According to China Education Online, South China Normal University is a book. South China Normal University has different enrollment batches in each province, including undergraduate enrollment, undergraduate enrollment, general enrollment and parallel enrollment. We can see that it is an institution according to its first enrollment batch in the general category.

South China Normal University, referred to as "South China Normal University" or "China Normal University", is headquartered in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. It is a university jointly founded by the Guangdong Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Education. It is a national "double-class" construction university and a national "2 1 1 project" key construction university.