Hainan Normal University

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University Description

Located in Haikou, a beautiful coastal tourist city and a famous national historical and cultural city, Hainan Normal University accommodates two campuses—the South Longkun Road campus and the Guilinyang campus, covering an area of 2,066,666 square meters (3,100 mu). It is a key jointly-built university by China’s Ministry of Education and Hainan Province and is among the first batch of colleges and universities approved by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the CPC to jointly build a school of journalism. It is also an important training base for outstanding teachers and senior professionals in Hainan province and is reputed as “a famous university in Hainan and a cradle for teachers”.

HNU enjoys a long history. The National Hainan Normal College was officially established in the autumn of 1949 as the first public college and university in Hainan.  Its predecessor can be traced back to the Qiongtai Academy in the 44th year of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty (1705); in 1952 it was renamed Hainan Normal Specialised School in the adjustment of colleges and universities; in 1986, It was reverted to the establishment of Hainan Normal College; in 1999, it was merged with Hainan Education College to establish a new Hainan Normal College; in 2007 it was renamed Hainan Normal University. Over the past 69 years, HNU has trained 170,000 talents of all kinds for the society, bearing in mind the responsibilities and missions of the normal university.

HNU has a complete training system. There are 21 colleges (including 19 undergraduate teaching colleges), 65 undergraduate specialties, 4 doctoral degree-granting first-level disciplines, 16 master’s degree-granting first-level disciplines, and 9 master’s degree programs, forming a complete talent training system for higher education. It forms the doctoral complete higher education personnel training system, the coordinated development of normal and non-normal specialties, and the coexistence of development of degree and non-degree courses. Enrollment is open to 31 provinces (including municipalities and autonomous regions) across the country with 18,203 undergraduates, 827 postgraduates and 356 overseas students.

The faculty of HNU is strong.  There are 924 full-time teachers, including 225 professors and 306 associate professors. Among the faculty, there are 3 academicians, 1 top-notch young person in the Ten Thousands Plan, 6 national candidates for the Ten Million Talents Project in the New Century, 2 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions at the national level, 4 outstanding talents in the new century of the Ministry of Education, 14 experts with special allowances from the State Council, 1 expert directly contacted by the Central Committee, 3 excellent scientific and technological workers in the whole country,3 outstanding teachers, 1 national model teacher, 1 national model soldier, 1 national advanced individual, 1 national model worker, and 1 training team of the Ministry of Education’s innovative team development plan; 6 outstanding talents, 54 leaders and top-notch talents in Hainan Province, 17 outstanding experts, 6 “100-person special” candidates in Hainan Province, and 11 candidates for the first level, 70 candidates for the second and third levels of the “515 Talents Project” in Hainan Province, 11 outstanding teachers in Hainan Province and 10 provincial teaching teams.

The implemented educational reform has been effective.  HNU adheres to the concept of “student-oriented” and actively promotes the comprehensive reform of education and teaching of “enrollment of large categories and diversion of training”. In recent years, 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center, 1 national innovative experimental area of talent training mode, 1pilot specialty of national comprehensive professional reform, 6 national characteristic specialties and 1 reform project of national excellent teacher training plan have been approved. Having won 1 second-class award for national teaching achievement of higher education and 3 second-class awards for national teaching achievement of basic education, which is the university in Hainan province that has won the most national teaching achievement prizes. With the continuous improvement of the quality of students’ training, the employment rate has remained above 92%. It has been awarded Grade A of Employment and Entrepreneurship Assessment of Graduates from Universities and Colleges in Hainan Province from 2016 to 2017. It is the only public undergraduate college that has won this honor.