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Leshan Normal University is a full-time undergraduate college approved by the Ministry of Education. Selected by the Ministry of Education, "Eastern Universities Supporting Western Universities" and Sichuan Excellent Teacher Education and Training Program. The school is supported by Wuhan University. The school was founded on 1978. In March, 2000, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, Leshan Normal College and Leshan Education College were upgraded to provincial-level ordinary undergraduate colleges in Sichuan Province.
In 2006, he passed the evaluation of undergraduate teaching level by the Ministry of Education and achieved good results. 20 12 was included in the "plan of eastern universities supporting western universities" of the Ministry of Education, which was supported by Wuhan University. 20 18 passed the examination and evaluation of undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education. As of April 2023, the school covers an area of 1 150 mu, with a building area of 433,000 square meters. It is planned to build a new campus 1.600 mu in Suji Guzhen University Town, with a construction area of 569,000 square meters.
The library has paper books (periodicals)1914,400 volumes, 9,652,000 electronic books (periodicals) and 50 databases, with the total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment reaching 248 million yuan. Teaching College 15, with 63 undergraduate majors; Full-time college students 18000, foreign students with academic qualifications 120, faculty 1500.
At the end of 1977, in view of the fact that the number and quality of middle school teachers in this area are far from meeting the needs of the development of education, Leshan prefectural party Committee and land reform commission decided to build a school with the main task of "training junior high school teachers and senior high school administrative cadres and cultural and educational cadres at or above the district level, and taking into account the training of senior high school teachers". April 5 1978 Leshan Normal School, Leshan Senior Middle School and Leshan Education Administrative Cadre School merged to form Leshan Education College.
The school site is divided into two parts: the headquarters is located in the former senior high school in the north of the city, which is mainly responsible for training in-service junior high school teachers and school administrative cadres; The branch school is located in the former Leshan Normal School of Xihu Tang in the west of the city. Mainly responsible for recruiting junior high school freshmen and training new junior high school teachers, called higher normal classes.