Fujian Normal University

Fujian Normal University, abbreviated FNU and known in Chinese as 福建师范大学, is a provincial public university in Fuzhou, Fujian, China, jointly built by the Fujian Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Education.福建师范大学（简称福建师大或 FNU）是中国福建省福州市的省属公立大学，由福建省人民政府与教育部共建。

It traces its origin to the Fujian Superior Normal School founded in 1907 by Chen Baochen, tutor to the last Qing emperor, and took its present name in 1972 after two decades of mergers among Fuzhou's Christian and provincial colleges.学校前身为 1907 年由清末帝师陈宝琛创办的福建优级师范学堂，经过二十年间福州教会院校与省立院校的数次合并，于 1972 年定名福建师范大学。

It now has 28 secondary colleges, about 25,000 full-time undergraduates and more than 10,000 postgraduate students on the Qishan and Cangshan campuses, and it occupies the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027 while recording 35,779 works and 1,399,506 citations in OpenAlex.学校现设 28 个二级学院，旗山与仓山两校区共有全日制本科生约 2.5 万人、各类研究生 1 万余人，位列 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名 1201-1400 区间，OpenAlex 收录其 35,779 项成果与 1,399,506 次引用。

History

• Fujian Superior Normal School opened in 1907 under Chen Baochen, a scholar-official who had been tutor to the deposed emperor Puyi, and it is regarded as the founding moment of teacher education in the province.福建优级师范学堂于 1907 年在陈宝琛主持下开办，这位士大夫曾为退位的溥仪皇帝授读，该校被视为福建省师范教育的起点。

• After the Xinhai Revolution the school was renamed Fujian Normal School, became Fujian Higher Normal School in 1913, and lost its higher normal division in 1914 when the new republic reorganised provincial education.辛亥革命后，学堂改称福建师范学校，1913 年更名为福建高等师范学校，1914 年因民国整顿省立教育而停办高等师范科。

• Private Fujian Law and Politics School, founded in 1911, and the provincial research institute established in 1939 supplied two further strands that were later folded into the normal college.1911 年创办的私立福建法政学堂与 1939 年设立的福建省研究院，构成了后来并入师范学院的另外两条脉络。

• Fujian Provincial Normal College was created in 1941 during the war years, when coastal institutions were dispersed inland and teacher supply for the province had become a pressing problem.福建省立师范学院于 1941 年抗战期间设立，当时沿海院校内迁、全省师资供给成为紧迫问题。

• In 1951 Fukien Christian University, founded by mission societies, merged with Hwa Nan Women's College to form Fuzhou University, a union that brought a strong science faculty into the normal-education lineage.1951 年，由差会创办的福建协和大学与华南女子文理学院合并为福州大学，这次合并把实力雄厚的理学院并入了师范教育的谱系。

• The 1952 national reorganisation of higher education added Fujian Provincial Normal College, the Fujian Provincial Research Institute and the private Fujian College to Fuzhou University, concentrating the province's academic resources in one institution.1952 年全国高校院系调整又把福建省立师范学院、福建省研究院与私立福建学院并入福州大学，使全省学术资源集中于一处。

• In September 1953 Fuzhou University was renamed Fujian Normal College, and the institution settled into the single mission of training teachers for Fujian's primary and secondary schools.1953 年 9 月，福州大学改称福建师范学院，学校由此专注于为福建中小学培养师资这一单一使命。

• The Cultural Revolution suspended normal teaching and admissions after 1966, and the college was dissolved into other institutions before being revived at the start of the 1970s.文化大革命使正常教学与招生在 1966 年后中断，学院一度被并入其他机构，直到 1970 年代初才得以恢复。

• Fujian Normal University took its present name in 1972, when the institution was re-established and assigned the broader role of a comprehensive provincial university with a continuing teacher-training core.1972 年学校复办并更名为福建师范大学，被赋予兼顾师范传统与综合性省属大学的新定位。

• The restoration of the national college entrance examination in 1977 brought a new generation of students, and the university expanded its faculties through the 1980s to meet the demand for teachers and researchers.1977 年恢复高考为学校带来新一代学生，1980 年代各院系随之扩充，以回应社会对教师与科研人才的需求。

• In 1981 the State Council approved FNU as one of the first institutions authorised to award master's degrees, a recognition of its standing among provincial universities.1981 年国务院批准该校为全国首批硕士学位授予单位之一，这是对其省属院校中学术地位的认可。

