Fujian Normal University is located in Fuzhou, a historical and cultural city known as the "Zou Lu by the Sea". It is a provincial higher education institution with a long history and a great reputation. The school originated from the "Fujian Superior Normal School" founded by Mr. Chen Baochen, the imperial tutor of the Qing Dynasty in 1907. Later, the South China Women's College of Arts and Sciences, Fujian Union University, Fujian Provincial Normal College and other units were adjusted and merged several times. Fujian Normal College was established in 1953. In 1972, it was renamed Fujian Normal University and has been used ever since. In 2012, the Fujian Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Education jointly established Fujian Normal University. In 2014, it was identified as a high-level university for key construction in Fujian Province. In 2018, it was identified as a first-class university construction university in Fujian Province. In 2022, it was identified as a Class A university in the second round of "Double First-Class" construction in Fujian Province. A hundred years of spring and autumn, the torch is passed on. Many masters and masters famous at home and abroad, such as Ye Shengtao, Guo Shaoyu, Dong Zuobin, Lin Lanying, Zheng Zuoxin, Huang Weiyuan, Tang Zhongzhang, Tang Chongti, and Yao Jiannian, have taught in the school. Through the inheritance and innovation of generations of teachers, the school has forged the school motto of "knowing, being clear, and being sincere and broad", nurtured the fine school spirit of "attaching importance to education, studying hard, seeking truth, and innovation", and strived to promote the continuous development of various undertakings. It has won a large number of high-level honorary titles such as "National Civilized Unit" and "National Civilized Campus". Nurturing orchids and orchids, peaches and plums are fragrant. Since its establishment, the school has trained and sent nearly 600,000 talents of all levels and types to the society, making outstanding contributions to the economic and social development of the country and Fujian. The school headquarters has two campuses, Qishan and Cangshan, covering an area of more than 4,000 acres. There are 84 undergraduate majors (78 full-time undergraduate majors in 2023), more than 25,000 full-time undergraduate students, and more than 10,000 graduate students of various types. There are 2,059 full-time teachers, of which 61.39% are senior professionals and 67.12% have doctoral degrees. There is one member of the Royal Society of Canada, one member of the European Academy of Sciences, and one member of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences. There are 7 leading talents in the National Special Support Program for High-level Talents, 5 young top talents, 5 distinguished professors, 2 young project scholars, and 1 visiting professor of the "Changjiang Scholars Program". There are 8 winners of the National Outstanding Young Scientist Fund, 13 winners of the National Excellent Young Scientist Fund (including overseas), 3 members of the Discipline Evaluation Group of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, 1 member of the Discipline Development Strategy Advisory Committee of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, 6 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions at the national level, 6 national candidates for the Hundred Thousand Talents Project, 2 national teaching masters, 4 national cultural masters and "four batches" of talents, 2 young and middle-aged science and technology innovation leaders of the Ministry of Science and Technology, 13 selected candidates for the "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program" of the Ministry of Education, 3 Huang Danian-style teacher teams in national universities, 2 innovation teams of the Ministry of Education, and 3 national teaching teams. The school has thoroughly implemented the fundamental task of cultivating talents with moral integrity, adhered to the focus on talent cultivation, continuously deepened the reform of education and teaching, and focused on improving the quality of talent cultivation. The undergraduate teaching level was rated as excellent by the Ministry of Education, and it has won 24 first and second prizes for national teaching achievements, and was approved by the Ministry of Education for the Basic Discipline Outstanding Student Training Program 2.10 base, 36 national first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 2 national comprehensive professional reform pilots, 10 characteristic professional construction sites, 54 national first-class undergraduate courses, 2 national ideological and political demonstration courses, and 2 ideological and political demonstration course cases. 30 textbooks were selected as national key planning and construction textbooks, and won 1 special prize, 2 second prizes, and 1 advanced collective in the National Excellent Textbook Award. There are 5 national experimental teaching demonstration centers (including virtual simulation experimental teaching centers), 2 national new liberal arts research and reform practice projects, 1 national new engineering research and reform practice project, 4 national talent training model innovation experimental areas, 1 national excellent teacher education plan, and selected as the implementation college of the Ministry of Education's excellent middle school teacher training plan. 17 normal majors have completed the second-level certification of normal majors, and the bioengineering major has passed the engineering education professional certification of the Ministry of Education. It has been selected as a national key Marxist college, with 4 national talent training bases and the Ministry of Education's college counselor training and research base, the Ministry of Education's ideological and political course teacher teaching and research base, and the Ministry of Education's national key construction vocational teacher training base. Students have won special prizes, gold prizes, and first prizes in national competitions such as the "Challenge Cup" and "Internet +", and 3 of them have been selected as the top 100 outstanding doctoral dissertations in the country. The school gives full play to the leading role of disciplines, and strives to build a discipline system of first-class liberal arts, high-level science, and distinctive engineering, and has basically formed the discipline layout of a comprehensive university. It has 1 national key discipline, 3 main disciplines for the second round of "Double First-Class" construction in Fujian Province, 9 provincial peak disciplines and 13 plateau disciplines, 20 postdoctoral research mobile stations, 19 first-level disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees, 3 doctoral professional degree authorization points, 32 first-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees, and 26 master's professional degree categories. Eight