Yulin Normal College is located in the hometown of Wang Li, a famous linguist, an excellent tourist city in China, and Yulin, a thousand-year-old city in southeastern Guangxi, covering an area of 1746 mu. It is a full-time undergraduate college directly under the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
The school was founded in 1945, formerly known as Yulin Normal School of Guangxi Provincial Government. It was renamed Yulin Normal School in the spring of 1952 and upgraded to Yulin Normal College of Guangxi in 1958. It began to recruit students of higher education. In 1962, it was renamed Yulin Normal School. In 1978, Yulin Teachers College was restored with the approval of the State Council. In 1994, it was renamed Yulin Teachers College. In 2000, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, Yulin Teachers'College, Yulin Education College, Yulin Higher Vocational and Technical College and Yulin Branch of Guangxi Radio and Television University were merged and upgraded to Yulin Teachers' College. In 2007, it passed the evaluation of undergraduate teaching level of the Ministry of Education smoothly with excellent results. In 2013, it was listed as the construction project unit of the newly added Master Degree Granting Unit in Guangxi, and in 2014, it was listed as the construction project unit of the newly added Master Degree Granting Unit in Guangxi. In the same year, we began to train Master of Education postgraduates jointly with Shaanxi Normal University and Guangxi Normal University. In 2015, it became the first pilot universities of comprehensive reform and overall transformation in the autonomous region. In 2016, it became the director unit of Guangxi Applied Undergraduate University Alliance, and was selected as the cooperative University of "100 Schools Project" in China according to the Ministry of Education. After the establishment of the school, it has realized the transformation from resource integration, power gathering to rapid development. It has now developed into a comprehensive undergraduate college with the characteristics of teacher education, including undergraduate education, higher vocational and technical education, adult higher education and foreign student education.
The school has 17 secondary colleges, covering economics, law, pedagogy, literature, history, science, engineering, management, agriculture, art and other 10 University disciplines, with 59 general undergraduate majors. The school enrolls students from 25 provinces (cities, autonomous regions) and Southeast Asian countries. There are 17 542 full-time students in the school, and a certain number of adult students are recruited. 101 graduate students are jointly trained (jointly trained with Shaanxi Normal University, Guangxi Normal University and other universities).
Adhering to the fine tradition of "putting morality first and striving hard", the school has always adhered to the cultivation of basic education teachers at the grass-roots level in rural areas. It has formed a training system of high-quality teachers and applied talents in basic education, which takes teacher's ethics education as the core, ability training as the focus, and multimedia network environment as the support. It has trained more than 100,000 teachers for local basic education and economic and social development. Teachers of compulsory education and high-level applied professionals who can go, stay and do well.
There are 1123 teachers and staff in the school, including 741 full-time teachers, 87 full-time titles, 120 doctorates and 540 master's degrees, 70 doctoral and master's supervisors, 2 special allowances from the State Council, 1 advanced worker in the national education system and 1 excellent teacher in the country. Ten teaching and scientific research innovation teams at the autonomous region level were evaluated, and more than 170 talents and backbone candidates were evaluated at or above the hall level.
The school has made remarkable achievements in educating people, and has been awarded the first demonstration teacher education base of the project of improving the ability of running a school for normal specialty in Guangxi colleges and universities, the second class B teacher training base of gardener project in the 21st century in Guangxi, the first batch of junior middle school teacher education base in Guangxi, the first batch of kindergarten teacher education base in Guangxi, the primary school teacher education base in Guangxi, and the "demonstration base of entrepreneurship education for college students" in Two demonstration centers of experimental training and teaching in Guangxi and one virtual simulation experiment center in Guangxi were obtained. Four excellent teaching teams at the district level have maintained an average annual employment rate of more than 90%. They have been awarded the honorary title of "Advanced Collective of Employment Work in Colleges and Universities of the Region" for six consecutive years and "Outstanding Unit of Employment and Entrepreneurship Work for Graduates of Colleges and Universities of the Region" in 2016.
