Guizhou University for Nationalities was founded on May 17, 1951. It belongs to the People's Government of Guizhou Province. It is one of the earliest national colleges and universities established in New China. It is also a key construction university in Guizhou Province, a joint construction university by the People's Government of Guizhou Province and the National People's Committee, a university with excellent undergraduate teaching evaluation by the Ministry of Education, and a university that receives scholarships from the Chinese Government for overseas students. The school has two campuses. Huaxi Campus is located in Huaxi District, Guiyang City, a scenic spot with beautiful mountains and rivers and known as the "Pearl of the Plateau". The University City Campus is located in Gui'an New District, which integrates innovation and demonstrates ecological civilization. It covers an area of 2825 Mu and covers a total area of 730,000 square meters. The school has 2.14 million copies of paper books, 1.15 million copies of electronic books, 33 TB of digital resources and 16,000 kinds of electronic journals.
The school has a team of teachers with reasonable structure and good development trend. There are 1571 faculty members, including 180 senior and senior professors (13 of them are secondary professors), 563 senior and Vice-Senior professionals, 302 doctoral, 809 master's, 431 doctoral and master's supervisors. Among them, there are leaders of the National "Ten Thousands Plan", "Tens of Millions of Talents Project" national candidates, young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions from the state, famous cultural experts of the Ministry of Publicity and Propaganda and "four groups of" talents, masters of Chinese arts and crafts, experts enjoying special allowances from the State Council, outstanding scientific and technological talents of the Ministry of Education in the new century, core experts of Guizhou Province, and philosophical and social sciences of universities in Gui“ Guizhou Ling Scholar, Guizhou Provincial Governance Expert, Expert Enjoying Provincial Government Special Allowance, Academic Leader of Philosophy and Social Sciences in Colleges and Universities of Guizhou Province, and Famous Teachers of Teaching in Colleges and Universities of Guizhou Province.
The school is geared to national enrollment. There are 20 722 full-time students and 11013 undergraduates from independent cooperative colleges. Since the establishment of the school, more than 100,000 talents at all levels have been channelled to the society, and they have become the backbone of all trades and disciplines in Guizhou and even in the southwestern region.
After 67 years of construction and development, the school has developed into a comprehensive university with humanities, Social Sciences and engineering as its main disciplines, and nine disciplines such as economics, law, pedagogy, literature, history, science, engineering, management and art as their mutual support and coordinated development. It has formed a comprehensive university with undergraduate education as its main body and postgraduate education, preparatory education and continuing education association. To adjust the pattern of running schools. The school has business school, law school, ethnology and sociology college, Marxist college, national culture and cognitive science college, literature college, foreign language college, media college, data science and Information Engineering college, mechanical and electronic engineering college, Chemical Engineering College (ethnic medicine college), ecological environment engineering college, material science and engineering college, construction engineering. Colleges, Tourism and Aviation Services College, Music and Dance College, Fine Arts College, Sports and Health College and other 19 colleges; Preparatory Education College, Continuing Education College (Higher Vocational and Technical College), Graduate School, International Education College and other management and teaching institutions; Independent College of Humanities and Technology with co-operation; Information and Data Center, Engineering and Technology Personnel Teaching assistant units such as talent practice training center, library, journal, etc.
