Guangxi University

Guangxi University is a provincial comprehensive university in Nanning, the capital of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China, co-built by the regional government and the Ministry of Education.广西大学是位于中国南部广西壮族自治区首府南宁的一所省部共建综合性大学，由自治区人民政府与教育部共同建设。

Founded in Wuzhou in 1928 under the educator Ma Junwu, it was dissolved in the 1953 national department adjustments and rebuilt in Nanning in 1958, later joining Project 211 and the Double First-Class Construction.学校 1928 年由教育家马君武在梧州创办，1953 年全国院系调整中停办，1958 年在南宁重建，其后进入 211 工程与双一流建设序列。

In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities it is placed in the 301-400 band, and it ranks 639th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global ranking.2026 年学校位列软科世界大学学术排名第 301-400 名区间，在 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球大学排名中位列第 639 名。

History

• In 1925 the New Guangxi clique led by Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi and Huang Shaoxiong unified the province and decided to create a university to train Guangxi's own talent, and in June 1928 Huang Shaoxiong invited the educator Ma Junwu to organise it.1925 年，以李宗仁、白崇禧、黄绍竑为首的新桂系统一广西，为培养广西人才决定设立广西大学，1928 年 6 月黄绍竑邀请教育家马君武筹办。
• On 10 October 1928 the provincial Guangxi University opened on Butterfly Mountain in Wuzhou, with Ma Junwu as first president and Pan Zhuqi as vice-president, and because few local students had finished senior high school it began with a three-year preparatory course.1928 年 10 月 10 日，省立广西大学在梧州蝴蝶山正式创办，马君武任首任校长、盘珠祁任副校长，因当时省内高中毕业生较少，先开设三年制预科。
• Teaching stopped in June 1929 during the Jiang-Gui War, and when the provincial government abruptly ordered the university closed in August 1931 the protest that followed forced it to reverse the decision within two weeks.1929 年 6 月因蒋桂战争学校暂停授课，1931 年 8 月省政府突然决议停办，遭到学校与各界抗议，两周内即宣布撤销停办决议。
• After reopening, the university added a department of mathematics and physics, opened colleges of agriculture and engineering in 1932, and recruited professors including Bai Pengfei, Yan Enyu and Ma Minghai.复课后学校成立理学院数理系，1932 年开设农学院与工学院，并聘请白鹏飞、严恩棫、马名海等教授。
• At the seventh-anniversary celebrations in October 1935 the chemistry professor Song Wenzheng was killed in an accident while demonstrating a new high explosive, and the university still commemorates his death.1935 年 10 月建校七周年纪念活动中，化学系教授宋文政在进行新型烈性炸药试验表演时发生意外以身殉职，学校至今纪念这位为实验献身的教授。
• In June 1936 the provincial government reorganised the university, made governor Huang Xuchu its concurrent president, merged the Guangxi Provincial Teachers College into its arts and law faculty and moved the headquarters to Liangfeng in Guilin.1936 年 6 月，广西省政府改组广西大学，省政府主席黄旭初兼任校长，将广西省立师范专科学校并入文法学院，并将校本部迁往桂林良丰。
• Chen Wangdao and Shi Fuliang headed the departments of literature and sociology, Zhu Foding served as secretary-general, and the medical college was absorbed before becoming the independent Guangxi Medical University in 1937.陈望道与施复亮分别任文学系和社会学系系主任，朱佛定任秘书长，医学院并入后于 1937 年独立为广西医科大学。
• When Japanese bombing made Wuzhou unsafe in 1938 the engineering college moved to Guilin and the agricultural college to Shatang in Liuzhou, while Bai Pengfei, who had become president that February, built up the teaching staff with refugee academics.1938 年梧州屡遭日军轰炸，理工学院迁往桂林、农学院迁往柳州沙塘，同年 2 月接任校长的白鹏飞延聘避难而来的知名教师，师资迅速壮大。
• In spring 1939 students launched a movement to make the provincial institution a national university, and in August the Nationalist government approved the change and reappointed Ma Junwu as president of National Guangxi University.1939 年春，理工学院学生发起国立运动并得到全院及社会支持，8 月国民政府行政院议决改为国立，并任命马君武为国立广西大学校长。
• After Ma Junwu died in August 1940 the provincial education commissioner Lei Peihong became president and encouraged academic freedom, but his tolerance of wartime democratic activity led to his removal in August 1941.1940 年 8 月马君武病逝，广西省教育厅厅长雷沛鸿接任校长并主张学术自由，但其对战时民主活动的宽容导致其于 1941 年 8 月被免职。
• The appointment of Gao Yang provoked a student committee that blocked his entry until gendarmes escorted him in, after which he punished large numbers of students and the campus remained tense until his resignation in late 1942.高阳出任校长引发学生组织拒高护校委员会在校门外阻止其到任，其后高阳由宪兵武装护送入校并处分大批学生，校内气氛紧张，直至 1942 年底他因病辞职。
• In the summer of 1944 the Japanese advance forced the university to evacuate Guilin for Rongjiang in Guizhou, where classes were held in eight conference halls and the university recruited Zhuang and Miao students into its agriculture, law and business colleges.1944 年夏日军进犯，学校撤离桂林迁往贵州榕江，在八座会馆中上课，并招收壮族、苗族等少数民族学生进入农、法、商学院。
