赣南师范大学位于国家历史文化名城、江西省域副中心城市、素有“江南宋城、客家摇篮、红色故都、生态家园、稀土王国、世界钨都、脐橙之乡”之美誉的赣州市。学校创办于1958年6月，被教育部专家组评价为“是一所特色鲜明、前景良好的区域性优秀师范大学”。2017年，又被中央精神文明建设指导委员会授予第一届“全国文明校园”荣誉称号。

学校现有黄金、章贡、白塔（大学科技园）3个校区，占地2200余亩，校舍建筑面积80余万平方米，教学科研仪器设备总值2.95亿余元，图书馆藏书230余万册。设有15个教学学院、1所独立学院、1所附属中学、2所附属小学，有涵盖10个学科门类的71个本科专业。现有全日制在校生20000余人，其中研究生1400余人。学校现有专任教师1000余人，其中高级专业技术人员560余人，博士教师400余人。广大教师爱岗敬业、教书育人，涌现了“全国优秀教师”“全国优秀科技工作者”“全国高校思想政治理论课教学标兵”“全球孔子学院先进个人”“江西省五一劳动奖章”“全省模范教师”获得者等一批先进典型。

近五年，学校承担国家重点研发计划、国家自然科学基金、国家社科基金重大招标项目等国家和省部级科研项目1100余项，获省部级以上科研奖励40余项，相关研究成果在《Nature》《Science》等国际著名期刊上发表，近几年学校自然指数排名保持在全国高校前200名，在苏区与红色文化、客家文化、阳明文化、脐橙工程技术、血吸虫病防治新技术、稀土镁合金功能材料、美丽乡村规划设计、家具设计等研究领域形成了显著特色

学校高度重视开放办学，依托江西省中小学校长（教师）培训基地、江西省赣南等原中央苏区振兴发展软科学研究基地、赣南苏区人才发展合作研究院、美丽乡村建设与发展研究中心、工业（家具）设计中心、国学研究院、赣州市中小企业高层管理人员培训中心和“教授博士服务团”等平台，积极为地方基础教育和经济社会发展服务。学校积极推进国际交流与合作工作，与美国、俄罗斯、法国、韩国、泰国等10余个国家的有关高校和教育机构建立了良好的合作关系。承建了我国在西非的首个孔子学院——塞拉利昂大学孔子学院，并获评为全球“先进孔子学院”。连续四年受国家汉办委派赴亚、非、欧、美等四个洲11个国家18所孔子学院开展文化巡演活动。获批建立了教育部国别和区域研究基地“新加坡研究中心”。与俄罗斯奔萨国立大学举办了江西省首个教育部音乐学本科中外合作办学项目。设立了“一带一路”沿线国家留学生奖学金，近三年招收了来自20余个国家的留学生200余人。

目前，全校上下紧紧围绕落实“立德树人”根本任务，大力弘扬伟大的苏区精神和赣师人特有的“精气神”，不忘初心、牢记使命，争创一流、进位赶超，以争创博士学位授予单位为总抓手，深入实施品牌立校、科研兴校、人才强校、依法治校四大战略，全面推进学校内涵发展、特色发展、创新发展、和谐发展，为建设区域领先、省内前列、全国同类院校知名的有特色高水平综合性师范大学而奋发努力。

Gannan Normal University (GNNU) is located in Ganzhou, which has the reputation of "Jiangnan Song City, Hakka Cradle, Red Old Capital, Ecological Home, Rare Earth Kingdom, Tungsten Capital of the World, and Hometown of Navel Orange". It is also the national historical and cultural city and the sub-central city of Jiangxi Province. GNNU was first established as Gannan Teachers College in June, 1958. It was evaluated as “a regional excellent normal university with distinctive characteristics and good prospects” by the experts group from the Ministry of Education of China. In 2017, it was awarded the honorary title of "National civilized Campus" by the Central Spiritual Civilization Construction Steering Committee.

GNNU has three campuses, Huangjin campus, Zhanggong campus and Baita campus (University Science and Technology Park), covering more than 360 acres. The school buildings in GNNU cover more than 800,000 square metres with teaching and research equipments accounting over 295 million Yuan and over 2.3 million books in the library. There are 15 teaching colleges, 1 independent college , 1 affiliated middle school and 2 affiliated Primary schools with 71 undergraduate majors covering 10 disciplines. There are more than 20000 full-time students, including more than 1400 postgraduate students. GNNU has nearly 1000 professional teachers, including over 560 senior professional technicians, and over 400 teachers with Ph. D. degree. Teachers in GNNU are passionate in their jobs, teaching and educating the students. Among them, there are a group of advanced models who have been awarded with “National Excellent Teacher”, “National Outstanding Scientific and Technological Workers”, “Advanced Individual of Global Confucius Institute”, “Jiangxi Province Labor Medal” and “Jiangxi Province Education System Teacher’s Ethics Pacesetter.” 

In recent 5 years, GNNU has undertaken over 1100 national and provincial research projects and won 40 provincial prizes and above. The relevant research results have been published in famous international journals such as "Nature" and "Science". In recent years, the university nature index has remained among the top 200 colleges and universities in the country. GNNU Creates its own characteristics in the research fields of the history of Central Soviet Areas, Hakka culture, navel orange engineering technology, new technologies for prevention and control of schistosomiasis, and rare earth magnesium alloy functional materials, Beautiful Rural Planning and design, furniture design and so on. 

The University attaches great importance to open concept. It relies on a number of institutions and platforms to actively serve for the local basic education and economic and social development, including the Jiangxi Provincial Training Base of Primary and Secondary School Principals and Teachers, the Social Sciences Research Base of Former Central Soviet Areas, Gannan Soviet Area Talent Development Cooperation Research Institute, Beautiful Rural Construction and Development Research Center, Industrial (Furniture) Design Center, Chinese Studies Research Institute, Ganzhou Senior Management Training Center for Small and Medium Enterprises, the Country Town Planning and Development Research Center, and the “Scholarly Service Team of Professors and Doctors”. The University actively promotes international exchanges and cooperation by building partnerships with universities, colleges and educational institutions in over 10 countries, including the US, South Korea, Russia, Thailand and France. In West Africa, we have established the Confucius Institute at University of Sierra Leone, which is the first Confucius Institute in the region and won the prize of Confucius Institute of the Year in 2018. In four consecutive years, students from our University have participated in Chinese cultural performance events in 11 countries and 18 Confucius Institutes in Asia, Africa, Europe and South America, which assigned by Center for Language Education and Cooperation. It has been approved to establish the Singapore Research Centre, a national and regional research base of the Ministry of Education. We have launched a foreign cooperative education program in Bachelor of Music with Penza State University, Russia, a pioneering endeavor in Jiangxi Province. Under our Scholarship for International Students from Countries along the Belt and Road, the University has enrolled over 200 students from 20 countries abroad.

At present, GNNU is centering on the fundamental task of " establishing moral integrity in cultivation." vigorously carry forward the great spirit of the Soviet area of China, as well as our own “culture of spirits”. Remain true to our original aspiration and keep our mission firmly in mind, strive to be first-class, catch up with and surpass, and strive to create a doctoral degree award unit as the general starting point. We will implement the four development strategies of establishing, reviving, strengthening and managing the university through brands, researches, talents and laws, and fully promote our connotative, distinctive, innovative and harmonious development. Our ultimate goal is to take a leading position to establish ourselves as a unique and high-level comprehensive normal university, as well as a regional leader, ranking among the top in the province, and with a prestige among national universities and colleges of similar nature.