Hainan Normal University is located in Haikou, the capital of Hainan Province. Established in 1949, it is one of the key universities in Hainan with fairly good overall strength. The university now has 21 schools, 7 provincial key disciplines, 7 provincial research bases of humanities and social sciences, including 4 first-level doctoral disciplines, 11 first-level master disciplines and 62 undergraduate majors. Among the full-time teachers, 599 are professors and associate professors. The students on campus are over 20,000.
The university started to enroll international students in 1988. Now it is one of the first universities approved to admit international students by State Education Commission, and one of the first Chinese education bases established by Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council. The university provides Chinese Government Scholarship, Confucius Institute Scholarship, Hainan Government Scholarship and Hainan Overseas Chinese Language and Culture Education Scholarship for international students. The university is the Southeast Asian Teachers’ Training Base for Promotion of Chinese, under the approval of Confucius Institute Headquarters / Hanban, the site for HSK in Hainan, and has been awarded by Hainan Provincial Department of Education to the Preparatory Education School for Hainan international students.
At present, the university has undertaken academic exchanges with over 100 universities and education institutions in 58 countries, established sister relationship with 53 foreign universities and education institutions, and cooperated with 10 universities in cultivation of talents.
Strengths of the University
1. Complete Facilities
With three campuses of Longkunnan, Guilinyang, and Linshan, Hainan Normal University covers an area of 1,500,000 square meters. The teaching and research instruments value 273,422,300RMB in total. We also have 2 key laboratories co-founded by Hainan Province and Ministry of Education, 3 provincial key laboratories, 1 national model center of experiment teaching and 5 provincial model centers of experiment teaching. We offer 205 internship bases for students and 2,088,000 volumes of books in the library for students and teachers.
With multi-media classrooms, students’ reading rooms and multi-media terrace report halls, the buildings for Chinese language teaching occupy 3,500 square meters. The Chinese culture experience museum boasts an area of 4,489 square meters, including Chinese traditional handicraft classroom, costume and textile exhibition hall, calligraphy and painting exhibition hall, tea art demonstration hall and Chinese martial art hall.
2. All-round Services
We are active, enthusiastic, considerate and effective in delivering services to students, such as airport pickup and formalities assistance.
3. Beautiful Environment
The school is located in Haikou, a coastal tourist city and the national historic and cultural city. Hainan is a southernmost province and the only tropical island in China. With an average temperature of 23.8℃, it has a long summer and no winter. As the first ecological province in China, Hainan is the best tourist destination for holiday in terms of its first-class environment and unique customs. Therefore, it’s also called green island, ecological island, safe island and vacation island by Chinese and foreign tourists.
4. Convenient Transportation
In Hainan, there are 3 airports, Meilan International Airport in Haikou Boao Airport in Qionghai and Phoenix International Airport in Sanya, offering 440 international and domestic routes. It boasts Cross-sea Railway, high-speed railway around Hainan island. Besides, Haikou is also adjacent to Hong Kong, Macao and Guangzhou, each of which is within 50 minutes of flight.