• The university gained the right to award doctoral degrees in 1993, and doctoral programmes in Chinese literature, geography and related fields followed through the later 1990s.学校于 1993 年获得博士学位授予权，此后中国语言文学、地理学等领域的博士点陆续设立。

• A second campus was developed at Qishan in the Fuzhou University Town in Minhou County, giving the university modern laboratories and dormitories while the Cangshan site remained the historic core.学校在闽侯县福州大学城建设旗山校区，为学校提供现代化实验室与宿舍，仓山校区则继续作为历史核心。

• In 2007 the university marked its centenary as a teacher-training institution, counting from the 1907 normal school rather than from the 1953 college.2007 年学校纪念师范教育一百周年，纪年从 1907 年的优级师范学堂算起，而非 1953 年的师范学院。

• In 2012 the Ministry of Education and the Fujian Provincial Government agreed to build the university jointly, a status that brought national funding and policy support to a provincial institution.2012 年教育部与福建省决定共建福建师范大学，这一身份为省属院校带来了国家层面的经费与政策支持。

• Fujian designated it a key high-level university in 2014 and a first-class university in 2018, and in 2022 it was placed in the A category of the province's second round of first-class development.福建省于 2014 年将其确定为重点建设高水平大学，2018 年列为省一流大学建设高校，2022 年又将其列入第二轮「双一流」建设 A 类。

• In 2020 the university received the national civilised campus designation, an award that reflects its residential college system, its volunteer programmes and its role in Fuzhou's public culture.2020 年学校获评全国文明校园，这一荣誉反映了其住宿书院体系、志愿服务项目以及在福州公共文化中的作用。

• By 2025 the university had grown to 28 secondary colleges offering 85 undergraduate programmes, with 19 first-level doctoral disciplines and 20 postdoctoral research stations.到 2025 年，学校已发展为 28 个二级学院、85 个本科专业，拥有 19 个博士学位授权一级学科与 20 个博士后科研流动站。

• Its lineage also includes the provincial research institute of 1939 and the private law school of 1911, which explain why a normal college came to hold strong programmes in geography, optics and law.该校谱系中还包含 1939 年的省研究院与 1911 年的私立法政学堂，这解释了何以一所师范学院会在地理学、光学与法学上拥有强势学科。

• The university has trained nearly 600,000 graduates since 1907, and its alumni are concentrated in Fujian's schools, universities, newspapers and provincial administration.自 1907 年以来，学校已培养近 60 万名毕业生，校友集中于福建的中学、高校、报社与省级行政机关。

• FNU's historical campuses in Fuzhou trace the city's modern educational geography, from the Cangshan hills near the Min River to the new town in Minhou, a shift completed over the first two decades of the twenty-first century.该校在福州的校区变迁勾勒出这座城市现代教育的空间轨迹，从闽江之滨的仓山丘陵到闽侯的新大学城，这一转移在 21 世纪头二十年完成。

Academics

• The university is organised into 28 secondary colleges and schools, covering education, economics, liberal arts, communication, social history, law, public administration, foreign languages, music, fine arts and the sciences.学校设 28 个二级学院，覆盖教育、经济、文学、传播、社会历史、法学、公共管理、外语、音乐、美术与理科等领域。

• It offers 85 undergraduate programmes, 33 first-level master's disciplines, 27 professional master's categories, 19 first-level doctoral disciplines and four professional doctoral programmes.学校开设 85 个本科专业，拥有 33 个硕士学位授权一级学科、27 个硕士专业学位类别、19 个博士学位授权一级学科与 4 个博士专业学位授权点。

• Twenty postdoctoral research stations support early-career researchers, and the university's 2,160 full-time teachers carry a load of about 25,000 undergraduates and more than 10,000 postgraduates.二十个博士后科研流动站为青年研究人员提供支持，2,160 名专任教师承担着约 2.5 万名本科生与 1 万余名研究生的培养任务。

• Chinese language and literature is the historic flagship, with modern and contemporary Chinese literature recognised as a national key discipline, and it is supported by a national base for basic-arts talent training.中国语言文学是学校的历史王牌，中国现当代文学为国家重点学科，并设有国家文科基础学科人才培养基地。

• Geography, physical education, music and dance, Marxist theory and optical engineering form the next tier of strengths, several of them ranked among the best in Fujian and in China's normal universities.地理学、体育学、音乐与舞蹈学、马克思主义理论以及光学工程构成第二梯队的优势学科，其中若干在福建省与全国师范院校中位居前列。

