Weinan Normal University

Weinan Normal University is situated inWeinan City, Shaanxi Province, established as Chishui Vocational School in1923. At present, it has become a comprehensive multidiscipline researchuniversity with prominence in teachers education and steps forward to a normaluniversi ty characterized by great superiority in teachers education. WNU is entitled to grant Bachelor’s degree and jointly trains post-graduates ofmaster and doctoral level.Presently, it has 61 undergraduate majors in10 different disciplines, includingeconomics, law, education, literature, history, science, technology, managementscience, art and agriculture. There are 11 schools and 2 institutions ofInternational Exchanges and Further Education. It enrolls students nationwide.The full-time students, exchange students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan andoverseas students form South Korea, Thailand reach 17,000 in total number. The university is composed of three districts, Chaoyang, Xiyue and Hanma, covering 650,000 square meters. Apart from 25 academic databases, the accessibility to1,890,000 copies of books and 43,5000 electronic books makes the library a goodplace to study and do research. Currently, the value of advanced teaching andresearch facilities totals to RMB 1.5billion. WNU adopts strategy of reinvigorating universitythrough human resource development by engaging masters, experts and talents.The famous engineering expert and academician of the Chinese Academy ofSciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering in the Chinese Academy ofEngineering, Li Zhuofen is invited as honorary president. Advisors of thepresident are a team of revered officials, academicians and renowned expertsand scholars, including Li Zhuofen; Qin Dahe, a meteorologist; Xian Qiuhen, anexpert in materials chemistry; Shujie Yao, a famous British-Chinese economist;Zhang Dake, a scholar in Shi Ji (Historical Records) and GuoZengming, a professor of defence economy. These talents are affiliated to theworkstation of Shaanxi academicians and experts in the university and they arewinner of various provincial or national awards, outstanding contributors tothe province and the nation, specialists of special government allowance orspecialists of “Talents of Sanqin” allowance. The current teaching staff in the university totals toover 1,300, with 109 professors and researchers, 303 associate professors and139 teachers gained doctoral degree. The percentage of the teachers with masteror doctoral degree in main courses is 66.90% and 23.97% separately. Based onthe project of “excellent teachers”, a group of teachers become specialists in defence education, “Talents of Sanqin”, talents of “The National Key Talent Project” and“Scholar of Weihua”. Others are members of teaching team or famous teachers atstate-level or provincial levels, teaching experts and teaching model and someothers are the winners of national micro class contest, or winners of contestof teaching competition of higher education in Shaanxi or China.