Lingnan Normal University

Lingnan Normal University (formerly Zhanjiang Normal College) is a general undergraduate college in Guangdong Province with a century-long history of teacher education, located in Zhanjiang, a beautiful port city at the southernmost tip of mainland China. In 1935, it was renamed as Leizhou Normal university, and in 1978, it was upgraded to Zhanjiang Normal College, and in 2014, it was renamed as Lingnan Normal University.

The university has a good reputation. In the course of more than 100 years of teacher education, the university shoulders the mission of educating and nurturing people, adheres to the positioning of "teacher training, teaching, local, application-oriented", and has formed the idea of "strong teacher training, strong science and technology, and prosperous business", which has trained a large number of excellent teachers It has trained a large number of excellent teachers, educators and social application talents, and made due contribution to the education and culture and economic and social development of western Guangdong and even Guangdong Province. The university was the first teacher-training college in China to pass the qualified evaluation of undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education (2000), and received excellent grade in the evaluation of undergraduate teaching work level of the Ministry of Education in 2007, and was listed as the construction unit of new master's degree authorization project in Guangdong Province in 2010, and was included in the first batch of ordinary undergraduate transformation pilot colleges and universities in Guangdong, provincial and municipal colleges and universities, and the innovation and entrepreneurship education of college students in Guangdong Province in 2016. In 2017, it was elected as the chairman of Guangdong Special Education Teachers' Development Alliance, and in 2018, it was listed in the construction of Guangdong higher education "first-class, shortcomings and characteristics" improvement plan. The university has been awarded "National Advanced Unit of Spiritual Civilization Construction", "National Advanced Unit of Mass Sports", "National Advanced Collective of Greening", "National Advanced Collective of Internal Auditing" and "National Advanced Collective of Internal Auditing". National Advanced Collective of Internal Auditing", "Model university of the Ministry of Education in accordance with the Law", "Model university of University English Teaching Reform of the Ministry of Education", "Advanced Unit of Teacher Morality Construction of Guangdong Province" and "Advanced Unit of Teacher Morality Construction of Guangdong Province". Advanced Unit of Teacher Virtue Construction" and "Civilized Campus of Guangdong Province", etc.

A complete system of academic disciplines and specialties. There are 32 (including 8 affiliated) secondary colleges and 6 provincial key disciplines (education, chemistry, curriculum and pedagogy, polymer chemistry and physics, Chinese language and writing, material physics and chemistry) and 3 provincial key disciplines (education, chemistry, material science and engineering). There are 73 undergraduate majors (including 32 teacher training majors), covering 10 major disciplines such as economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, management and art, etc. The teacher training majors cover basic education, vocational education, preuniversity education and special education, forming a complete teacher education system with a full range of disciplines and integrated training. 2 majors (Chinese language and literature and chemistry) have passed the Ministry of Education's teacher training program. Two majors (Chinese language and literature and chemistry) have passed the second-level professional certification of teacher education majors by the Ministry of Education, and there are two national specialties (Chinese language and literature and chemistry), two national first-class undergraduate majors (Chinese language and literature and elementary education), 14 provincial specialties (key) and 14 provincial first-class undergraduate majors. There is one national-level first-class course and 14 provincial-level first-class courses. The university is open to 26 provinces and regions, with more than 27,000 full-time undergraduate students.

The university is rich in resources. The campus covers an area of 2569 mu (1009 mu in Cunjin Campus and 1560 mu in Higuang Campus under planning), with a construction area of 680,000 square meters and a total value of 260 million yuan of teaching and research instruments and equipment. The library has a paper collection of 2,253,000 volumes, 1,395 kinds of Chinese and foreign language paper journals, 60 kinds of electronic literature databases, 3,109,400 electronic books, 50,700 kinds of electronic journals and 1,314,000 volumes. It has been approved as a national experimental zone for teacher education innovation in Guangdong Province, and has built 2 national bases (national key bases for training teachers in vocational education and national bases for training social work professionals), 4 provincial bases for teacher training and 1 provincial teacher development center for primary and secondary universitys. There are 14 provincial teaching platforms, 25 provincial research platforms such as Guangdong Key Laboratory (Guangdong Key Laboratory of Special Children Development and Education) and 4 key laboratories in Zhanjiang City. There are 6 research institutions such as Guangdong Coastal Economic Belt Development Research Institute and Institute of National Studies, and 24 general research platforms.

The faculty has a good structure. There are more than 1,700 faculty members, more than 570 teachers with senior titles, more than 530 teachers with doctoral degrees, and more than 770 teachers with dual-teacher and dual-competency. 151 people have been selected for the "Thousands of Hundred and Ten Projects" in Guangdong Province, 132 people have been appointed as master and doctoral supervisors in sister institutions, and 65 people have been awarded special allowances by the State Council and the "National May Day" Labor Union. 65 people were awarded with the titles of "May Day" Labor Medal of the State Council, National Outstanding Teachers, Provincial Famous Teachers and Nan Yue Outstanding Teachers, etc.; 48 people were selected as talents of Guangdong Province "Sailing Plan"; 9 people were selected as excellent young teachers of Guangdong Province; 30 people were 30 people have been selected as the target of the provincial "Strong Teacher Project". A number of famous experts and scholars at home and abroad have been appointed as visiting professors and part-time professors.

