NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY FOR NATIONALITIES

Northwest University for nationalities, formerly known as Northwest University for nationalities, was founded in August 1950. It is the first university for Nationalities founded after the founding of new China and a comprehensive general university directly under the State Commission for Nationalities Affairs. In April 2003, it was renamed Northwest University for Nationalities with the approval of the Ministry of education and the National Committee for nationalities. The school is located in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, covering an area of 3071 mu, divided into northwest Xincun campus and Yuzhong campus. Since its establishment for more than 60 years, the university has trained more than 150000 talents at all levels for the country. At present, there are more than 26000 full-time students of 56 nationalities.

After more than 60 years of development, the university has formed a school running pattern with undergraduate education as the main body and coordinated development of graduate education, preparatory education, continuing education, vocational education and international education. It has the right to confer bachelor's degree, master's degree and doctor's degree, the right to recommend excellent fresh undergraduate graduates to study for master's degree free of examination, and the right to recruit master's and doctor's degree under the "high level backbone Talents Program for ethnic minorities". In 2007, he passed the undergraduate teaching evaluation of the Ministry of education with excellent results.

The school has a teaching staff team with doctoral and master tutors as the backbone. At present, there are more than 1900 teaching staff, including more than 1200 full-time teachers, 277 staff with senior professional titles, 516 staff with deputy senior professional titles, 24 doctoral supervisors and 330 master supervisors. There are 1 national level candidate for the "national talents project"; 2 national excellent teachers; 1 national advanced worker in education system; 7 experts with outstanding contributions from the State Commission for democracy and people's livelihood; 24 experts with special government subsidies from the State Council; There are 14 "trans century discipline leaders in Gansu Province", 5 "famous teachers award in Colleges and universities of Gansu Province", 58 "young teachers award in Colleges and universities of Gansu Province", and 6 "excellent talents support plan in the new century" of the Ministry of education.

Northwest University for nationalities is a multi-disciplinary comprehensive university with distinct advantages and characteristics. The discipline covers 12 disciplines, including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management and art. At present, there are 71 undergraduate majors, one doctoral degree authorization point: Chinese minority language and literature, one postdoctoral research mobile station: Chinese language and literature, one doctoral degree authorization point: Chinese minority language and literature; There are 13 first-class master's degree authorization points: ethnology, sociology, Marxist theory, pedagogy, Chinese language and literature, Chinese history, computer science and technology, software engineering, animal husbandry, veterinary science, management science and engineering, music and dance, fine arts; 41 second-class master's degree authorization points; Six professional degree categories (11 authorized fields): Master of law, master of art, master of social work, master of engineering, master of clinical medicine, master of finance.

The school now has 28 teaching units: College of Marxism, College of economics, College of law, College of Ethnology and sociology, College of educational science and technology, College of physical education, College of Arts, College of Uygur language and culture, College of Tibetan language and culture, College of Mongolian language and culture, College of foreign languages, College of Journalism and communication, College of history and culture, College of mathematics and computer science School of electrical engineering, School of chemical engineering, School of life science and engineering, School of civil engineering, School of medicine, School of Stomatology, first clinical medical school, second clinical medical school, School of management, School of music, School of fine arts, School of dance, School of preparatory education, School of continuing education and vocational education. There are six independent scientific research institutions: China National Information Technology Research Institute, Gesar Research Institute, overseas ethnic literature research institute, Islamic Culture Research Institute, Gansu animal cell engineering technology research center, Chinese Tibetan classics full text digital research institute.

The school adheres to the school running concept of "people-oriented, help others succeed", constantly deepens the reform of education and teaching, and vigorously strengthens the construction of disciplines and specialties. Since 2000, the school has won 2 second-class awards of national teaching achievements, 36 awards of Gansu teaching achievements, and 23 educational reform projects of the State Commission for democracy and people's livelihood. There are 2 national quality video open courses, 2 provincial quality resource sharing courses and 36 provincial quality courses. The school has a national comprehensive reform pilot: Sociology. There is a pilot project of national outstanding agricultural and forestry talents education and training plan reform. There are 1 national teaching team: Mongolian language and literature main course team; 7 provincial teaching teams: Mongolian language and literature main course, Tibetan language and literature main course, 20th century Chinese literature, fine chemical engineering, Stomatology, history and culture of northwest ethnic minorities, and interpretation course. Four characteristic specialty construction points of the Ministry of Education: Chinese minority language and literature, composing and composing technology theory, sociology, Chinese language; nine provincial characteristic specialty construction points: Mathematics and applied mathematics, chemical engineering and technology, biotechnology, accounting, history, Arabic, Stomatology, food science and engineering, finance. There are one national experimental teaching demonstration center: ethnic information technology experimental teaching center, one national virtual simulation experimental teaching center: ethnic language culture and education virtual simulation experimental teaching center; Six experimental teaching demonstration centers in Gansu Province: public basic experimental teaching center, digital media experimental teaching center, ethnic information technology experimental teaching center, electrical and telecommunication experimental teaching center, engineering training center, animal cell engineering experimental teaching center.

