Yangtze Normal University is a full-time, comprehensive institution of higher education under the leadership of the Chongqing Municipal Government of the People’s Republic of China. The campus is located in the city of Fuling, at the conjunction of the Yangtze and Wu Rivers, the historic capital of the ancient Ba Tribe. The area has a long history and a rich cultural legacy. Near the university, there are many famous locations, such as the Ghost City in Fengdu, Furong Cave, Jinfou Mountain and Fairy Mountain.
Effort and Success
Yangtze Normal University plays an important role in the development of Chongqing’s higher education. The University combines reform, innovation and the spirit of hard work, being unwilling to lag behind. At present, the three campuses (Jianfu, Jiangdong & Lidu) of the university occupy an area of 1,642 acres（1，094，000 Square meters）, with a built area of 500,000 square meters. There is a full-time enrollment of over 13,827 students and more than 30 oversea students from USA, Austrilia, Thailand, Fiji, New Zealand and Mexico, who can share a variety of teaching and laboratory facilities with a value over fifty million Yuan. The University has 1,320 faculty and staff, including 775 full-time teachers, of whom 199 are associate professors, and 43 are professors. Furthermore, there are more than 369 doctors and masters degree holders, 40 part-time professors and 5 foreign teachers（4 from USA and 1 from Japan）. The university has made great strides in its building and research specialties. Now, the university is comprised of eighteen departments (or colleges), providing 29 specialties for undergraduate students. The programs fall into eight disciplines, namely literature, science, law, engineering, economics, and science of management, education and historiography. There are five key disciplines of the university level; Modern Chinese Literature, Ancient Chinese Literature, Education of Marxist Theory and Education in Ideology and Politics, Physical Chemistry, and Condensed Matter Physics.
Our university aims to run a socialism-oriented university, to try its best to carry out the guiding principles for education of the CPC. Yangtze Normal University is in place to foster progress in southeast Chongqing and the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, and to service the people of Chongqing by gearing education to the needs of South-west China. Since 1982, more than 40,000 students have graduated from our university and become the back-bone teachers and the leaders in schools in Southeast Chongqing. Since 2001, the university has trained over 7000 teachers for primary and middle school in Chongqing. This is a tremendous contribution to local economic and social development. At the same time, the university has trained many qualified teachers for Tibet and the minority area in Southeast Chongqing.