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East China Normal University is a comprehensive research university sponsored by the state, supervised by the Ministry of Education, and jointly established by the Ministry of Education and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government. The school was established on October 16, 1951, based on Daxia University (1924) and Guanghua University (1925). At the same time, it was transferred to some departments of St. John’s University, Fudan University, Tongji University and Zhejiang University. , Founded on the original site of Daxia University. In 1959, the school was designated by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China as one of the 16 key colleges and universities in the country. In 1972, the school merged with Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai Sport University and other institutions and changed its name to Shanghai Normal University. In 1978, the school was again recognized as a national key university. In 1980, the school restored the name of East China Normal University. In 1986, the school was approved by the State Council to become one of the 33 higher education institutions that established graduate schools. In 1996, it was included in the "211 Project" national key construction university ranks. From 1997 to 1998, Shanghai Preschool Teachers College, Shanghai Institute of Education and Shanghai Second Education College were merged successively. In 2002, in accordance with the strategic deployment of Shanghai's university layout and structural adjustment, the school initiated the Minhang campus planning and construction, and in 2006 the main body was relocated to the Minhang campus, forming a school-running pattern of "one school, two districts, and joint development". In 2006, the Ministry of Education and Shanghai decided to focus on the construction of East China Normal University, and the school entered the ranks of the national "985 Project" universities. In 2017, the school entered the ranks of A-class universities in the country's world-class university construction, fully embarking on a new journey to build a first-class university rooted in China.
Lide tree people, climb high and go far. As the first socialist normal university in New China, the school has always been adhering to the lofty ideal of "the creation of wisdom, the fusion of character, and the development of the nation and society", and abiding by the school motto of "seeking truth and creation, and being a teacher by others". In-depth implementation of the party’s educational policy and various decision-making deployments, and the implementation of the fundamental task of Lide’s cultivation of people, as determined in accordance with the spirit of the 13th Party Congress of the school and the "13th Five-Year Development Plan Outline" and "World-Class University Construction Plan" Build the target path, continue to strengthen the comprehensive and strict governance of the party, promote all-round education for all employees, focus on the implementation of education and teaching innovation, scientific research optimization and improvement, and national strategic precision docking projects, focusing on "education +" "ecology +"" The five action plans of health + "smart +" "international +" are divided into three steps to achieve the goal of first-class education: build a world-renowned high-level university with distinctive characteristics and outstanding advantages by 2020, and approach the level of a world-class university by 2035. To build a world-class university in the middle of the century, to realize the glorious cause of "building a strong country through education" and "building a strong country through education", and make new and greater contributions to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!
The school currently has 3 departments: Earth Sciences, Education, Economics and Management; 29 full-time colleges: Humanities and Social Sciences (Chinese Language and Literature, History, Philosophy, Political Science), Marxism School, School of Law, School of Social Development, School of Foreign Languages, School of International Chinese Culture, School of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, School of Sports and Health, School of Communication, School of Art (Department of Music), School of Fine Arts, School of Design, School of Mathematical Sciences, School of Physics and Materials Science, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, School of Life Sciences, School of Information Science and Technology, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, School of Data Science and Engineering, School of Geographical Sciences, School of Urban and Regional Sciences, School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, School of Marine Sciences, School of Teacher Education, School of Economics, School of Business Administration, School of Public Administration, School of Statistics, Asia-Europe Business School; 4 academies: Meng Xiancheng Academy, Economic Management Academy, Daxia Academy, Guanghua Academy; 8 physical research institutes : Ancient Books Research Institute, Simian Humanities Advanced Research Institute, International Relations and Regional Development Research Institute, Estuary Coast Science Research Institute, Urban Development Research Institute, National Education Macro Policy Research Institute, Joint Research Institute of Translational Science and Technology, Chongming Ecological Research Institute 2 State Key Laboratories: State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy Science and Technology; 1 Management College: Open Education College/Shanghai Teacher Development College. There is also the Principal Training Center of the Ministry of Education in the school.