• Japan's surrender in 1945 allowed a return to Guangxi, but the ruined Guilin campus forced temporary quarters in Liuzhou before the agricultural college moved to Yanshan Park and the other colleges to Jiangjun Bridge in 1946.1945 年日本投降后学校迁回广西，因桂林良丰校舍被毁暂栖柳州，1946 年农学院迁往雁山公园，理工及法商学院迁往将军桥。
• Chen Jianxiu became president in March 1946, and in June 1947 students joined a march against hunger, civil war and persecution that the provincial government tolerated after mediation by the provincial assembly speaker Jiang Jiyi.1946 年 3 月陈剑脩出任校长，1947 年 6 月部分学生参与反饥饿、反内战、反迫害大游行，经省参议会议长蒋继伊斡旋，省政府未加阻拦。
• In March 1949 the Central Bank withheld funds remitted to the university, prompting a strike by all professors and a demonstration that ended only when the bank conceded and the president resigned.1949 年 3 月中央银行扣留汇给广西大学的款项，引发教授全体罢教与师生游行，银行被迫妥协后，校长陈剑脩又因批评游行而辞职。
• Pan Zhuqi returned as president and organised the protection of the campus, so that when the People's Liberation Army took over in November 1949 the university passed to the new government intact.盘珠祁再度出任校长并主持护校活动，1949 年 11 月中国人民解放军接管时，学校得以完整移交。
• In February 1950 the Central People's Government appointed Yang Dongchun president, the National Nanning Teachers College was merged in the same year, the provincial Xijiang College was absorbed in 1951 and the agricultural and forestry college became independent in 1952.1950 年 2 月中央人民政府任命杨东莼为校长，同年国立南宁师范学院并入，1951 年省立西江学院全部并入，1952 年农学院农学系与林学系独立为广西农学院。
• Mao Zedong inscribed the name Guangxi University in Chinese calligraphy in April 1952, and the inscription remains in use as the university's name today.1952 年 4 月毛泽东为广西大学题写校名，这一题字沿用至今。
• In 1953 the Ministry of Higher Education dissolved the university and distributed its departments to 19 institutions, among them Sun Yat-sen University, Wuhan University, Guangxi Normal University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, South China University of Technology, Hunan University and Central South University.1953 年中央人民政府高等教育部决定撤销广西大学，将其院系调整至中山大学、武汉大学、广西师范学院、华中工学院、华南工学院、湖南大学、中南矿冶学院等 19 所院校。
• After governor Wei Guoqing argued that Guangxi needed a comprehensive university, the central government approved reconstruction in April 1958, the planned Guangxi Institute of Technology was merged into it, and it opened that October on the site of the former Vietnam Yucai School in western Nanning with ten departments.1957 年韦国清就任广西省省长后提议重建综合性大学，1958 年 4 月中央批准，原拟建的广西工学院并入，学校于当年 10 月在南宁西郊原越南育才学校校址创办，设十个系并开始招生。
• The Cultural Revolution halted enrolment, brought a workers' propaganda team and a revolutionary committee onto the campus, destroyed books and instruments in factional violence and led to the death of teachers including Mao Xinghan.文化大革命开始后学校停止招生，工人宣传队进驻并成立革命委员会，校内两派武斗毁坏大量图书资料与仪器，冒兴汉等教师被迫害致死。
• Enrolment of worker-peasant-soldier students began in 1971, the Chinese department was restored in 1972 with Qin Si, Wang Shijing, Chen Guangzhou and Chen Wutong among its new teachers, and the university press launched its natural science journal in 1976.1971 年学校开始招收工农兵大学生，1972 年增设中文系并引进秦似、王士菁、陈光中、陈梧桐等教师，1976 年《广西大学学报（自然科学版）》创刊。
• After the restoration of the national entrance examination the university enrolled its first master's students in 1978 in basic mathematics, condensed matter physics, mechanical manufacturing and internal combustion engines, adding a philosophy department the same year.恢复高考后，学校 1978 年开始招收硕士研究生，基础数学、凝聚态物理、机械制造、内燃机专业获首批硕士学位点，同年增设哲学系。
• Expansion in the 1980s added law in 1983, economics in 1984, light industry when the Guangxi Institute of Technology merged in 1985, journalism in 1987, a chemistry institute in 1988 and computer science in 1993.二十世纪八十年代学校持续增设专业，1983 年增设法律系、1984 年增设经济系、1985 年广西工学院并入并增设轻工系、1987 年增设新闻系、1988 年成立化学研究所、1993 年增设计算机科学系。
• Guangxi Agricultural University merged into Guangxi University in March 1997, the university gained doctoral authorisation in 1998 and was selected for Project 211 in June 1999, while junior-college enrolment ended in 2003.1997 年 3 月广西农业大学并入广西大学，1998 年学校成为博士学位授权单位，1999 年 6 月进入 211 工程重点建设高校名单，2003 年停止招收专科学生。
• In 2004 the Ministry of Education approved co-building with the regional government, in December 2006 the university co-founded a Confucius Institute in Suphanburi, Thailand, and in 2007 it created the School of International Education.2004 年学校被批准为教育部与广西壮族自治区共建高校，2006 年 12 月与泰国素攀武里合作创办孔子学院，2007 年 9 月成立国际教育学院。
• Civil engineering entered the national list of world-class disciplines in 2017 and received a public warning from the Ministry of Education in the second review round, while in July 2021 the affiliated Xingjian College became part of the new Guangxi Agricultural Vocational University.2017 年土木工程学科入选世界一流学科建设名单，在第二轮公示中被教育部公开警示，2021 年 7 月原属学校的行健文理学院脱离管理，参与组建广西农业职业技术大学。

