Guangxi University for Nationalities

Introduction to Guangxi University for Nationalities

Guangxi Minzu University is located by the beautiful Xiangsi Lake in Nanning, the capital of Guangxi. The campus is serene and beautiful, the architectural style is simple and elegant, and the cultural atmosphere is rich and intense, with distinct Zhuang ethnic characteristics and Southeast Asian exotic charm. The university has been selected as one of the nine most poetic universities in China by Global Human Geography.

Founded in 1952 as the Guangxi Branch of the Central Institute of Nationalities (now Minzu University of China), it was renamed Guangxi Institute of Nationalities in 1953, Guangxi Institute of Nationalities in 1958, and Guangxi Minzu University in 2006. It is a university jointly built by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, a university under the National Project for the Construction of Basic Capabilities of Higher Education Institutions in Central and Western China, and a key university under construction in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

The university has three campuses, namely Xiangsi Lake Campus, Siyuan Lake Campus and Wuming Campus, covering an area of approximately 3,600 mu and having a total campus building area of 887,298 square meters. There are 24 colleges (including one independent college), covering 11 disciplines including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, medicine, management, art. Our university has four first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, namely Ethnology, Chinese Language and Literature, Foreign Languages and Literatures, and Chemical Engineering and Technology. 16 academic first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, 3 second-level discipline master's degree authorization points (excluding first-level discipline coverage points); 13 categories of professional master's degree authorization points; 82 full-time undergraduate programs; One postdoctoral research station and two postdoctoral research station bases have been established.

The university enrolls students from all over the country. Currently, there are 24,540 full-time students, including 3,045 postgraduates, 19,951 undergraduates, 877 junior college students, 346 preparatory students and 596 international students. Minority students account for more than 47 percent, including 52 ethnic groups such as Zhuang, Han, Miao, Yao and Dong.

The university is vigorously implementing an international university development strategy. Substantial exchanges and cooperation have been established with 172 universities and institutions in 21 countries and regions, and Confucius Institutes have been set up in cooperation with Mahasarakan University in Thailand, Lao National University and Tanjong Bura University in Indonesia; It is among the first batch of "National Base for Non-Common Foreign Language Undergraduate Talent", "China-Asean Legal Training Base", "China-Asean Tourism Talent Training and Education Base", "ASEAN Chinese Language Talent Training Center", "Overseas Chinese Language Teacher Training Program in China", and "Key School for Chinese Language Teaching in Neighboring Countries Supported by China". "Chinese Government Scholarship Recipient Institutions", "HSK Higher Proficiency Test Sites", "Chinese as a Foreign Language Teaching Proficiency Test Sites", "Confucius Institute Scholarship Recipient Institutions" and "International Chinese Language Teacher Volunteer Program" training and selection institutions; The Ministry of Education of Thailand has set up Thai language proficiency test sites in schools. Since its establishment, the school has trained more than 20,000 international students from 78 countries around the world. Dignitaries from ASEAN countries such as King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia, Prime Minister Hun Sen, President Tran Duc Long of Vietnam, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Ga Khiem of Vietnam, Princess Sirinhorn of Thailand, Prime Minister Pham Somson of Laos, President of the National Assembly Bani Yatoudoo of Laos, Deputy Prime Minister Song Di Long Di, Deputy Prime Minister Song Sai Siphandun of Laos, and Vice President Sai Maokham of Myanmar have all visited the school.

In the long course of running the school, Guangxi University for Nationalities has forged its motto of "Virtue and Learning, Harmony without Uniformity" and developed its distinctive educational characteristics of "nationality, regionality and internationality". During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the university, in accordance with the strategic requirements of national and Guangxi's economic and social development and the needs of the cause of ethnic unity and development, focused on the five major functions of talent cultivation, scientific research, social service, cultural inheritance and innovation, and international exchange and cooperation, comprehensively deepened reform, accelerated the development of connotation, and continuously improved the level of education, We will strive unremittingly to build a distinctive and high-level ethnic university.