The news was updated on June 20, 2019. 

Girder erection on the Dali-Lincang railway section, part of the China-Myanmar international railway, kicked off June 18 on the Tuanjie bridge in Weishan County, west Yunnan’s Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture.

With each weighing 140 metric tons, the T-shaped girders were erected through the JQ190 bridging machine, which is operated by a 25-member crew.

A total of 1,304 girders need to be equipped on bridges of the rail section

As part of Yunnan’s 8 cross-province and 5 cross-border railways, the Dali-Lincang section extended over 200 kilometers with a designed speed of 160 km/h.

Upon completion, the Dali-Lincang railway is expected to upgrade local communication system, spurring socio-economic development in southwest Yunnan.

Why is Lijiashan Bronze Museum So Special?

Lijiashan Bronze Museum was completed and opened in the autumn of 1994. It displays such precious cultural relics as the “bull and tiger bronze ware” unearthed in the 1970s and became a sensation in the world. It can also undertake the task of repairing, sorting and duplicating cultural relics. And it is the first professional bronze museum with complete functions. Thethe first professional bronze museum with complete functions shape is archaistic architecture, displaying the precious cultural relics unearthed in the ancient tombs of the royal family of Yunnan. According to research, this batch of cultural relics is the works from the ancient warring states period to the early eastern Han dynasty, has 2,000 years of history.

Lijiashan Bronze Museum is outstanding cultural relic of national treasure level and a miracle in Chinese bronze culture. These bronze wares not only have historical origins with the bronze culture of central plains and northwest China, but also have distinct national characters of frontier areas. It is of great value for us to study the history of nationality, agriculture and animal husbandry, metallurgy, fine arts, folk customs and so on in ancient China, especially in ancient Yunnan.

Where is Lijiashan Bronze Museum – Location

Located in Jiangchuan District, Yuxi City, south of Kunming, Lijiashan Bronze Museum is about 110 kilometers away from Kunming. It takes about two hours driving from Kunming to Jiangchuan.

Features and Main Classifications

The museum has eight exhibition halls, among which the bronze exhibition hall displays 279 of the more than 2,000 cultural relics. They are classified into production, life, military, dance and decoration according to their functions and uses.

1. Social Production

It includes pointed leaf shape copper hoe, trapezoidal copper hoe, curved blade copper hoe, flat blade copper hoe, bar copper hoe, engrave copper hoe, wide blade copper hoe, curved copper axe, serpentine engrave bronze ware and other agricultural implements. In addition to agricultural production, animal husbandry, fishery and hunting also accounted for a large proportion in ancient Yunnan society.

2. Life

How to Get there

Tourists have two ways to get to Lijiashan Bronze Museum, long-distance bus and train.

1. By Long-distance Bus

You can take midibus from Kunming East Bus Station to Jiangchuan District. It takes about 2 hours to take the bus. After arriving at Jiangchuan District, you can walk to arrive.

2. By Train

If you want to take train, you should go to Yuxi station first, and then take the bus or taxi to Jiangchuan District. You will spend about 1 hour and 15 minutes on the train. The lowest ticket price  is CNY 16.5. Then you will arrive at Lijiashan Bronze Museum after 1 hour drive.

Best Time to Visit

Museum visit is dominated by indoor events. Therefore, it is possible to visit all the year round.

Accommodation at Lijiashan Bronze Museum

Around the museum, there are also various hotels for you to choose. Here are several recommended hotels.

1. Tianchen Hotel玉溪天辰酒店

Address: No.6, West Xingyun Road, Jiangchuan District, Yuxi玉溪市江川区星云路西段6号

Tel: 0877-8555999

The Distance to Museum: 250 meters(Rhumb line)

2. Dongfang Hotel玉溪江川东方宾馆

Address: No.5, West Xingyun Road, Jiangchuan District, Yuxi玉溪市江川区星云路西段5号

Tel: 0877-8555777

The Distance to Museum: 350 meters(Rhumb line)

3. Yuxi Yuquan Hotel玉溪玉泉酒店

Address: 玉溪市江川区抚仙路33号

Tel: 0877-8021888

The Distance to Museum: 400 meters(Rhumb line)

Useful Travel Tips

1. Do not make noise in the museum;

2. Do not touch the exhibits;

3. Before entering the museum, please look at the signs and learn about all matters needing attention.

4. Do not use a flash when taking photos. There are many precious cultural relics, such as famous historical paintings and ancient colored statues, which are “afraid of the light”. Under the irradiation of strong light, they will accelerate their “aging” and even form permanent damage.

5. During the visit, you should pay attention to the instructions next to the exhibits. In this way, you can not only know the basic information of the exhibits, but also make a judgment on their value. You should pay attention to the “No Touch” sign that will be visible in the description of some exhibits.

Why is Jigong Mountain So Special?

Covering 192 square kilometers, it is a national-level nature reserve and an important international wetlands area with an elevation of up to 3300 meters. Jigong Mountain is the best place to watch clouds and sunset at Dashanbao Nature Reserve in Yunnan. It takes the name from its crest-like shape of a rooster. Its “grand and graceful” scenery consists of the uncanny craftsmanship of nature.

Where is Jigong Mountain – Location

Jigong mountain, 1 km west of the Tiaoduhe dam, belongs to the summit of Wulian peak of Liangshan mountain range. It is situated in Dashanbao Township in Zhaoyang District of Zhaotong Municipality, 79 km away from downtown Zhaotong City.

Features

The deep and long Jigong mountain grand canyon, majestic and magnificent, with overlapping mountains, wispy clouds and mist, rolling down. The top of the mountain is 3,364 meters above sea level, while the bottom of the valley stretches along the Yangtze river, less than 600 meters above sea level. The vertical height difference is more than 2,700 meters, which is 1,000 meters deeper than the grand canyon in the United States and one of the deepest grand canyon in the world. The valley bottom is the hot valley scenery, while the mountain top is the alpine prairie landscape,which has the perfect explanation of a mountain and four seasons.

Rising from the valley, Jigong Mountain has three cliffs, towering into the sky long and narrow, only a two-feet path leading to the top. Standing on the top of the mountain, you’ll be amazed at the craftmanship of nature. Looking far into the distance, “the first peak of northeast Yunnan” – Qiaojia medicine hill stands in the southwest direction. Looking west, sometimes sunshine shining on the water surface of Jinsha River and sometimes the mist occupying all the area.

How to get there?

Trains, buses and planes are optional ways from Kunming to Zhaotong. There are several trains from Kunming to Zhaotong. At least, the train journey is about 9 hours. Via expressway, Zhaotong City is about 350 km away from Kunming. The flight time is about 1 hour. Dashanbao is about 80 km away from the seat of Zhaotong. There are regular buses. Howerver, self-driving is more convenient.

The best way for tourists to get to Dashanbao is car-rental. Many of the attractions in the scenic spot are 2- 5 kilometers away from where you are staying.

Best Time to Go

From May and September are the best time of year for outdoor activities in Jigong mountain. The other months are also suitable for Jigong Mountain travel.

