Yancheng Normal University is a public undergraduate college under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province. It is located in the urban area of Yancheng, an open coastal city in Jiangsu. The school was founded in 1958. Its predecessor was Yancheng Normal College and Yancheng Education College. In 2002, the national key technical secondary school Yancheng Commercial School was merged. The school currently has two campuses, Tongyu and Xinchang, with a campus area of 1,500 acres. The school currently has more than 22,000 full-time undergraduate students. It has 18 secondary colleges, including the College of Arts, the College of Law and Politics, the College of Marxism, the College of History and Public Administration, the College of Foreign Languages, the College of Music, the College of Fine Arts and Design, the College of Educational Sciences, the College of Mathematics and Statistics, the College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, the College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, the College of Marine and Bioengineering, the College of Pharmacy, the College of Urban and Planning, the College of Physical Education, the College of Information Engineering, the College of Business, and the College of Wetlands. The school currently has 70 undergraduate majors, including 14 teacher-training majors and 56 non-teacher-training majors. There are 10 national first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 3 national characteristic professional construction sites, 2 national comprehensive reform pilot majors, 16 national first-class undergraduate courses, 1 national boutique online open course, 2 national virtual simulation experiment projects, and 1 national off-campus practical education base for college students. There are 17 provincial first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 14 provincial brand majors, 25 provincial characteristic majors, 3 provincial first-class professional construction sites for industry-education integration, 3 provincial outstanding engineer education and training plan 2.0 majors, 1 provincial curriculum ideological and political demonstration major, 7 provincial key majors (categories), 27 provincial first-batch first-class undergraduate courses, 4 provincial industry-education integration first-class courses, 38 provincial online open courses, 1 provincial curriculum ideological and political construction demonstration course, 12 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, and 2 provincial excellent grassroots teaching organizations approved by Jiangsu universities. There is 1 provincial key industry college. The School of Marxism was approved as a provincial university demonstration school of Marxism. The school is a national language standardization demonstration school, a national teacher training base, a provincial pilot school for the education and training program for outstanding teachers and outstanding engineers, a provincial talent training model innovation experimental base, a provincial college student innovation and entrepreneurship practice education center, and a provincial international service outsourcing talent training base. It is the leading unit of the teaching consortium of universities in Yancheng designated by the Provincial Department of Education. The school is the first pilot university in Jiangsu Province and the first in the country to accept full certification of secondary education. The school currently has 14 teacher training majors that have all passed the teacher training major certification of the Ministry of Education (second level), and software engineering has passed the engineering education major certification. The school has 10 major disciplines including economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, management, and art, and has 4 provincial key disciplines. There is one national key laboratory cultivation and construction site and 24 provincial and ministerial scientific research and innovation platforms. Among them, the Jiangsu Coastal Development Research Base was rated as a key research base for decision-making consultation in Jiangsu Province, and the Coastal Development Think Tank is one of the first 15 key cultivation think tanks in Jiangsu Province. In the past five years, the school has undertaken nearly 400 projects at the provincial and ministerial levels, including more than 110 national projects, ranking among the top universities at the same level. It has won many high-level awards including the National Teaching Achievement Award, the National University Scientific Research Outstanding Achievement Award, the Jiangsu Science and Technology Award, and the Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award. The school currently has more than 1,600 faculty and staff, including more than 700 senior professional titles and more than 500 doctors. More than 210 teachers have been hired as doctoral supervisors or master supervisors by universities such as Nanjing University and Wuhan University. There are 8 provincial excellent scientific research and innovation teams. There are various outstanding talents, including those who enjoy special allowances from the State Council, famous teachers in Jiangsu Province, young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions in Jiangsu Province, training targets of Jiangsu Province's "333" project, funding targets of Jiangsu Province's "Six Talent Peaks" project, and young and middle-aged academic leaders and outstanding young backbone teachers of Jiangsu Province's "Blue and Green Project" for colleges and universities. The school actively carries out extensive foreign exchanges and cooperation, and has established friendly cooperative relations with 94 universities and institutions in countries such as the United Kingdom, Russia, South Korea, France, Australia, Finland, and Taiwan and Macau, China. It has set up Sino-foreign cooperative education projects, opened majors for studying in China, encouraged teachers and students to conduct international academic and cultural exchanges, promoted mutual recognition of credits and mutual granting of degrees, and promoted the internationalization of education. Actively introduce high-level overseas talents, optimize the structure of the teaching staff, and help the discipline construction to keep up with the forefront. The school jointly trains doctoral and master's students with universities such as Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing University of Technology, Tianjin Normal University, Shandong Normal University, and Qinghai Normal University. Students have achieved excellent results in various skill competitions across the country and the province, and have won the gold medal of the "Challenge Cup" National College Student Entrepreneurship Plan Competition five times, the first prize in the 15th and 17th "Challenge Cup" National College Student Extracurricular Academic and Technological Works Competition, and the special prize in the "Unveiling the List and Commanding" special competition of the 18th "Challenge Cup" National College Student Extracurricular Academic and Technological Works Competition. They won the silver medal of the "Internet +" National College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, represented Jiangsu universities in the National College Sports Education Major Student Basic Skills Competition and won the first prize, and won 129 first prizes in the Provincial Normal Students Teaching Basic Skills Competition. The graduation destination implementation rate of graduates is over 95%. Nearly 700 students are admitted to graduate schools of scientific research institutions and universities such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing University, and Zhejiang University every year. It has been rated as an outstanding contribution unit for the publicity of college entrance examinations in Jiangsu Province, and has been repeatedly commended as a provincial college graduate employment quantitative supervision A-level university. Over the years, the school has insisted on playing the three cards of "normal, coastal, and old districts", taking service as its own responsibility and promoting development with contribution, strengthening the characteristics of running schools in serving regional economic and social development, creating core competitiveness, and improving the level of running schools. In 2007, the Ministry of Education's undergraduate teaching work level assessment achieved excellent results, and in 2016, it passed the Ministry of Education's undergraduate teaching work review and evaluation with excellent results, and won the first place in the comprehensive assessment of provincial universities in 2022. The school is an advanced grassroots party organization in provincial universities, an advanced collective of ideological and political work in provincial universities, a provincial civilized unit, a provincial civilized campus, an advanced unit for excellent school spirit construction in the province, an advanced university for the construction of the provincial faculty team, a provincial safe and civilized unit, a provincial safe campus, a provincial green campus, a provincial garden-style unit, a provincial patriotic health advanced unit, and an advanced unit for national college students' social practice activities. It won the special prize for outstanding achievements in the construction of campus culture in the eighth session of the National University. The late young professor Wang Qiang of the school used his life to guard the Marxist position and was selected as a major national advanced model by the Central Propaganda Department. Bao Bin and Lu Yijun were elected as "China's Good People", and were nominated for the 7th National Moral Model Award. They were also elected as the "Helping Others" Jiangsu Provincial Moral Model. Looking to the future, all teachers, students and staff of the university are moving towards the goal of accelerating the construction of a high-level normal university with distinctive characteristics!
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