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Lingnan Normal University
China

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Official website: http://www.lingnan.edu.cn/
Tel：0759-3183189,0759-3183211
Address：Main campus: No. 29, Cunjin Road, Chikan District, Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province; North Campus of the School of Basic Education: No. 182, Suihai Road, Suixi County, Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province
Lingnan Normal University is a general undergraduate institution in Guangdong Province with a century-old history of teacher education. It is located in Zhanjiang, a beautiful port city in the southernmost part of mainland China. The predecessor of the school can be traced back to Leiyang Academy, which was built in Leizhou Fucheng in 1636 (the ninth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty). In 1903, it was changed to Leiyang Middle School. In 1904, a simplified normal course was opened, which was the beginning of normal education in our school. After Leizhou Middle School and Guangdong Provincial No. 10 Middle School, Guangdong Provincial Leizhou Normal School was established in 1935. It moved to its current location in 1954. In 1978, it was upgraded to Leizhou Normal College. In 1991, it was changed to Zhanjiang Normal College. In 2014, it was renamed Lingnan. Teachers College. It has a long history and has won many awards. In the course of more than 100 years of normal education, the school has shouldered the mission of developing schools and educating people, adhered to the school-running orientation of "teaching, teaching, local and application-oriented", and formed a school that "strengthens teachers, emphasizes science and engineering, and develops business" It has cultivated a large number of outstanding teachers, educators and social application talents, and has made due contributions to the educational and cultural undertakings and economic and social development of western Guangdong and even Guangdong Province. In 2000, the school was the first normal school in the country to pass the Ministry of Education's undergraduate teaching qualification assessment. In 2007, it received an excellent rating in the Ministry of Education's undergraduate teaching level assessment. In 2010, it was listed as a new master's degree authorization project in Guangdong Province. The construction unit was included in the first batch of general undergraduate transformation pilot universities in Guangdong, provincial and municipal jointly constructed universities, and Guangdong University College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Demonstration School in 2016. In 2017, it was elected as the chairman unit of the Guangdong Special Education Teacher Development Alliance. In 2018, it was listed among the It has entered the Guangdong Province higher education "strengthening first-class, making up for shortcomings and strengthening characteristics" improvement plan to build universities. In 2023, it launched the establishment of the National Island Education Development and Rural Revitalization Alliance and became the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Provincial Laboratory (Zhanjiang) (referred to as " Zhanjiang Bay Laboratory") co-constructed unit. The school has successively won the titles of "National Advanced Unit for Spiritual Civilization Construction", "National Advanced Unit for Mass Sports Work", "National Advanced Greening Collective", "National Advanced Collective for Internal Auditing", "Demonstration School of School Management by the Ministry of Education" and "Demonstration School of College English Teaching Reform of the Ministry of Education". "School", "Advanced Unit for Teachers' Moral Construction in Guangdong Province" and "Guangdong Province Civilized Campus" and other honorary titles. The teaching staff is well structured. There are more than 2,500 faculty members, including more than 600 teachers with senior professional titles, nearly 600 with doctorate degrees, and 810 teachers with dual qualifications and dual abilities. One person was selected into the Ministry of Education’s “New Century Excellent Talent Support Program”; four people were selected into the top 2% of the world’s top scientists; 150 people were selected into the training targets of Guangdong Province’s “Thousands and Hundreds of Ten Projects”, and 136 people were hired as master’s and graduate students from brother universities. Doctoral supervisors, nearly 100 of them have been awarded special government allowances from the State Council, the National "May Day" Labor Medal, national outstanding teachers, provincial teaching teachers, and southern Guangdong outstanding teachers; 48 people have been selected as talents for the "Sail Project" of Guangdong Province; 9 people were selected as candidates for training outstanding young teachers in higher education institutions in Guangdong Province; 30 people were selected as funding recipients of the provincial “Strengthening Teachers Project”. A number of well-known experts and scholars at home and abroad are employed as visiting professors and part-time professors. The discipline and professional system is complete. There are 32 secondary colleges (including affiliated colleges). There are 6 provincial key disciplines (pedagogy, chemistry, curriculum and teaching theory, polymer chemistry and physics, Chinese language and philology, materials physics and chemistry), and 3 provincial “strengthening” key construction disciplines (pedagogy). , Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering), 2 provincial key disciplines were evaluated as “excellent”. There are currently 76 undergraduate majors, covering 10 major disciplines including economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, management and art.The teacher major covers basic education, vocational education, preschool education and special education, forming a complete teacher education system with complete categories and integrated training. Five majors (Chinese language and literature, chemistry, primary education, physical education, physics) have passed the second-level certification of teacher training majors of the Ministry of Education. 1 major (Computer Science and Technology) has passed the IEET Engineering and Technology Education certification. It has 2 national-level specialty majors (Chinese language and literature and chemistry), 2 national-level first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 14 provincial-level characteristic (key) majors, and 14 provincial-level first-class undergraduate major construction sites. The school recruits students from 31 provinces and regions, with more than 28,000 full-time college students. Scientific research has achieved remarkable results. There are 35 provincial scientific research platforms such as the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Development and Education of Special Children and 9 Zhanjiang scientific research platforms. There are 9 on-campus research institutes (centers) such as the Basic Education High-Quality Development Institute, the Mangrove Research Institute, the Education Digital Transformation Research Center, the Lingnan Cultural Research Institute, and the China-Belarus Philosophy and Culture Research Center, and 84 other school-level research institutes and other platforms. indivual. In the past five years, more than 1,011 scientific research projects at all levels and types have been approved, including 58 