Accommodate at Jigong Mountain

If you want to see the sea of clouds and sunrise, it is recommended to stay at Dashanbao Town while if you just want to watch the sunset, stay at the Zhaotong city where the accommodation condition is better.

Attractions Nearby

Huanglianhe Scenic Area:
Located in Daguan County, it has a grand waterfall group hidden in the depths of the mountain valleys. Water curtains, caves and many other spectacles make this scenic area an attractive spot in Zhaotong.

Islamic Style Park:
It is only 5 kilometers away from Ludian county seat. It is a national tourist attraction integrating the ethnic culture, wedding culture, food culture, clothing culture of Hui ethnic people and the most distinctive ethnic tourism in southwest China.

Wanghailou Tower:
Wanghai Tower is located in the southern suburbs of Zhaotong city at the foot of Fenghuangshan mountain, built in the Qing dynasty(Qianlong 25 years). It was designated as a city-level cultural relic protection unit in 1983.

Useful Travel Tips

► There are strong ultraviolet rays at Alpine meadow, so protect yourself from the sun.

► Renting a car to tour Jigong Mountain is more convenient.

Dousha Old Town is located 20 kilometers from the county seat of Yanjin County in the northeast of Yunnan. With a history of more than 2200 years, Dousha Old Town is one of the important ancient passages linking Yunnan and Central China as early as the 3rd century BC. For centuries, Dousha town has served as the first pass for those who entered Yunnan from Sichuan as one can see the existent Five-Chi passage that was built the Qin Dynasty (221 BC-206 BC). A pavilion named “Tang Bei Ting” has been built at Dousha Pass, where one could appreciate the cliff carvings by Yuan Zi, a procurator and famous calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty (618-907). On the opposite of the pavilion, one could further see the miraculous Suspended Coffins of Bo people.

The tourist attraction of Dousha old town in Yanjin County boasts the spectacular and rugged ancient post road, the Doushaguan, dazzling Laolishan mountain scenery, well-visited domes and limestone peaks, dreamlike natural maze, rare and precious herbs & flowers all over the hills, towering trees, picturesque Sangushui waterfall as well as rich ancient cultural relics. Now, the Daoushaguan pass forms a modern transport junction where the Guanhe water way, the Neijiang-Kunming railway, the Yunnan-Sichuan express way meet each other. The 2,200-year Dousha town features tasty dishes like the Wugu chicken, as well as cultural sights such as the Wuchi Road, an ancient castle, and hanging coffins of the mysterious Bo people. 

Why is Huanglianhe River Scenic Area So Special?

Huanglian River is a famous tourist destination in Zhaotong and is reputed as the hometown of waterfalls. It boasts the pretty of south China and the landscape of north China, which integrates the sceneries of mountains, rivers, forests and caves into one. The grand waterfall group hidden in the depths of the mountain valleys is the highlights here.

Where is Huanglianhe River Scenic Area – Location

It is located 5.5 kilometers southeast of Daguan County, Zhaotong City, Yunnan. 

Legend about Huanglianhe River Scenic Area

Once upon a time, Miao people lived a rich life in Huanglian River area where there are beautiful mountains and clear waters. A couple of young people named Alusuo(a good hunter) and Amanpa(a good weaver), who knew each other in the labor and fell in love with each other during the Song of May 5.

One year, when they were ready to get married, the drought devil suddenly burst into the Huanglian river cutting off the stream, the grass and trees withered, all the Miao people facing the survival danger. Later they knew that a man and a woman must sacrifice their lives to jump off a cliff, splattering their blood on the drought devil to save the people. The two young chose to exchange the green mountains and clear waters with their life. So the place where they lived before became waterfalls forever existing in the world.

Features

The groups of waterfalls of Huanglian River have more than 40 various beautiful waterfalls distributing in the beauty spot which covers an area of 25 square kilometers. Here are also thousands of peaks and gullies competing with each other, and even limestone caverns like White Elephant Cave. The mountains, waters, forests, and caves make one integrated mass; ruggedness, elegance, strangeness and remoteness make this place a real wonder.

How to Get there

Tourists can arrive at Zhaotong city first, then take bus No.1 to Zhaotong Bus Station to take the coach to Daguan County. Located 5 kilometers away from Daguan county, there are special lines and mini-bus running to Huanglian river scenic area. 

Main Attractions

Gepu Waterfall: The major ones are the Gepu Waterfall (the Singing Waterfall) in the east of the scenic spot and got the name for the antiphonal singing of the elegantly-dressed Miao people at the Maypole Festival.

Shuishangwutai Waterfall: Also called The Stage in Water, it’s named after a huge stone platform resembling a stage. In fact it’s a flat slate slanting westward. Underground spring overflows out of the crannies, runs across the slate and finally falls into the swag. Over the slate covers projecting cliffs and around it circles the spring. All these would remind you of a stage on the water.

Welcoming Waterfalls: Two Waterfalls Welcoming Visitors is also named Suona Waterfalls (suona: a kind of Chinese music instrument with loud and clear sound) because visitors always hear its noisy sound first before they can see it.

Reunion Waterfalls: Reunion Waterfalls gets its name because three waterfalls pass through woods and dykes, and then, like a family reunion, join under the cliff.

Pearl-curtain Waterfall: It is just like a curtain interspersed with shining pearls.

Water Shade Long Corridor: It derives the name for the rocks under the waterfall have been air or a long time and thus become now a long arc-shaped corridor hiding in the water shade.

Waterfalls of Matchmaker and Mandarin Duck: Waterfalls of Matchmaker and Mandarin Duck is, of course, divided into the upper part, Matchmaker, and the lower part, Mandarin Duck.

Virgin Waterfall: Virgin Waterfall lies among vines, grass and trees, which make the waterfall even more elegant and graceful.

Beau Waterfall: Beau Waterfall, right opposite Virgin Waterfall, is situated among high cliffs so that the water seems to effuse from clouds. Then the Waterfall folds into three steps. First two steps go in the same direction with a fall of nearly one hundred meters. The third step turns towards Virgin Waterfall with a fall of more than forty meters, playing the role of a beau.

Great Slide board: It is like the water slide board of the pleasure ground in big cities. Most visitors are willing to have a try on the “slide board” because it is exciting and safe.

Best Time to Go

The recommended travel time is from May to October. Summer is the best time to enjoy the cool of Huanglian River Scenic Area.

Accommodate at Huanglianhe River Scenic Area

At present, there are more than 100 beds in Huanglian river scenic area, and more than 1000 beds in Daguan county which can meet the needs of travelers.

About Xiluodu Hydropower Plant

The 13.86GW Xiluodu hydroelectric power plant on Jinsha Jiang River, China, was inaugurated in September 2013. It was fully operational in June 2014, becoming the world’s third biggest hydroelectric power plant. The project includes a dam, an underground power-generation unit and a flood discharge structure. It is mainly developed for power generation, and sediment and flood control while also improving the downstream navigation of the river. Xiluodu power plant offsets approximately 150m tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year. It reduces the consumption of 41 million tonnes of coal for electricity generation. However, the project displaced approximately 180,000 people.

