Shaanxi Normal University is a world-class discipline construction university directly under the Ministry of education. It is an important base for the state to cultivate teachers, educational management cadres and other senior professionals in Colleges and secondary schools. It is known as "the cradle of teachers".

The predecessor of the school is Shaanxi Provincial Normal College established in 1944. It was renamed Xi'an Normal University in 1954. It merged with Shaanxi Normal University in 1960 and was named Shaanxi Normal University. In 1978, it was directly under the Ministry of education. Over the past 70 years since its establishment, the university has been adhering to the "western red candle spirit" and the fine tradition of "virtue, accumulation of learning, motivation and perseverance". Based on the western region and serving the whole country, it has developed into a comprehensive first-class Normal University with all kinds of important influences. It has cultivated more than 417000 graduates of all kinds for the country, and formed a study style of "holding the road but not the music, holding the books and being independent" and "being honest, generous, erudite and integrated with knowledge and practice" The school spirit. Professor Li Zhongjun, Secretary of the Party committee, and professor you xuqun, president.

The school is located in the ancient capital of Xi'an, covering an area of 2800 mu, with two campuses of Chang'an and Yanta. The construction of Chang'an campus started in 2000, and now it has become the main campus of the University, mainly responsible for the education and training tasks of the third and fourth grade undergraduates and graduate students; Yanta campus has a history of more than 60 years, and now it mainly undertakes the teaching of basic and general courses for the first and second year of undergraduate, as well as the tasks of teacher education, continuing education, distance education, teacher cadre training, and international student education. Chang'an campus is modern, open and magnificent. Yanta campus is simple, elegant and elegant. The school has been awarded the title of "civilized campus" by the Ministry of education and the people's Government of Shaanxi Province.

The university has a graduate school and 21 colleges, a basic experimental teaching center and a college of Ethnic Education (Preparatory Education). It has 69 undergraduate majors, 36 master degree authorized first-class disciplines, 18 doctoral degree authorized first-class disciplines, and one doctor's degree authorization point (Education Doctor) and 19 master's degree authorization points. There are 4 national key disciplines, 4 doctoral dissertations are selected as national excellent doctoral dissertations, 7 doctoral dissertations are selected as national excellent doctoral dissertations, 84 doctoral dissertations are selected as excellent doctoral dissertations of Shaanxi Province, 1 doctoral dissertation is selected as National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of education, and 16 master's theses are selected as national excellent master of education professional degree theses There are 2 national basic discipline talent training and scientific research bases, and 3 national teaching teams, The Ministry of education has 3 discipline innovation bases, 1 National Engineering Laboratory, 4 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 3 National virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, 1 humanities and social sciences research base of the Ministry of education, 4 national and regional research centers of the Ministry of education, 1 key research base of sports sociology of the General Administration of sport of the people's Republic of China, and ethnic policy and theoretical research of the National People's commission There are 1 key research base, 1 key research base of all China Women's Federation, 1 research base of National Tourism Administration, 2 joint training demonstration bases of national master of education, 5 key laboratories and engineering research centers of Ministry of education, 1 R & D professional center of Ministry of agriculture and rural areas, key laboratory and engineering technology research center of Shaanxi Province, etc There are 20, 3 key research bases of philosophy and Social Sciences in Shaanxi Province, 6 key research bases of philosophy and Social Sciences in Shaanxi universities, 1 Research Center of theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics in Shaanxi Province, 1 key public opinion information research center of Shaanxi Province, and 29 teaching teams of Shaanxi Province, There are 18 experimental teaching demonstration centers in Shaanxi Province, 5 virtual simulation experimental teaching centers in Shaanxi Province, 5 joint training demonstration workstations for graduate students in Shaanxi Province, and more than 80 various research centers (institutes). In addition, it also has the training center of Northwest Normal University of the Ministry of education, the northwest education management cadre training center of the Ministry of education, the basic education curriculum research center of the Ministry of education, the basic education resources research and development center of Shaanxi Province, the teacher education guidance center of Shaanxi Province, and the cadre education and training base of Shaanxi Province, and There are dozens of academic organizations and institutions, such as the Tang history society and the Chinese ancient capital society.

