Northeast Normal University

On October 25, 1945, Chairman MAO met with the main leaders of Yan 'an University and instructed the university to move northeast and establish a "new Northeastern University". Northeastern University was founded in Benxi, Liaoning Province in February 1946. It was the first comprehensive university established by the Communist Party of China in Northeast China. It was established in Changchun, Jilin Province in July 1949. It was renamed Northeast Normal University in April 1950. In September 1996, it became one of the first batch of key universities under the National "211 Project". A graduate school was established in June 2004 with the approval of the Ministry of Education. In 2007, it was selected as a university for the construction of the National "985 Project" teacher Education Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform. In September 2017, it was among the first batch of universities to be included in the national "Double First-Class" initiative.

The university has two campuses: Renmin Street Campus and Jingyue Street Campus. There are over 15,000 full-time undergraduate students on campus; More than 15,000 master's students and more than 3,000 doctoral students on campus; There are more than 700 international students. There are more than 3,000 faculty members, including over 1,700 full-time teachers, among whom 560 are professors and 657 are associate professors. The university has 21 colleges and departments, and its discipline and major system covers 12 disciplines. Among them, there are 72 undergraduate programs, 46 of which have been selected as national first-class undergraduate programs and 3 as bases of the Ministry of Education's Basic Discipline Top Student Training Program 2.0. There are 24 first-level disciplines authorized for doctoral degrees, 6 doctoral professional degree categories, 36 first-level disciplines authorized for master's degrees, and 25 master's professional degree categories; 24 postdoctoral research stations. The university has six national "Double First-Class" disciplines, namely Marxist Theory, Education, World History, Chemistry, Statistics, and Materials Science and Engineering, ranking 19th in the country in terms of the number of selected disciplines. Five national key disciplines: Ideological and Political Education, Principles of Education, World History, Cell Biology, and Ecology. In the fourth round of discipline evaluation by the Degree Center of the Ministry of Education, six disciplines were rated as Class A (including one A+ discipline) and 15 as Class B disciplines.

Education and teaching are the foundation of the school. For more than 70 years since its establishment, the school has developed a distinct educational feature of "serving basic education" and is hailed as "the cradle of people's teachers". In the 1950s, Cheng Fangwu, a renowned educator and former principal of our school, put forward the idea of serving primary and secondary education, and our school pioneered correspondence education for normal universities in China. In the 1980s, the school took the initiative to serve rural basic education and blazed a trail known as the "Changbai Mountain Road" in the field of basic education. In the 1990s, the "Excellent Teacher Project" was implemented to cultivate outstanding teachers for basic education; In the new century, the "Educator Training Project" was launched, the "U-G-S teacher Education model" was explored, and the only provincial and ministerial co-construction collaborative innovation center for teacher education was approved nationwide. The "Excellent Teacher Project" and the "New Model of U-G-S Teacher Education" have successively won the first prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award for Higher Education. The National Experimental Center for Basic Education, the Training Center for Kindergarten Principals of the Ministry of Education, and the Training Center for Teachers of Northeast Normal Universities of the Ministry of Education are located in our school.

The school is based on scientific research and has 21 national and ministerial-level innovation platforms, including national key laboratories, national engineering laboratories, national field scientific observation and research stations, national and local joint engineering laboratories, national Center for Applied Mathematics, key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, and engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education. There are 10 ministry-level research platforms for humanities and social sciences, including key research bases for humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education and research centers for country and regional studies of the Ministry of Education. In recent years, research achievements have won four second prizes of the National Natural Science Award, including two in materials science, one in statistics and one in chemistry. Six first prizes of the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Awards for Outstanding scientific Research Achievements in Higher Education Institutions (Humanities and Social Sciences) have been won, including four in history, one in Marxist theory and one in education.

The university has established cooperative and exchange relations with 275 universities and research institutions in more than 30 countries and regions, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, South Korea, Japan and Russia. The university has six academic innovation bases and four Confucius Institutes. It has also established Northeast Normal University Rutges-Newark College in cooperation with Rutgers, New Jersey State University in the United States and led 12 universities from China and Mongolia to form the China-Mongolia University Alliance. The Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other central ministries have established the "International Chinese Language Teacher Training Base", "Chinese Language Education Base", "Education Foreign Aid Base" and "China-Asean Education and Training Center" at our university. The preparatory school for Chinese students to study in Japan, jointly established by the governments of China and Japan and located at our school, is an important base for serving the national strategy of strengthening the country through talent and promoting people-to-people and cultural exchanges between China and Japan.

The school has a group of renowned experts and scholars both at home and abroad. Famous scholars such as Fu Tongsheng, an ornithologist, Hao Shui, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a biologist, Yang Zhongxiu, one of the founders of school physical education in New China, Yang Ruixue, a large-scale group gymnastics choreographer and artist, and Zheng Derong, a "red theorist", have all worked and lived here. Over the past 70-plus years since its establishment, the school has carried forward the red genes, promoted the Dongshi spirit of "strong teachers for the country, seeking truth and creating", and has cultivated and sent more than 300,000 graduates of all levels and types to the country. A large number of outstanding talents have stood out in the field of education. Such as Lu Jiaxi, a teacher from Baotou No. 9 High School who won the first prize of the National Natural Science Award for solving world-famous mathematical problems; Feng Zhiyuan, a teacher who moved China and went to the border; Guo Lihua, a national model teacher; Shi Ningzhong, Gao Hang and Dou Guimei, national models of teaching and nurturing; Ma Xianhua, one of the top ten teachers in the country. It has also produced a variety of talents represented by Academician Zheng Guangmei, a renowned ecologist, Academician Liu Xingtu, a geographer, Academician Sun Changpu, a physicist, Academician Liu Yichun, an expert in optoelectronic functional materials, and writer Zhang Xiaotian. The "Four Solid qualities" of Dongshi people, namely "firm belief, solid knowledge, simple character and down-to-earth style", have been widely recognized by society.