Central University for Nationalities

Minzu University of China (Minzu University of China) is a famous university in China, a national key university, and a key construction University of "211 Project" and "985 Project". It is located in Haidian District, Beijing, where there are many well-known universities. It is adjacent to the National Library of China in the South and Zhongguancun High Tech Park in the north. Its predecessor was the Institute for Nationalities founded by the Communist Party of China in Yan'an in September 1941. It is the highest institution of education for ethnic minorities in China. Many senior talents of ethnic minorities in China graduated here. They moved to Qianjiang, Hubei Province in 1969 and then moved back to Beijing.

In 1978, the Central University for nationalities was approved as a national key university. In 1999 and 2004, it successively entered the ranks of "211 Project" and "985 Project" national key construction universities. The school has teachers and students of 56 nationalities in China. It plays an important role in maintaining the stability and development of the border areas. It is the only university in China with teachers and students of 56 nationalities. It is famous for its research on ethnology, history, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, literature, religion, management and art.

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Historical evolution

Central Institute for Nationalities

The predecessor of the Central University for nationalities is the Institute for Nationalities established in Yan'an in September 1941. The main task of Yan'an University for nationalities is to train minority cadres and Han cadres engaged in ethnic work.

Not long after the founding of the people's Republic of China, in December 1949, according to the development of the situation, especially the needs of national construction, regional ethnic autonomy, the realization of the common program and the implementation of the party's ethnic policy, Mao Zedong made an instruction to cultivate a large number of ethnic minority cadres.

In June 1950, the Central People's government decided to establish a new university in Beijing, the Central Institute for nationalities. A group of comrades who had worked in Yan'an Institute for Nationalities in those years were selected to prepare for its establishment. In November of the same year, Premier Zhou Enlai presided over the 60th Administrative Meeting of the Government Affairs Council and approved the "trial scheme for training ethnic minority cadres" and "trial scheme for organizing the Central Institute for Nationalities" proposed by the Central Commission for ethnic affairs.

 

On June 11, 1951, the Central Institute for Nationalities officially opened. Zhu De, vice chairman of the Central People's government, and Dong Biwu, vice premier of the State Council, made important speeches at the opening ceremony.

From June 1950 to the end of 1951, the school was temporarily located in Guozijian in the city. There were more than 280 teaching and administrative staff, and more than 260 students in the military and political cadre class and the Tibetan language class.

From 1952 to may 1966, the University began to run a regular school and gradually developed into a liberal arts university. In 1952, when the state carried out the adjustment of colleges and departments, the Department of Sociology of Tsinghua University, some majors of Eastern Language Department of Peking University, and the Department of Sociology of Yanjing University, the predecessor of Peking University, were transferred to the Central Institute for nationalities. The school site was moved from Guozijian to Baishiqiao in the western suburb. After that, the departments of folk language, history, politics, art, Chinese, research and preparatory courses were established. The Counselor's office of the Central Committee for nationalities also went to the Central Institute for nationalities. Graduate education began at the beginning of the 1950s.

 

From June 1966 to August 1978, the "Cultural Revolution" seriously affected the development of schools. In February 1978, the University was designated as a national key university.

Central University for Nationalities

On November 30, 1993, with the approval of the State Education Commission, the Central University for nationalities was renamed as the Central University for nationalities. Jiang Zemin, then president of the state, inscribed a new name for the University. In 1999, the University was designated as the key construction University of "211 Project". In June 2002, the State Commission for democracy and people's livelihood, the Ministry of education and the Beijing Municipal People's government signed the agreement on the key construction of the Central University for nationalities.

In 2004, the University became the key construction University of "985 Project". In 2012, the national development and Reform Commission approved the construction of the new campus of the Central University for Nationalities and the acquisition of land of 1206 mu for the construction of the new campus in Qinglonghu area, Wangzuo Town, Fengtai District, Beijing.

 

In 2010, the University became the first batch of Pilot Universities in the national education system reform.

 

In September 2013, the University was selected as the first batch of demonstration bases for studying in China by the Ministry of education. In February 2015, Fengtai District Education Committee, affiliated middle school and Wangzuo Town People's Government of Fengtai District signed an agreement to jointly build Fengtai experimental school, a middle school affiliated to Central University for nationalities. In September, Lingshui branch of the middle school affiliated to the Central University for nationalities was officially completed. In October, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the Ministry of Education decided to jointly build the Central University for nationalities.

