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South China Normal University
China

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Official website: https://www.scnu.edu.cn/
Tel：020-85211098,020-85213484
Address：Shipai Campus: No. 55, Zhongshan Avenue West, Tianhe District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province; University Town Campus: No. 378, Outer Ring West Road, Guangzhou University Town, Panyu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province; Nanhai Campus: Taoyuan East Road, Nanhai District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province; Shanwei Campus: No. 55, Xiangjiang Avenue West, Magong Street, Shanwei City, Guangdong Province
South China Normal University is a national "double first-class" construction university, a key construction university of the "211 Project", a university jointly built by Guangdong Province and the Ministry of Education, and a key construction university of Guangdong Province's high-level universities. There are currently "three campuses and four campuses", including Shipai Campus and University Town Campus of Guangzhou Campus, Nanhai Campus of Foshan Campus and Binhai Campus of Shanwei Campus, with a total area of 5,328 acres. The school has 4 faculties, 38 colleges, and 11 research institutes (centers). The history of South China Normal University can be traced back to the Gezhi Academy founded in 1888, the Guangdong-Guangxi Normal School founded in 1905, and the Guangzhou Municipal Normal School founded in 1921. The history of the school began with the Guangdong Provincial Xiangqin University Normal College founded in 1933. The school has a profound revolutionary tradition, and "loyalty to the party's education cause" and "rejuvenation of the nation" are the red genes that have been passed down from generation to generation. Famous educators such as Lin Liru, He Jie, Du Guoxiang, Chen Weishi, Wang Yanshi, and Ma Xiaoyun have served as school principals. Many famous teachers have taught in the school, including Wu Sanli, Gao Juefu, Wang Heqing, Sheng Xugong, Wang Yue, Ruan Jingqing, Huang Youmou, Guo Dali, Xiong Daren, Luo Zhuohan, Rao Zongyi, Pan Jionghua, Luo Jun, Ye Shuwu, Ye Peihua, Wang Deliang, Li Jingchi, Li Kuangwu, Kang Baiqing, Zhu Bo, Liu Songhao, Sun Ruyong, etc. In the 90 years since its establishment, generations of South China Normal University have adhered to the purpose of "researching advanced academics and cultivating specialized talents for society" at the beginning of the school, and practiced the school motto of "hard work, rigorous scholarship, truth-seeking innovation, and being a role model for others". They have taken root in Lingnan and devoted themselves to cultivating people, and have trained more than 900,000 teachers and various talents for the country. Today, South China Normal University has developed into a high-level comprehensive normal university with distinctive characteristics of teacher education and a full range of disciplines, and has become a southern highland for cultivating educational talents in China. In recent years, the school has adhered to the socialist direction of running schools, implemented the fundamental task of cultivating people with moral integrity, implemented the two major strategies of "strengthening the characteristics of teacher education and improving the level of disciplines", promoted the three major constructions of "double first-class", "strengthening", and "new normal", seized the four key points of talent team, scientific research and innovation, internationalization, and informatization, comprehensively deepened comprehensive reforms, continuously optimized the governance system, and solidly promoted high-quality development, accelerating the pace of building a comprehensive normal university with Chinese characteristics and world-class. The leadership of the Party continues to strengthen. Fully implement the Party's education policy, adhere to the use of Xi Jinping's new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics to cultivate people, build a talent training system of "five educations" of morality, intelligence, physical education, aesthetics, and labor, create an ideological and political work system of "party building leading, five virtues in the same direction", and strive to cultivate outstanding socialist builders and successors with comprehensive development and innovative capabilities. In 2016, as a representative of colleges and universities, he made an exchange speech at the National Conference on Ideological and Political Work in Colleges and Universities. In 2019, he was selected as a cultivation and creation unit of the "National Party Building Work Demonstration University" of the Ministry of Education, and successfully passed the acceptance in 2022. The discipline construction has achieved remarkable results. Physics was selected as a national "double first-class" construction discipline. The School of Marxism was approved as a national key school of Marxism. In the subject evaluation of the Ministry of Education, four subjects including psychology, Marxist theory, education, and physical education were rated as Class A subjects, including psychology A+. Twelve subjects including materials science, chemistry, engineering, botany and zoology, environmental science and ecology, general social sciences, psychiatry and psychology, mathematics, physics, clinical medicine, neuroscience and behavioral science, and computer science entered the top 1% of the ESI world, among which seven subjects including materials science, chemistry, engineering, botany and zoology, environmental science and ecology, general social sciences, psychiatry and psychology entered the top 5‰ of the ESI world. The talent training system is complete. There are 53 talent training units covering 12 disciplines, with a total of 97 undergraduate majors, 32 first-level master's degree authorization points, 26 master's professional degree authorization categories, 20 first-level doctoral degree authorization points, and 1 doctoral professional degree authorization category. There are more than 45,000 full-time students, including more than 30,000 ordinary undergraduates, about 13,000 master's students, and about 1,500 doctoral students. There are 45 national first-class undergraduate majors and 19 provincial first-class undergraduate majors. There are 57 national first-class undergraduate courses and 185 provincial first-class undergraduate courses. Psychology and physics have been approved for the basic disciplines top student training plan 2.0 base, and physics was selected into the talent training plan for reserve talents of middle school students in scientific and technological innovation. The school is the only normal university in the country that has been rated as a national typical university with experience in innovation and entrepreneurship (top 50), the first batch of national demonstration universities for innovation and entrepreneurship education, the national university practice education innovation and entrepreneurship base, and the first batch of national teacher ethics and style construction bases. The teaching staff has a good structure. There are more than 5,500 faculty and staff, including more than 2,600 full-time teachers, 690 senior teachers, 710 deputy senior teachers, 187 national talents and 260 provincial talents. There