Pingxiang University

Pingxiang University is a regular institution of higher learning approved by the Ministry of Education of PRC in April, 2013. Pingxinag City where Pingxiang University is located is in the west of Jiangxi Province and boasts of a long history, well-developed industries and a convenient transportation facility, the 120-kilometer long freeway linking to Changsha International Airport, 319 and 320 National Highway crisscrossing within its border, G60 Freeway, Zhe Gang Railway and high-speed railway passing east-west through its border. Pingxiang University has its origin way back in 1941 with the beginning of Pingxiang Provincial Normal School, it began to offer junior college courses in 1978, and was named as Pingixang Educational College in 1982, and it was approved and renamed as Pingxiang College by the Ministry of Education in 1993. Covering a total area of 170 acres, the university buildings occupy an area of 266,000 square meters. The total value of the teaching instruments and equipments amounts to 59.65 million Yuan, while the university library has nearly one million of paper volumes as well as two hundred fifty thousand electronic volumes of books. The university has 132 different kinds of laboratories, 125 teaching practice and fieldwork bases and 2 provincial-level innovative talent cultivation experiment bases.