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Tibet University for Nationalities
China

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Official website: http://www.xzmu.edu.cn/
Tel：029-33755799
Address：Weicheng Campus: No. 6, Wenhui East Road, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province
The banks of the Wei River are blessed with natural beauty. The towering university is dedicated to cultivating people with virtue. Tibet University for Nationalities is located in Xianyang, Shaanxi Province. It is the first higher education institution established by the Party Central Committee for Tibet after the peaceful liberation of Tibet. The establishment of the university is a wise decision made by the older generation of party and state leaders based on the political vision of national unity, frontier stability, and national rejuvenation. It is an important layout of the central government's strategy for governing Tibet. The university is a university jointly established by the People's Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region and the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, a key university in the central and western regions of the country, a national national unity and progress education base, a pilot unit of the Ministry of Education's Excellent Talent Training Program, a team-based counterpart assistance university of the Ministry of Education, the second batch of national demonstration universities for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, the first batch of excellent pilot units of education informatization of the Ministry of Education, a national model unit for greening, a national civilized campus, a university of the autonomous region's network ideological and political work center (E-class Center), the first batch of national innovation and entrepreneurship education practice base construction units, and the Ministry of Education's "National Common Language and Character Promotion and Popularization Advanced Collective". Tibet University for Nationalities was born in the special historical period of the early days of the peaceful liberation of Tibet and the eve of democratic reform. It shoulders the special historical mission of cultivating various talents for Tibet and has made special historical contributions to the economic development and social progress of Tibet. The predecessor of the school was the "Tibet Public School" which was founded in 1957 by the instructions of the Party Central Committee and opened in September 1958. It was renamed the Tibet Nationalities College in 1965 and the Tibet University for Nationalities in 2015. The development of the school has always received the cordial care of the leaders of the Party and the country. Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping and others have all made specific instructions on the preparation and construction of the school. After the reform and opening up, central leaders such as Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao were very concerned about the development of the school. Comrade Hu Jintao sent a congratulatory letter for the 50th anniversary of the founding of the school. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the school in 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to extend warm congratulations to all teachers, students, staff and alumni of the school, and fully affirmed the school's achievements, characteristics and spirit in the past 60 years, clearly pointed out the guiding ideology, goals, tasks and important measures for the development and construction of the school, and expressed ardent hope for the future development of the school. Over the past 65 years, Tibet University for Nationalities has fully implemented the Party's educational principles and ethnic policies, worked diligently and tirelessly, adhered to the school motto of "patriotism, development of Tibet, diligence and dedication", promoted the school-running spirit of "responsibility, dedication, truth-seeking and pragmatism, and harmonious development", and adhered to the school-running purpose of being based in Shaanxi, facing Tibet, and serving the Party's Tibet governance strategy in the new era. It has always shared the fate of Tibet's revolution, construction, and reform, and progressed with Tibet's economic and social development. It has actively played the role of Tibet's higher education incubator, professional talent training base, important platform for scientific research and cultural inheritance and innovation, national unity and progress education base, and Tibet's important window in the mainland. It has always been committed to fully implementing the Party and the State's Tibet governance strategy, safeguarding the unity of the motherland, national unity, and opposing separatism; it has always been committed to fully serving the long-term economic development and long-term stability of Tibet; it has always been committed to cultivating a high-quality cadre team for Tibet that is reliable, useful, can go down, and can stay, and has cultivated a large number of outstanding cadres and professional and technical talents for the Party and the people and for the development of various undertakings in Tibet. Since its founding, the university has trained more than 110,000 high-level outstanding builders and outstanding talents from all walks of life and at all levels, among which more than 40 provincial and ministerial leaders and a large number of outstanding talents such as artists, writers, professors, medical scientists, agronomists, engineers, etc. have emerged, winning the