Zhanjiang Normal University, run by Guangdong Province, is a four-year undergraduate and multidisciplinary University. Its predecessor can be traced back to the Leiyang Academy which was found in 1636. Its teaching education process began from Leizhou Middle school in 1904, went though Leizhou Middle school, Leizhou Normal Academy. In the year 1991,approved by the State Education Commission, the school is promoted as Zhanjiang Normal University. Up to now, the school has trained tens thousands of different kinds of outstanding competent personnels for the society, and it is now striding forward a new stage of progressing in leap and bounds.
There are 12 schools with 34 four-year undergraduate specialties, 16 three-year specialties, more than 1000 employees, more than 30,000 students included 17,500 full-time students and 13,000 continue educating students. Zhanjiang Normal University has developed cooperative relationship with universities and cultural organizations in America, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Thailand, ect. And the college began to accept foreign students from 1998. Zhanjiang Normal University has now become a comprehensive normal University with "teaching education as its major, liberal arts and science as its basic and harmoniously developing with engineering course."
At present, Zhanjiang Normal University is implementing its idea of running the school with "development as its foundation, academics as its basic, quality as its life and character as its brand" .The motto of the college is "noble morality, profound elegance, great ambition and honest bravery." The University is following the scientific educational development view and working hard for advancing educational innovation. The goal of the college is to build itself into a new developing comprehensive normal university which with greater scale merit, obvious advantage characteristic and greater influence in China and the Southeast around the year 2010.