位于春城昆明的云南师范大学是一所历史悠久、传统优良的省属重点师范大学，其前身是诞生于1938年的国立西南联合大学师范学院。1946年，组成西南联大的北京大学、清华大学、南开大学三校复员北返，师范学院留昆独立设置，定名国立昆明师范学院，1950年改名昆明师范学院，1984年更名为云南师范大学，1999年与云南教育学院、云南体育进修学院合并重组云南师范大学。建校70余年来，学校恪守西南联大“刚毅坚卓”的校训，形成了“学高身正、明德睿智”的校风，已形成全日制高等教育、成人高等教育、高等职业教育、留学生教育的人才培养形式，构建了博士后、博士、硕士、本科教育完整的人才培养体系，已为国家培养了各级各类人才20余万人，被誉为“红土高原上的教师摇篮”。

学校占地面积3330亩，下设23个学院，2个独立学院，40余个科研机构。现有全日制博士、硕士研究生和本科生25000余人，成人继续教育学生15000余人，图书资料270余万册，是中国高等教育文献保障系统云南文献信息服务中心建设单位，建有“万兆主干”的新一代“数字校园”。学校主办的《云南师范大学学报（哲社版）》进入全国高校文科学报30强之列，为CSSCI来源期刊；《云南师范大学学报（自然科学版）》为中国科技核心期刊；在全国大学学报中首创《云南师范大学学报·对外汉语教学与研究版》。 学校拥有文、史、哲、法、教、管、理、工、经济、艺术10大学科门类，形成了以教师教育为特色，文理并重、基础宽厚、多学科协调发展的学科与专业格局。学校现有70个本科专业，144个博士、硕士学位授权点，其中有教育硕士、工商管理硕士（MBA）等10个专业硕士学位授权点，为全国首批招收和培养汉语国际教育硕士专业学位研究生的24所试点高校之一。

学校通过在教育内容、教学方法、课程体系、人才培养模式等方面的改革和创新，完成了由传统的师范教育向现代教师教育、由传统师范院校向以教师教育为特色的教学研究型大学的转型。学校拥有一批国家级教学团队、国家人才培养模式创新实验区、国家教育体制改革试点项目、国家级教学成果奖、国家级特色专业、国家级精品课程、国家级实验教学示范中心、国家级双语示范课程、国家级教学名师、教育部创新团队等，拥有20项国家“质量工程”建设项目，是全国免费师范生试点改革的3所地方高师院校之一，并先后获得“全国普通高等学校优秀教务处”、“全国高等学校招生工作先进集体”、“全国普通高校成人高等教育先进单位”等荣誉，在教育部本科教学工作水平评估中获得优秀。

学校拥有一批国家太阳能热水器质量检测中心、国务院侨办华文教育基地、中英太阳能研发中心、教育部重点实验室、教育部工程研究中心、国家专业技术人员继续教育基地、国家体育总局体育文化研究基地、云南省重点实验室、云南省创新人才基地、云南研究院、云南华文学院、卜励德美国研究中心、朗宁加拿大研究中心和“中国·昆明泛亚人才教育与发展战略研究院”等。近五年来，学校共承担了国家人文社科重大招标项目、国家“973”项目、国家“863”计划项目、国际合作重大专项项目、国家自然科学基金重大项目、国家社科基金项目等重大科研项目100余项，承担其他各类科研项目300余项，科研经费近2亿元。一些原创性的研究成果如光催化材料、抽象微分方程理论、SPT电脑测色技术、太阳能利用与开发研究、新型酶制剂开发等研究进入国内先进行列。

学校现有教职工2300余人，其中专任教师1600余人，教授、副教授686人，拥有国家突出贡献专家、国务院特殊津贴获得者、国家“百千万人才工程”、中国科学院“百人计划”、教育部高校青年教师奖、教育部“新世纪优秀人才支持计划”入选者等一批专家学者。诺贝尔奖获得者杨振宁，中科院院士杨乐、郭柏灵、戴汝为，英国皇家工程院院士、剑桥大学教授阿马拉通加，美国《纽约时报》前总编、普利策奖评审委员会前任主席西默·托平，世界著名未来学家约翰·奈斯比特博士等40余个国家和地区的近100位知名专家被聘为学校名誉教授、客座教授或兼职教授。

