Jiangxi Normal University

The inspiration of establishing the university was derived from The White Deer Grotto Academy in Mt. Lushan

1940: First founded as National Chung Cheng University

1949: Renamed National Nanchang University

1953: Renamed Jiangxi Teachers College

1983: Renamed Jiangxi Normal University

2003: Merged with Jiangxi Worker's University of Finance (Jiangxi Banking School)

School Motto: Ponder Prudently and Practice Earnestly, Be Impartial and Upright

School Tradition: Be United and Diligent, Seek Truth and Make Innovations

Development Philosophy: Establish the university with quality, talents, innovations, culture and harmony

School Spirit: Be Patriotic and Glorify the University, Democracy and Harmony, Be Realistic and Pragmatic, Be open minded and Innovative

The University possesses 5 Postdoctoral Workstations, and offers 9 doctoral degree programs of first-level disciplines, 63 doctoral degrees programs of second-level disciplines, 30 master's-degree programs of first-level disciplines, 16 professional master's-degree programs and 87 bachelor's-degree programs. Its disciplines of chemistry, is rated among the world's 1% disciplines by ESI.

JXNU has over 2,600 faculty and administrative staff members on its payroll, including over 1,700 full-time teachers, over 700 doctoral degree holders. 22.16% of the faculty members are35 years old or less; 53.73% attainsenior academic rank; 84.67% hold Master's or higher degrees.

The University has established friendship ties with over 60 universities in 17 countries or regions and signed mutual credit-recognition, or faculty & student exchange agreements with 28 overseas universities. The university works with a dozen domestic and overseas research teams or institutes in key laboratory operations. To date, JXNU undertakes two Confucius Institutes, Confucius Institute at the University of Antananarivo, Madagascar was conferred the title of "Model Confucius Institute". Over 30 foreign teachers work in the university. JXNU is a host institution of the Chinese Government Scholarship, the Confucius Institute Scholarship and the Jiangxi Provincial Government Scholarship for international students. JXNU provides university scholarship for international students as well. Every year, over 400 international students from more than 40 countries study in the university.

For over 70 years, JXNU has produced over 300,000 talents who exhibit excellence in all walks of life and a lot of them have become backbone of their industries. Among the primary and secondary school teachers in Jiangxi Province, about 50 percent of the super rank teachers, over 60 percent of the core teachers, in particular, over 80 percent of the super rank senior middle school teachers are alumni of JXNU. Other alumni include excellent professionals, entrepreneurs and statesmen. According to the Chinese university ranking of outstanding politician alumni published by Chinese alumni network, JXNU ranks 78th. It ranks 126th in the Chinese university ranking of billionaire alumni published by the above network.

• Official website of Jiangxi Normal University
• Jiangxi Province China