As of March 2018, there are 14,856 full-time undergraduate students; 2,969 doctoral students and 16,327 master students; and 2,274 international students (degree students). The school has 4,128 faculty members, including 2,278 full-time teachers. There are 1,871 professors and teachers with other senior professional titles, including 13 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering (including dual-appointed academicians), 24 members of the "Thousand Talents Program" of the Central Organization Department, and distinguished professors of the "Changjiang Scholars Award Program" of the Ministry of Education. 32 lecture professors, 33 national "Outstanding Youth Science Fund" winners, 9 national "Ten Thousand Talents Program" leading talents and national teaching teachers selected, 11 national-level candidates of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security "New Century Hundred and Thousand Talents Project" People. There are 25 young people, 20 national "Outstanding Youth Fund winners", 8 "Young Top Talents" selected by the Organization Department of the Central Committee, 7 "Young Yangtze River Scholars" from the Ministry of Education, and 30 "Oriental Scholars" from Shanghai , Shanghai "Leading Talents and Reserves" were selected 24 people, Shanghai "Thousand Talents Program" was selected 19 people, "Double Hundred Talents Program" was selected 143 people. The main campuses of the school are Minhang Campus (Address: No. 500 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai) and Zhongshan North Road Campus (Address: No. 3663, Zhongshan North Road, Shanghai). The campus covers a total area of about 207 hectares.
The school has 30 first-level disciplines authorized for doctoral degree, 37 first-level disciplines authorized for master's degree, 20 kinds of master's professional degrees, and doctoral degree of education can be granted, 25 post-doctoral research stations and 83 undergraduate majors. It has 2 national first-level key disciplines of pedagogy and geography, 5 national second-level key disciplines, 5 national key cultivation disciplines, 12 Class A disciplines in the fourth round of the Ministry of Education evaluation, and 4 Shanghai peak disciplines (I 1 category, 1 category II, 2 category IV), 12 Shanghai key disciplines and 17 Shanghai first-class disciplines (4 category A, 13 category B). The school’s science and engineering department has 2 national key laboratories, 1 national engineering technology research center, 1 national field scientific observation and research station, 1 national-level international joint research center, 6 key laboratories and engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education, 1 2 Joint Laboratories for International Cooperation of the Ministry of Education, 1 Strategic Research Base of the Ministry of Education, 1 Key Research Base of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, 1 Key Laboratory of the General Administration of Publishing, 10 Shanghai Key Laboratories and Engineering Technology Research Centers, 1 Shanghai City Collaborative Innovation Center, 1 Shanghai Soft Science Research Base, 1 Shanghai University Key Laboratory, 1 Shanghai University Engineering Research Center; School Humanities has 6 Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Key Research Bases, 11 Shanghai Philosophy and Society Scientific Innovation Research Base and Shanghai Municipal People's Government Decision Consulting Research Base Studio, 2 Shanghai University Think Tanks. There are 6 national humanities and science basic subject personnel training and scientific research bases, 2 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 national virtual simulation experiment teaching center, and 7 Shanghai experimental teaching demonstration centers. The school sponsors and undertakes 23 Chinese academic journals and 4 English academic journals. The libraries of the two campuses have a total of 4.638 million printed documents and 144 various electronic document databases (433 sub-libraries). The school has established a basic education group, and currently has 28 affiliated primary and secondary schools and kindergartens (officially enrolled and run schools) run by itself and in cooperation. School continuing education adheres to the separation of management and operation, actively implements national mandatory plan projects, cultivates high-quality non-academic education projects, and develops a school-based research and training network platform.
The school focuses on international cooperation and exchanges, and has established strategic partnerships with world-renowned universities such as the French Normal University Group, New York University, the University of Virginia, Cornell University, the University of Queensland in Australia, the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, and the University of Tokyo in Japan. The universities and scientific research institutions have signed academic cooperation and exchange agreements. The establishment of a joint graduate school with the French Normal University Group; the establishment of the Sino-French Institute of Science and Society with the French Normal University of Lyon and the French National Research Center; the Shanghai New York University, co-founded with the New York University of the United States, is the first Chinese institution with independent legal personality A university co-founded by the United States; the Asia-Europe Business School in cooperation with the Lyon Business School in France; and the Joint Research Institute for Translational Science and Technology in cooperation with the University of Haifa in Israel. The school has an international Chinese language teacher training base subordinate to Hanban, and builds 8 Confucius Institutes as a Chinese partner institution.