The Three Gorges Project Corporation, which developed China’s biggest hydropower plant Three Gorges, also developed the Xiluodu power plant. The Xiluodu plant generates 64bkWh of electricity a year.

About Xiluodu Dam

The Xiluodu Dam is located on the Jinsha (Upper Yangtze) River as it exits the mountainous region of the Hengduan Mountains and Yungui Plateau and enters the Sichuan Basin. This part of the Jinsha flows between the Daliang Mountains in Sichuan on the left (northwest) bank, and the Wulian Feng in Yunnan on the right (southeast) bank. The Jinsha falls to an elevation of 400 m (1,300 ft) above sea level here while mountains rise more than 2,000 m (6,600 ft) above the Jinsha on either side.

The Xiluodu Dam is an arch dam on the Jinsha River, i.e. the upper course of the Yangtze in China. It is located near the town of Xiluodu in Yongshan County of Yunnan Province but the dam straddles into Leibo County of Sichuan Province on the opposite side of the river. The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power generation and its power station has an installed capacity of 13,860 MW. Additionally, the dam provides for flood control, silt control and its regulated water releases are intended to improve navigation downstream. Construction on the dam and power station began in 2005 and the first generator was commissioned in 2013, the last in 2014. It is operated by China Yangtze Power and is currently the third-largest power station with the fourth-tallest dam in the world.

Power transmission from the Xiluodu power plant

The Xiluodu power plant generates roughly 64TWh of power a year. The power is transmitted via the Xiluodu-Zhejiang and Xiluodu-Guangdong overhead transmission lines. 

The Xiluodu-Guangdong HVDC project is a double 500-kV bipole system with a transmission capacity of 6,400MW. The power is transferred from Zhaotong station in Xiluodo to Conghua station in Guangdong via 1,286km-long transmission line.

The electricity generated from the left bank power house is sold to State Grid Corporation of China. The electricity from the right bank is sold to China Southern Power Grid. The respective electricity sales contracts were signed in July 2013.

Funded in 1951, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics (YNUFE) is located in the northern part of “Eternal Spring City” Kunming. The Economics, Management and Law available there is enjoying great popularity among international students.Aiming at promoting the globalization of higher education and academic research, YNUFE has established close links with over 70 universities or educational agents in nearly 30 countries such as Vietnam, Japan, Australia, Thailand, USA, UK, and France. You will enjoy a good time in YNUFE physically and spiritually.

Yunnan University of Finance and Economics (YUFE; Chinese: 云南财经大学) is a provincial-level university in Kunming, Yunnan province, China focusing on fields related to commerce and management.

History

YUFE was established as the Yunnan Financial Cadres Training School in early 1951. Its goal was to train Communist Party officials in basic financial and accounting management skills. In 1958 the school was combined with four other training institutions to become the Yunnan Institute of Finance and Trade (YIFT). During the Cultural Revolution the school was shuttered for seven years, not fully resuming operation until 1978. The following year the provincial government announced a plan to transform YIFT into a full-fledged institution of higher education, extending its offerings to four-year bachelor’s degrees.

In 1998, the People’s Government of Yunnan Province announced a plan to merge the Yunnan Economic Management Cadres College with the Yunnan Institute of Finance and Trade. In 1999 the institution was awarded full university status, and renamed the Yunnan University of Finance and Economics.

University Rankings

Year	National Ranking	Provincial Ranking	Total Score
2019	266	6	61.55
2018	289	6	60.96
2017	289	6	60.82

School Spirit

The school spirit of “Practicality and Innovation” is Yunnan University of Finance and Economics’s long-standing tradition and eternal pursuit of running a school. “Practicality” means being practical and pursuing truth. Teachers and students are encouraged to treat their work with a down-to-earth attitude, to treat their studies with a rigorous and scientific attitude, to treat their studies with a sincere spirit of learning, and to pursue truth with perseverance. “Innovation” advocates emancipating the mind, keeping pace with the times, reforming the old and innovating, pursuing excellence, cultivating creative talents and producing innovative results.

Environment

Yunnan University of Finance and Economics is located on Longquan Road. YUFE consist of an area of 1021 mu (68 hectares) with about 634,000 square meters of floor space. The university library has a collection of 1.4 million items. The climate is pleasant and the campus is not too big. It is divided into two parts, the north and the south. The coverage of trees on the campus is relatively high. It is good to walk around at night. There are undergraduates, postgraduates and foreign students on the campus. Most of them are in the north and some are in the south. The east gate of Yunnan University of Finance and Economics is still very good and it feels very comfortable to enter.

Present Scale

It is a comprehensive university with programmes in economics, management, law, philosophy, liberal arts, natural science and engineering education. The university is accredited to offer bachelor’s degrees, Master’s degrees and Doctoral degrees.

The university has a total of 17 teaching department, including the School of Finance, School of Business Administration, and the International Business School. It has a total 28 undergraduate specialties. This also consist of eight provincial key disciplines and four provincial key subjects.

YUFE has four first class disciplines in theoretical economics, applied economics, management, science, engineering and business administration. There are other 40 second-class disciplines which the university can confer grant Masters` degrees at YUFE.

The university has over 12,000 full-time students (undergraduate and graduate). The total number of students is approximately 24,000, including part-time students, foreign students and mature age students.

The faculty of YUFE comprises over 1,300 faculty members including 787 full-time lecturers. Among them, there are more than 300 professors or associate professors and 70 Doctors. YUFE also hired 10-20 foreign expert teachers who teach English language classes and business classes in English.

Scientific Research

The school actively carries out scientific research to continuously improve its ability to serve the local economic and social development. 160 national projects and 252 provincial and ministerial projects have been approved. More than 700 books have been published, of which 185 have been published by one type of publishing house. More than 6,050 papers have been published in public, 586 of which are of core class A or above, 828 of which are included in CSSCI. 2 provincial collaborative innovation centers, 3 provincial philosophy and social science research bases, 1 provincial engineering and technology research center, 6 provincial innovation teams, 3 provincial key cultivation new think tanks, 6 university science and technology innovation teams, 4 university key laboratories, 2 university new think tanks and 1 university engineering research center will be built. The scientific research achievements won 124 awards above the provincial and ministerial levels, forming a strong academic atmosphere throughout the school.

International Education

The school insists on opening up its schools and has successively launched international education cooperation projects with universities and institutions in more than 30 countries, including Cook University in the United States, Charles Dou University in Australia, Lombia University in Edinburgh in the United Kingdom, and the International Hotel and Tourism Management Business School of Vadeiler Education Group in France, which have jointly organized bachelor’s degree education projects in international accounting, international business, finance and hotel management. Cooperate with university of greenwich to hold postgraduate education programs in project management and real estate management; The Bangkok Business School of Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, held in cooperation with Thailand’s Lanshi University in Thailand, is the third overseas institution approved by the Ministry of Education.

