The school is located in Yinchuan City, the capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and is the only university established in eight provinces and regions of ethnic minorities in China. The school, formerly known as the Northwest Second University for Nationalities, was founded in 1984 and renamed as the Northern University for Nationalities in 2008.
The school adheres to the fundamental task of establishing morality and cultivating people, and educates people for the party and the country. It recruits students from 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government, and there are 2 doctoral students, master's students, and undergraduate (pre-)studentsMore than 20,000 people are studying, which is the epitome of the big family of the Chinese nation. More than 70,000 graduates have taken root in the border areas of the motherland and ethnic areas, and have become practitioners of the construction of the community of the Chinese nation, builders of economic and social development in ethnic areas, promoters of excellent traditional Chinese culture, and defenders of ethnic unity and border stability.
The library of the Northern University for Nationalities has a total collection of more than 1.9 million paper documents, a total collection of more than 2.07 million electronic documents, more than 330 subscriptions to Chinese periodicals, the introduction of RFID book self-service borrowing and returning system, the realization of 24-hour self-service borrowing and returning services, and the opening of the "Super Star Shift ** Library" service. In terms of the construction of digital literature resources, we have jointly built and shared the CNKI series database and Springer full-text database of foreign language journals with Ningxia universities, and also purchased Elsevier Science Direct, IEEE IET Electronic Library (IEL), EI Village (Engineering Index), Web of Science (Science Citation Index), Wiley, Emerald current journal database, Chaoxing discovery, reading show academic search, global case discovery system, National People's Congress "copy newspaper materials" database and other Chinese and foreign language electronic resources required for teaching and scientific research.
The school is rooted in Ningxia, based in the northwest and facing the whole country, and adheres to the purpose of serving the national development strategy and the party's ethnic work in the new era. At present, there are 77 undergraduate majors in 10 disciplines, including literature, science, engineering, law, history, management, economics, art, education, and medicine. There are 2 first-level disciplines of ethnology and mathematics, 13 first-level disciplines such as materials science and engineering, and 13 professional master's degree programs such as electronic information. There are 3 provincial and ministerial first-class disciplines such as mathematics, and 10 provincial and ministerial key disciplines such as chemical engineering and technology. There are 4 national-level characteristic majors such as materials science and engineering, 13 national-level first-class undergraduate majors such as chemical engineering and technology, 9 provincial-level first-class undergraduate majors such as software engineering, 9 provincial-level advantageous and characteristic majors such as Chinese language and literature, 7 provincial and ministerial-level "13th Five-Year" key majors (groups) such as automation, and 5 provincial-level demonstration majors such as mechatronic engineering. 1 National Materials Science Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center and 8 Provincial and Ministerial Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centers including Chemical Technology Foundation.
The school adheres to the principle of party management of talents, introduces and trains at the same time, and strives to build a high-quality talent team with firm politics, excellent teacher ethics and excellent business. At present, there are nearly 1,500 faculty members, 4 academicians have been appointed, 10 people have been selected for national talent projects or won honorary titles, more than 200 people have been selected for provincial and ministerial talent projects and honorary titles, and the "Image Processing and Intelligent Computing Teacher Team" has been approved as a national university Huang Danian-style teacher team, 5 teams have been selected into the Innovation Team Support Program of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, 9 teams have been selected as the Autonomous Region Science and Technology Innovation Team, 4 teams have been selected as the Huang Danian-style teacher team of colleges and universities in the Autonomous Region, and 3 teams have been selected as the small highland of talents in the Autonomous Region.
The school adheres to the concept of "scientific research pursues originality, scientific research promotes teaching, scientific research serves the locality, and scientific research improves the school", carries out scientific research for the major needs of the country and local economic and social development, writes the best on the earth, and uses the results in practice. It has formed certain characteristics and advantages in the theoretical research of forging the sense of community of the Chinese nation, the research of powder materials and special ceramics, the recycling and reuse of industrial waste, the grape planting and winemaking technology, the rejuvenation of the border and the enrichment of the people and the revitalization of the countryside. There is 1 national and local joint engineering research center and 1 demonstration national international science and technology cooperation base; 8 provincial and ministerial key laboratories and 4 provincial and ministerial humanities and social sciences research bases; 1 provincial technology innovation center, 1 provincial engineering technology center, 1 provincial industrial design center; 2 national science bases.
The school solidly promotes the deep integration of education and teaching with innovation and entrepreneurship, actively carries out "entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship" education, and implements "professional and innovative integration '5+3' education to create a 'six ones' innovative talent training system". The training model of innovative and entrepreneurial talents won the special prize of teaching achievements in the autonomous region. It was awarded the title of "The First Batch of 100 Demonstration Universities for Deepening the Reform of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education in China" by the Ministry of Education, the "National Entrepreneurship Incubation Demonstration Base" by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, and the title of "National College Student Entrepreneurship Demonstration Park" by the Youth League; It was awarded the National Education Base for National Unity and Progress by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission.
Entering a new stage of development, implementing the new development concept and serving the new development pattern. Standing at a new historical starting point, the school adheres to the main line of forging the sense of community of the Chinese nation, adheres to the original mission of ethnic colleges, inherits the red gene of ethnic colleges, follows the laws of education, keeps pace with the times, pioneers and innovates, comprehensively deepens comprehensive reform, solidly promotes the construction of connotation, achieves high-quality development, and strives to build the school into a high-level modern comprehensive university with distinctive characteristics!