Three Going to the Countryside" Social Practice Activities for College Students", "National Vigorous League Branch", "National Top 100 Campus Football Associations", and "National Advanced Unit for Mental Health Education for College Students". Appraisal of the "Employment Work Advanced Collective" and "Jiangsu Province University Education Management Innovation Project First Prize" in universities and colleges in Jiangsu Province. Many classes have been named and commended by the National, Jiangsu Province Advanced Class Group and Jiangsu Province "Zhou Enlai Class", and have won the National Counselor Professional Ability The first prize of the provincial competition, the third prize of the national competition, the finalist award of the national counselor of the year, the provincial counselor of the year and other awards.
The school has been commended as a "Civilized Unit of Jiangsu Province" ten times in a row by the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, four times as a "Civilized School of Jiangsu Province", five times as a "Model of Jiangsu Province Civilized Unit", and was awarded the third batch "National Civilized Unit", was awarded the first batch of "National Civilized Campus" in 2017. Entering a new period of development, the people of Jiangsu Normal University will continue to carry forward the campus spirit of "keeping integrity and innovation, and perseverance", further emancipate the mind, deepen reforms in an all-round way, and promote connotative development, transformational development, and characteristic development for construction A high-level, distinctive, and tasteful comprehensive teaching and research university and strive hard!