云南师范大学是一所开放的、有着国际化视野的现代大学，先后被教育部和国家汉办确定为支持周边国家汉语教学的10所重点大学之一、中国对东南亚国家进行汉语师资培训的基地、国家首批赴海外承办孔子学院的大学、享受中国政府奖学金和孔子学院奖学金留学生接收院校、国家HSK考试和汉语作为第二外语教学能力资格考点。到目前为止，学校在国外建立了1所孔子学院、3个孔子课堂、5个中国语言文化中心。学校已与英国、美国、加拿大、澳大利亚、新西兰以及港澳台等48个国家和地区的147所国外大学和科研机构建立了合作交流关系，留学生生源国达到48个。学校是联合国教科文组织在中国西南地区的中学英语师资培训基地和云南省目前具有对港澳台招生权的两所高校之一。

学校先后被国务院授予“民族团结进步模范集体”称号，被人事部、教育部评为“全国教育系统先进集体”，被教育部评为“依法治校示范校”、全国高校校园文化建设优秀成果一等奖单位；连续10年被中宣部等评为全国大中专学生社会实践活动先进单位，连续5届在“挑战杯”全国大学生课外学术科技作品竞赛的成绩排名全国同类师范院校前10位，多次获得全国大学生数学建模竞赛一等奖、二等奖；先后获云南省基层党建示范点、云南省学习型党组织建设示范点、“云岭先锋”流动红旗先进基层党组织、人才工作先进单位、德育先进集体。学校的班级、社团和个人也涌现出一批全国先进班集体标兵，全国“学习雷锋、志愿服务”先进集体，全国高校优秀学生社团，全国三好生标兵，全国见义勇为先进分子以及在雅典、北京奥运会和残奥会上获得金、银、铜奖牌的运动员。 在新的历史发展阶段，学校实施综合集成发展、坚持内涵特色兴校，为把学校建设成国内一流的教学研究型师范大学，成为中国西南特色鲜明的区域性高水平大学而不懈努力。

About Yunnan Normal University

Located in Kunming which is called “City of Perennial Spring” and conceived in the Teachers College of the National Southwest Associated University which was established in 1938 from the merger of Peking University, Tsinghua University and Nankai University, Yunnan Normal University is a provincial key university that has a long and fine tradition. In 1946, the three prestigious universities were moved back to their original campuses in the north of China but the Teachers College remained in Kunming. It adopted the name of the National Kunming Normal College in 1946, Kunming Normal College in 1950 and Yunnan Normal University in 1984 respectively. In 1999, Yunnan Education College and Yunnan Sports College merged into Yunnan Normal University. In its development of over seventy years, the university has adhered to its motto of “perseverance in personality; devotion to teaching and learning; pursuit of virtue and wisdom”. It has a fairly complete education system for offering either post-doctoral, doctoral, master’s or bachelor’s degrees to full-time, part-time, vocational, adult and international students. Up to now, it has produced more than 200,000 graduates of different kinds and is rightfully praised as the cradle of qualified teachers on this lateritic plateau.

The university covers a total area of 3,330 Mu(about 543 acres). It consists of 23 schools plus two independent schools and more than 40 research institutes. It has now over 25,000 full-time students pursuing different degrees and 15,000 students in the School of Continuing Education. Its library is the provincial center of the data resources of Chinese higher education and houses more than 2,700,000 copies of books of various kinds with a new-generation digitalized service system. The Journal of Yunnan Normal University (social sciences) ranks among the top thirty of its kind(CSSCI) in China, The Journal of Yunnan Normal University (natural sciences) is an acclaimed core journal in China, and The Journal of Yunnan Normal University (Teaching and Research on Chinese as a Foreign Language) is the first one of its kind in China.