• The university hosts a national 2011 collaborative innovation centre and a Ministry of Education key laboratory for humid subtropical eco-geographical processes, both tied to Fujian's mountain-and-coast environment.学校设有国家级 2011 协同创新中心以及教育部湿润亚热带生态-地理过程重点实验室，两者都紧扣福建的山海环境。

• Teacher education remains the core business, and FNU is one of the institutions entrusted with the national excellent teacher training programme and with pilot reforms in primary and secondary teacher preparation.师范教育仍是学校的核心业务，它承担着国家级卓越教师培养计划，以及中小学教师培养改革的试点任务。

• The university was designated a pilot institution for recruiting Taiwanese students directly, and it runs joint programmes with universities in Taiwan that allow students to spend part of their degree across the strait.学校被列为单独招收台湾学生的试点院校，并与台湾高校合办项目，让学生可以跨海峡完成部分学业。

• It also serves as a Ministry of Education base for teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages in Southeast Asia, a role that draws students from Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.学校还是教育部面向东南亚开展对外汉语教学的基地，这一角色吸引了来自印度尼西亚、菲律宾、泰国与越南的学生。

• The library system holds nearly five million printed volumes and about six million electronic books, with the main collections housed on the Qishan campus and older holdings kept at Cangshan.图书馆系统藏有纸质图书近 500 万册、电子图书约 600 万种，主馆设在旗山校区，较陈旧的馆藏留在仓山。

• Research output is concentrated in chemistry, materials science, geography, ecology and the humanities, and OpenAlex attributes about 35,779 works and 1,399,506 citations to the university.科研产出集中于化学、材料科学、地理学、生态学与人文学科，OpenAlex 将约 35,779 项成果与 1,399,506 次引用归于该校。

• Its polymer and organic chemistry groups work on functional materials and have produced several highly cited papers with partners in the Chinese Academy of Sciences.该校高分子与有机化学团队从事功能材料研究，与中国科学院的研究伙伴合作发表过多篇高被引论文。

• The geography and ecology programmes use Fujian's drainage basins, coastal wetlands and subtropical forests as field laboratories, and they supply data to provincial environmental planning.地理学与生态学项目以福建的流域、滨海湿地与亚热带森林作为野外实验室，并为省级环境规划提供数据。

• The university runs an affiliated high school and a network of experimental schools, which function as placement sites for student teachers and as laboratories for curriculum reform.学校办有附属中学及一批实验学校，它们既是师范生的实习基地，也是课程改革的实验场。

• International cooperation is strongest with universities in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and Southeast Asia, and the university participates in Confucius Institute teacher-training schemes.国际合作的强项在台湾、香港、日本与东南亚高校，学校还参与孔子学院的师资培训计划。

• Undergraduate admission is by national college entrance examination score, with provincial quotas and separate arrangements for Taiwan students and for students from designated rural counties.本科招生以全国高考成绩为依据，按省域配额录取，并对台湾学生与指定农村县市学生设有单独安排。

• Two editions of the Journal of Fujian Normal University, one in philosophy and social sciences and one in the natural sciences, publish work by the university's own staff and by scholars elsewhere in Fujian.福建师范大学学报分哲学社会科学版与自然科学版两辑，刊载本校教师以及福建其他院校学者的研究成果。

Campus

• FNU has two campuses, the historic Cangshan campus at 32 Shangshan Road in the Cangshan District and the main Qishan campus at the Fuzhou University Town in Minhou County.学校有仓山与旗山两个校区，前者位于仓山区上三路 32 号，后者位于闽侯县福州大学城，为主校区。

• Together they cover more than 4,000 mu, roughly 270 hectares, making FNU one of the larger residential universities in Fujian.两校区合计占地 4,000 余亩，约合 270 公顷，使该校成为福建规模较大的住宿制大学之一。

• The Qishan campus is built around Xingyu Lake, a landscaped water body that has become the university's visual signature and the setting for graduation photographs and evening walks.旗山校区围绕星雨湖布局，这片人工湖已成为学校的视觉标志，也是毕业留影与夜间散步的所在。

• The Cangshan campus occupies the slopes of Chang'an Hill near the Min River, where older teaching buildings, banyan trees and the original library preserve the atmosphere of the twentieth-century college.仓山校区位于闽江附近的长安山麓，老旧教学楼、榕树与最初的图书馆保留着二十世纪学院的气息。