national-level projects and 309 provincial and ministerial-level projects; in 2020, it won 4 national social science late-stage funding projects, ranking 65th in the country; 2021 In 2023, it won 1 key project funded by the National Social Science Fund in the later stage; in 2023, it won 8 general humanities and social science research projects from the Ministry of Education, ranking 121st in the country. It has nearly 820 authorized patents, including more than 250 invention patents, and has won more than 20 provincial and ministerial level and above scientific research awards and national industry degree association awards. The school is rich in resources. The campus covers an area of 2,580 acres (including Cunjin Campus, Huguang Campus and Chuchuan Campus), with a construction area of nearly 700,000 square meters, and a total value of teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment of nearly 300 million yuan. The library has a collection of more than 3.4 million paper books, more than 600 current paper periodicals in Chinese and foreign languages, 62 electronic literature databases of various types, 3.4 million electronic books, and more than 40,000 kinds of electronic journals with 1.4 million volumes. Approved to establish “Guangdong Province’s National Teacher Education Innovation Experimental Zone”. It has been approved by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to have 1 specialized and new industrial college (Intelligent Electrical Specialized and Special New Industrial College) and 5 provincial industrial colleges (Intelligent Electrical Modern Industrial College, Prepared Vegetable Industry College, Education Digital Industry College, Fengxue Digital Economics and Management Smart Supply Chain Modern Industry College, Intelligent Manufacturing Industry College). There are 2 national-level bases (National Key Vocational Education Teacher Training Base, National Social Work Professional Training Base), 4 provincial-level teacher training bases and 1 provincial-level primary and secondary school teacher development center. The quality of talent training is excellent. Implement the fundamental task of cultivating people with moral integrity, adapt to the high-quality development of education in the new era of the country and the requirements of education modernization in Guangdong Province, and cultivate noble professional ethics, rich humanistic, scientific and artistic qualities, a solid foundation of disciplines and majors, and strong practical skills High-quality application-oriented talents with comprehensive development of moral, intellectual, physical, artistic and labor skills. In recent years, students have won numerous awards in competitions such as the “Internet +” College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the “Challenge Cup”, and competitions in academic technology, normal student skills, sports competition, foreign language speaking, artistic performance, and social practice. In 2019, four alumni were awarded the titles of “National Model Teacher” and “National Outstanding Teacher” respectively. The admission rate of graduates to the postgraduate entrance examination is about 10%, ranking among the top universities of the same kind in the province; graduates have taken root in western Guangdong, advanced to the Pearl River Delta, and found employment in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Tibet and other places, and have been praised by domestic mainstream media as " "The dragon crossing the river in western Guangdong" and "the good horse aiding Tibet". Extensive cooperation and exchanges with foreign countries. It began to recruit foreign students in 1998 and has trained more than 1,000 long- and short-term international students. It has established close cooperative relations with nearly 130 overseas universities and educational institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Belarus, Japan, South Korea and other countries, as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, to jointly carry out academic exchanges, professional cooperation, education training, mutual recruitment of teachers and cross-cultural learning of students. Communication activities. Cooperated with the Atlantic University of Technology in Ireland to organize an undergraduate program in cooking and nutrition education; cooperated with the Asian Diving Federation to organize the "Asian Diving Academy"; cooperated with the Belarusian State University of Physical Education to organize a Confucius Classroom featuring Chinese martial arts and sports rehabilitation and health care, which was rated The world's "advanced Confucius Classroom" has been upgraded to a "Confucius Institute"; it has jointly established the "China-Belarus Philosophy-Cultural Research Center" with the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus; it has joined the China-Thailand Higher Education Cooperation Alliance, the China-Belarus University Alliance, China-Ireland China-Foreign Affairs Cooperative Education Alliance, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Confucius Institute Partner University Alliance and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao University Alliance. Cooperated with the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce Fisheries Industry Chamber of Commerce to organize the "Aquaculture International Business Academy"; jointly established the "Dongdao Clean Energy Materials Industry Academy" with Guangdong Dongdao New Energy Co., Ltd.; cooperated with Unisoc Group New H3C Technology Co., Ltd., Guangdong Weize Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. jointly established the "Smart Education Industry Academy". Give full play to its advantages in talent training, scientific and technological research, and intellectual support, and work closely with local government departments, enterprises, scientific research institutions, and resident troops to carry out all-round research in education, science and technology, economy, culture, law, and policy research. Cooperate, actively expand school resources, and continuously improve the school’s contribution to local economic and social development. In the great process of fully building a modern and powerful socialist country, achieving the second centenary goal, and comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization, the school adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and deeply understands the "two Establish the decisive significance of "establishing", strengthen the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences", achieve "two safeguards", fully implement the party's education policy, adhere to the direction of socialist school running, implement the fundamental task of cultivating moral character, and implement The strategic deployment of building a powerful country and province with strong education, implements the specific deployment of the Provincial Party Committee's "1310", takes improving the quality of school running as the core, vigorously promotes the construction of new normal schools, new engineering, new liberal arts, and new agricultural sciences, and continuously improves the level of school running and education quality. Build a high-quality education system and build a high-level normal university with distinctive characteristics as soon as possible to make due contributions to Guangdong's advancement of Chinese-style modernization. The current party secretary of the school is Lan Yanze and the principal Yang Aimin.