reputation of "the cradle of Tibetan cadres". The university actively builds a discipline and professional system with distinct characteristics that adapts to the needs of Tibet's economic and social development and talent training, covering 11 disciplines such as philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, medicine, management, and art. It has 14 teaching units including the School of Literature, the Institute of Ethnic Studies, the School of Law, the School of Journalism and Communication, the School of Marxism, the School of Finance and Economics, the School of Management, the School of Information Engineering, the School of Education, the School of Foreign Languages, the School of Physical Education, the School of Medicine, the Graduate School, and the School of Continuing Education. The university is a doctoral degree-granting institution with 1 first-level doctoral degree authorization point (Marxist theory), 13 first-level master's degree authorization points, 19 master's professional degree authorization points, and 61 undergraduate majors. 1 postdoctoral innovation and practice base, 2 national characteristic specialty construction sites, 1 national professional comprehensive reform pilot project, 7 national first-class majors, 16 provincial first-class majors, 4 autonomous region-level characteristic majors, and 3 autonomous region-level professional comprehensive reform pilot projects. 2 national first-class undergraduate courses and 15 autonomous region-level first-class courses. Spring breeze and rain, peaches and plums are fragrant. The school always adheres to the education-oriented principle, actively builds a "three-dimensional education" work mechanism, deepens the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, vigorously promotes high-quality employment of graduates, continuously improves the quality of talent training, and strives to cultivate socialist builders and successors with comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor. The school currently has 13,225 students, including 10,937 undergraduates and 2,288 postgraduates. Graduates are well received by employers. In recent years, the employment rate of graduates has remained above 90%, the employment rate and employment quality have steadily increased, the number of college students engaged in innovation and entrepreneurship has increased year by year, and a number of advanced employment and entrepreneurship models have emerged. The school has a faculty with high moral character, superb professional skills, reasonable structure and vitality. There are 1,340 faculty members (including 1,003 at the main campus), including 850 professional and technical personnel, including 114 senior professional and technical personnel and 255 deputy senior professional and technical personnel; 716 full-time and part-time teachers, including 108 professors, 226 associate professors, 607 teachers with master's degrees or above, and 205 teachers with doctoral degrees; 327 master's degree supervisors and 11 doctoral supervisors. The high-level talent team is gradually growing, with 1 person in the "Thousand Talents Program" and 5 "Changjiang Scholars"; 4 people in the National "Ten Thousand Talents Program" Philosophy and Social Science Leading Talent Program, 3 people in the Ministry of Education's "New Century Excellent Talent Support Program", 20 experts enjoying special allowances from the State Council, 10 national outstanding teachers, 1 national archives expert, 1 person in the Ho Ying-Tong Education Foundation Higher Education Education and Teaching Award, 2 national candidates for the "Hundred Thousand Project", 10 members of the Ministry of Education's Higher Education Teaching Steering Committee; 1 national teaching team, 7 autonomous region-level teaching teams, and 2 national college ideological and political course master studios. The school continues to deepen collaborative innovation, and its scientific research results are reaching new heights. There are 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center and 3 autonomous region-level experimental teaching demonstration centers; 1 Engineering Research Center (cultivation) of the Ministry of Education, 2 key laboratories of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, 2 key laboratories of the autonomous region, 7 key laboratories of autonomous region universities, 10 teaching laboratories of autonomous region universities, 1 autonomous region experimental training base, and 3 autonomous region scientific research innovation teams; since the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021.01-2023.05), our faculty and staff have been approved for the first time for national science and technology plan projects, the first time for major national social science fund projects, and the first time for leading talents in philosophy and social sciences of the national social science fund. The number of national social science fund projects from 2018 to 2022 ranks 85th in the country. There are a number of high-level scientific research institutions, including the Collaborative Innovation Center for the Inheritance and Development of Tibetan Culture, the Collaborative Innovation Center for Strengthening the Consciousness of the Chinese Nation in Tibetan Universities, the Research Base for the Social, Economic and Cultural Development of Tibet, the Key Research Base for the Construction of Social Harmony, Stability and the Rule of Law in Tibet, the Research Center for the Chinese Communist Party's Strategy for Governing Tibet, the Key Research Base for the Philosophy and Social Sciences