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

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, directly under the

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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 Tibet ...

, 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

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and

, 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 diale ...

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. ...

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 s ...

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

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