 

In September 2017, the Central University for nationalities was included in the national "double first-class" (world-class university and first-class discipline) list of world-class universities (Class A); on October 24, the State Commission for Nationalities and the people's Government of Hainan Province signed a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly build the Hainan campus of the Central University for nationalities.

 

In 2018, the University was approved by Beijing Municipal Education Commission as Beijing University Students' entrepreneurship Park.

 

On November 15, 2019, the founding ceremony of School of Journalism and communication of Central University for nationalities was held

 

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In March 2020, the National Art Research Institute of the Central University for nationalities was established

 

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School running conditions

Department setting

As of October 2018, the university has 24 colleges with 65 undergraduate majors covering 10 disciplines, including 16 majors in literature, history and philosophy, 17 majors in economics and management, 19 majors in science and engineering, and 12 majors in art.

 

Faculty

As of October 2018, the total number of teaching staff of the school is 1834, including 1114 full-time teachers, 641 professors and associate professors, accounting for 57.5% of the total number of full-time teachers; there are 3 distinguished professors in the "Yangtze River scholars Award Program" of the Ministry of education, 63 high-level Young Scholars in the "Yangtze River scholars Award Program" of the Ministry of education, and 8 outstanding contribution experts of the State Commission for democracy and people's livelihood; and there are national teaching staff There are 2 famous teachers, 16 famous teachers in Beijing, and 21 teachers who enjoy the special allowance of the State Council.

 

National teaching team: ethnology teaching team (Yang Shengmin, 2009)

 

Huang Danian style teaching team in National Universities: national dance education teacher team (MA Yunxia)

 

National famous teachers: Jin Binghao and Yang Shengmin

Ma Guoqing: the leading talent of philosophy and Social Sciences in the national "ten thousand talents plan"

Yang Shengmin, the famous teacher of "ten thousand talents plan" of the Ministry of Education

Famous teachers in Beijing: Yang Zongli and Cao Libo

 

, Su Yucheng

 

, Wang Yuanxin

 

, Zhou Yijun, Dai Qingxia, Li Junqing, etc

Teaching construction

As of October 2018, the university has 9 national characteristic specialties, 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center, 1 national excellent course, 2 national excellent online open courses, 2 national basic liberal arts talents training and scientific research bases, 1 open excellent course of the Ministry of education, 9 open excellent video courses of the Ministry of Education, 5 characteristic specialties of Beijing and 11 excellent courses of Beijing Five experimental teaching demonstration centers in Beijing.

 

National Specialty: ethnology, Chinese minority language and literature, religion, dance, history, art and design, musicology, ecology, administration

National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center: Chemical Experimental Teaching Center

 

National Excellent Course: introduction to Religion

National excellent online open Courses: appreciation of Chinese minority myths, anthropology in images

 

National talent training and scientific research base of basic liberal arts: history, Chinese minority language and Literature

Open course of excellent course of Ministry of Education: history of ancient Chinese women

 

Excellent video open courses of the Ministry of Education: myth and human, anthropology in images, 12 lectures on Ethnology and anthropological theoretical research, five lectures on Tang history (1-5 Lectures), Chinese Ethnography: southern part (1-6 Lectures), etc

Beijing Experimental Teaching Center: Electronic Engineering Experimental Center, chemical experimental teaching center, national culture communication experimental teaching center, photoelectric engineering experimental teaching center

 

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Discipline construction

As of October 2018, the university has 5 post doctoral research mobile stations, 5 first-class discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 27 first-class discipline master's degree authorization points and 8 professional master's degree authorization points; 3 national key disciplines (including cultivation), 5 first-class and 17 second-class key disciplines in Beijing, and 1 cross key discipline in Beijing.

 

Postdoctoral research stations: ethnology, Chinese language and literature, Chinese history, philosophy and Sociology

 

Degree awarding

First class disciplines: ethnology, Chinese language and literature, sociology, history, philosophy

The authorized places for master's degree of first-class discipline: philosophy, theoretical economics, applied economics, law, political science, Marxist theory, sociology, ethnology, pedagogy, Chinese language and literature