Shanxi Normal University is located in Linfen, the ancient Yao capital, which is the important birthplace of Chinese civilization. The school was founded in 1958. Its predecessor was Jinnan Teachers College. It was upgraded to undergraduate college in 1964 and named Shanxi Teachers College. In 1984, it was renamed Shanxi Normal University. In 1999, the Physical Education College of Shanxi Normal University (independent system) and Shanxi Vocational Teachers College were merged. In the past 60 years since its establishment, the school has been adhering to the fine tradition of normal education and constantly deepening the reform of teacher education. It has developed into a Provincial Normal University with complete training system and distinctive school-running characteristics, and is an important base for training teachers of basic education in Shanxi Province.

The school currently has 16 172 full-time undergraduates and 3810 graduate students. It has 21 colleges, 62 undergraduate majors, 20 first-level master's degree authorized disciplines, 7 master's degree categories, 2 first-level doctoral degree authorized disciplines, 2 post-doctoral mobile stations, 1 Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, 1 innovation team of the Ministry of Education, 1 service industry innovation discipline group of Shanxi Province and 9 provincial key disciplines. Discipline, 3 provincial collaborative innovation centers, 4 key research bases of Humanities and Social Sciences in Shanxi universities, undertaking the Ministry of Education's "Reform Project of Excellent Teacher Training Plan", the National Innovation Experimental Area of Talents Training Mode and the National University Students'off-campus Practical Education Base, with 6 national characteristic majors, 1 pilot project of comprehensive reform of national majors and 6 Provincial advantages. Major, 10 provincial brand majors, 6 provincial characteristic majors, 11 provincial top-quality courses and 9 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers.

There are 1139 full-time teachers in the school. Among them, there are two national outstanding young people, one young and middle-aged scientific and technological innovation leader, one "ten thousand people plan" leader, three national engineering talents of ten million people, five candidates of the Ministry of Education's New Century Excellent Talents Support Plan, 32 outstanding young academic leaders in Shanxi universities, 24 provincial teaching teachers, 6 outstanding young innovative talents in Shanxi Province, and academic and technological leaders in Shanxi Province. There are 17 people.

Schools attach great importance to undergraduate teaching, always regard the quality of teaching as the foundation of the school, constantly deepen the reform of education and teaching, and comprehensively improve the quality of personnel training. Beginning in 2014, the implementation of "student-centered" classroom teaching reform. Since 2016, we have also carried out the reform of talent training mode with classroom teaching reform as the breakthrough point, focusing on reforming the existing university classroom, updating the educational and teaching concepts in an all-round way, striving to innovate teaching methods, vigorously implementing the innovative teaching reform plan, comprehensively deepening the reform of practical teaching, Comprehensively Strengthening College Students'innovative and entrepreneurial education, and actively promoting the deep integration of information technology and education and teaching. We should actively explore the training mode of elite talents. Students'learning ability, innovative ability and practical ability are constantly improving, the quality of education and teaching is steadily improving, the employment rate is in the forefront of colleges and universities in the province, and graduates are widely welcomed and recognized by the community.

Schools adhere to the discipline construction as the leader, and constantly improve the level of discipline and scientific research. Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, the school has vigorously promoted the construction of key disciplines. According to the overall layout of "one body, two wings, and multi-point cooperation", the school has implemented the plan of upgrading key disciplines with the introduction of high-end talents and high-level teams as a breakthrough point. "One body" means teacher education as the main body, and "two wings" refers to the two first-level doctoral disciplines of drama and film and chemistry as the leading disciplines, radiating and leading the related disciplines of Dali and Dali, forming two dominant disciplines groups. "Multi-point collaboration" includes two categories: key disciplines and key disciplines. At present, three subject groups have been established, namely, teacher education, cultural and creative industries, molecular science, four key disciplines such as Chinese language and literature, Chinese history, biology and mathematics, and seven key disciplines such as Marxist theory, sports, industrial economics, physics, agricultural product processing and storage engineering, physical geography and fine arts.

Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, the school attaches great importance to the supporting and leading role of high-level talents. Since then, it has vigorously trained and introduced a number of leading talents who are active in the frontier of pre-school and meet the strategic needs of the state and Shanxi Province, and strived to build a group of high-level innovation teams. At present, 37 specially appointed professors have been flexibly introduced, including one specially appointed professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, one specially appointed professor of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, three specially appointed professors of the Thousand-Person Plan, 14 specially appointed professors of the Yangtze River Scholars, one outstanding young specially appointed professor and 17 specially appointed professors of the Hundred-Person Plan of Shanxi Province.

The school sponsors a number of newspapers and periodicals with wide influence at home and abroad. "Chinese Opera" is one of the most influential editions in theatrical theatre academia at home and abroad; Shanxi Normal University Journal (social science edition) is a top 100 social science journal in national universities, an excellent journal in northern China, and a first-class periodical in Shanxi Province; Language Journal and English Weekly are well-known both at home and abroad, and are well-known as "China's well-known trademarks".

The school is open to the outside world and carries out multi-level and wide-ranging educational exchanges and cooperation. It has established friendly cooperation and exchanges with more than 40 foreign universities and academic organizations, and has increasingly frequent intercollegiate exchanges and exchanges with domestic fraternal colleges and universities, and increasingly extensive interaction and cooperation with all sectors of society. The school has actively expanded its overseas education in China, with 64 students from 10 countries, including Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Vietnam and Thailand.

The school attaches great importance to the construction of spiritual civilization, and has been awarded as a civilized and harmonious unit in Shanxi Province for many years. It has been awarded the honorary titles of the advanced unit in the construction of teachers'morality and style, the May Day Labor Award of Shanxi Province and the vanguard of the civilized and harmonious unit. The social practice activities of college students have been commended by the Ministry of Propaganda, the Ministry of Education and the Central Committee of the League for many years.

Both sides of the tide are wide and the wind is flying. At present, the faculty and staff of Shanxi Normal University are working hard to build Shanxi Normal University into a distinctive high-level normal university with a broader vision, a more open attitude, more persistent efforts and a more solid pace.