Anyang Normal University

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Anyang Normal University is located in Anyang City, the hometown of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the location of Yin Ruins, the spiritual birthplace of Hongqi Canal, a national historical and cultural city and one of the eight ancient capitals of China. It is an ordinary undergraduate university in Henan Province. The school was formerly established in 1908 in anyang normal, Zhangde Mansion, and was named Pingyuan Provincial anyang normal School in 1949. It was renamed Henan Anyang Teachers College in 1958, Anyang First Normal School in 1960, Anyang Teachers College in 1978 and anyang normal College in 1992. In 2000, anyang normal College, Anyang Institute of Education and Anyang Second Normal School merged to form anyang normal College. In 2011, it was approved by the Academic Degrees Office of the State Council as a pilot unit for postgraduate training of master's degree. In 2020, it will become one of the 17 key universities and key discipline construction universities in Henan Province. Adhere to the characteristics of famous schools. The school attaches great importance to the development of Oracle Bone Inscriptions research, an "exceptional" and unpopular discipline with important cultural value and inheritance significance, builds an academic team with interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary joint research, namely Oracle Bone Inscriptions Information Processing Team, establishes Oracle Bone Inscriptions Research Institute, and applies cloud computing and big data technology to the textual research and interpretation research in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. "Oracle Bone Inscriptions Information Processing Discipline Group" has been approved as a characteristic backbone discipline construction group in Henan Province. "Oracle Bone Inscriptions Information Processing" was approved by the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, the Innovation Team of the Ministry of Education and the Key Laboratory of Henan Province, and "Oracle Bone Inscriptions Collaborative Innovation Center for Information Processing and Activation and Utilization" was listed as an important platform for serving the national strategy, undertaking 14 national fund projects, and was approved by the National Philosophy and Social Science Planning Office in 2016 as 3 of the 9 sub-topics of Oracle Bone Inscriptions Research Major Entrust Project. The self-developed Oracle Bone Inscriptions Database is the database with the largest capacity, the most complete information and the greatest influence in the industry at present. The published Yindu Journal is the journal of the Chinese Yinshang Culture Society, and has been selected as a periodical sponsored by the Ministry of Education's famous column construction project and the National Social Science Planning Office. The published Yinxu Osteology Dictionary is regarded as an encyclopedic monograph of Oracle Bone Inscriptions's study and research. The school actively carries out the training project of talents serving the special needs of the country-Chinese international education. In 2009, it was approved by Henan Chinese International Promotion Chinese Character Culture Base, and in 2012, it began to recruit postgraduate students majoring in Chinese International Education, and recruited international students for Thailand, a country along the "the belt and road initiative". At present, 296 postgraduates majoring in Chinese international education have been trained, and the proportion of overseas internships of postgraduates has reached 73.2%. The innovative training base for postgraduate education jointly established with the Chinese Character Museum and other units has been approved as the innovative training base for postgraduate education in Henan Province, and the major of Chinese international education has been awarded the authorization point for the master's degree of distinctive brands in Henan Province. The school actively promotes the transformation from teacher education to teacher education, undertakes the training work of primary education (general teachers) and the "national training" and "provincial training" plans in Henan Province, builds a provincial-level teacher education linkage development community of "three cities and four schools" in northern Henan with local governments and universities, and has been approved as the first batch of experimental zones for teacher education reform and innovation in Henan Province and the training institute for principals of primary and secondary schools in Henan Province, and has trained a large number of "affordable, useful and sustainable" teachers for basic education. The school insists on research school. There are key laboratories of the Ministry of Education (Oracle Bone Inscriptions Information Processing), key laboratories of Henan Province (new photoelectric functional materials, Oracle Bone Inscriptions information processing), engineering laboratories of Henan Province (development and application of chemical energy-saving materials, advanced robots, photovoltaic grid-connected power generation and energy storage technology), international joint laboratories of Henan Province (photoelectric functional materials), engineering technology center of Henan Province (precise synthesis of fluorine-containing drugs), and international scientific and technological cooperation base for intelligent processing of sensory data of Henan Province. Henan postdoctoral research and development base and other 10 provincial and ministerial-level scientific research platforms of science and engineering, There are provincial collaborative innovation centers for overseas Chinese communication in the "2011 Plan" in Henan Province, key social science research bases in Henan Province (Central Plains Cultural Research Center), the first batch of intangible cultural heritage research bases in Henan Province, key research bases for humanities and social sciences in Henan universities (Research Center for Oracle and Yin Shang Culture, Research Center for Chinese Character Culture), Research Base for Religious Issues of Religious Affairs Bureau of Henan Provincial People's Government, Research Center for Sinicization of Catholicism in Henan Province, and Inheritance Base for Excellent Chinese Traditional Culture in Henan Province (Oracle Bone Inscriptions Art). During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the school undertook 335 projects at or above the provincial level, including 38 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation and 18 projects of the National Social Science Foundation. 89.37 million yuan was allocated for scientific research, including 47.015 million yuan for horizontal projects. Six scientific research platforms at or above the provincial level were approved, and the breakthrough of key laboratories of the Ministry of Education was achieved for the first time. One innovation team from the Ministry of Education, one provincial science and technology innovation team and two provincial science and technology innovation talents were approved. Received 60 awards for scientific research achievements at or above the provincial level; Published 138 academic works and teaching materials, and obtained 378 national patents; Published 1354 academic papers in journals above the core, including 750 papers in SCI, SSCI, EI and A&HCI. In the 2020 Nature Index Rankings released by British Nature Publishing Group, our school ranks 172nd among universities in mainland China and 6th among universities in Henan Province, ranking first among similar universities. Today's anyang normal University is holding high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, taking Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era as the guide, thoroughly implementing the spirit of the 19th Party Congress and the spirit of the national and provincial education conferences, implementing the fundamental task of cultivating people by virtue, upholding and strengthening the party's overall leadership over school work, comprehensively deepening comprehensive reform, comprehensively promoting connotation development and characteristic development, comprehensively improving the quality of running schools, and making great strides towards the goal of building a socialist modern university with distinctive characteristics.

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