Lingnan Teachers College (formerly Zhanjiang Teachers College) is an ordinary undergraduate college with a history of 100 years of normal education in Guangdong Province, located in Zhanjiang, a beautiful port city at the southernmost tip of Chinese mainland. Normal education was founded in 1904, renamed Leizhou Normal University in 1978, upgraded to Zhanjiang Normal University in199, and renamed Lingnan Normal University in 20 14.

In the course of 100 years of normal education, the school has shouldered the mission of promoting learning and educating people, condensed the spirit of "respecting morality, being liberal, being ambitious and going forward bravely", trained a large number of outstanding teachers, educators and social applied talents, and made due contributions to the educational and cultural undertakings and economic and social development in western Guangdong and even Guangdong Province. In 2000, it became the first normal college in China to pass the qualification evaluation of undergraduate teaching by the Ministry of Education, and in 2007, it was awarded the excellent grade in the evaluation of undergraduate teaching by the Ministry of Education, and was listed as the construction unit authorized by Guangdong Province to add a master's degree on 20 10. The school has successively won the honorary titles of "National Advanced Unit of Spiritual Civilization Construction", "National Advanced Unit of Mass Sports Work", "National Advanced Group of Greening", "Demonstration School of Governing Schools by Law by the Ministry of Education" and "Demonstration School of College English Teaching Reform by the Ministry of Education".

Complete disciplines and specialties, and build a complete teacher education system. There are 16 secondary colleges (departments), 3 provincial-level featured key disciplines (curriculum and teaching theory, polymer chemistry and physics, Chinese philology), 6 university-level dominant disciplines, 3 featured disciplines and 8 disciplines established by the school, and the development of multi-disciplines is coordinated. There are 59 undergraduate majors (including 30 normal majors), covering teaching, literature, law, economics, history, science, engineering, agriculture, management and art 10; There are 2 national specialties (Chinese Language, Literature and Chemistry) and 6 provincial specialties. Teachers' major covers basic education, vocational education, preschool education and special education, forming a complete teacher education system with complete categories and training. It enrolls students from the whole country 15 provinces and regions, with nearly 22,000 full-time undergraduates.

Optimize the allocation of resources for running schools and constantly improve the conditions for running schools. The school headquarters covers an area of nearly 1.200 mu, the school building area is 500,000 square meters, and the total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment is more than1.300 million yuan. The library has 1.97 million paper books, more than 2,000 Chinese and foreign paper periodicals and more than 22,000 electronic periodicals. It has two national bases, namely "National Key Construction Vocational Education Teacher Training Base" and "National Social Work Professional Training Base", four provincial-level teacher training bases for primary and secondary school teachers, vocational education teachers, kindergarten directors and preschool teachers, as well as provincial-level teaching platforms such as Guangdong University Teacher Education and Teaching Skills Training Center, Art Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center and Key Laboratory for Chemical Teaching Improvement. Guangdong universities have three research platforms (Guangdong University New Materials Engineering Technology Development Center, Guangdong University Tropical Marginal Plant Resources Engineering Technology Development Center, Guangdong University Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences), provincial collaborative innovation center (cultivation) 1 (Guangdong-Taiwan collaborative innovation development teacher education center), provincial practice Scientific Outlook on Development research base 1, Zhanjiang Key Laboratory 1, Zhanjiang Science and Technology Service Center 1, two platforms funded by the central government for the development of local colleges and universities, and 65 school-level research institutions and 56 research institutes, including education research institutes, industrial technology research institutes and local cultural research institutes.

Based on excellent teachers, build a high-level teaching staff. There are more than 450 faculty members 1.450, including professors 1, 206 doctors, 40.2% teachers with senior titles, 78.6% teachers with master's degree or above, and 23 teachers with overseas study and work experience 1.23. 97 people were trained in the "Thousand Hundred Thousand Projects" in Guangdong Province, among whom 28 were part-time tutors and masters, and 55 people were awarded the special government allowance of the State Council, the national "May 1" labor medal, the national outstanding teachers, provincial-level teaching masters and outstanding teachers in South Guangdong. Hire a group of well-known experts and scholars at home and abroad as visiting professors and part-time professors. Teachers are diligent in teaching mechanics, advocating academics and being a model for others. The school was awarded "Advanced Unit of Teachers' Morality Construction in Guangdong Province".

Innovate the talent training mode and cultivate high-quality applied talents. Establish the goal of "responsibility, ability and innovation" for the all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique and beauty. Pay attention to the interaction and integration of "teaching, research and doing", and cultivate high-quality teachers with "five forces" with the teaching power of controlling the classroom, the teaching power of experiencing reflection, the practical power of collaborative innovation, the single-minded persistence and the leading power of being a teacher. In recent years, students have won numerous awards in national and provincial competitions such as academic science and technology, professional experiments, normal students' skills, sports competitions, spoken foreign languages, cultural performances and social practice. The number of graduates taking the postgraduate entrance examination is increasing year by year; Graduates took root in western Guangdong, advanced into the Pearl River Delta and went deep into Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing, Tibet and other places for employment. It has been praised by domestic mainstream media as "crossing the river in western Guangdong" and "aiding Tibet". The employment rate ranks among the top universities in the province. In the "Ranking List of University Graduates' Employability in 2009" published by Max Company, the school ranks 4th among non-2 1 1 undergraduate colleges in Central South China and 24th among non-21/undergraduate colleges in China.

Cooperate with innovative education and strengthen international exchanges and cooperation between schools and localities. Attach importance to international exchanges and cooperation in education. 1998 began to recruit foreign students and has trained more than 300 long-term and short-term students. We have established close cooperative relations with more than 30 overseas universities and educational institutions in the United States, Britain, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, South Korea, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. * * * We have carried out cross-cultural learning exchange activities such as academic exchanges, professional cooperation, education and training, and mutual employment between teachers and students. Every year, nearly 300 students go abroad for study, internship and investigation. In 2008, the school was named "Guangdong Chinese Culture Heritage Base". Give full play to the advantages in personnel training, scientific research and intellectual support, keep close contact with local government departments, enterprises, scientific research institutions, resident troops and other units, carry out all-round cooperation in education, science and technology, economy, culture, law and policy research, actively expand school resources, and continuously improve the contribution rate of schools to local economic and social development.

The school adheres to the development strategy of "dislocation competition, connotation development and characteristic development", based on the reform and innovation of teacher education, based on serving the regional economic and social development, with improving the quality of running schools as the core and striving for the right to award master's degrees as the driving force, deepening the reform of talent training mode, optimizing the discipline and specialty structure, strengthening the construction of teachers and cadres, vigorously implementing the project of strengthening the school through innovation, constantly improving the level of running schools and the quality of education, and striving to build itself into a high-level normal college with distinctive characteristics.