of Tibet, the Teaching and Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, the Institute of South Asia, the Institute of Tourism, the Institute of Tibetology, the Institute of Tibetology, the Institute of Rural Revitalization Strategy of Tibet, the Tibet Plateau Sports and Health Research Center, and the Tibetan Traditional Sports Culture Research Center. A number of major research results, represented by "Series of Research Reports on the High-Quality Development of Tibetan Characteristic Industries" (series), "Research on the Genetic Diversity of Ethnic Groups in Tibet", "Classification of Tibetan Historical Materials in the Records of the Ming and Qing Dynasties", "A Century of Economic History of Tibet", and "Research on Ethnic Relations in Tibet - Focusing on the Relationship between the Tibetan Menluo Ethnic Groups", have been produced, which have provided strong theoretical support for the decision-making of the Party Committee and the Government of the Autonomous Region, and have given full play to the think tank role of universities. Among them, the Collaborative Innovation Center for the Inheritance and Development of Tibetan Culture was selected as the first batch of collaborative innovation centers jointly built by provinces and ministries by the Ministry of Education, and the Institute of South Asia was selected into the list of country and regional research centers of the Ministry of Education, and was approved as the "Belt and Road" country and regional research center by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission. Relying on high-level laboratories such as the Key Laboratory of Molecular Genetic Mechanisms and Intervention Research on Plateau Environment-Related Diseases, the Key Laboratory of Tibet Optical Information Processing and Visualization Technology, the Ministry of Education Engineering Research (Cultivation) Center for Tibetan Medicine Testing Technology, and the Plateau Water Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration Engineering Laboratory, a group of high-level scientific research teams have been cultivated, actively participating in major projects such as the Second Comprehensive Scientific Expedition to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and providing strong scientific and technological support for Tibet's long-term stability and high-quality development. The school currently has two campuses, Weicheng and Qinhan, and has built a teaching practice base in Lhasa. The school covers an area of 1,157.48 acres and a total school building area of 498,000 square meters. There are currently 208 internship practice bases and 1 autonomous region-level maker space; the library area is 2.30,000 square meters, forming a collection of rich subject content, paper, electronic and network forms of various collection resources, the total collection of more than 3.19 million volumes. The school gives full play to the policy advantages of aid to Tibet and actively builds a counterpart support work mechanism. Under the overall planning of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Ministry of Education and Shaanxi Province, 12 counterpart support universities including Renmin University of China, Sun Yat-sen University, Xiamen University, East China Normal University, Southeast University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Nanjing University, Communication University of China, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Shaanxi Normal University, Northwest University and Chang'an University have continuously innovated the form of aid to Tibet, broadened the scope of aid to Tibet, enriched the connotation of aid to Tibet, carried out in-depth multi-level and multi-channel counterpart support work, and promoted the school's disciplines, teaching staff, talent training, scientific research and other aspects to achieve considerable development and progress. At present, in accordance with General Secretary Xi Jinping’s earnest instructions to the school, the school has clarified that the guiding ideology for the school’s development in the next five years is: adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on Tibet work and the Party’s Tibet governance strategy in the new era, thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on education and the spirit of his congratulatory letter to our school on its 60th anniversary, deeply understand the decisive significance of the “two establishments”, enhance the “four consciousnesses”, strengthen the “four self-confidences”, and achieve the “two safeguards”, focusing on “what kind of people to cultivate, how to cultivate them, and for whom to cultivate them” We should focus on the fundamental issues, closely centering on the long-term stability and high-quality development of Tibet, focus on the "four major events", concentrate on the "four creations", grasp the new development stage, implement the new development concept, build a new development pattern, vigorously implement the "four major development strategies" of quality-based school, talent-based school, scientific research-based school, and distinctive and famous school, adhere to the "three-step" overall arrangement, implement the "ten projects" tasks, comprehensively build a modern university with Chinese characteristics, Tibetan characteristics, and regional first-class, strive to cultivate socialist builders and successors with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, aesthetics, and labor, and provide talent and intellectual support for building a united, prosperous, civilized, harmonious and beautiful socialist modern new Tibet.