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Huazhong Normal University

Central China Normal University
华中师范大学
Central China Normal University logo.png
Former names
Huachung University
Motto 求实创新, 立德树人
Type Public (national)
Established 1903
President Yang Zongkai (杨宗凯)
Academic staff
700 professors, 4,000 teaching staff
Students 22,000
Location Wuhan, Hubei, China
Campus Urban, 330 acres
Nickname Huashi
Website www.ccnu.edu.cn
As of September 2016
University rankings
Asia
QS 751-800
201-250

Central China Normal University (CCNU) or Huazhong Normal University (simplified Chinese: 华中师范大学; traditional Chinese: 華中師範大學; pinyin: Huázhōng Shīfàn Dàxué), located in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, is a comprehensive university directly under the administration of the Chinese Ministry of Education. The campus of over 2,000 Mu (330 acres) is on Guizi Hill, bordering South Lake.

It is one of the schools included in the Project 211, and is also funded by the Project 985. CCNU, along with East China Normal University and Beijing Normal University are the top three normal universities in mainland China. CCNU is ranked 3rd together with Fudan University and just after Peking University and Renmin University of China.

The predecessor of CCNU is the combination of Huachung University (华中大学), Chunghua University (私立武昌中华大学) and the Pedagogical College of Zhongyuan University, with Huachung University as the main part. Huachung University was the largest and most influential mission university in south central China, and it developed from Boone College which was founded in 1903. In 1951, the public Huazhong University came into being after the Pedagogical College of Zhongyuan University merged with Huachung University. Then it was reorganized into Huazhong Higher Normal College in 1952 and later renamed Central China Normal College in 1953. In 1985, the university was formally entitled Central China Normal University and Deng Xiaoping, one of the founders of Zhongyuan University, inscribed the new name of the university. In 1993, President Jiang Zemin wrote an inscription for the university “Developing normal education, improving the nation’s quality”.


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