The school’s overall development goals and personnel training goals

Overall Goal: Build a High Level University of Finance and Economics

In November 2016, the fourth party congress of the school proposed the school’s development ideas and goals for the next 5 to 10 years: adhering to the development strategy of “one main wing” and focusing on the cultivation of academic talents, with the cultivation of applied talents and the international running of schools as the two wings, and rationally positioning the type and scale of talent cultivation; Insisting on connotation development, focusing on personnel training, discipline construction as the leader, team construction as the foundation, research service as the guidance, and comprehensively improving the comprehensive strength; Adhere to the characteristic development, extend the education chain, create a suitable brand of vocational education, innovate the international cooperation mode, and establish an international brand of running schools. Adhere to the open development, stimulate the development potential and vitality of the school.

The basic connotation of this goal

closely surrounding the central task of training high-quality practical talents, educating people first and moral education first, cultivating the spirit of modern universities, speeding up the modernization process, improving the level of internationalization, further integrating social resources, deepening internal reforms, consolidating the foundation of development, strengthening the construction of high-level disciplines, talents, educational environment, improving the level of teaching, scientific research, service and management, striving to build the school into a high-level financial university with prominent status in Yunnan, distinctive features in the country and high reputation in the international community, and making greater contributions to the economic and social development of local, national and regional areas.

The goal of personnel training

To train high-quality practical talents with good basic quality, strong practical ability and great development potential.

Academic Departments

Yunnan University of Finance and Economics currently has the following schools, colleges and institutes under its administration:

• School of Finance and Public Administration
• School of economics
• School of finance
• school of Business 
• accounting institute
• School of Information 
• School of Statistics and Mathematics
• School of City and Environment
• school of Law 
• School of media
• School of Logistics 
• School of Modern Design and Art
• School of International Business 
• School of China Vocational 
• School of Tourism and Hotel Management
• School of continuing education
• School of Marxism
• School of Physical Education 
• International  School of Language and Culture
• School of Overseas  

Other Universities in Yunnan

Yunnan Minzu University in Kunming

Kunming University of Science and Technology

Yunnan Normal University in Kunming

Yunnan University in Kunming

You can also find other relevant information or consult staff on this website.

Yunnan Nationalities University (云南民族大学) is located in 121 Yi Er Yi Da Jie, Wuhua Qu,Kunming, Yunnan, China. Yunnan Minzu University(YMU) is a comprehensive institution of higher education for all Chinese ethnic groups. It is also a province-wide key university co-founded bythe Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, and the People’s Government of Yunnan Province. As one of China’s earliest universities intended for all ethnic groups, YMU was founded on August 1, 1951, then named Yunnan Nationality Institute, renamed Yunnan Minzu University in April 2003.

History

Formerly known as Yunnan Nationalities Institute when established on August 1, 1951, the university was founded in part to instruct government leaders to assist minority ethnic groups of Yunnan to ensure their political rights.

The school was renamed Yunnan Nationalities University (YNU) on April 16, 2003. Subsequent university goals have included the need to cultivate professional support for ethnic groups to insure political, economic and cultural development and to foster international outreach.

Yunnan Nationalities University has established cooperative relations with 26 universities in 10 nations, including Baylor University and University of Virginia, USA; University of Bergen, Norway; and La Trobe University, Australia.

Since its establishment, the university has received over 20,000 students and scholars from over 80 countries, visiting to study or to conduct academic exchanges and scientific research.

In February 1993, Yunnan Provincial People’s Government ranked the institute as a key university of the province.

University Rankings

Year	National Ranking	Provincial Ranking	Total Score
2019	169	4	62.42
2018	172	4	61.68
2017	187	4	61.34

Environment

Yunnan University for Nationalities has two campuses, one in Wuhua District and the new one in Chenggong District. It covers a large area, has beautiful environment and advanced equipment, providing a good learning environment for students and teachers.

Programs

Yunnan Nationalities University is composed of 17 schools and departments that provide 22 four-year program majors, two three-year program majors, and three higher professional education majors.

The following departments conduct active educational and research opportunities:

• Department of Chinese Language & Literature: Chinese Language & Literature (four-year program)
• Department of Languages & Literature of Minority Ethnic Groups: Ethnic Language & Literature, Civil Secretary (three-year higher professional education program)
• Department of English Language & Literature: English Language & Literature (four-year program)
• Department of Southeast Asian Languages: Burmese, Thai, Vietnamese (four-year program)
• Department of Economic Management: Economics, Human Resources Management (four-year program)
• Department of Political Science & Law: Political Science & Management, Law (four-year program)
• Department of History: History, Ethnology (four-year program)
• Department of Tourism: Tourism Management (four-year program)
• Department of Mathematics & Computer Science: Mathematics & Applied Mathematics, Computer Science & Technology (four-year program)
• Department of Physics: Physics (four-year program)
• Department of Information & Electric Engineering: Electric Engineering & Automatization, Electrical Information Engineering (four-year program)
• Department of Chemistry: Chemistry, Applied Chemistry (four-year program)
• Department of Ethnic Art: Ethnic Fine Arts (four-year program), Ethnic music & Dance (three-year program)
• Department of Physical Education: Physical Education (four-year program)
• School for People’s Armed Forces: People’s Armed Forces (three-year program), Law, Civil Secretary, Tourist Guide (three-year higher professional education program)
• School of Preparatory University Education: The department offers subjects for high school graduates from ethnic groups who can directly attend a four-year or three-year program of higher education after one year’s study. This is a special program and an import part of higher education for minority ethnic groups in China.
• School of Continuing Education: The school consists of the Department of Leaders Training and the Department of Evening & Correspondence Education. The majors of the school include Chinese Language & Literature, History, Civil Secretary, Law, Physics, Mathematics, Ideological & Political Education, Administration, Finance, Market Management, Commercial Accounting and so on (two-year or three-year program). In addition, the school offers Economics (four-year program) for high school graduates and Chinese (four-year program) for diploma course graduates.
• Department of College English Teaching & Research, Division of Marxism Teaching, the Audio-visual Education Center, the Computing Center, the Moral Teaching & Research Division and the Psychology Teaching & Research Division offer no majors and are only responsible for the teaching of public courses of the university.

Graduate programs

• Ethnology
• Ethnic History
• National Economy
• Ethnic Languages & Literature of Chinese-Tibetan Language Branch
• Ethnic Languages & Literature of Zhuang-Dong Language Branch
• Ethnic Languages & Literature of Southeast Asian Language Branch
• Sociology
• Religious Studies

Research

Research includes three key disciplines: Languages & Literature of Minority Ethnic Groups, Ethnic Ancient Books Studies, and National Economy.

Instruction includes five key courses on the provincial level: An Outline of Ethnology, The Socialist Construction of China, Theories & Policies Concerning Ethnic Groups, and Organic Chemistry

Research institutions resident at the university:

• The Academy of Ethnic Studies and the Visual Anthropology Study Center
• Academy of Languages & Literature of Minority Ethnic Groups
• Academy of national Economy under the administration of the Department of Economic Management
• The Ethnic Law Study Center and the Ethnic Theories Study Center
• The Southeast Asia Studies Center

Staff

YNU has a staff of more than 870, of which 428 are teachers and more than 60 are professional researchers, with 36 being full professors and 215 associate professors. The honorary professors of the institute include Ji Xianlin and Zhou Yiliang, council members of the National Board of Education, Dai Ruwei, Ding Xiaqi and Yan Luguang, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Liu Yaohan and Xu Qingzhang, nationally recognized educators of China.