Academics

• The university has 25 colleges and offers 68 undergraduate majors across 11 discipline categories, from philosophy and economics to engineering, agriculture, medicine and the arts.学校下设 25 个学院，开设 68 个本科专业，学科涵盖哲、经、法、教、文、理、工、农、医、管、艺等 11 大门类。
• It awards degrees through 19 first-level doctoral programmes, 38 first-level master's programmes and professional programmes in both cycles, and operates 14 postdoctoral stations.学校拥有 19 个一级学科博士学位授权点、38 个一级学科硕士学位授权点以及博士与硕士专业学位授权点，并设有 14 个博士后科研流动站。
• Twelve subjects rank in the top 1 per cent of the Essential Science Indicators, and civil engineering is the discipline named in the national world-class construction list.学校有 12 个学科进入基本科学指标数据库全球前 1%，土木工程是入选国家世界一流学科建设名单的学科。
• It holds two national key disciplines and one national key discipline under cultivation, and participates in two ministry-region co-built first-class discipline clusters.学校拥有 2 个国家重点学科、1 个国家重点培育学科，并参与建设 2 个部区合建一流学科群。
• Twenty-eight of its programmes are national first-class undergraduate programme construction points and 22 are regional first-class points, while 12 are designated national characteristic majors.学校有 28 个国家级一流本科专业建设点、22 个自治区级一流本科专业建设点，另有 12 个国家特色专业。
• Teaching resources include three national excellent courses, seven national first-class undergraduate courses, 48 regional first-class courses and two national bilingual teaching demonstration courses.学校开设国家精品课程 3 门、国家级一流本科课程 7 门、自治区级一流本科课程 48 门以及国家级双语教学示范课程 2 门。
• It counts three national teaching teams, two national teaching masters, four national comprehensive reform pilot programmes and one national innovation experimental zone for talent training.学校有国家级教学团队 3 个、国家教学名师 2 人、国家级专业综合改革试点专业 4 个以及国家级人才培养模式创新实验区 1 个。
• Five national off-campus practice bases, 24 experimental teaching centres, five national experimental teaching demonstration centres and two national virtual simulation centres support practical training.学校建有国家级大学生校外实践教育基地 5 个、实验教学中心 24 个、国家级实验教学示范中心 5 个与国家级虚拟仿真实验教学中心 2 个。
• Research infrastructure includes two national-level laboratories, one province-ministry co-built national key laboratory cultivation base and one national international science and technology cooperation base.科研设施包括 2 个国家重点实验室、1 个省部共建国家重点实验室培育基地与 1 个国家级国际科技合作基地。
• It also operates two province-ministry collaborative innovation centres, four Ministry of Education key laboratories and engineering centres, one ministry strategic research base and two ministry regional and country studies bases.学校还建有 2 个省部共建协同创新中心、4 个教育部重点实验室和工程研究中心、1 个教育部战略研究基地与 2 个教育部区域与国别研究基地。
• A key laboratory of the former State Forestry Administration completes the platform list, reflecting the agricultural and forestry strengths that came with the 1997 merger.原国家林业局重点实验室使平台体系更为完整，也反映出 1997 年合并带来的农林学科优势。
• The official profile records 3,407 staff members, including two full members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, while the 2021 statistics listed 1,933 full-time teachers, 60 national major talent programme selectees and 34 recipients of the State Council special allowance.学校官方简介记载教职工 3407 人，其中含 2 名全职中国工程院院士，2021 年统计则列有专任教师 1933 人、国家重大人才工程项目人选 60 人与享受国务院特殊津贴者 34 人。
