Fuling Teachers College

Yangtze Normal University

长江师范学院
Type	Public
Established	1901
Academic staff	720
Administrative staff	1,320
Students	13,200
Location	Fuling District, Chongqing,  China
Campus	Suburban
Website	www.yznu.edu.cn/

Yangtze Normal University (Chinese: 长江师范学院; pinyin: Chángjiāng shīfàn xuéyuàn) is a full-time, comprehensive university under the administration of the Chongqing Municipal Government of the Peoples Republic of China. The campus is located in Fuling District, at the conjunction of the Yangtze and Wu Rivers, the historic capital of the ancient Ba Tribe. It is the only teachers college in the ecological and economic zone of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area and the minority area in South-East Chongqing.

The university has two campuses (Jiangdong & Lidu), occupying an area of 1,700 acres (6.9 km²), with a built area of 400,000 square meters.

The history of the university dates back to 1901 during the reign of the Guangxu Emperor in the late Qing dynasty, as the Fuling Official Academy of Classical Learning. It was founded as a college in 1982, was renamed Fuling Teachers College in 1993, and promoted to university status in 2001 by merging Fuling Teachers College and Fuling Education Institute.

In 2006, Fuling Normal University changed its name to Yangtze Normal University with the ratification of the Ministry of Education. The university has received some honorable awards in recognition of its campus facilities, forestry programs and its commitment to community services, such as “Civilized School in Chongqing”, “Chongqing 100 Top Afforested Units”, “National 400 Top Afforested Units”, “Advanced Units of Social Practice Activities by National Higher School Students” and “Advanced Units of Protecting Mother River”.

Fuling Normal University is the setting of Peter Hessler's memoir River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, completed and published after he served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer from 1996 to 1998.