Campus and Facilities

YNU has a land area of nearly 27 hectares and a floor area of 139,976 square meters. The institute has ample facilities for teaching. Its library include 710,000 books, over 2,000 journals and magazines, and a rare collection of ancient texts for ethnic studies including the Beiye Scriptures and the Dongba Scriptures.

Also associated with the university is the book center which the Asian Foundation established in China, including 41,557 books donated by the foundation. The museum inventory includes valuable ethnic relics (30,000 pieces) enabling local and foreign research.

Other Universities in Yunnan

Yunnan University of Finance and Economics

Kunming University of Science and Technology

Yunnan Normal University in Kunming

Yunnan University in Kunming

You can also find other relevant information or consult staff on this website.

Kunming University of Science and Technology (KMUST) (昆明理工大学) is in Kunming, the capital city of Yunnan Province, Southwestern China.

As the goal by 2010, KUST was to become a key university with a strong science and engineering background. The university is to be developed into an important provincial training base for advanced technical personnel, a research base for applied fundamental research and hi-tech research, an industrialization base for hi-tech, and a research and consulting center for the national social and economic development.

Yunnan University Science Park (YNUSP) was established as an experimental site of University Science Park in 1999 and was awarded the status of national university science park in May 2001. The park is supported by Yunnan University, Kunming University of Science & Technology and Yunnan Normal University.

History

As the largest university in Yunnan Province and one of the well-known universities in China, the earliest departments of KUST started admitting undergraduatestudents for Bachelor’s degrees in March 1925. KUST became an independent public higher education institution in September 1954. In October 1999, based on a decision made by Yunnan Provincial Government and approved by the Education Ministry of China, the former KUST and Yunnan Polytechnic University (founded in 1974) amalgamated into a new and much larger university under the name of Kunming University of Science and Technology (KUST).

University Rankings

Year	National Ranking	Provincial Ranking	Total Score
2019	67	1	65.12
2018	72	2	63.62
2017	87	2	62.96

Programs

With the current 20 faculties (schools) covering the fields ranging from science, engineering and economics to administration, arts, law and education, KUST offers a complete list of degree programs including Ph.D., MS., MSEng., MEng, MA, BS, BSEng and BA, as well as programs including post-doctorate, preparatory, continuing education, vocational training and Chinese language training for international students.

Students

KUST recruits students from all over China, including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. In addition, KUST is authorized to recruit international students for degree programs ranging from Bachelor to Master and Ph.D. There are about 28,000 students studying at KUST; among them nearly 2,000 were graduate students (2004).

KUST offers 64 Bachelor programs, 49 Master programs and eight Ph.D. program areas. There are three state-authorized post-doctoral stations, one state-level key academic subject, and 14 province-level key academic subjects.

Staff

The staff numbers about 3,700 including academic and non-academic ones. Nearly 1,100 are professors and associate professors, and about 1,600 are full-time teaching staff. There is one academician of China Academy of Engineering working for KUST and there are 17 academicians of China Academy of Science and of China Academy of Engineering jointly working for KUST.

Campuses and Facilities

KUST is composed of three campuses, Chenggong, Lianhua,and Xinying. All are in Kunming City, occupying an area of about 120 hectares. The buildings on the campuses occupy over 730,000 square meters, and many important construction projects are in progress.

The university library has about 1.7 million volumes of books and periodicals, and the library is authorized as a state-level research documents collection unit. KUST has founded a state-level engineering research center, two provincial and/or ministerial level test stations, two research and development centers, two key laboratories of provincial level and one class-A design and research institute. There are 32 research institutes, 13 research laboratories and 13 research centers.

Exchange and Cooperation

Domestic

The university has ties with over 100 domestic local governments, institutions of higher education and research, as well as enterprises. The research activities in KUST play an important and critical role in Yunnan Province as well as in the southwest region of China. For the past two years,^[when?] the increment of the research fund for KUST took a proportion of over two-thirds in the total increment for all the universities in Yunnan Province.

International

As of March 2018, the school has established long-term and stable friendly cooperation and exchange relations with more than 60 universities and scientific research institutions in more than 30 countries such as the United States, Germany, France and Britain. In terms of long-term training of engineering and management talents for neighboring countries, international technology transfer, and high-level cooperative research for developed countries, it has gradually formed its own characteristics and influence. The establishment of 2 Confucius Institutes approved by the State Hanban Office; In Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, several schools abroad have been set up in China.

Academic Departments

• School of Land and Resources Engineering
• College of Metallurgy and Energy Engineering
• School of materials science and engineering
• Mechanical and electrical engineering
• School of Electrical Engineering
• School of Information Engineering and Automation
• architectural engineering institute
• School of Architecture and Urban Planning
• Environmental science and engineering
• School of chemical engineering
• Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Department of Life Sciences and Medicine
• School of Medicine
• College of life science and technology
• School of Agriculture and Food
• Faculty of Science
• Law school
• Yunnan Provincial Institute of Local Legislation
• College of Marxism
• College of arts and media
• City college
• School of management and Economics
• Foreign Language and Culture Institute
• International college
• School of Civil Aviation and Aviation
• School of traffic engineering
• Yunnan Institute of Industrial Cadres

Scientific Research Platform

As of March 2018, the school has 18 national platforms, 1 national accredited laboratory, 87 provincial and ministerial platforms, 32 scientific and technological innovation teams, and 1 design and research institute with Grade A qualifications.

As of March 2018, the school has won 1 first prize of the national science and technology progress award, 6 second prize of the national technology invention award, 7 second prize of the national science and technology progress award, 4 innovation achievement prizes of China’s industry-university-research cooperation and 316 science and technology achievement prizes at the provincial and ministerial levels. Published 1311 works and 8099 patents. In 2017, the scale of scientific research funds will reach 897 million yuan.

Academic Resources

According to the official website of the school in September 2018, the library of Kunming university of technology has a total of more than 3.07 million copies of paper documents and more than 5,500 kinds of newspapers and periodicals in Chinese and foreign languages. the carrier types include paper documents, electronic documents and other carrier documents. one of the national research-level document collection units has been designated as the “southwest non-ferrous metal professional document information center” by the relevant departments of the state.

Other Universities in Yunnan

Yunnan Minzu University in Kunming

Yunnan University of Finance and Economics

Yunnan Normal University in Kunming

Yunnan University in Kunming

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Yunnan Normal University (Chinese: 云南师范大学; YNNU) is in Kunming, the capital city of Yunnan Province. Yunnan Normal University (YNNU) is a key university of Yunnan Province, with a long history and a great tradition. It is a higher institution co-funded by the Ministry of Education and the Provincial Government of Yunnan and one of the 100 universities funded by the National Key Project for the Quality Enhancement of the Higher Institutions in Central and West China.

History

Established in 1938 as the ‘National Normal College of Southwestern Union University’ based on Beijing University, Tsinghua University, and Nankai University, it was named ‘National Kunming Normal College’ in 1946 when the faculties returned to the north.