disciplines, including chemistry, engineering, materials science, computer science, environmental science and ecology, agronomy, general social sciences, and botany and zoology, have entered the top 1% of the ESI global ranking, and five of them have entered the top 5‰ of the ESI. The school has always adhered to the "four orientations", served the "major issues of the country", actively integrated into the national strategy and local economic and social development, and strengthened organized scientific research. It has been approved to build a national research center for political economy with Chinese characteristics (only 7 in the country), with 1 national field scientific observation and research station, 1 national key laboratory cultivation base, 1 national and local joint engineering research center, 1 national "2011" collaborative innovation center (one of the core collaborative units), 1 base for discipline innovation and intelligence introduction in higher education institutions, 123 research platforms at the ministerial and provincial levels, including key laboratories, engineering research centers, and key research bases for humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education. It has won more than 1,000 scientific research achievement awards at the ministerial and provincial levels, including 18 independent or cooperative national awards (National Natural Science Award, National Technological Invention Award, and National Science and Technology Progress Award), 4 first prizes in humanities and social sciences, and 1 first prize in natural sciences in the Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award for Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education. In the past five years, the university has undertaken more than 630 national-level projects and more than 3,800 other projects, including 47 major key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation and key research and development projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and 19 major projects of the National Social Science Foundation and major research projects of the Ministry of Education on philosophy and social sciences. Focusing on the vivid practice of Fujian's construction of a demonstration zone for cross-strait integration and development, the core area of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, a free trade pilot zone, and a national ecological civilization pilot zone, the university has carried out in-depth cooperation in production, learning, research and application, and taken multiple measures to promote the transformation and industrialization of scientific and technological achievements; focusing on major practical issues, creating a number of new think tanks with regional and school characteristics, and striving to play the role of "think tank" and "think tank". The school actively plays the location advantages of being located in the core area of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road and adjacent to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, and strives to deepen foreign exchanges and cooperation. At present, it has established friendly and cooperative relations with more than 130 universities, research institutions and UNESCO in countries and regions such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Australia, and Japan, and has established substantive cooperative relations with more than 40 universities in Taiwan. There is currently one non-independent legal entity Sino-foreign cooperatively-run school institution - Fujian Normal University Huddersfield College, 6 undergraduate and 1 postgraduate Sino-foreign cooperatively-run school projects, and 3 "International Cooperation Training Projects for Innovative Talents" of the China Scholarship Council. The Fujian-Taiwan Regional Research Center was selected as the National Ethnic Affairs Commission's Chinese National Community Research Base, the Indonesian Research Center was selected as the Ministry of Education's Country and Regional Research Filing Center, and the Philippine Research Center was selected as the National Ethnic Affairs Commission's "Belt and Road" Country and Regional Research Center. Overseas Chinese language education has begun to take shape and its characteristics are prominent. So far, 22 batches of 1,025 volunteers have been sent to 29 countries including the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and the United States. Two Confucius Institutes have been established in cooperation with the University of Angus Ridge in the Philippines and the University of Al-Azhar in Indonesia, which have had a good impact at home and abroad. The school hosts a variety of academic journals. The Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition and the Natural Science Edition of the Journal of Fujian Normal University are both national Chinese core journals and RCCSE Chinese core academic journals (A). The Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition has been rated as a famous column construction journal of the Ministry of Education and a source journal of the Chinese Social Science Citation Index (CSSCI), and the Natural Science Edition has been listed as a Chinese science and technology core journal. The school currently has nearly 5 million paper books and more than 5.6 million electronic books. The library is a national key ancient book protection unit, especially for its rich collection of ancient books, rare books, inscriptions, calligraphy and paintings, local documents, early foreign original books and representative newspapers and periodicals before and after the "May Fourth Movement". The campus network equipment is complete and widely used, and wireless network coverage is achieved throughout the campus. It has a number of high-level sports venues and complete sports facilities to better meet the needs of various events, training, and fitness. There are affiliated schools such as the attached middle school, attached primary school, and experimental kindergarten. The attached middle school is the school with the most awards in the International Olympic Subject Competition in Fujian Province. Fujian Normal University, which has gone through a glorious journey of 117 years, has not forgotten its original intention of cultivating morality and educating people, and has kept in mind its mission of educating people for the Party and the country. It has comprehensively deepened comprehensive reforms, comprehensively promoted connotation development, and comprehensively improved the quality of education. It is making great strides towards the goal of accelerating the construction of a comprehensive national first-class university with distinctive characteristics, and strives to make new and greater contributions to writing the Fujian chapter of comprehensively building a modern socialist country and realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. (The above data is as of May 2024)
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