Northwest Minzu University (), formerly known as Northwest University for Nationalities, is the first minority institution of higher learning founded in China after the establishment of the
People's Republic of China
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, directly under the
State Ethnic Affairs Commission
The National Ethnic Affairs Commission is a cabinet-level executive department of the State Council of the People's Republic of China under the formal leadership of the United Front Work Department that is responsible for relations between ...
of PRC. The university is in Lanzhou,
Gansu Province
Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province.
The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibeta ...
, and covers a land area of . It has two campuses: Northwest Xincun and Yuzhong.
History
The university's precedent was the third campus of Northwest People's Revolutionary University in
Lanzhou
Lanzhou (, ; ) is the capital and largest city of Gansu Province in Northwest China. Located on the banks of the Yellow River, it is a key regional transportation hub, connecting areas further west by rail to the eastern half of the country. H ...
. From February 1950, the school was planned on the basis of that campus. In August 1950, Northwest Nationalities College was founded, and a senior
CPC leader,
Wang Feng, became the first president. In April 2003, approved by the
Ministry of Education and
State Ethnic Affairs Commission
The National Ethnic Affairs Commission is a cabinet-level executive department of the State Council of the People's Republic of China under the formal leadership of the United Front Work Department that is responsible for relations between ...
, the school adopted the current name, Northwest University for Nationalities.
In June 2016, the university officially changed its English name to Northwest Minzu University. The Chinese name remained the same ().
Publications
The university created the first internet website in
Tibetan
Tibetan may mean:
* of, from, or related to Tibet
* Tibetan people, an ethnic group
* Tibetan language:
** Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard
** Standard Tibetan, the most widely used spoken dial ...
in the world.
The following journals are edited and published by the university:
*''Northwest Minorities Research'' (kernel journal at national level)
*''Journal of Northwest University for Nationalities'' (
Philosophy
Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...
and
Social Science
Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of soc ...
edition), (kernel journal at national level)
*''Journal of Northwest University for Nationalities'' (Tibetan Edition)
*''Journal of Northwest University for Nationalities'' (
Mongolian edition)
*''Journal of Northwest University for Nationalities'' (
Natural Science
Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer review and repeatab ...
edition)
*''Northwest University for Nationalities Tabloid''
References
Educational institutions established in 1950
Universities and colleges in Gansu
Education in Lanzhou
1950 establishments in China
Minzu Universities
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