Lianyungang Normal University | Chinese Universities

Lianyungang Normal College is a full-time regular school approved by Ministry of Education in March, 2000. It is initially combined by the former Lianyungang Education College, former Haizhou Normal School and former Lianyungang Normal School. Later, in 2002, Lianyungang Management College of Economy Cadres affiliated with it. In 2011, having a cooperation in student training with Jiangsu Normal University (formerly, Xuzhou Normal University), it developed as Lianyungang Branch of Jiangsu Normal University.

LNC has a history of 100 years since the setup of the 8th Provincial Normal School. Over the years, it has cultivated over 50,000 talented teachers who have devoted to the education cause of North of Jiangsu or even throughout the country. During the time, some of them have gone on to become education experts, special-grade teachers and outstanding education cadres, such as the famous psychologist, Professor Zhu Zhixian, the famous educationist, Professor Liu Baichuan, member of China Engineering Academy and estuaries and coasts expert, Professor Chen Jiyu. What’s more, as the birthplace of the first Party Organization of CPPC in Haizhou District, its funder Li Chaoshi admitted many new party members among the teachers and students, among whom many became distinguished representatives: Lv Jiying, the first female Communist in Lianyungang City and Hui Yuyu, the former Governor of Jiangsu Province, Chen Weida, Vice Secretary of Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC .

LNC covers an area of 1225.25 mu, among which, the Land Plan and Construction area takes up 400,000 square meters. LNC currently has a total of 526 faculty members and an enrollment of 10,000 full-time students, among which, there are 2,200 undergraduates. With an impressive collection of more than 790,000 books, the library is equipped with 27 databases. Apart from that, LNC has for many times been cited as a provincial and municipal model unit. Moreover, in succession, it has been awarded as the National Model Unit of the Art Education, the National Afforestation Model Unit, National “May 4th” Flag Model Unit of the Youth League Committee, the Harmonious College Campus in Jiangsu Province, the Model School of Jiangsu Province, the Advanced Group of Education Supervision in Jiangsu Province, the Advanced Group of Moral Education in Jiangsu Province, Safe and Civilized Campus in Jiangsu Province, Outstanding Continuing Education Base in Jiangsu Province and the Advanced Unit of Legal Education Publicity in Jiangsu Educational System. In recent years, the employment rate of the graduates amounts to over 95%. Carrying Out Poem Education, LNC has been awarded the third prize in the competition of Outstanding Achievement of the National Campus Culture. Thereafter, LNC got the award of National Advanced Unit of Poem Education.

LNC currently has a total of 390 full-time teachers including 50 professors. Teachers with senior titles account for 67% of the total. Among the 390 full-time teachers, 17 have obtained their PhD’s degree and 250 master’s degrees, accounting for 68.5% of the total. Besides, 5 teachers have successively won the Zeng Xianzi Award, a national award for outstanding teachers. 1 has been granted the title of National Teaching Mater, 1 Provincial Teaching Master and 3 Municipal Teaching Master. 16 have been elected into “333” Project, a personnel traing program in Jiangsu Province, 24 into "Qinglan" Project, an Innovation Project of Jiangsu Province and 81 into the “521” Project, a personnel training program in Lianyungang.

At present, LNC offers 40 majors. Among them, 13 belong to the joint education program with Jiangsu Normal University and recruit undergraduate students. Up until now, a new major pattern has been formed in LNC featuring Primary School Education and Early Childhood Education. Majors such as Culture & Arts, tourism management, have regional advantages. Chinese Education along with other 6 majors has been rated majors with characteristics at the provincial level. 5 courses including Chinese teaching methodology have been chosen as provincial-level quality courses. What’s more, there are 3 experimental & practical training bases for majors such as tourism management and biochemical pharmacy, 1 Excellent teaching team at the provincial level and 1 innovation base on personnel training.

Recently, through the “directional classification” research-orientation, LNC has maintained steady growth in the number of achievements in scientific research, focusing on improvement of its general level of scientific research and establishment of scientific research teams, making great efforts to build a scientific research system featuring Menu-Service. As a result, LNC’s advantages in Normal Education and Rural Education have been strengthened. In recent years, Professional internal journals including Study on Rural Education, Study on Pre-school Education and Journal of Children’s Culture, have successively been established. Up until now, LNC has undertaken 3 provincial-and-ministerial level projects, more than 100 municipal level projects and more than 10 Horizontal projects. In recent 4 years, 1517 papers are published, about 296 Chinese core journals have been published.

LNC puts particular emphasis on the strategy of opening education and actively promoting extensive international exchanges and cooperation. LNC has established partnerships and cooperative relationships with overseas colleges and universities in America, Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Korea for cooperation in Sino-foreign cooperative education and exchange. The number of joint program student and exchange-program students up to 300. Focusing on international education and to cultivate internationalized talents with international vision and international competition ability, excellent teachers and students are selected to study overseas. Every year, LNC enrolls overseas students from Asia-Pacific area, America, Canada and other countries to study specialist areas and Chinese.

Persisting in reform and innovation and scientific development, with great enthusiasm and full confidence, the staff in LNC are striving for a university based on Lianyungang to meet the basic needs of grass-rooted units and rural and coastal areas.

We warmly welcome international students to study at LNC with graceful environment.