• The library holds 4.175 million items, 3.67 million electronic books and journals, 9.43 million dissertations, 56,000 full-text electronic journals and 206 large databases, and its motto is to be learned, practice earnestly, attend to fundamentals and seek truth.图书馆馆藏总量 417.5 万册，另有电子书刊 367 万册、学位论文 943 万篇、全文电子期刊 5.6 万种与大型数据库 206 个，馆训为「博雅笃行 务本求真」。
• The China-ASEAN Research Institute is the university's area-studies institute, drawing on Guangxi's position as a land gateway to Southeast Asia.中国—东盟研究院是学校的区域研究机构，依托广西作为通往东南亚陆路门户的区位优势。
• International cooperation extends to agreements with more than 280 institutions in 48 countries, supported by the Confucius Institute in Suphanburi and the School of International Education.学校与 48 个国家的 280 余所院校签订合作协议，素攀武里孔子学院与国际教育学院承担相关支撑工作。
• In 2001 the South China University of Technology, which had received the university's chemical engineering department in 1953, signed a counterpart support agreement to assist its research development.2001 年，1953 年接收学校化工系的华南理工大学与广西大学签订对口支援协议，支持其科研发展。
• In 2021, 37 of the 67 majors then offered were admitted through 15 broad subject categories, a structure intended to give students more room to choose a specialisation after entry.2021 年，学校当时开设的 67 个本科专业中有 37 个按 15 个大类招生，这一结构旨在让学生在入学后有更多选择专业方向的空间。
• Postgraduate training expanded from the first four master's programmes of 1978 to a system that now covers doctoral, academic master's and professional master's degrees across the 11 discipline categories.研究生教育从 1978 年的首批 4 个硕士点发展到如今覆盖 11 大门类的博士、学术硕士与专业硕士学位体系。

Campus

• The university occupies East and West campuses in Nanning with about 21,800 mu of land and 1.42 million square metres of building floor space, according to its official profile.学校在南宁设有东、西两个校园，据官方简介占地约 2.18 万亩，校舍建筑面积 142 万平方米。
• Its Nanning campus was founded in 1958 on the site of the former Vietnam Yucai School in the western outskirts of the city, next to the relocated Guangxi Agricultural College.南宁校区 1958 年创办于市西郊原越南育才学校校址，与同期由桂林迁来的广西农学院毗邻。
• Each of the two campuses has an athletics field and a gymnasium, and the sports facilities include 31 basketball courts, 16 volleyball courts, 12 tennis courts and three five-a-side sand football pitches.东、西两校园各有一座体育场和体育馆，全校体育设施包括篮球场 31 个、排球场 16 个、网球场 12 个与五人制沙土足球场 3 个。
• Two 50 by 25 metre swimming pools, two outdoor fitness areas and four indoor all-weather training halls complete the sports provision.学校还建有 50×25 米游泳池 2 个、室外健身练习场 2 个与室内风雨练习馆 4 座，构成完整的体育设施体系。
• The historic campuses remain part of the university's identity: Butterfly Mountain in Wuzhou, where it opened in 1928, and Liangfeng and Jiangjun Bridge in Guilin, which housed it from 1936 to 1953.历史校园仍是学校身份的一部分：1928 年创办于梧州蝴蝶山，1936 年至 1953 年间则辗转于桂林良丰与将军桥。
• Mao Zedong's 1952 calligraphy of the university name is used for the name in official materials, and the emblem combines a toothed circle, rice ears and osmanthus for engineering, agriculture and the humanities.毛泽东 1952 年题写的校名用于学校名称与官方材料，校徽由齿状圆形、稻穗与桂花组成，分别象征理工科、农科与文法类。
• Guangxi Agricultural College moved from Guilin to a site beside the university in 1958, and its successor, Guangxi Agricultural University, merged into Guangxi University in 1997.广西农学院 1958 年由桂林迁至南宁并与广西大学毗邻，其后续的广西农业大学于 1997 年并入广西大学。

