The college is located in Hengyang, the second largest city in Hunan Province. It consists of an east campus and a west campus. The west campus is adjacent to Xiangjiang River in the east and Yan Hui Peak, the first peak of Nanyue Mountain in the north, covering an area of 48 1 mu, with beautiful campus environment and convenient transportation. The East Campus covers an area of 1.685 mu, which was founded in 2004 and has initially presented a modern and garden-like campus pattern. The college has an existing building area of 4 1.32 million square meters, including teaching administration 1.855 million square meters, laboratory of 67,900 square meters and library of 22,900 square meters. The total value of teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment is 60.2698 million yuan, and the library has 1 15000 volumes, and the total value of fixed assets is 625 million yuan. The campus network has been merged into China Education and Research Network and Internet.
The college recruits students from 27 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) across the country. Full-time students 1 1206. Among them, undergraduates 10223, junior college students 85 1, adult students 1086. The college has 16 departments (departments) and 18 research institutes (centers). Chinese language and literature, English, geography, mathematics and applied mathematics, physics, chemistry, fine arts, ideological and political education, musicology, history, computer science and technology, electronic information science and technology, tourism management, journalism, art design, applied chemistry, law, physical education, economics, applied psychology, music performance, information and computing science, information management and information system, and polymer materials. Primary education, editing and publishing, chemical biology, biological science, e-commerce and other full-time undergraduate majors 3 1, including normal majors 14 and non-normal majors 17. The majors set up involve eight disciplines, such as literature, science, history, law, economics, teaching, management and engineering, forming a multidisciplinary structure with teacher education as the mainstay and arts and sciences as the focus. There are 3 provincial key majors, 3 provincial key construction majors, 4 provincial excellent courses and 2 provincial demonstration laboratories.
The college has a team of teachers with reasonable structure and excellent quality. There are currently 0/078 faculty members/KLOC, including 634 full-time teachers. Foreign teachers 142. Full-time teachers have 50 senior titles and 52 deputy senior titles/kloc-0; 283 doctors and masters; Six experts who enjoy the special government allowance of the State Council were included in the New Century Excellent Talents Support Plan of the Ministry of Education in 2005 1 person, two outstanding young and middle-aged experts in Hunan Province 1 person, two provincial-level academic leaders, 43 provincial-level young backbone teachers, and four people were selected for the New Century 12 1 talent project in Hunan Province. Two people won the honorary title of National Excellent Teacher, and 12 people won the Ceng Xianzi Education Fund Award, Fok Ying Tung Education Fund Award and other awards.
The college insists on paying equal attention to teaching and scientific research. From 2003 to 2006, teachers published 380 research papers, presided over 28 ministerial and provincial research topics, compiled 44 teaching materials and won 7 provincial and ministerial teaching achievement awards. There are 2 national "Tenth Five-Year Plan" education science fund projects and 20 provincial-level teaching and research projects. Teachers presided over and participated in 3 national natural science foundation projects and social science foundation projects, and provincial projects159; Published 24 academic monographs and translations; Published scientific research papers 1642 (including 505 core journals) and academic works 1 10, and obtained 2 patents. Among them, 63 articles were collected by the retrieval systems of international authoritative magazines such as SCI and EI, and 109 articles were collected and reprinted by domestic authoritative publications such as Xinhua Digest, NPC Copy Materials and University Digest. Won the provincial and ministerial scientific research achievement award 14. The research base of human settlement environment is one of the first batch 17 key research bases of humanities and social sciences in Hunan province. Journal of Hengyang Normal University is a first-class journal in Hunan Province and one of the top 100 social science journals in China. Its "Chuanshan Research" column was rated as "Excellent Column of National Social Science Journal" by China Humanities and Social Sciences Society.
The college always insists on moral education first, educating people first, quality as the lifeline, and highlighting the characteristics of normal education. In the history of running a school for a hundred years, it has made outstanding contributions to China's education, local economic construction and social development. According to incomplete statistics, as of June, 2006, there were 3,369 teaching and administrative staff in 30 middle schools directly under Hengyang, with more than 0.7 million graduates, accounting for more than 62% of the total. 80% of the education administrative cadres at all levels in Hengyang are graduates of our college (including the current director and secretary of Hengyang Education Bureau); Among the graduates of our college, the alternate member of the Central Committee 1 person and the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee 1 person. Among the four leaders of Hengyang Party Committee, Government, People's Congress, CPPCC and county (city) level cadres, graduates from our college account for a large proportion. In recent years, students have participated in computer proficiency test, CET-4 for non-English majors, electronic design competition, mathematical modeling competition, English speech competition and other activities, and achieved excellent results. Students have published more than 500 works and papers and won more than 300 awards at or above the provincial level. Zhou Jun, the "Top Ten Courageous Person in 2005", Xiao Binbin, who won two national patents and technology transfer, and many other outstanding students emerged. The employment rate of each undergraduate in our college is above 89% at the end of the year, and the quality of running a school is well received by the society.
The college strives to promote international exchanges and cooperation. On average, six foreign experts are hired to teach in our college every year, and they are sent abroad to visit and give lectures. Foreign experts and professors are invited to our college for academic exchanges and joint discussions with three foreign universities. Foreign exchanges and cooperation are becoming more and more frequent.
Adhering to the motto of "morality, learning, determination and practicality", the college always adheres to the school-running philosophy of building a school with quality, strengthening the school with talents and developing the school with characteristics. It is a "civilized university", "civilized health unit", "garden-style unit" and "home of advanced faculty and staff" in Hunan Province.
The construction and development of the college has always been valued and cared by the party and the state, the Ministry of Education, Hunan Province and Hengyang City. Vice Minister of Education Zhou, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Yang, Deputy Secretary, Governor Zhou Bohua, Chairman of the Provincial Political Consultative Conference Zheng Liu, Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee Qin Guangrong, Deputy Director of the Provincial People's Congress, Vice Governor He Tongxin, and the main leaders of the Provincial Education Department and Hengyang Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government successively came to the hospital to guide the work.
At present, the college is determined to reform, keep pace with the times, blaze new trails, vigorously strengthen capital construction, strive to improve the level of teaching, scientific research and teachers, and make unremitting efforts to build the college into a multidisciplinary undergraduate college with a certain position in the province, a certain influence in the country, and the characteristics of teacher education in the same level and type of universities in the country.