are 8 academicians (including dual appointments and foreigners), 12 major talent projects of the Ministry of Education, 14 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, 14 leading talents of the "National Special Support Program", 11 national candidates of the Hundred Thousand Talents Project, 8 talents of the "Four Batches" of the Central Propaganda Department, 47 national four-young talents, 5 national teaching masters, 3 national teaching teams, 2 Huang Danian-style teacher teams in national universities, 29 candidates of the New Century Excellent Talent Support Program of the Ministry of Education, 45 major talent projects of Guangdong Province, and 50 candidates of the Guangdong Special Support Program. There are 3 national May 1st Labor Medal winners, 3 provincial labor models, and 5 provincial May 1st Labor Medal winners. The foundation of scientific research and innovation is solid. It has 2 national scientific research platforms, "International Joint Research Center for Green Optoelectronics" and "National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for High-Energy and High-Safety Power Lithium-ion Battery Electrolyte and Diaphragm Materials and Preparation Technology", and 66 provincial and ministerial scientific research platforms such as the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education and the Engineering Technology Research Center of the Ministry of Education. There are 56 national and provincial scientific research platforms in the humanities and social sciences, including the Psychological Application Research Center, a key research base of the Ministry of Education for humanities and social sciences, and the Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the Ministry of Education. As the first finisher, teachers of the school have won 2 second prizes in the National Natural Science Award and 1 second prize in the National Technological Invention Award, 3 first prizes in the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education, and 1 first prize in the Technological Invention Award. It has won the first prize of the National Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award (Humanities and Social Sciences) for three consecutive sessions. It has unique achievements such as the oracle bone inscriptions of Yinxu, the unearthed documents of the Warring States Period, and the bronze inscriptions of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. It has co-built 4 off-site scientific research institutions with the governments of Qingyuan, Zhaoqing, Panyu, Meizhou and other places, approved 3 provincial new R&D institutions, and co-built 39 industry-university-research bases with domestic enterprises. The characteristics of teacher education are prominent. The training of normal students covers the entire field of general education, special education, and vocational education, preschool, primary school, and middle school, and all levels of undergraduate, master, and doctoral degrees. The scale and proportion of normal students are among the top in normal universities across the country. As the "working machine" of basic education, the school is committed to improving the quality of Guangdong's teacher team, building a high-end think tank for southern education, serving the comprehensive reform of Guangdong education, building high-quality affiliated school resources, and radiating and influencing the development of basic education across the country. The school is the leading unit of the Ministry of Education's teacher education collaborative quality improvement plan, the Ministry of Education's "National Training Program" overseas training project executive office and "Double Name" (famous teacher and principal) pilot base, demonstration project and teacher distance training institution, college ideological and political work team training and research center, national college ideological and political theory teacher training base, Guangdong Province Basic Education "Hundreds of Millions" Talent Training Project Executive Office and Training Base, Guangdong Province "Double Hundred Action" Rural Public Service Alliance Leader Unit. Won 15 new national teaching achievement awards (including 4 for attached middle schools and kindergartens), and the number of awards for basic education with South China Normal University as the first leading unit ranks first among normal universities nationwide. The school has a profound historical foundation and first-mover advantage in serving the development of education in Hong Kong and Macao. It is the only Hong Kong teacher training and exchange base designated by the Hong Kong Education Bureau in the Mainland. The teachers trained and trained in Macau primary and secondary schools and kindergartens account for more than 70% of the total number of teachers. Frequent foreign exchanges and cooperation. Following the concept of "integrating into the Bay Area, deepening Southeast Asia, developing the Belt and Road Initiative, and going global", the school actively serves the overall national opening-up and regional development needs. The school has joined the LHCb, BESIII, STAR experiment international cooperation group, and CMS international cooperation group, and has co-built international joint laboratories with 6 universities in the Netherlands, Italy, Belgium and other countries, and has cooperated with the University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to build the "Guangdong-Hong Kong Quantum Matter Joint Laboratory". The Southeast Asia Research Center, the East Timor Center and the Hong Kong and Macao Research Center have been approved as the country and regional research filing centers of the Ministry of Education, and the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Textbook Comprehensive Research Base has been approved as a national textbook construction key research base; 8 overseas research bases have been established in 7 countries in Southeast Asia. Overseas teaching points have been established in Hong Kong, Macao and Malaysia, and the first Sino-foreign cooperative education institution for artificial intelligence in the country, the "Aberdeen School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence", has been co-built with the University of Aberdeen in the UK. Three Confucius Institutes have been established overseas, two of which have been rated as "Global Advanced Confucius Institutes". In the new era and new journey, the school adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, takes education to strengthen the country as its mission, takes moral education and talent cultivation as its foundation, focuses on the overall deployment of education to strengthen the country and the specific deployment of the Provincial Party Committee's "1310", and condenses and establishes the "1238" development strategy of "anchoring one goal, implementing the 'two-step' strategy, activating three major driving forces, and building eight first-class systems". We strive to build a world-class university with distinctive characteristics, comprehensiveness, and innovation in teacher education, cultivate more "four-good" teachers and various types of talents that can adapt to high-quality development, and strive to make new and greater contributions to the development of Guangdong and the Bay Area, the construction of a strong country, and the national rejuvenation.