Reputation

• Guangxi University joined Project 211 in June 1999, was approved for co-building by the Ministry of Education and the regional government in 2004 and entered the Double First-Class Construction in 2017 through civil engineering.广西大学 1999 年 6 月进入 211 工程，2004 年被批准为教育部与自治区共建高校，2017 年以土木工程学科进入双一流建设。
• In 2026 it was placed in the 301-400 band of the Academic Ranking of World Universities and 639th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global ranking, and it did not enter the 2027 QS World University Rankings or the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.2026 年学校位列软科世界大学学术排名第 301-400 名区间，在 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球大学排名中位列第 639 名，未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名与 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。
• Twelve subjects in the top 1 per cent of the Essential Science Indicators and two national-level laboratories underpin its research standing within the region.12 个学科进入基本科学指标数据库全球前 1%，加上 2 个国家重点实验室，构成学校在区域内科研地位的基础。
• In the second round of the national world-class discipline review, the Ministry of Education issued a public warning to the university's civil engineering discipline.在全国第二轮世界一流学科建设评审中，教育部对学校土木工程学科给予公开警示。
• Its 1953 dissolution sent faculty, students and equipment to 19 institutions, an episode the university presents as a contribution to higher education across central and south-western China.1953 年学校撤销时，师资、学生与设备被分送至 19 所院校，学校将这一段历史视为对中南与西南高等教育的贡献。
• Two full members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 60 national major talent programme selectees and 34 recipients of the State Council special allowance make up its senior research base.2 名全职中国工程院院士、60 名国家重大人才工程项目人选与 34 名享受国务院特殊津贴者构成本校的高层次研究队伍。
• Partnerships with more than 280 institutions in 48 countries and the Confucius Institute in Suphanburi support research and student exchange with Southeast Asia.学校与 48 个国家 280 余所院校的合作以及素攀武里孔子学院，为与东南亚的科研合作与学生交流提供支撑。
• The library's 4.175 million items and 206 databases make it one of the largest academic collections in Guangxi and support research across all 11 discipline categories.图书馆 417.5 万册馆藏与 206 个数据库使其成为广西规模最大的学术馆藏之一，并支撑全部 11 大门类的研究。
• Its Project 211 and Double First-Class designations, awarded in 1999 and 2017, remain central to the university's public profile.学校于 1999 年与 2017 年分别获得 211 工程与双一流身份，这两项身份至今仍是其公共形象的核心。