After the war broke out in 1937, Peking University, Tsinghua University and Nankai University moved to Kunming and merged into the National Southwest Associated University, which consisted of the Schools of Humanities, Science, Engineering, Business and Law, and the Teachers College. Following the end of the war, the three component universities moved back to their original sites in the north, but the Teachers College, renamed National Kunming Teachers College, stayed behind to become an independent institution. In 1950, the word “National” was dropped from its name. A few decades later, in 1984, it acquired its present name, Yunnan Normal University.

In the past 75 years, YNNU has graduated more than 200,000 students for the country and is thus known as the “Cradle of Teachers on the Red-soil Plateau”.

University rankings

Year	National Ranking	Provincial Ranking	Total Score
2019	163	3	62.47
2018	159	3	61.85
2017	138	3	61.83

Facilities

YNNU covers an area of 3,330 mu (about 543 acres). It consists of 26 schools and more than 40 research centers and institutes. It has over 30,000 full-time students pursuing degrees and more than 18,000 students of continuing education.

As the Provincial Center of the Data Resources of Chinese Higher Education, YNNU’s library houses more than 3.2 million books with a new-generation digitized service system. The Journal of Yunnan Normal University (Social Science Edition), included in the highly selective CSSCI (Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index) list, ranks among the top 30 of its kind. The Natural Science Edition is a nationally acclaimed core journal, its impact factor ranking among the top 40 natural science journals in China. In addition, the Teaching and Research on Chinese as a Foreign Language Edition, the pioneer in this field, ranks among the top 30 journals of its kind in China in impact factor.

YNNU offers 10 disciplines: literature, history, philosophy, law, education, management, science, engineering, economics, and arts, which are well coordinated in their development. In a recent assessment conducted by the Ministry of Education, 20 of YNNU’s sub-disciplines are ranked among the top 20 in the country while three of them are among the top 10. YNNU offers 86 bachelor’s programs, one postdoctoral research program, one doctoral program in a first-class discipline, seven doctoral programs in second-class disciplines, 26 master’s programs in first-class disciplines, 130 master’s programs in second-class disciplines, and 10 professional master’s programs, such as MBA and M.Ed. 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 innovations and reforms in content, teaching methodology, curricula, and talent training models, YNNU has accomplished the transformation from a traditional teacher-training university to a teaching-research modern university, with teacher education as its typical trait. It has a number of state-level teaching teams, innovative training programs, special majors, brilliant teachers, excellent courses and experimental teaching bases that rank among the best in China in their respective fields. It has won national excellent teaching awards. It is carrying out state-funded projects in such areas as reforms in education system, bilingual teaching and teaching innovation and faculty development. It has 60 state-level Quality Projects under construction.

It is one of the three universities of its kind in China that offer free teacher-training programs and one of the national college-student innovation training bases. YNNU’s Teaching Affairs Department, the Enrollment & Employment Department, and the Adult Education Department have won state-level honors for their respective contribution. Its undergraduate teaching is rated “Excellence” in the teaching-quality assessment conducted by the Ministry of Education.

Research

The university has many research centers or institutes at the national, ministerial or provincial levels, including the National Solar-heater Quality Testing Center, the Sino-British Solar-energy Research and Development Center, the Sino-Laos Joint Lab for Recyclable Energy Resources, the Ministry of Education’s Key Lab, Engineering Research Center, Innovative Team, Technological Application and Innovation Demonstration Base, State-level Professional Talent Continuing Education Base, Research Center of Sports Culture Sponsored by the General Administration of Sport of China, Yunnan Province’s Academician Work Center—Academician Gehan Amaratunga’s Work Center, Research Center for the Opening of Southwest China and Frontier Security, Research Institute of Sino-Tibetan Languages, Institute of Studies of Yunnan, Yunnan College of Chinese Language and Culture, Platt American Studies Center, Ronning Canadian Studies Center, Kunming Strategy Research Institute for Pan-Asian Talent Training and Development, and so on.

In the past five years, YNNU has taken on over 100 prestigious key research projects like the National Social Science Foundation Major Project, the National Natural Science Foundation Major Project, “973” Project, “863” Project, and research projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology. YNNU’s research funds total over 520 million yuan (RMB).

Faculties

YNNU has a staff of over 2,200 people. Many of the faculty are experts with honors awarded by the Central Government, the State Council, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Education or Yunnan Provincial Government. In addition, it 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.

International outreach

YNNU boasts of its international vision and modern ideas.

It is one of the 10 universities selected by the Ministry of Education and the Office of Chinese Language Council to support Chinese Teaching in neighboring countries. It has a Chinese Teaching Base sponsored by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, a Teacher-training Base for International Promotion of TCF sponsored by Hanban/Confucius Institute Headquarters, a HSK test center, a CFL test center, and a Training and Research Center for Overseas Studies sponsored by the Ministry of Education. It has a TCFL Teacher-training Base for Southeast Asian countries.

It is one of the first Chinese universities selected by the government to establish Confucius Institutes abroad and provide government and Confucius Institute Scholarships 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 150 universities and research institutes in Great Britain, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

It has trained 13,000 international students from 62 countries. 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. YNNU now has 1,705 international students from all over the world, the largest number of the higher institutions of Yunnan.

Awards

YNNU has won honors for its contribution to national unity, education development, cultural construction, moral education and legal construction from the State Council, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Education and the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee and from the provincial government and the local governments. Many of its students have won honors from governments and institutions for their scientific and technological innovation, achievements in moral education, and praiseworthy actions for helping other people and other prestigious awards. Some students are medal winners in the Olympic Games or the Paralympic Games in Beijing, Athens, or London.

In the new stage of development, YNNU will do its best to implement its strategy of “integrating our strengths with typical and local features” and develop a campus culture of “inclusiveness, harmony and politeness,” to become one of the best teaching-research normal universities in China and a high-quality university in Central and West China.

Programs for international students

Part I: Chinese Language and Culture Programs

The Institute of Chinese and International Studies offers Chinese language and culture teaching programs as follows for international students and are available all the year round:

• Non-degree Chinese language program: According to the placement test results, non-degree students are divided into beginner, pre-elementary, elementary, pre-intermediate, intermediate, pre-advanced and advanced classes. There are at most 15 students in one class. Every week, the students have 18-hour class of four courses including Comprehensive Chinese, Chinese Speaking, Listening and Reading. Besides that, every student can choose two elective courses for free, such as Chinese culture, folk dance, calligraphy, Chinese painting, tea art, Taiji, HSK training and so on.
• Bachelor’s degree program for international students: The program is specially designed for international students only based on their different characteristics in language acquisition. Beginners take four years to complete the study and those who have studied Chinese for some time are allowed to shorten their study period accordingly. Undergraduate certificate and B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature can be awarded to international students when they complete their study.
• International Students-Chinese students mixed program: International students directly matriculate into Chinese students’ classes and study the same courses. The studying period is usually four years and undergraduate certificate and B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature can be awarded to international students when they complete their study.