The school has 19 provincial and ministerial key disciplines. Among them, there are seven key disciplines of the National People's Commission of the people's Republic of China: Chinese ethnic minority economy, Marxist Ethnic Theory and policy, computer application technology, sociology, applied mathematics, law, and ethnic traditional sports; 12 key construction disciplines in Gansu Province: ethnology, Chinese language and literature, Chinese history, computer science and technology, animal husbandry, veterinary medicine, religion, folklore, Gesar science, Marxist theory, pedagogy and fine arts. The school has one innovation team of the Ministry of Education: Animal Medicine bioengineering innovation team, and has 10 school level innovation teams.

The school has three key research bases of Humanities and Social Sciences in Gansu Province: Northwest Minority Literature Research Center, northwest minority religion Research Center, Northwest Ethnic Issues Research Center; one provincial major research base of philosophy and Social Sciences: Research Center of economic and social development in ethnic areas; one provincial key research base of philosophy and social sciences; There are two key research bases of Humanities and social sciences of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission: Northwest ethnic literature research base and northwest ethnic intangible cultural heritage protection research center; one key research base of ethnic education research and development center of the Ministry of Education: Northwest ethnic education key research base; Gansu Ethnic and religious theory research base of China United Front Theory Research Association. One belt, one road China's Collaborative Innovation Center for safety issues, is the core collaborative unit of the "Collaborative Innovation Center for all areas of safety issues", "China's multi-ethnic cultural cohesion and national identity Collaborative Innovation Center", "Silk Road and the heritage and development of Chinese civilization". There are four key laboratories of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission: Tibetan information technology laboratory, bioengineering and technology laboratory, stomatology laboratory and electronic materials laboratory. At the same time, it has established a provincial engineering center: Gansu animal cell engineering technology research center; Six scientific research bases in Gansu Province: Gansu animal cell engineering technology research center, Gansu Key Laboratory of new building materials and building energy conservation, Gansu Key Laboratory of national language intelligent processing (cultivation base), Gansu Key Laboratory of oral disease research (cultivation base), Gansu Key Laboratory of environment-friendly composite materials and biomass utilization in colleges and universities, and Lanzhou State Key Laboratory of environmental protection High tech Industrial Development Zone biomedical technology platform.

The school pays attention to scientific research and has achieved remarkable results. Since 2001, the university has undertaken 1880 scientific research projects, including 5 national science and technology support projects, 2 "863" projects, 101 National Natural Science Foundation projects, 143 National Social Science Foundation projects, and 506 provincial and ministerial level projects. Two national awards and 422 provincial and ministerial awards were awarded for scientific research achievements. "Tibetan Chinese bilingual information processing system" developed by the University won the second prize of the national science and Technology Progress Award in 1999, and "Tibetan windows platform, word processing software and Tibetan website" won the second prize of the national science and Technology Progress Award in 2001, which was highly appraised by Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and other party and state leaders. The publishing plans of "Dunhuang Tibetan literature collected in France" and "Dunhuang Tibetan literature collected in Britain" edited and published by the University have realized the return and publication of China's precious historical literature, which has aroused strong repercussions in the academic circles and is known as another milestone in Dunhuang Studies and Tibetan studies.

The University publishes Northwest Ethnic Studies (national core journal) and JOURNAL OF NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY FOR NATIONALITIES (PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES EDITION, Natural Science Edition, Tibetan Edition and Mongolian Edition). Among them, northwest ethnic studies is a CSSCI source journal, a core ethnic journal, and a first-class famous brand journal in Gansu Province; Journal of Northwest University for nationalities, philosophy and Social Sciences Edition, was rated as the first national excellent journal of Social Sciences, the top 100 journals of Social Sciences in China for 2-3 times, and the national core journal of ethnology. In 2009, it was rated as the "excellent journal of northern China". The Natural Science Edition and Tibetan Edition of Journal of Northwest University for nationalities were rated as excellent journals in national minority areas.

The school library has more than 3.72 million books and materials, including 1.92 million paper books, and more than 2300 cultural relics in the museum, including 117 cultural relics above grade three.

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