The 2025 5th International Conference on Mechatronics, Automation and Intelligent Control (MAIC 2025) will be held in Zhanjiang, China
- Lingnan Normal University -
Lingnan Normal University (formerly known as Zhanjiang Normal University), situated in a beautiful seaside city on the southernmost point of Mainland China—Zhanjiang, is a provincial undergraduate normal university with a history of over one hundred years in normal education which started in 1904. The university was renamed as Leizhou Junior Normal College in 1978 and was upgraded to Zhanjiang Normal University in 1991. In 2014, it took on its current name Lingnan Normal University (LNU).
Amid the development of normal education for over a century, LNU is committed to the mission of establishing school and educating people, adhering to the school mottos of “advocating virtue, keeping well-informed, being ambitious, having faith and courage”, and remaining true to the orientation of building a “localized, applied and teaching-centered” normal university. The university has contributed to the training of excellent teachers, educators and a variety of applied talents for educational and cultural development as well as the socio-economic development of West Guangdong and even the whole Guangdong Province at large. In 2000, LNU became the first normal university that passed the undergraduate teaching assessment carried out by the Ministry of Education among all the normal universities in China. In 2007, it received an excellent result in the undergraduate teaching assessment made by the Ministry of Education. In 2010, LNU was authorized as a newly-listed university for the construction of master’s degree conferment by Guangdong Provincial Government. In 2016, it was included in Guangdong's first batch of ordinary undergraduate transformation pilot universities, and designated as a university developed under joint efforts of provincial and municipal governments, and a demonstration school of Guangdong Province for university students’ innovation and entrepreneurship education. In 2017, it was elected as the Director of Guangdong Special Education Teacher Development Alliance. In 2018, it was listed as a university in the “striving to be first-class, improving weak links, building strong features” improvement plan for higher education of Guangdong Province, and was approved as “a national innovative experimental zone of teachers’ education built in Guangdong Province”. In recent years, it has been awarded such honors as “The Advanced Unit of National Spiritual Civilization Construction”, “The Advanced Unit of National Mass Sports”, “The Advanced Group of National Afforestation”, “National Model School of School Management Under the Rule of Law” and “National Model School of College English Teaching Reform” named by the Ministry of Education, as well as “Advanced Unit of Guangdong Teachers' Moral Construction” and “Civilized Campus of Guangdong Province”.
LNU has established complete disciplines and a comprehensive teacher education system. At present, the university comprises 18 schools. It has constructed 2 provincial superior key disciplines (including Education and Chemistry), 4 provincial characteristic key disciplines (including Curriculum and Teaching Theory, Polymer Chemistry and Physics, Chinese Philology, Material Physics and Chemistry), and “striving to be first-class, improving weak links, building strong features” key disciplines (including Education, Chemistry, Material Science and Engineering). LNU offers 67 undergraduate specialties (including 33 teacher-training specialties) covering 10 fields of study including education, literature, law, economics, history, science, engineering, agronomy, management and fine arts. It has 2 national characteristic specialties (including Chinese Language and Literature, and Chemistry) and 6 provincial characteristic specialties. The University offers basic education, vocational education, preschool education and special education in its teacher education majors, and has formed a complete teacher education system with comprehensive types and integrated cultivation and training. Admission is open to students from 18 provinces and regions. The enrollment of full-time undergraduates amounts to 23,000.