There are more than 1900 teachers in the University, 95% of which have doctor's degree and master's degree. Among them, 74.5% have doctor's degree. There are 530 professors and 760 associate professors. There are 8 double employed academicians, 6 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding national contributions, 15 national distinguished professors, 8 winners of the national ten million talents project, 2 winners of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 2 national famous teachers, 3 winners of the National Excellent Youth Science Fund, 4 Cultural masters and "four batch" talents, and 4 candidates of the "new century excellent talents support program" There are 2 people, 3 "Sanqin scholars innovation teams" in Shaanxi Province, 1 "Sanqin scholar" in Shaanxi Province. There are 61 candidates in the talent plan of Shaanxi Province, including outstanding contribution experts, provincial "Three Five Year Plan" talents, provincial top talents in key fields, provincial propaganda and ideological and cultural system "six groups", provincial famous teachers, provincial young and middle-aged scientific and technological innovation leading talents, etc There are 54 candidates in the talent plans, such as the science youth talent support program, the provincial 100 young literary artists support program, and the provincial college youth outstanding talent support program.

There are 17662 full-time undergraduate students, 18429 graduate students (including 8854 full-time graduate students and 9575 part-time graduate students), 1123 international students and more than 70000 students of continuing education and online education. For a long time, the school takes quality as the lifeline, pays close attention to teaching management and reform, and has achieved remarkable results. In recent years, it has won 18 national teaching achievement awards and 183 provincial teaching achievement awards; 11 specialties have been rated as national characteristic majors, 22 specialties have been rated as provincial characteristic specialties; 11 specialties have been established as provincial comprehensive reform pilot specialties; 14 specialties have been identified as national first-class specialty construction points, 4 specialties have been identified as provincial first-class specialty construction points, and 2 national talent training programs have been identified There are 18 provincial-level talent training mode innovation experimental areas; 4 virtual simulation experimental teaching projects have been recognized as national level projects, 15 virtual simulation experimental teaching projects have been recognized as provincial projects; 2 projects (including 10 majors) have been approved by the Ministry of education "Zhuoyue teacher training plan reform project". Nine courses were rated as national top-quality courses, 47 courses were rated as provincial-level excellent courses; 8 courses were rated as national quality video open courses, 8 courses were rated as national excellent resources sharing courses; 5 courses were rated as national quality resource sharing courses, 42 courses were rated as provincial quality resources sharing courses; 1 course was rated as national top-quality video open courses Online open courses; 10 courses were rated as provincial quality online open courses, 13 courses were rated as provincial online and offline hybrid and first-class undergraduate courses; 3 courses were rated as national bilingual demonstration courses, 3 courses were rated as provincial bilingual Demonstration Courses; 1 course was rated as brand course of English Teaching for overseas students in China.

The university has vigorously implemented the strategy of strengthening the university through scientific research, and the scientific research strength has been continuously improved. In the past five years, humanities and social sciences research has undertaken 1221 scientific research projects above the provincial and ministerial level, including 282 National Social Science Fund projects and 158 Ministry of education projects; 798 works have been published, 6086 academic papers have been published, and 161 achievements have been awarded at provincial and ministerial level. In terms of natural science research, a total of 1412 vertical scientific research projects have been won, including 7 national key R & D projects (including projects), 5 key national natural science foundation projects, 2 national major scientific research instrument development projects, 1 Key International (regional) cooperation and exchange project, 1 extension project of overseas, Hong Kong and Macao scholars cooperative research fund, and excellent youth science fund 2 items. He has published and participated in the compilation of 173 academic works, including 90 monographs and 8768 academic papers. 60 achievements have been awarded provincial and ministerial level science and technology awards; 1141 patents have been authorized, including 941 invention patents and 3 foreign invention patents.

