Yunnan University for Nationalities

Yunnan University for nationalities is a comprehensive university to cultivate senior professionals of all nationalities, including the Han nationality. Founded on August 1, 1951 in Kunming, China, the university is one of the earliest ethnic universities established in the people's Republic of China. It is also a provincial key university jointly built by the State Commission for Ethnic Affairs and the people's Government of Yunnan Province. The university is a newly added planning and construction unit authorized by the state.

Leaders of the party and the state have always attached great importance to the construction and development of Yunnan University for nationalities. The older generation of Party and state leaders Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Zhu De, Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin have met with the representatives of teachers and students of our school. Zhou Enlai, Peng Dehuai, Chen Yi, Erdeni kejijianzan, Li Lanqing and Li Tieying have visited the school in person, concerned about the growth and progress of teachers and students of all nationalities, and directly concerned about the construction and development of the school. At the beginning of the establishment of the school, the Yunnan provincial Party committee and the provincial government appointed general Zhou Baozhong, general Zhang Chong and Wang Lianfang, vice presidents of the provincial people's government, as the first president and vice president of the school.

After more than half a century of construction and development, Yunnan University for nationalities has become a comprehensive university with complete subjects, rich levels and various forms of running schools. There are 1 joint doctoral program, 50 master's degree awarding programs and 60 undergraduate programs. It covers nine disciplines including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering and management. It has 12 provincial key disciplines. There are doctoral students, master students, undergraduate students, foreign students and other levels of education. At present, there are 12000 full-time students (ethnic minority students account for more than 50% of undergraduate students), more than 200 foreign students from more than ten countries, and more than 14000 adult education students. At present, there are 20 colleges (departments): School of philosophy, School of economics, School of law, School of education, School of physical education, School of humanities, School of ethnic culture, School of foreign languages, School of Southeast Asian Languages and culture, School of art, School of mathematics and computer science, School of physics and electronic and gas information engineering, School of chemistry and biotechnology, School of management, School of people's armed forces, School of national defense China ASEAN language and culture talent training base has been established by the International Institute of Education (international cooperation and exchange office), vocational and technical college, College of Continuing Education (Preparatory Education College), Graduate Department and Marxism Leninism department, one provincial research institution Yunnan Institute for nationalities, one national museum with nearly 20000 cultural relics, and another 42 university research institutions.

Over the past 50 years, the conditions for running Yunnan University for nationalities have been continuously optimized. The school has a land area of more than 2170 mu. The school covers an area of 550000 square meters, with a total value of 85 million yuan of teaching and research equipment, 2 million books of library materials, 2500 teaching computers, 1500 seats in the voice room and 5000 seats in the multimedia classroom. There are more than 1000 teaching staff, including more than 150 professors and more than 300 associate professors. Professor Ma Yao, a famous ethnologist, historian and educator, Professor Wang Ningsheng, a famous ethnologist and archaeologist, Professor Xie Benshu, a famous historian, and Professor Zhang Jianguo, a famous expert in modern Chinese history, are well-known at home and abroad. The president of the University employs foreign experts to teach, and successively employs more than 100 experts and scholars from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Seoul University and other domestic and foreign universities and scientific research institutions as honorary professors and visiting professors.

Yunnan University for nationalities has distinctive and advantageous disciplines, such as ethnology, sociology, history, ethnic language and literature, Southeast Asian language and culture, chemistry (ethnic medicine), etc. it has made outstanding achievements in the construction and research of ethnology, sociology, history and other disciplines. It is an important research base of Ethnology in China, and has won many national outstanding teaching achievement awards and academic awards Research Award and provincial teaching and scientific research achievement award. In recent years, he has completed a number of national social science fund projects, such as "Research on the revolutionary history of China's ethnic minorities", "linguistics research base", "action plan for the protection and development of ethnic culture in Northwest Yunnan", "pilot application research on the production of wet high purity konjac flour and glucomannan compound gum", National Natural Science Fund projects, and Humanities and social science fund projects of the Ministry of education of the people's Republic of China Project, international investment research projects entrusted by foreign countries, key projects of Yunnan Science and Technology Commission, etc. He has successively held the 34th International Chinese Tibetan academic conference, the International Academic Conference on economic globalization and the diversified development of national culture, the 4th Academic Seminar and advanced seminar on social and cultural anthropology of the Ministry of education and other major academic conferences. The Journal of Yunnan University for Nationalities (zheshe Edition) and Natural Science Edition are held. Zheshe edition is the national Chinese core journal, the national top 30 journals of Social Sciences, the national top 100 journals of Social Sciences, and the source journal of Chinese Social Science Citation Index (CSSCI). The impact factor of natural Science Edition ranks second among the similar journals in Yunnan. The Journal of nationalities, a large-scale periodical, plays an important role in the study of cultural anthropology in China and the world.

Yunnan University for nationalities, as an important window for the country and Yunnan Province to open to the outside world, plays an important role in expanding cultural and academic exchanges with foreign countries. Since its establishment, more than 20000 heads of state, politicians, experts, scholars and international friends from more than 80 countries and regions all over the world have visited the University. Queen Elizabeth II of England, King Harald V of Norway, Dr. Kissinger, former Secretary of state of the United States, President Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam, General Than Shwe, chairman of Myanmar national restoration of law and order Committee, Princess sirington of Thailand and President Voronin of Moldova have visited Yunnan University for Nationalities and given them good comments. Yunnan University for nationalities is also one of the earliest universities in Yunnan Province to accept foreign students. It can recruit foreign students with bachelor's degree and master's degree. It is also an important unit of TCFL. It has established cooperation and exchange relations with 46 universities or academic institutions in more than 10 countries, such as the United States, Norway, Japan and South Korea, and has mutually recognized credits and academic certificates with foreign universities, such as Dazhen University of South Korea and Oriental University of Thailand.

The school has made outstanding contributions. Over the past half century, Yunnan University for nationalities has provided 60000 leading talents and various professional and technical talents to the society. Among the 25 graduates of ethnic minorities in Yunnan, the first generation of bachelors, masters, doctors, experts and scholars of many ethnic groups were trained or started from our university. Many of the leaders of 129 counties in Yunnan, especially 29 autonomous counties, graduated from Yunnan University for nationalities. It has been fragrant for more than 50 years and brilliant for half a century. Yunnan University for nationalities has become a cradle of high-level and high-quality talents of all ethnic groups in China, especially in Southwest China, an important base for studying ethnic issues and ethnic relations, and an important window for Yunnan to open up to the outside world. In particular, many excellent theoretical achievements, such as "direct transition", "peaceful reform", "five series of ethnic issues", "dictionary of Chinese history · ethnic volume", "general history of Chinese culture · Volume III", not only provide an important basis for the party and government to formulate ethnic policies and solve ethnic issues, but also make an important historical contribution to the rich development of ethnic theory. In 1999 and 2005, the school was awarded the title of "national model unit of national unity and progress" by the State Council twice. In 2006, it won the title of civilized unit in Yunnan Province.

Yunnan University for Nationalities

Nature of institutions: public

Education level: General Undergraduate

Location: Yunnan

Admission telephone: (0871) 5172133

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Admission website: http://www.ynni.edu.cn/

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