Student life

• The official profile counts 23,419 undergraduates and 18,404 postgraduates, more than 42,000 students in all, taught by 3,407 staff members.学校官方简介记载本科生 23419 人、研究生 18404 人，在校生合计超过 42000 人，教职工 3407 人。
• Undergraduates choose from 68 majors in 25 colleges, and in 2021 incoming students were admitted through 15 broad categories covering 37 of the majors then offered.本科生可在 25 个学院的 68 个专业中选择，2021 年新生按 15 个大类招入，覆盖当时 67 个专业中的 37 个。
• The university sports meeting was first held in 1933 with athletics, tennis, volleyball, basketball and football for men only, and since 1982 it has been held every November with 11 team events.全校性学生运动会首次举办于 1933 年，设田径、网球、排球、篮球、足球 5 个大项且仅限男生参加，自 1982 年后每年 11 月举办，现计入团体总分的项目有 11 个大项。
• Its basketball teams compete in the Chinese University Basketball Association, with men's and women's sides both winning south-western regional titles and the men reaching the national last eight.学校篮球队多次参加中国大学生篮球联赛，男女篮均曾获西南赛区冠军，男篮曾多次进入全国八强。
• The women's team took third place nationally, and the university is a national cheerleading demonstration institution whose squad won 12 consecutive national university titles from 2003 to 2015.女篮曾获全国季军，学校是全国啦啦操示范窗口高校，其啦啦操队自 2003 年至 2015 年连续 12 年蝉联全国大学生啦啦操比赛冠军。
• That squad performed as a designated cheerleading team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and won the large mixed elite group title at the 2018 world university cheerleading championships.该队曾作为奥运指定啦啦队参加 2008 年北京奥运会，并夺得 2018 年世界大学生啦啦操锦标赛大型混合技巧精英组团体赛桂冠。
• The original motto, diligence, sincerity, simplicity and honesty, was set by Ma Junwu and drew on Liu Zongyuan's writings, and in 2008 a ballot of staff and students adopted the expanded motto diligence, sincerity, simplicity, honesty, broad learning and renewal.最初的校训「勤、恳、朴、诚」由马君武确立并取自柳宗元文章，2008 年经全体教职工与部分学生投票，扩展为「勤恳朴诚，厚学致新」。
• The school song, with lyrics by Ma Junwu and music by the chemistry lecturer Tang Tiemin, dates from the war years, and in 2008 Zhao Lin wrote a new setting while keeping Ma's words.校歌由马君武作词、化学系讲师汤铁民作曲，作于抗战时期，2008 年赵琳谱写新曲而保留马君武的歌词。
• The library's motto, to be learned, practice earnestly, attend to fundamentals and seek truth, frames its reading rooms, and its 4.175 million items serve students in all disciplines.图书馆以「博雅笃行 务本求真」为馆训，这一训示贯穿各阅览室，417.5 万册馆藏服务全校各学科学生。
• International students are enrolled and managed by the School of International Education, which also teaches Chinese as a foreign language and runs the university's overseas Confucius Institutes.留学生由国际教育学院负责招收与管理，该院同时承担对外汉语教学并管理学校海外孔子学院。

Notable people

• Ma Junwu, a scientist and educator, founded the university in 1928, wrote its first school song, returned as president in 1939 and died in office in August 1940.马君武是曾留学日本与德国的科学家、教育家，1928 年创办广西大学并为其校歌作词，1939 年再度出任校长，1940 年 8 月在任上去世。
• Pan Zhuqi served as vice-president at the founding in 1928 and as president in 1949, when he organised the protection of the campus and its orderly transfer.盘珠祁 1928 年建校时出任副校长，1949 年出任校长，主持护校并促成学校平稳移交。
• Bai Pengfei, an educator, became president in February 1938 and used the influx of refugee scholars to rebuild the teaching staff during the move to Guilin.白鹏飞是法学家与教育家，1938 年 2 月出任校长，借大批学者避难入桂之机重建师资队伍。
• Lei Peihong, the provincial education commissioner, was president from 1940 to 1941 and defended academic freedom before his removal by the Nationalist government.雷沛鸿时任广西省教育厅厅长，1940 年至 1941 年任校长并主张学术自由，其后被国民政府免职。
• Chen Wangdao headed the department of literature after the 1936 reorganisation and Shi Fuliang headed sociology, bringing nationally known scholars to the Guilin campus.1936 年改组后陈望道任文学系系主任、施复亮任社会学系系主任，为桂林时期的校园带来全国知名学者。
• Huang Xuchu, chairman of Guangxi province, served as concurrent president after the 1936 reorganisation, while Zhu Foding acted as secretary-general and de facto head of the university.广西省政府主席黄旭初在 1936 年改组后兼任校长，朱佛定任秘书长并实际主持校务。
• Yang Dongchun, appointed president in February 1950, presided over the merger of the National Nanning Teachers College and the absorption of Xijiang College.杨东莼于 1950 年 2 月被任命为校长，主持国立南宁师范学院并入与西江学院接收工作。
• Wei Guoqing, governor of Guangxi from 1957, proposed the reconstruction of the university and served as its concurrent president when it reopened in Nanning in 1958.韦国清自 1957 年任广西省省长，提议重建广西大学，并在 1958 年南宁复校时兼任校长。
• Qin Si, a writer, joined the restored Chinese department in 1972 together with the scholars Wang Shijing, Chen Guangzhou and Chen Wutong, helping to revive teaching after the Cultural Revolution.作家秦似于 1972 年与学者王士菁、陈光中、陈梧桐一同进入恢复后的中文系，协助学校在文化大革命后重建教学。
• Song Wenzheng, a chemistry professor, died in October 1935 during a demonstration of a new explosive at the university's seventh-anniversary celebrations and is remembered for the sacrifice.化学系教授宋文政于 1935 年 10 月在建校七周年纪念活动中演示新型炸药时殉职，学校至今纪念他的牺牲。