LNU aims at optimizing resources allocation and continuously improving conditions of running the school. The main campus of LNU covers more than 1,000 mu, with a total floor area of 580,000 square meters. The value of teaching and research equipment amounts to more than 200 million yuan. The university library has a collection of 2,320,000 volumes of books, more than 1,955 kinds of Chinese and foreign journals, 4.7 million volumes of e-books as well as 588,200 volumes of electronic periodicals. It has set up 2 national bases —“National Key Training Base for Vocational Teacher Training”, “National Training Base for Professional Social Workers”, 4 provincial teacher training bases for primary and secondary school teachers, vocational teachers, kindergarten heads,teachers of preschool education,1 provincial development center for primary and secondary school teachers, 14 provincial teaching platforms like Guangdong Educational and Teaching Technique Training Center for University Teachers, the Model Center for Art Education, Advanced Key Lab for Chemistry Teaching. LNU has also set up 1 provincial decision-making consulting research base (China-ASEAN Education & Culture Development Research Center), 1 key lab for philosophy and social sciences in Guangdong colleges and universities (Key Lab for Special Children's Psychological Assessment and Rehabilitation), 1 key lab in Guangdong colleges and universities (Key Lab for Clean Energy Materials Chemistry in Guangdong colleges and universities), 8 approved provincial engineering technology research centers (Guangdong Provincial Development Engineering Technology Research Center for Tropical Characteristic Resources and Plants, Research Center for Resources Chemical Engineering Technology in West Guangdong, Engineering Technology Research Center for Seafood Resources Sustainable Utilization in West Guangdong, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for Moringa Resources Development and Utilization, Engineering Technology Research Center for Characteristic Biological Products in West Guangdong, Engineering Technology Research Center for Special Utilization of Solar Energy in West Guangdong, Guangdong Provincial Research Center for Clean Energy Materials Chemical Engineering Technology, Engineering Technology Research Center for Electromechanical Products Design and Manufacturing in West Guangdong), 1 provincial collaborative innovation platform (Educational Collaborative Innovation Development Center for Guangdong and Taiwan Teachers), 3 engineering and technology development centers in provincial colleges and universities (Guangdong New Materials Engineering Technology Development Center; Engineering Technology Development Center for Characteristic Plant Resources along Tropical Fringe in Guangdong colleges and universities; Engineering Technology Development Center for Digital Learning in Guangdong colleges and universities), 1 provincial key promoting platform (Research and Development Center for New Photoelectric Materials in Guangdong colleges and universities; 1 key research base for humanities and social sciences in Guangdong colleges and universities (Research Center for Teacher Education in West Guangdong), 1 Guangdong modern agricultural science and technology innovation center (Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Innovation Center for Tropical Characteristic Resources and Plants), 1 international joint lab in Guangdong colleges and universities (Joint Lab of Lingnan Normal University and City University of Hong Kong for Advanced Film Materials), 1 Guangdong research base for Practice Scientific Outlook (Urban and Rural Coordinated Development Research Base), 4 key labs in Zhanjiang. It has also established 3 university-level research academies such as Institute of Education Study, Institute of New Material Research and Institute of Lingnan Culture Research and 61 research institutes.
LNU focuses on optimizing the quality of the teaching staff and building a strong faculty. Up to now, LNU has a total teaching and administrative staff of over 1,700, including 1 “Pearl River Scholar”, 550 teachers with high-professional title and nearly 1,300 teachers with master degree. Among them, 151 teachers have been listed as candidates of “Thousand-Hundred-Ten Talent-training Project” of Guangdong Province; over 60 teachers have been employed as Master or Doctorate Supervisors by partner universities. 62 teachers have been awarded with special government allowances by the State Council and “the Winners of National May Day Labor Medal” as well as honored as “National Outstanding Teachers”, “Provincial Teaching Masters” and “Excellent Teachers of Southern Guangdong”. 48 teachers have been selected as talents of “Sailing Plan” of Guangdong province. 9 teachers have been listed as candidates of excellent youth teachers of universities in Guangdong Province. 30 teachers have been named as the funded targets for provincial “Strong Teachers Project”. A large number of well-known experts and scholars at home and abroad have been employed as visiting professors and adjunct professors by LNU.
LNU pursues innovation in talents training to cultivate high-quality applied talents. With the aim at cultivating “responsible, capable and creative” high-quality applied talents who are morally, intellectually, physically and aesthetically competent, LNU focuses on promoting the interaction and integration of “teaching, learning, researching and doing” and on cultivating high-quality teachers with “5 capabilities” including class control, teaching and research ability in experience and reflection, the practicing ability in collaboration and innovation, single-mindedness in teaching matters and the leading ability to be models for students. In recent years, students of LNU have won a variety of awards in various national and provincial competitions in fields like academic science and technology, professional experiments, skills of normal education, sports, oral English, musical and artistic performances and social practices. The number of graduate students enrolled as postgraduates by well-known universities in China is annually growing. In 2018, 600 students were admitted as postgraduates, with an admission rate exceeding 10%. The employment rate is ranked top among colleges and universities in Guangdong Province. A great number of graduates are employed in the west of Guangdong Province and the Pearl River Delta region, and some exceptional students are employed in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing and Tibet. They enjoy a high reputation in the human resource market, so that LNU is hailed by domestic mainstream media as a “Migrant Powerhouse in West Guangdong” and “Good Helper to Tibet”.
At present, in the context of Double First-Class initiative, LNU puts in place the guiding principles of the National Education Conference, and remains committed to the development strategy of “Dislocation Competition, Intensive Development and Prospering with Uniqueness”, grounded on the reform and innovation of teacher training and the service for the development of regional economy and society, with improving the school running quality as the core and striving for the conferment of master’s degree as the motivation. Great efforts are made to promote “new teacher-training” and “new engineering” programs, and implement six major projects including “Strong Teacher Project”, “Quality Improvement Project”, “System and Mechanism Reform Project”, "Resource Allocation Optimization Project”, “Cohesion Project" and “Party Construction Project”. LNU keeps improving the school running proficiency and education quality, so as to build itself into a renowned and high-quality normal university with distinctive characteristics.
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