Yuxi Normal University is a provincial full-time undergraduate college. Yuxi Teachers College 1978 was established with the approval of Yunnan Province, 1983 was transformed into Yuxi Teachers College with the approval of Yunnan Provincial People's Government, and 1992 was renamed as Yuxi Teachers College with the approval of the former State Education Commission, and was established with the approval of the Ministry of Education in 2000.
The school is located in the famous "Top Ten Leisure and Livable Ecological Cities in China" and Nie Er's hometown of Yuxi in central Yunnan, covering an area of 10 14 mu. The school has made it clear that the development goal is to build a "first-class local applied university", with full-time undergraduate education as the main body, actively develop postgraduate education, strive to carry out education for international students, actively integrate into regional higher vocational and technical education, and gradually build a pre-service and post-service integrated school-running system.
Adhering to the motto of "Sincerity to Beauty, Let Beauty Play Its Role", the school has established itself in central Yunnan, rooted in Yuxi, served Yunnan, faced the whole country and radiated Southeast Asia, trained nearly 65,000 qualified talents, served the needs of local basic education and economic and social development in Yuxi and its surrounding areas, and made contributions to regional basic education and economic and social development in central Yunnan.
It has successively won the honorary titles of "National Civilized Unit", "National Advanced Unit for School Art Education", "National Advanced Unit for Aesthetic Education in Colleges and Universities" and "Advanced Unit for Employment and Entrepreneurship of Graduates in Yunnan Province".