The quality of talent cultivation is excellent. We implement the fundamental task of establishing moral education, adapt to the requirements of high-quality development of education in the new era and modernization of education in Guangdong Province, and cultivate high-quality applied talents with high professional ethics, rich humanities, scientific and artistic literacy, solid foundation in disciplines and specialties, strong practical ability, and comprehensive development of moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and social skills. In recent years, students have won many awards in the "Internet+" Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, "Challenge Cup" and other competitions such as academic science and technology, professional experiments, teacher training skills, sports, foreign language speaking, art performance and social practice. In 2019, four alumni were awarded "National Model Teacher" and "National Excellent Teacher" (only 41 in Guangdong Province). The graduates have been rooted in western Guangdong, entered the Pearl River Delta, and employed all over the country, and have been hailed by the domestic mainstream media as the "Western Yuejiang Dragon"; they have been teaching in Tibet for 35 years, and the graduates have been hailed as "the good horses of Tibetan aid". In the Wushulian 2020 ranking of Chinese universities in terms of quality of undergraduate graduates, the university ranks 18th in Guangdong.

In the new journey of building a strong socialist modernization country, the university insists on taking Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era as its guide, comprehensively implementing the Party's education policy, adhering to the direction of socialism, implementing the fundamental task of establishing moral education, implementing education evaluation reform and the strategic deployment of "Internet + education", based on The university will focus on improving the quality of education, and strive for the right to award master's degree, and promote the "New Teacher Education", "New Engineering", "New Liberal Arts", and "New Agriculture". "The university will continue to improve the level and quality of education and strive to become a high-level teacher-training university with distinctive characteristics.

تقوم الجامعة بتوظيف الطلاب الأجانب منذ عام 1998 وقد قامت بتدريب أكثر من 800 طالب لفترات طويلة وقصيرة. لقد أقامت تعاونًا وثيقًا مع أكثر من 80 جامعة ومؤسسة تعليمية وما يقرب من 30 مدرسة ابتدائية وثانوية.جامعةلتنفيذ الأنشطة الأكاديمية التبادل والتعاون المهني والتدريب التعليمي والتوظيف المتبادل للمعلمين وأنشطة التعلم والتبادل بين الثقافات للطلاب، وينظم سفر الطلاب إلى الخارج للدراسة والتبادل والتدريب الداخلي والتدريب وأنشطة الممارسة الاجتماعية كل عام. بموافقة وزارة التعليم، قمنا بالتعاون مع معهد غالواي ماينوث للتكنولوجيا في أيرلندا لعقد برنامج البكالوريوس في تعليم الطهي والتغذية؛ التعاون مع الاتحاد الآسيوي للغوص لعقد أكاديمية الغوص الآسيوية؛ وتعاونت مع جامعة الرياضة الحكومية البيلاروسية لعقد فصل كونفوشيوس يتضمن فنون الدفاع عن النفس الصينية وإعادة التأهيل البدني والرعاية الصحية. حصل فصل كونفوشيوس على جائزة "فصل كونفوشيوس المتقدم" وتم ترقيته إلى "معهد كونفوشيوس"؛ تم إنشاء "مركز أبحاث الفلسفة والثقافة الصيني البيلاروسي" بالاشتراك مع معهد الفلسفة التابع للأكاديمية الوطنية للعلوم في بيلاروسيا. وقد انضمت إلى تحالف التعاون في التعليم العالي بين الصين وتايلاند، وتحالف الجامعات التعاونية لمعهد كونفوشيوس في منطقة خليج قوانغدونغ وهونغ كونغ وماكاو الكبرى، وتحالف جامعات قوانغدونغ وهونغ كونغ وماكاو، وانضمت إلى فرع أبحاث التعاون الصيني الأجنبي التابع لجمعية قوانغدونغ للتعليم العالي كنائب لرئيسه. لمدة أحد عشر عامًا متتالية، استضافت الجامعة "معسكر زانتاي الصيفي لطلاب الجامعة"، وهو مشروع رئيسي لمكتب شؤون تايوان التابع لمجلس الدولة. حصلت الجامعة على جائزة "المجموعة المتقدمة لمؤسسات التعليم العالي في قوانغدونغ في مجال التبادل الأجنبي والتعاون في 2019-2020"، وأنشأت "معهد أبحاث لتطوير جودة التعليم الأساسي" و"معهد أبحاث المانغروف". "تم إنشاء معهد تطوير جودة التعليم الأساسي ومعهد أبحاث المانغروف. وقد استفادت الجامعة استفادة كاملة من مزاياها في تنمية المواهب والبحث العلمي والتكنولوجي والدعم الفكري، وتعاونت بشكل وثيق مع الإدارات الحكومية المحلية والشركات ومؤسسات البحث العلمي والقوات المقيمة لتنفيذ تعاون شامل في التعليم والعلوم والتكنولوجيا والاقتصاد والثقافة والقانون وبحوث السياسات، وما إلى ذلك، وتوسيع الموارد بنشاط الجامعة التشغيل والتحسين المستمر لمساهمة الجامعة في التنمية الاقتصادية والاجتماعية المحلية.