• The Qishan site sits inside the Fuzhou University Town, sharing transport, housing and library resources with neighbouring provincial universities and giving students access to a city-scale academic district.旗山校区位于福州大学城之内，与周边省属高校共享交通、住宿与图书资源，学生因此处于一个城市级的学术片区之中。

• The Cangshan campus stands near the historic foreign concession area of Yantai Hill, a district of consulates, churches and nineteenth-century villas that shaped Fuzhou's modern architecture.仓山校区邻近烟台山历史领事馆区，那里遍布领事馆、教堂与十九世纪别墅，塑造了福州的近代建筑风貌。

• The university's affiliated high school, one of the most competitive in Fujian, occupies a separate site and maintains a close relationship with the College of Education.学校附属中学是福建最具竞争力的中学之一，拥有独立校园，并与教育学院保持紧密联系。

• Fuzhou itself, a city of over seven million people on the Min River, gives the university a setting known as the land of coastal Zou-Lu culture, with the Three Lanes and Seven Alleys quarter a short drive from Cangshan.福州是闽江之畔人口逾七百万的城市，素有「海滨邹鲁」之称，三坊七巷历史街区距仓山校区仅短程车程，为学校提供了深厚的文化环境。

• The Cangshan campus lies about three kilometres south of Fuzhou's city centre, close to the Min River, and city buses and the metro line along the river connect it to the commercial districts.仓山校区位于福州市中心以南约三公里、靠近闽江，公交线路与沿江地铁线把它与商业区连接起来。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 FNU is placed in the 1201-1400 band, the shared interval used for institutions immediately outside the individually numbered positions.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，福建师范大学被列入 1201-1400 区间，这一并列区间用于安置紧接单独编号名次之后的院校。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place it in the 1001-1200 band, the strongest of its main-table results and a reflection of its broad science base.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列入 1001-1200 区间，这是该校在主要榜单中的最好成绩，也反映其较宽的理科基础。

• The U.S. News Best Global Universities list for 2026-2027 ranks it 975th, its first appearance inside the global top thousand in that table.在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单中，该校排名第 975 位，首次进入该榜全球前一千名。

• The Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 places it in the 501-600 band, a strong result for a provincial normal university outside the national Double First-Class list.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名将其列入 501-600 区间，对一所不在国家「双一流」名单内的省属师范大学而言，这是相当强劲的成绩。

• OpenAlex attributes about 35,779 works and 1,399,506 citations to FNU, with chemistry, materials science and environmental science supplying the largest shares of cited output.OpenAlex 将约 35,779 项成果与 1,399,506 次引用归于该校，其中化学、材料科学与环境科学的被引产出占比最大。

• Nationally, FNU is a provincial key university jointly built with the Ministry of Education and an A-class institution in Fujian's second round of first-class university development.在国内，该校是与教育部共建的省属重点大学，也是福建省第二轮「双一流」建设 A 类高校。

• It is commonly described as the cradle of teachers in Fujian, and its graduates staff a large share of the province's secondary schools and county education bureaux.该校常被称为福建教师的摇篮，其毕业生占据全省中学与县级教育行政部门相当比例的岗位。

• Its academic reputation rests on Chinese literature, geography, physical education and optics, fields in which it has national key disciplines, doctoral programmes and ministry-level platforms.其学术声誉建立在中国语言文学、地理学、体育学与光学之上，这些领域拥有国家重点学科、博士点与部级平台。

• The 2020 national civilised campus award and its standing as a pilot institution for Taiwanese recruitment give FNU a public profile beyond purely bibliometric measures.2020 年获评全国文明校园，加上作为对台招生试点院校的身份，使该校的公共形象超出单纯的文献计量指标。

• Within Fujian it is routinely grouped with Xiamen University and Fuzhou University as one of the province's leading comprehensive universities, and its graduates dominate the teaching profession in the interior counties.在福建省内，该校常与厦门大学、福州大学并列为全省领先的综合性大学，其毕业生在内陆县份的教师队伍中占据主导地位。

Student life

• The university motto, 知明行笃，立诚致广, pairs clear understanding with earnest practice and sincere intention with a broad horizon, and it is displayed at both campus gates.校训「知明行笃，立诚致广」把明理与笃行、诚意与广博相对举，两个校区的校门都镌刻此语。

• The associated school spirit is summarised as emphasis on teaching, diligence in study, truth-seeking in research and innovation in practice, a formula repeated in every official history of the university.与之配套的校风被概括为「重教、勤学、求实、创新」，这一表述出现在学校每一版官方校史之中。

