The school is located in Enshi, the capital of Shitu Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hubei Province. The campus is surrounded by mountains and rivers and jungles, with elegant environment and pleasant climate. It is an ideal place for teaching, scientific research and study. The campus covers an area of 1 1,000 mu and is divided into three campuses: Gui Huayuan, Wuyang and Tuqiao, with a construction area of more than 290,000 square meters. The school has a campus network, with nearly 50 laboratories, language labs, computer labs and audio-visual classrooms. The total value of teaching instruments and equipment is more than 40 million yuan, the library has more than 5,654.38 million books and more than 654.38 million Chinese and foreign periodicals.
The school has a strong faculty, with more than 500 faculty members 1.500, 226 in-service faculty members 1.226, more than 570 full-time teachers, more than 300 professors, associate professors and other senior titles, more than 400 lecturers and other intermediate titles, doctors (including doctoral students) 1 person and masters/kloc-0. In addition, the school has hired more than 60 visiting professors from China Renmin University, Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Province Provincial University, Hong Kong University and Macau University.
At present, the school has eight secondary colleges, including the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Information Engineering, the Faculty of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, the Medical College, the Faculty of Economics and Law, the College of Biological Sciences and Technology, and the College of Adult and Vocational Education, as well as the Faculty of Arts, the Department of Foreign Languages, the Department of Physical Education, the Foreign Languages Department of the University, the Education Development Research Center, and a second-class A-class affiliated hospital with 300 beds. The school has a relatively complete range of disciplines, covering eight disciplines, including literature, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, law, management and teaching. There are Chinese language and literature, mathematics and applied mathematics, computer science and technology, physics, electrical engineering and automation, chemistry, chemical engineering and technology, English, forestry, resources, environment and urban and rural planning and management, horticulture, food science and engineering, accounting, ideological and political education, physical education, fine arts, musicology, horticulture, clinical medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, financial management. The school has 12 majors, including the provincial key discipline of literature and art and the provincial key construction discipline of ethnology. The school has more than 8,000 full-time graduate students, undergraduates and junior college students. The school's adult education and vocational and technical education recruit 56 undergraduate and junior college students and more than 6,000 adult students. The school has continuously deepened the reform of education and teaching, and trained a batch of qualified senior professionals, which is known as the "cradle of talents in Wuling Mountain area".
Guided by the principle of "attaching importance to basic theoretical research, strengthening applied development research and strengthening ethnology research", the school strives to form regional, ethnic and disciplinary characteristics of scientific research based on the advantages of mountain resources, ethnic minority areas and disciplines. At present, the school has four provincial and college-level academic research institutions and more than 20 research institutes integrating departments. Journal of Hubei University for Nationalities is divided into philosophy and social science edition, natural science edition and medical edition, all of which are publicly distributed to the whole country. In recent years, the school has undertaken scientific research projects 1092 at all levels, completed 56 technical development research projects, obtained 37 appraisal results, won national patents 16, won 5 national and ministerial prizes, won provincial prizes 16, won 30 national prizes, and published more than 8,500 academic papers and monographs in domestic and foreign journals. School Tujia studies have always been in the forefront of the country.
The school has always adhered to the correct guiding ideology of running a school, comprehensively improved the teaching quality, scientific research level and school-running efficiency, and constantly intensified the construction of two civilizations, and achieved fruitful results. The undergraduate teaching in our school passed the qualification evaluation of the Ministry of Education from 65438 to 0999. 1998, in 2000, the school was named as "the best civilized unit at the provincial level" by the provincial party committee and government. 1999 was rated as "National Model Collective of National Sports" by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the State Sports General Administration, commended as "Model Collective of National Unity and Progress" by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the provincial government, and awarded the lofty honor of "National Model Collective of National Unity and Progress" by the State Council.
Entering the new century, facing the new situation and meeting the new development opportunities and challenges, our school will hold high the great banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory, fully implement the requirements of "Theory of Three Represents", carry forward the excellent school spirit of "unity, diligence, realism and innovation", forge ahead with one heart and one mind, build our school into a bright pearl in Wuling Mountain area, and make new and greater contributions to national higher education and local economic and social development.