Curriculum: For non-degree program students, usually comprehensive Chinese, listening comprehension, oral Chinese, Chinese character writing, newspaper and magazine reading, Chinese culture and other courses are arranged; for bachelor’s degree programs, about 30 courses on Chinese language, Chinese literature, Chinese culture and Survey of China are offered.

Part II: Bachelor’s degree programs: four years of study

Chinese Language and Literature, Clerical Studies, Mass Communication, Moral Education, Public Project Management, Pre-school Education, Applied Psychology, Ideology Education, Marketing Education, Advertisement, History, Administration Management, Geographical Science, Tourism Administration and Service, Geographic Information Systems, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Physics, Electronic Information Science and Technology, Applied Physics, Computer Science and Technology, Education Technology, Chemistry, Applied Chemistry, Biology, Applied Biology, English, Sports, Sports Training, Musicology, Artistic Design, Arts, Financial Administration, Applied Electronic Technology, The Science of Law, Social Sports, Biological Technology, Business Administration, Accounting, E-business, International Trade and Investment, Finance, Humanistic Education

Part III: Master’s degree programs: three years of study

School of Physics and Electronic Information（物理与电子信息）

Research Program at Yunnan Normal University

Master of Optical Engineering （光学工程硕士）

• Focus: Theories on Light waves and electromagnetic waves and their

application

• Focus: Color science and engineering
• Focus: Light-heat refrigeration engineering

1: Department of Philosophy

Focus: Marxist Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Foreign Philosophy, Logistics, Ethics, Aesthetics, Religion, Philosophy of Science and Technology

2 Department of Theoretical

Focus:Economics Political Economics

3 Department of Applied Economics

Focus:Regional Economics, Finance (Insurance)

4 Department of Marxist Theory

Focus:Basic Principle of Marxism, Ideological Education

5 Department of Politics

Focus:Scientific Socialism and the International Communist Movement

6 Department of Sociology

Focus:Sociology

7 Department of Education

Focus:Basic Principles of Education, Curriculum and Teaching Methodology, Pre-school Education, College Education, Educational Technology, Comparative Education, Adult Education

8 Department of Psychology

Focus:Basic Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Applied Psychology

9 Department of Sports Training

Focus:Principles and Methodology of Sports Education, Sports Humanity Socialism, Sports Body Science, Traditional Minority Sports

10 School of Chinese Language and Literature

Focus:Chinese Linguistics and Philology, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Chinese Contemporary Literature, Historical Literature Theory, Chinese Ancient Literature, Chinese Minority Group’s Language and Literature

11 School of Foreign Language and Literature

Focus: English Language and Literature, Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

12 Department of Arts

Focus:Artistic Study, Arts of Mass Communication

13 Department of Journalism

Focus:Study of the Press

14 Department of History

Focus:Ancient Chinese History, World History, Contemporary Chinese History

15 Department of Mathematics

Focus:Basic Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Probability Theory and Statistics

17 Department of Chemistry

Focus:Physical Chemistry (Chemical Physics), Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Chemical Analysis, Polymer Chemistry and Physics

18 Department of Biology

Focus:Botany, Genetics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

19 Department of Astronomy

Focus:Astrophysics

20 Department of Geography

Focus:Human Geography, Natural Geography, Geographical Information Systems

21 Department of Science and Technology of Surveying and Mapping

Focus:Study of Mapping and Geographical Information Project

23 Department of Computer Science and Technology

Focus:Computer Software and Theory

24 Department of Chemical Project and Technology

Focus:Applied Chemistry

25 Department of Agriculture Project

Focus:Agricultural Biological Environment and Energy Resources Project

26 Department of Environmental Science and Project

Focus:Environmental Science

27 Department of Business Administration

Focus:Tourism Administration

28 Department of Public Management

Focus:Administrative Management

Environment

Yunnan Normal University has a building area of 1,089,331 square meters and has two campuses: Chenggong Main Campus and 121 Southwest Associated University Campus. Chenggong main campus is a new campus with beautiful environment and advanced equipment, providing a good environment for teachers and students.

Other Universities in Yunnan

Yunnan University of Finance and Economics

Kunming University of Science and Technology

Yunnan Minzu University in Kunming

Yunnan University in Kunming

You can also find other relevant information or consult staff on this website.

Yunnan University (Chinese: 云南大学; pinyin: Yúnnán dàxué) is one of the largest and most prestigious universities in China. Its main campuses are located in the provincial capital city of Kunming. It has been developed into the only “National Key University” in Yunnan province, having trained over 17,000 specialist professionals in various fields. It is a Chinese Ministry of Education Class B Double First Class University.

Founded in December 1922, Yunnan University started to enroll in April 1923. It began as a privately run institution called the “University of the Eastern Land” and its name has changed six times since then. Currently, Yunnan University is one of the “Project 211” universities in China authorized by the central government to be specially developed. Yunnan University has also been included on the list of the key national universities for the “China Western Development” program.

Yunnan University Science Park (YNUSP) was established as an experimental site of University Science Park in 1999 and was awarded the status of national university science park in May 2001. The Park is supported by Yunnan University, Kunming University of Science & Technology and Yunnan Normal University.

History

Yunnan University was founded in December 1922 by General Tang Jiyao, the warlord who controlled Yunnan province in the 1920s. The University began to enroll students on April 20, 1923. It started as the privately run “Dong Lu University” (Dong Lu means “Eastern Road” or “Eastern Land”). The name has changed six times in the past 80 years, but the present name dates from 1934. It is known locally as “Yunda”. Following typical abbreviations for Chinese universities, “Yun” is an abbreviation of “Yunnan” and “da” is an abbreviation of daxue, the Chinese word for “university”.

Yunnan University became famous during World War II. Since Kunming was not directly involved in the fighting, a great many excellent Chinese scholars, in particular from Beijing and Nanjing, many of these with PhDs from well-known American universities, retreated from the northern war zone. Most of them taught at a newly created National Southwestern Associated University (also called “Lianda”). Several of them, however, for various reasons, ended up teaching at Yunnan University. There they found a distinct French influence. The president of Yunnan University had a PhD from the Sorbonne. The university is also famous for its French language and civilization research. The present of the school of foreign language is honored as “Chevalier des Palmes Académiques(knight of academic golden Palm in 2011.

From 1937 through to 1947, the noted mathematician Professor Xiong Qinglai was invited to become the President of Yunnan University, under whose leadership Yunnan University was restructured along the same academic model as Tsinghua University. A cluster of famous scholars, such as Fei Xiaotong, Chu Tunan, Chen Xingshen, Hua Luogen, Yan Jici, Feng Youlan, Lü Shuxiang came to teach at Yunnan University, and thus gradually turned the institution into a general university that had exerted a certain degree of academic influence at home and abroad. In 1946, Yunnan University had five faculties and 18 academic departments, and was included in the Concise Encyclopædia Britannica as one of the fifteen most prestigious universities in China.

During the early 1950s, the government began reforming the Chinese education system which had affected every university. Most departments were weeded out, and by 1958, there were only two faculties and six academic departments left in Yunnan University. Again like all other Chinese universities, Yunnan experienced a difficult period from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s due to events such as the Cultural Revolution. However, the situation improved remarkably thereafter when the reform era began in the late 1970s.