• More than a hundred student societies operate across the two campuses, covering teacher-training skills, debate, drama, calligraphy, photography, robotics and volunteer service.两个校区共有上百个学生社团，涵盖师范技能、辩论、话剧、书法、摄影、机器人与志愿服务等方向。

• Teaching-skills competitions, micro-class contests and school internships are central to student life, since a large share of undergraduates are preparing for careers in primary and secondary classrooms.教学技能大赛、微课竞赛与校内实习构成学生生活的重要部分，因为相当比例的本科生正为中小学教职做准备。

• Volunteer teaching in rural Fujian is a long-running tradition, and student teams spend summer holidays in county schools and village classrooms across the province.赴福建农村支教是一项长期传统，学生团队利用暑假前往全省各县的学校与乡村课堂。

• The annual sports meeting, dormitory basketball leagues and the university's dragon-boat and athletics teams give the campus a competitive calendar from October to May.一年一度的校运会、宿舍篮球联赛以及龙舟与田径队，让校园从十月到五月都排满竞赛日程。

• Taiwanese students and students from Southeast Asia form visible international communities, and the university organises cultural festivals that mix Minnan opera, Indonesian dance and Southeast Asian food.台湾学生与东南亚学生构成显眼的国际社群，学校举办的文化节把闽南戏、印尼舞蹈与东南亚美食混合在一起。

• Xingyu Lake and the wooded slopes of Chang'an Hill are the two poles of student geography, one for evening gatherings and the other for the quiet reading that a normal university still prizes.星雨湖与长安山的林坡构成学生生活的两极，前者宜于傍晚聚会，后者宜于师范大学依然看重的安静读书。

Notable people

• Chen Baochen, tutor to the last Qing emperor and a leading moderniser of Fujian education, founded the Fujian Superior Normal School in 1907 and is claimed as the university's founding figure.陈宝琛是清末帝师，也是福建教育近代化的推动者，他于 1907 年创办福建优级师范学堂，被尊为学校的创办人。

• Ye Shengtao, the writer and editor whose textbooks shaped Chinese primary education, taught at the institution in its early decades and remains its most celebrated teaching figure.作家、编辑家叶圣陶所编教科书塑造了中国小学教育，他在学校早期任教，至今仍是最受推崇的执教者。

• Guo Shaoyu, a historian of Chinese literary criticism, taught at FNU and helped establish its reputation in classical Chinese literature and literary theory.中国文学批评史家郭绍虞曾在福建师大任教，为学校在中国古典文学与文论领域的声誉奠定了基础。

• Dong Zuobin, the oracle-bone scholar who directed the Anyang excavations, taught at the university and brought modern archaeology into its humanities curriculum.主持安阳殷墟发掘的甲骨学家董作宾曾在校任教，把现代考古学带入学校的人文学科课程。

• Lin Lanying, a materials scientist known as a pioneer of China's semiconductor materials, studied at the university and later worked at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.被誉为中国半导体材料先驱的材料科学家林兰英曾在该校求学，后任职于中国科学院。

• Huang Weiyuan, an organic chemist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is an alumnus whose work on fluorochemicals supported China's specialty materials industry.有机化学家、中国科学院院士黄维垣是该校校友，他在氟化学方面的研究支撑了中国特种材料工业。

• Tang Zhongzhang, a parasitologist and academician, taught at the university, and his daughter Tang Chongti, also a parasitologist and academician, studied there, making the family a symbol of its science tradition.寄生虫学家、中科院院士唐仲璋曾在校任教，其女儿唐崇惕同样是中国科学院院士、寄生虫学家，也曾在此求学，这一家族成为学校理科传统的象征。

• Cai Qi, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, studied at FNU and later served as party secretary of Beijing.中共中央政治局常委蔡奇曾就读于福建师大，后出任北京市委书记。

• Huang Kunming, party secretary of Guangdong province and a former head of the Central Propaganda Department, is another alumnus who rose through provincial and central cultural administration.曾任中宣部部长的黄坤明现任广东省委书记，是另一位经省级与中央文化宣传系统晋升的校友。

• Fan Di'an, president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and a curator of major national art exhibitions, graduated from FNU's art department and remains its best-known figure in the visual arts.中央美术学院院长、多次担任国家级美术展览策展人的范迪安毕业于福建师大美术系，是该校在视觉艺术领域最知名的人物。