Tongzhou normal school

The other is academic.

Beijing Normal University

The development of national industry needs science and technology, which prompted Zhang Jian to set up a school and first devoted himself to normal education. In February of the 28th year of Guangxu (1902), Zhang Jian was invited by Liu Kunyi, the governor of the two rivers, to discuss the promotion of learning in Jiangning. Liu Kunyi agreed, but was stopped by San Francisco Wu, Xun Daoxu and Yan Daohu. Zhang Jian sighed. He plans to set up a self-run normal school in Tongzhou with colleagues such as Luo Shuyun and Tang Shouqian. The plan is that since Zhang Jian worked in Tongzhou Textile Factory for five years, he has earned 20,000 yuan at public expense with interest and encouraged him to set up a subsidy. On July 9, the same year, Tongzhou Normal School chose the Qianfo Temple in the southeast of Nantong as the school site to start construction, and the school officially opened the following year. This is the first normal school in China, and its construction marks the beginning of the specialized organ of normal education in China.

Teachers College of Shi Jing University was founded in 1902, which initiated the modern higher normal education in China. 1923 was renamed as Beijing Normal University, becoming the first normal university in the history of China.