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Central University for Nationalities

Minzu University of China (Minzu University of China) is located in Haidian District, which is full of academic institutions in Beijing. It is adjacent to the National Library in the south and Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park in the north.


The Central University for Nationalities is a university with distinctive characteristics established by the party and the state to solve China's ethnic problems and train ethnic minority cadres and senior professionals. The school originated from the Yan'an Nationalities Institute established in 1941. After the founding of New China, with the approval of the central government, the Central Institute for Nationalities was established in Beijing in 1951, and Ulanhu was the first dean; in November 1993, it was renamed the Central University for Nationalities; in 1999 and 2004, the school entered the national "211 Project". ", "985 Project"; In 2002, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, the Ministry of Education, and the Beijing Municipal People’s Government signed the "Agreement on the Key Joint Construction of the Central University for Nationalities", accelerating the pace of school reform and development; in 2017, it entered the "Double "First-class" builds the ranks of Class A colleges and universities. The current school party committee secretary Zhang Jingze and principal Guo Guangsheng.


The successive leadership collectives of the party and the country have always cared and attached great importance to the construction and development of the Central University for Nationalities. The older generation of party and state leaders, such as Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, have received representatives of teachers and students from the school 17 times. When the school was renamed the Central University for Nationalities in 1993, Comrade Jiang Zemin inscribed the new school name. In June 2001, Comrade Zhu Rongji visited the school and, on behalf of the central government, put forward the goal of "building the Central University for Nationalities into a world-class university for nationalities". In the same year, Hu Jintao, Li Lanqing and other leading comrades personally approved the "Request for Further Running the Central University for Nationalities" jointly reported by the National Ethnic Affairs Commission, the Ministry of Education, the State Planning Commission, and the Ministry of Finance. In 2009, when he inspected the work of the school, Comrade Xi Jinping pointed out: “The Central University for Nationalities has an important position in China’s higher education system and the cause of national unity and progress. Contribution." After more than 70 years of development and construction and the unremitting efforts of several generations, the school has become an important position for forging a sense of community of the Chinese nation, an important base for cultivating outstanding talents of various ethnic groups, and an important role for ethnic theory research and ethnic issue decision-making consultation. Base, an important base for inheriting and promoting the excellent culture of various nationalities.


At the beginning of the school’s establishment, a group of celebrities in the academic world, such as Pan Guangdan, Wu Wenzao, Fei Xiaotong, Weng Dujian, Wu Zelin, Feng Jiasheng, Yang Chengzhi, Lin Yaohua, Fu Lehuan, Yu Daoquan, Wen You, Ma Xueliang, Wang Zhonghan, etc. came to teach at the school and became the school’s teaching staff. An important founder of scientific research and discipline construction. The total number of faculty members is 1,812, of which 1,106 are full-time teachers. Among the full-time teachers, there are 666 professors and associate professors, accounting for 60.2% of the total number of full-time teachers. Among them are Dai Qingsha, Mou Zhongjian, Hu Zhenhua, Liu Bingjiang, Ma Yue, Mi Ruoru, Li Kuizheng, Yang Shengmin, Jin Binghao, Ban Ban Dorje and other well-known experts and scholars. There are also many young and middle-aged rookies emerging, and they have gradually become academic leaders. In addition, the school employs more than 130 foreign experts to teach every year. The school currently has 3 specially-appointed professors in the "Changjiang Scholars Award Program" of the Ministry of Education, 1 young scholar of the "Changjiang Scholars Award Program" of the Ministry of Education, 15 experts with outstanding contributions from the National Ethnic Affairs Commission, 2 national-level teaching teachers, and 1 national model teacher , There are 23 famous teaching teachers in Beijing, 131 people enjoy the special government allowance of the State Council, and 9 innovative teams above the provincial and ministerial level. The school has established exchanges and cooperation with more than 200 universities and scientific research institutions in 44 countries and regions, including the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany, and the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. With first-class universities, a group of famous scholars with important influence in related disciplines come to the school to give lectures and exchanges every year.


The school currently has 1 department, 23 colleges, 66 undergraduate majors covering 11 disciplines, 27 first-level discipline master degree authorization points, 5 first-level discipline doctorate authorization points, and 5 postdoctoral research mobile stations. There are 3 national key disciplines, 26 provincial and ministerial key disciplines, and 4 provincial and ministerial cross key disciplines. Among them, urban ethnology, ethnic art, mass spectrometry imaging and metabolomics are high-precision disciplines in Beijing, and national-level first-class disciplines There are 12 undergraduate majors, 4 first-class undergraduate majors in Beijing, 1 first-class major in Beijing’s key construction, 1 four ministries and commissions to build a research base for building the consciousness of the Chinese nation community, 2 national liberal arts basic disciplines talent training and Scientific research bases, 1 key humanities and social science research bases of the Ministry of Education, 1 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education and 1 Beijing Engineering Technology Research Center, and nearly 40 scientific research platforms established or commissioned at the provincial and ministerial level, and 1 national level Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, 5 Beijing Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centers. In 2018, the school was approved by the Beijing Municipal Education Commission as a pioneering park for college students in Beijing.


The school recruits students from 31 provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions. There are 17,824 full-time students, including 11,512 undergraduates, 185 ethnic minority preparatory students, 5,011 postgraduates, and 1,116 doctoral students; Among the students, the proportion of minority students is nearly 50%. The school is a "Chinese Government Scholarship" receiving school for international students. Nearly 500 international students from more than 50 countries are studying at the school. Since its establishment, the school has sent more than 180,000 graduates of all ethnic groups to the country. Among them, there are nearly 1,000 well-known experts and scholars, nearly 100 provincial and ministerial-level leaders of ethnic minorities, nearly 1,000 prefectural and department-level leaders, and more than 10,000 county-level leaders. They are in different positions for the national unity and development of the country. The cause has made outstanding contributions. The Central University for Nationalities has become a cradle for cultivating outstanding talents of ethnic minorities and setting examples of national unity.


The school currently covers an area of 380,000 square meters, with a building area of 592,000 square meters and more than 200,000 square meters of teaching and administrative buildings. The new campus is located on the banks of Qinglong Lake in Fengtai District, Beijing. It covers an area of 810,000 square meters. It is planned that the first batch of students will officially move in in September 2021. The school has more than 5 million volumes of various books and e-books, and the collection of books and documents on ethnology and Chinese minority languages and literature ranks among the top universities in China. The school press is a publishing base for national ethnic subjects textbooks and works. "Journal of Central University for Nationalities" and "Ethnic Education Research" are national core journals issued both at home and abroad. The National Museum contains more than 50,000 precious national cultural relics, and has become a practice base for student patriotism education and teaching.


At present, all teachers, students and staff of the school hold high the great banner of Xi Jinping’s new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, keep in mind the original aspiration, keep in mind the mission, serve the national strategy, serve the cause of national unity and progress, and comprehensively promote implementation The five strategies of establishing schools by quality, strengthening schools with talents, developing schools with characteristics, strengthening schools with management, and opening schools, deepen the overall evaluation of education reform in the new era, formulate and implement the "14th Five-Year Plan", with the spirit of reform and innovation and the courage to overcome difficulties, Strive to promote the construction of "double first-class", start a new journey of school development, and create a new situation for the school's career.