Jiangxi Normal University (JXNU)

Jiangxi Normal University traces its origins to the historic White Deer Grotto Academy which was situated on Mount Lu. The university was formally established in 1940 as National Chung Cheng University. It was renamed Nanchang University in 1949, became Jiangxi Teachers College in 1953, and adopted its current name in 1983. In 2003, it expanded further by incorporating the Jiangxi Worker’s University of Finance. 

Located in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province in central China, the university benefits from its setting along the Gan River. 

The university is co-sponsored by China’s Ministry of Education and the Jiangxi Provincial Government and is recognised as a key "teacher-training oriented" institution under the Midwest University Fundamental Capacity Building Project. The university has two campuses, Yaohu Lake and Qingshanhu Lake.

The university encompasses 22 colleges plus an independent College of Science and Technology, offering a wide variety of degree programmes, from education, literature, philosophy and history to natural sciences, law, management, engineering, and the arts.

The university remains committed to teacher education: out of 15 doctoral programmes, 13 are in teacher education, and it champions national first-class status in 19 such programmes. It serves as a training hub for rural teachers.