HanshanNormalUniversity, a school with long history and profound culture, is run by the government of GuangdongProvince. It was established in Qing dynasty in 1903, which was the first school to train teachers in Guangdong and was one of the earliest normal schools in China.Hanshan Normal University has cultivated a good tradition and a excellent school spirit of working hard at teaching and learning in order to be worthy of the name of teacher, and has trained large number of talented people for Guangdong elementary education and all circles of society for over 100 years.

The school is situated in ChaohzouCity----- a state historic and cultural city, which is known as “a RenownedPrefecture in East Guangdong”. In recent years, because of the development of garment industry and ceramics craft, Chaozhou has become a new and developing famous city known as “ City of World Evening & Wedding Dress” and “ Chinese Porcelain Town”. Chaozhou has unique folk customs such as Chao embroidery, wedding gown, Chaozhou cuisine, Chaozhou Gongfu Tea,Chaozhou handicraft and ceramics craft, which are made known the world over by Chaozhou overseas Chinese. The climate here is excellent, it is an ideal place for teaching, study abroad, holiday and tourism.

The school has 11 departments such as Institute of Mathematics and IT, Institute of Political Science and Law, the Chinese Language and Literature Department, the Physics Department, the Foreign Language Department and the Education Science Department, and 2 compulsory-subject teaching and research departments ( the College English Department, the Public PE Department ), and 7 scientific research institutions ( the Shantou-Chaozhou Cultural Research Institute, Hanyu Research Institute, the Research Institute of the economy and social Department in Eastern Guangdong, the Research Institute of Environmental and Chemical Applied Technology), and the second- degree institutions ( Chaozhou Normal School , the Ceramic School). They contain 33 specialities such as Chinese language and literature, radio and television news, computer science and technology, electronic information science and technology. By the year 2006, the school has 12269 full-time students and 10,000 students for adult education.

The school has abundant qualified teachers. Now, it has 933 teaching staff, 35% of whom have received masters degrees and 40% of whom possess high-ranking academic titles, 16 specialists like Rao Zongyi, the famous Sinologist, are engaged as visiting professors.

The school campus covers an area of 1,000,000 square meters and has buildings with a total building area of 400,000 square meters. It is situated at the foot of Hanshan and besides the HangjiangRiver with an easy reach to some places of historical interest and tourist attraction such as HanwenMemorialTemple and XiangziBridge.

There are more than 50 modern labs for teaching and scientific research.The modernized einanInternationalConferenceCenter has a seating capacity of 500 with advanced equipment for synchronous interpreting in 4 languages. The large comprehensive documentary center ---- the school library, covers an area of 30,000 square meters, has a collection of more then 830,000 Chinese and foreign books and more than 1,800 Chinese and foreign periodicals, and is now under the computerized management. The Campus Net covers the whole school with Internet terminal. It is convenient for information exchange.

2 sports grounds, one gymnasium, one comprehensive training hall, one basketball hall, one swimming pool, one tennis hall and the students’ activity center and performance center have found application for physical education, training and entertainment.

The school provides foreign teachers with a pleasant environment for teaching and living, the foreign visitors can appreciate Chaozhou’s unique folk custom and try our unique delicacies----Chaozhou cuisine and visit the “ ChinesePorcelainTown”---- ChaozhouCity.

HanshanNormalUniversity is a nice place for your teaching and living , you are warmly welcome here.