The university is "national cultural quality education base for college students", "national language promotion base", "national language standardization demonstration school", "national preparatory education base of national universities", "strengthening training base for postgraduate foundation of high-level minority backbone talents of the Ministry of education", "training and training center of ideological and political work team of the Ministry of education" and "colleges and universities of the Ministry of education" "Training and training base for counselors", "training and training base for college counselors in Shaanxi Province", "the second batch of demonstration universities for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform in China", "the first batch of demonstration universities for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform in Shaanxi Province", "innovation and entrepreneurship base for practical education of colleges and universities in Shaanxi Province", "provincial Demonstration School of summer social practice in Shaanxi Province" and "national security education and training in Shaanxi Province" Training base ". The school attaches great importance to the comprehensive quality education and ethnic education of students, vigorously promotes the cultural spirit of "high morality and walking" and builds high-grade campus culture. It has been awarded the "model unit of national unity and progress" by the State Council, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the national people's Commission and the people's Government of Shaanxi Province, and the first batch of "advanced unit (collective) of national spiritual civilization construction" by the Central Committee of civilization It was awarded "national advanced collective of College Students' social practice" by the Propaganda Department, the Ministry of education and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League.

The library of the two campuses covers an area of 57800 square meters, has 4.44 million paper books, and introduces 82 domestic and foreign electronic resources platforms and 246 databases. The school also has an education Museum, which is composed of China Education Museum, women's Culture Museum, history and Culture Museum and painting and calligraphy art museum. The University edited and published journal of Shaanxi Normal University (PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES EDITION, NATURAL SCIENCE EDITION), contemporary teacher education, Chinese historical geography, Chinese art education and other academic journals. Among them, the Journal of Shaanxi Normal University (PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE EDITION) was selected as the first batch of famous journals of philosophy and social sciences of colleges and universities of the Ministry of education, which is a key national support construction It is one of the social science journals of colleges and universities. Founded more than 30 years ago, the general publishing office of the university is an excellent unit in the social benefit assessment of national publishing. It is a comprehensive publishing and media organization integrating books, periodicals, electronic audio-visual, digital publishing, radio and television program production, education and cultural services. It has formed distinct characteristics in the fields of Humanities and learning, popular culture, basic education, higher education and so on. It has more than 600 kinds of books It has won the national or provincial and ministerial level awards and has a great social impact. Eight kinds of secondary school teaching reference professional journals with a history of more than 40 years have been edited and published, which are recognized as academic journals by the national press and publication authorities, and seven of them have been selected as national Chinese core journals.

The university has continuously strengthened its foreign exchange and cooperation, established friendly and cooperative relations with more than 30 countries such as the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Kazakhstan and more than 160 universities and educational institutions in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and actively responded to the "one-off" policy of the state The belt and road initiative initiated the establishment of the Silk Road "Teacher Education Alliance", "Humanities and Social Sciences alliance" and "book and archives publishing alliance". Since 1965, the University began to recruit foreign students and has trained more than 7900 students from 103 countries around the world. The school has a "Chinese education base run by overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council" and "HSK Chinese Proficiency Test Center" of the state Han affairs office. As a Chinese cooperative university, the university has built a Confucius Institute in the United States.

The school has affiliated middle schools, affiliated primary schools and kindergartens with the nature of teaching experiment. Among them, the affiliated middle schools are famous schools with a history of 100 years, key middle schools of Shaanxi Province and the first batch of demonstration high schools in Shaanxi Province. The affiliated primary schools and kindergartens are provincial model primary schools and kindergartens. In recent years, the university has made full use of its advantages in educational resources, and has cooperated with governments at all levels and well-known enterprises to hold more than 20 primary and secondary schools and kindergartens, including Jinyuan International School of Shaanxi Normal University, No.1 Middle School of Qujiang in Xi'an, Olympic Garden School of Shaanxi Normal University, Pingliang Experimental Middle School of Shaanxi Normal University.

The university is one of the earliest universities to carry out logistics socialization reform in China. It has explored a logistics reform road known as "Shaanxi Normal University mode", and the construction of logistics informatization has also had a wide impact in the country.

2020 is the decisive year for China to build a well-off society in an all-round way and realize the first centenary goal. It is also the closing year of the 13th five year plan and the key year of "double first-class" construction. Shaanxi Normal University is thoroughly studying and implementing the spirit of the nineteen and nineteen sessions of the second, third and fourth plenary session of the party, and implements the important discussion of general secretary Xi Jinping on education, the fundamental task of the league leader, inherit and carry forward the spirit of Normal University, actively promote "double first class" construction, and comprehensively improve the quality of education and teaching, scientific research level, social service ability and international level. To create a new situation for the development of the school