Baoshan is one of the two ancient countries in Yunnan history (Yunnan and Ailao). Yongchang County was established in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 69), which was the second largest county in China at that time. Baoshan, with convenient transportation, is an important commercial city on the ancient Silk Road in the south of China, and also the "bridgehead" of China leading to South Asia and Southeast Asia today. Baoshan has a prosperous culture, outstanding people, pleasant climate, beautiful environment and abundant resources. There are a number of well-known tourist attractions at home and abroad, such as the national nature reserve "Gaoligong Mountain", the national geological park "Tengchong Huoshan Rehai Park", Heshun, the hometown of overseas Chinese, one of the top ten charming towns in China, and Songshan, the site of the Anti-Japanese War in western Yunnan.
Baoshan is located in the center of Dehong, Lijiang, Dali, Lincang, Nujiang and Diqing in western Yunnan, and has long shouldered the heavy responsibility of cultivating high-quality talents for the frontier ethnic areas in western Yunnan. Over the past 30 years, it has trained more than15,000 social construction talents and more than 30,000 management cadres and on-the-job teachers for the border ethnic areas in western Yunnan, which has made important contributions to the local social, economic and educational development and won a high social reputation and sense of identity.
At present, the school enrolls students in 17 provinces, cities and autonomous regions, with 5 164 full-time students and 36 majors in 1 1 department. There are 408 faculty members, including 30 full-time teachers1person, including professors 16, associate professors 9 1 person, graduate students 165438, Baoshan discipline leaders 5, school-level discipline leaders 9 and backbone teachers 20. Appointed 29 visiting professors including Huang Rungan and Dai Yongnian. There are 1 provincial excellent courses, 2 provincial key construction majors and 1 Baoshan key laboratory. In recent years, it has undertaken 2 national social science funds and educational science "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" projects, 25 provincial scientific research and teaching projects, and 122 municipal and school-level scientific research and teaching projects. He has published more than 000 scientific research papers 1000 in academic journals at home and abroad, published more than 60 monographs and teaching materials, and won more than 40 teaching and research awards at or above the provincial level, such as Yunnan Science and Technology Progress Award. The school actively carries out academic exchanges with foreign countries, has long-term cooperation with Myitkyina University in Myanmar and Chiang Mai University in Thailand, and has established sister schools with Kanto University in Korea.
The school covers an area of 795 mu, with a planned area of 1500 mu. The campus building area is 177800 square meters, the teaching administrative room is11600 square meters, and the total value of teaching instruments and equipment is 26.68 million yuan. The library has a collection of 520,000 books, and the campus network has 1 1,000 megabytes of optical cable to the building, and there are more than 1 1,400 information points. The academic publication Journal of Baoshan Normal University is distributed at home and abroad.
The school has formally applied to the Ministry of Education for the establishment of Baoshan College. The future Baoshan College will be based in Baoshan, serving western Yunnan, facing Yunnan and surrounding provinces, and radiating South Asia and Southeast Asia. With the goal of cultivating qualified teachers in basic education and applied high-quality talents needed by various industries, it will be built into a multi-disciplinary teaching-oriented ordinary undergraduate college with outstanding characteristics and obvious advantages.
On the afternoon of April 2 1 2009, Baoshan Normal University received the Circular Letter from the Ministry of Education on Agreeing to Establish Baoshan College (J&F Letter [2009] No.80), and agreed to establish Baoshan College on the basis of Baoshan Normal University, with the school code of10686; At the same time, the establishment of Baoshan Teachers College was cancelled.
This letter is a reply to the Letter of Yunnan Provincial People's Government on Applying for the Establishment of Baoshan College (Letter No.98 [2008]). In the letter, the requirements and notices were put forward on the level of running a school, management system, scale of running a school, investment of funds, adjustment and setting of professional structure, etc. At this point, Baoshan College was formally established. It is reported that the first batch of undergraduate majors set up in Baoshan College in 2009 and enrolled in autumn are Chinese language and literature, English, ideological and political education, mathematics and applied mathematics, physics and chemistry.