Hainan Normal University

Hainan Normal University is located in Haikou, the capital of Hainan Province. Founded in autumn 1949, it has a long history and is a provincial key university with strong overall educational capabilities. It has 25 schools, 65 undergraduate programs, 19 first-level master’s degree authorizations, 21 professional master’s degree authorizations and 6 first-level doctoral degree authorizations. It has established 4 doctoral programs in urgently needed or interdisciplinary fields, forming a complete bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral education system. It has 12 provincial key disciplines, and 3 disciplines rank in the global ESI top 1%. It has approximately 25000 full-time students, including approximately 500 international students, and 2190 faculty and staff. These include 1397 full-time teachers and researchers and 694 teachers with senior titles. It has 3 Ministry of Education key laboratories, 5 ministry-level social science platforms, 15 academician innovation platforms and 4 postdoctoral research stations. It was selected among the Ministry of Education’s second group of pilot institutions using artificial intelligence to support faculty development.

The university began admitting international students in 1988 and was among the first institutions designated by the former State Education Commission to do so. It was among the first Chinese language and culture education bases established by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council. It hosts recipients of the Chinese Government Scholarship, International Chinese Language Teachers Scholarship, Hainan Provincial Government Scholarship and Hainan Chinese Language and Culture Education Scholarship. It is a Hanban-approved training base for teachers promoting Chinese in Southeast Asia and an HSK testing center in Hainan. It has friendly institutional partnerships and academic exchanges with over 110 universities and educational institutions in more than 20 countries and jointly trains students with 10 universities.

1. Comprehensive facilities

Its two campuses, Longkunnan and Guilinyang, cover approximately 3100 mu. Teaching and research equipment is valued at RMB 273.4223 million. It has 3 Ministry of Education key laboratories, 3 provincial key laboratories, 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center and 5 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers. It has 205 internship and practical training bases, and its library holds 2.088 million printed books.

The Chinese language teaching building covers 3500 square meters and includes multimedia classrooms, student reading rooms and a multimedia lecture hall. Its Chinese Culture Experience Center covers 4489 square meters, with traditional handicraft classrooms, clothing and textile galleries, calligraphy and painting galleries, a tea art exhibition hall and a Chinese martial arts hall.

2. Attentive services

The university provides proactive, warm, attentive and efficient services for study and daily life, including airport pickup and assistance throughout all administrative procedures.

3. Beautiful surroundings

Hainan Normal University is located in Haikou, Hainan’s beautiful coastal tourism city and a national historical and cultural city. At China’s southernmost tip, Hainan is the country’s only tropical island province. It has long summers and no winter, with an annual average temperature of 23.8°C. It is China’s first ecological province, with an excellent natural environment, exceptional tourism and holiday resources, and distinctive culture. Visitors from China and abroad have called it an island of health, ecology, safety and holidays.

4. Convenient transport

Hainan has 3 airports: Haikou Meilan International Airport, Qionghai Bo’ao Airport and Sanya Phoenix International Airport. More than 70 international and 200 domestic routes have opened. Haikou has a cross-sea railway and a high-speed railway around the island. It is close to Hong Kong, Macao and Guangzhou, with flights to each taking only 50 minutes.