According to his confession, biochemistry student Ma Jiajue killed his four roommates between February 13 and 15 in 2004. On February 23 of that year, the bodies were discovered.^[6] The Intermediate Court of Kunming People’s sentenced Ma Jiajue to death. On Thursday June 17, 2004, Ma Jiajue was executed.

University Rankings

Year	National Ranking	Provincial Ranking	Total Score
2019	70	2	64.93
2018	64	1	67.44
2017	62	1	65.11

Environment

Yunnan University is situated in the city of Kunming, the provincial capital of Yunnan noted for its mild climate. The university occupies an area of 426,669 sq m, of which 350,000 sq m are built up with teaching, library and research facilities. Its main campus faces the Green Lake Park, a winter haunt for the Siberian black-headed gull. The campus is covered with the green shade of ginkgo and is surrounded by stretches of cherry and plum trees. The university is also next to the Yuantong Hill, a zoological park known for its rare animal and bird species.

Curricula

Yunnan University has now developed into a National Key University with a large group of academic professionals offering courses covered by a comprehensive curricula in the fields of the liberal arts, law, science, technology, economics, and management.

Students studying on the campus of Yunnan University have reached 19,872, of whom 9,919 are full-time undergraduates, 2,853 are postgraduates (94 are studying for their doctorate, 684 are studying for their master’s, 1,842 are studying advanced postgraduate courses, 170 are studying for their degrees in the specialist law programs, and 63 are studying for their degrees in the advanced class for teaching), and 7,100 are students under night-class and correspondence programs.

Faculty and Staff

Yunnan University retains a faculty and working staff of 2,372 persons, and among them 1,981 persons are the specialized professionals. 222 persons are full professors, 409 are associate professors, and 987 are full-time instructors. 683 instructors have an obtained a doctorate or master’s degree.

Academic Departments

Yunnan University currently has the following schools, colleges and institutes under its administration:

• School at Dianchi
• School of Economy
• School of Adult Education
• School of Humanity and Liberal Arts
• School of Life Science and Chemistry
• School of Information
• School of Science
• Institute for Development Research
• School of Occupational Technology
• School of Law
• School of Public Management
• School of Business Administration and Tourism Management
• School of Foreign Languages
• International College of Modern Design Arts
• School of Medicine
• School of International Relations
• School of International Cultures
• School of Tourism and Culture (at Lijiang)
• School of Software Engineering

In these schools, colleges and institutes there are more than 30 teaching departments and divisions that offer 65 major fields of study for the four-year programs for undergraduates to obtain baccalaureates.

Additionally, Yunnan University also has 16 centers for research and development, 25 research institutes, ten research offices, and four teaching-oriented service centers.

In the above-described major fields of study, History, Biology, Mathematical Science are established for the purpose of training teaching and research professionals at the national level (and Yunnan University is applying to the Ministry of Education for its approval to set up a state-level experimental base for the comprehensive quality training in liberal arts.) Yunnan University also has established a state-level base for training professional teachers.

Among its disciplinary branches, Yunnan University has two key state-level disciplinary groups under the current construction, sixteen key provincial-level disciplines, four doctorate degree conferring points, one post-doctorate-degree-related mobile station, forty-eight master’s degree conferring points, three specialized degree (law, occupational education and MBA) conferring points, one state-level center for new product research and development, and one key laboratory of the Ministry of Education.

Campus

Due to the limited ability to expand in the center of the city, the university has recently developed a second main campus at Chenggong, roughly a 45-minute bus or subway ride from its original campus. Its first year of operation was the 2010-2011 academic year, though the campus has expanded considerably since then.

Undergraduates were transferred to the new campus one year at a time. All have now been moved out to the new campus. It is a much larger campus than its counterpart at Green Lake, which is being retained as the focus of graduate study.

Library

The library houses a collection of over 1.2 millions books, some of which are rare copies of valuable historical literature. Access, cataloging, circulation, and public retrieval are under a computerized network management system.

Herbarium

The university has a sizable herbarium, believed to be the second oldest in the province after the Kunming Institute of Botany. The herbarium specializes in the Pteridophytes of China, especially those of southwestern China. It has for many years been directed by Chu Weiming.

Technology Transfer

On April 27, 1998, the Yunnan University Science and Technology Corporation shares were issued on the stock markets in China, and Yunnan University has become the eighth among more than 1,000 higher education institutes in China that own their share-issuing hi-tech companies or corporations.

The popularization and application of the major product Yunda-120 growth regulator produced by the Science and Technology Corporation has reached 67 billion square meters in terms of use in cultivated areas.

Within a brief period, the corporation, starting from a research group that had only a fund of a little more than 10,000 yuan, has developed into a share-issuing corporation with a total value in excess of 10 billion yuan.

Biological Technology Corporation of Yunnan University is the first enterprise in China that owns an independent intellectual property right in the field of the single clone antibody research, and its products of contraceptive test paper, and sterility test paper have been adopted for codifying China’s national standards.

Publishing House

Yunnan University has a publishing house which has produced over two million volumes of various academic works. Yunnan University’s academic periodical Ideological Frontier (Social Science Version) has obtained the status of the “Kernel National Periodicals”, and the Academic Journal of Yunnan University (Natural Science Version) has been judged as an excellent academic journal of the key national universities and colleges.

Affiliated Schools

Yunnan University also has a secondary school, a secondary school of foreign language and a kindergarten affiliated to it.

Scientific Research

Yunnan University has from the very beginning attached great importance to the pursuit of scientific research, closely following international disciplines. It is, for example, a leader in ecology. Its Institute of Ecology and Geobotany has produced nationally utilized texts on plant community classification and plant ecology. (“Geobotany” is a term from Russian and continental European science which entails classifying and analyzing the geographical distribution of the flora of a province or nation; it is called “Phytogeography” in English-speaking countries).

Fund

The Yunnan University Fund is an acting council member of the Fund of Universities and Colleges of China. Through its development Yunnan University Fund has now held nearly seventy Chinese and overseas directors. They have brought many scholars who have promoted the reform, construction and development of Yunnan University.

International Cooperation

In recent years, Yunda has established different levels of exchange relations with more than 50 institutions of higher learning and research organizations in more than twenty countries and regions such as United States, Great Britain, Russia, Japan, Australia, etc.

Other Universities in Yunnan

Yunnan Minzu University in Kunming

Yunnan University of Finance and Economics

Yunnan Normal University in Kunming

Kunming University of Science and Technology

You can also find other relevant information or consult staff on this website.

The news was updated on June 20, 2019. 

Photos of Ottelia acuminata var. crispa, a kind of aquatic plant growing in Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan’s Lijiang City has “exploded” in Chinese social network app WeChat.

Ottelia acuminata var.crispa is a unique water plant found in China, distributing in lakes in Guangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan and Guizhou. It only lives in the water with high quality, and was included in China’s endangered and protected plants list in 1987. It is also called “Water Beauty” for its stunning flowers.

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