The university offers such branches of learning as literature, history, philosophy, law, education, management, economics, art, science and technology with teacher education as its characteristic feature. Its interdisciplinary orientation helps the students lay a solid foundation for future development. It offers 70 bachelor’s programs, 144 master’s and doctoral programs, of which ten are professional master’s programs like MBA and General Education. It is one of the first 24 universities in China that offer the master’s program for Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages.

Through innovative reforms on teaching methodology, contents, curriculums as well as training models, the university has accomplished the transformation from a traditional teacher-training university to a teaching-research oriented modern university with teacher education as its typical trait. It has some qualified teaching teams, innovative courses, special programs and experimental teaching bases that rank among the best in China in their respective fields. It carries out some key reforms in terms of education system, bilingual teaching and teaching innovation at the national level. It has 20 state-level “Quality Projects” under construction. It is one of the three universities of its kind in China that offer free teacher-training programs. The Education Affairs Department, the Enrolment Department and the Adult Education Department of this university have received state-level honors of different kinds for their respective contribution. Its undergraduate teaching is rated “Excellence” in the teaching-quality assessment by the Ministry of Education of China.

The university has more than forty research centers or institutes at the national, ministerial or provincial levels, including a national solar-heater quality testing center, a Chinese education base sponsored by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council of China, a China-UK solar-energy research center, a research center of sports culture sponsored by the General Administration of Sport of China, Platt American Studies Center, Ronning Canadian Studies Center, Kunming Strategy Research Institute for Pan-Asian Talent Training and Development, some key labs, engineering research centers and talent-training bases sponsored either by the Ministry of Education of China or by the provincial government. In the past five years, the university has taken on some prestigious key research projects like the National Social Science Foundation Major Project, the National Natural Science Foundation Major Project, “973” Project, “863” Project, and some key international joint projects. Its national research projects of natural sciences and social sciences number 100 plus 300 other research projects of various kinds with its research funds totaling about 200,000,000 Yuan(RMB). Some of its research findings rank among the best in China, including photocatalytic materials, studies on abstract differential equations, SPT techniques, solar-energy application and development, and new enzymes.

The university has a staff of about 2,300, of whom 1,600 are full-time teachers and 686 are professors and associate professors. Some of them are experts with honors from the Central Government, the State Council of China, the Chinese Academy of Sciences or the Ministry of Education of China. The university has invited about 100 well-known experts from 40 countries and regions all over the world as its Honorary Professors, Guest Professors or Adjunct Professors, including Professor Chen-Ning Franklin Yang, a Nobel Prize winner, Professor Yang Le, Professor Guo Bailing and Professor Dai Ruwei who are academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor Gehan Amaratunga from Cambridge University, an academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering, U.K., Professor Seymour Topping, former Administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, managing editor for the New York Times and president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and Dr. John Naisbitt, a well-known futurist.

The university boasts of its international vision and modern ideas. It is one of the ten universities selected by the Ministry of Education of China and the Office of Chinese Language Council a HSK test center and a CFL test center. It is one of the first Chinese universities selected by the Chinese Government to establish Confucius Institute abroad and provide Government Scholarship and Confucius Institute Scholarship to international students. Up to now, it has established one Confucius Institute, three Confucius Classrooms and five Chinese culture centers abroad. It has cooperation with 100 universities and research institutes in Great Britain, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries as well as in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan of China. It has a training base for middle-school English teachers in southwest China sponsored by UNESCO and is one of the two universities in Yunnan Province that are authorized to enroll students from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan of China.

The university has won honors for its contribution to our national unity, educational development, cultural construction, moral education and legal construction from the State Council, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Education of China and the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee as well as from the provincial government and the local governments at different levels. Some of its students have won honors from governments and institutions at different levels for their scientific and technological innovation, achievements in moral education and praiseworthy actions for helping other people as well as other prestigious awards. Some students from this university have become medal winners in the Olympic Games or the Paralympic Games in Beijing and in Athens.

Facing new challenges and opportunities and carrying out its integrative development strategy, Yunnan Normal University standing on a vantage point and having a far-sighted view will build itself into one of the best of its kind in China with typical local features.