Northwest University for Nationalities is located at the foot of Gaolan Mountain in Chengguan District, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province. The four seasons of the college are lush, with lush flowers and trees. The environment is very elegant, and the buildings with national style are patchwork. The campus covers an area of 20 13 hectares, and the school building area is 654.38+10,000 square meters. It is located in the center of Lanzhou with convenient transportation. Northwest University for Nationalities is one of the subordinate institutions of higher learning for nationalities under the leadership of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission. It is also the first national institution of higher learning established under the care of the Party and the government after the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC). Northwest University for Nationalities was founded in August 1950. Northwest University for Nationalities has gone through four stages since its establishment 40 years ago: the first stage is 1950 to 1957. According to the actual needs of ethnic areas, the college has set up political departments, Chinese departments, judicial departments (later changed to law departments), animal husbandry and veterinary courses, advanced railway training courses, military and political cadre training courses, teacher training courses, medical courses, literature and art courses and cultural courses. The second stage. After 1957, the scale of the school was further expanded, and the majors increased to 19, and the maximum number of students in the school reached more than 3 100. The third stage. During the Cultural Revolution 10, Northwest University for Nationalities was almost destroyed. 1973, under the cordial care of Premier Zhou, Northwest University for Nationalities was restored. The fourth stage. After the downfall of the Gang of Four, the college developed in bringing order out of chaos and healing wounds. Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, successive leaders of the College have adhered to the socialist direction of running schools, adapted to the needs of economic and cultural development in northwest ethnic areas, conscientiously implemented the education policy, and accelerated the pace of transformation and development. At present, the college has developed into a comprehensive national institution of higher learning with a variety of disciplines, such as literature, science, agriculture, medicine, economics, art, postgraduate, undergraduate, junior college, technical secondary school, preparatory course, dry training and so on. It is an ordinary full-time higher education based on adult higher education (night university, correspondence). The college now has 13 departments (departments) and 23 majors. 1990 ——1991There are 29 schools in the school year, including Mongolian, Tibetan, Hui, Uygur, Kazakh, Turkish, Kirgiz, Manchu, Dongxiang, Sala, Yugur, Tajik, Xibe, Uzbek, Daur, tatar. At present, there are 970 faculty members in the hospital, including more than 430 teachers. There are 1 13 people with the titles of associate professor and associate professor, and 17 1 person with the titles of lecturer. Minority teachers account for more than one-third of all teachers. Teachers of all ethnic groups are loyal to the party's national education, study their business and educate people carefully, and have achieved fruitful results.