Central University for Nationalities

  Central University for Nationalities (CUN), located in the western
surburbs of Bejing, is  a  national  key  university  for  training  of 
highlevel professionals. CUN was founded on the basis of the Yan'an institute 
for Nationalities, which was set up in Sept.1941 in Yan'an. On june 11,1951, 
CUN officially opened. The  former  Social Studies Departments in YanJing 
University and Tsinhua  University  and Minority  Languages  Section, Oriental 
Languages and Literatures Department in Peking University merged into the CUN. 
On November 30, 1993, the name Central institute for Nationalities changed
into Central University for Nationalities.

  During its forty years of development, CUN has become a  comprehensive 
university with the humanities as its focus and with ethnology  as  its 
unique characteristic. The natural sciences, the management sciences, and 
the arts are also offered. At the present time, the university  has  the 
following departments:

  
Ethnology
  
Tibetology
  
Minority Languages and Literature
  
Economics
  
Law 
  
History
  
Philosophy
  
Chinese Language and Literature
  
Foreign Languages
  
Physics
  
Biology and Chemistry
  
Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
  
Fine Arts
  
Music and Dance

  
Over 2700 people comprise the teaching and  administrative  staff 
and workers on  the  campus. Presently  116  professors, 469  associate 
professors are at their posts. Among them are a number of scholars  with 
high academic acomplishments,well-known both at  home  and  abroad, and 
also a large number of talented middle aged and young  teachers; 97  of 
them have been awarded honors by the Government for being "Experts with
Outstanding   Contributions. " One   third   of   the   teaching   and 
administrative staff are form ethnic minority groups.
  CUN is not only a  training  center  for  nationalities  but  also  a 
science research center. In order to promote the cultural and  economics 
development in minority nationality areas. CUN has set up:

  
Institute of Nationality Studies
  
the institute of Minority Economy
  
the institute of Minority Literature and Arts
  
the institute of Minority Language and Words Processing 
  
the institute of Tibetology
  
the institute of Ethnology (Korean,Manchu,Mongolian and Yi studies)
  
the institute of Social Development(Muslim and Multi culture )
  
the institute of Zhong Rui Compute applied Technology  
  
Kang Sai Computer Language Research Center
  
WAll Painting institute

  
The university has good conditions and facilities.
     
For study and research, the library of the university has  more 
than one million books, over 120, 000  of  them  in  more  than  twenty 
minority languages, including Mongolian,Tibetan,Uygur,Kazak,Korean,Zhuang,
Bouyei,Yi,Manchu,Jingpo,Kirgis,Xibe,Naxi, and Dai. There  are  also  more 
than 50,000 books in foreign languages. The State  EDucation  Commission 
has set up a Centre of Document information on Liberal Arst.

     A bimonthly journal of the Central  University  for  Nationalities 
and a quarterly Research on Education of National Minorities issued  by 
the university  are  distributed  throughout the country and abroad.The 
university has a  modern  Computer  Linguistic  Analysis  Laboratory, a 
Computer Centre and an Audion-Visual Center. The publishing house of the
University has published over 300 different kinds of books  every  year 
and has obtained both good social and economic affects.
      Now the campus occupies an
area of 38.7 hectares and the buildings cover  197, 000  square  meters.
Among them are new teaching building covering 25,000  square  metres, a 
modern gymnasium and a nationalities musemu with 20000 piece of rare antique  .
There are many houses in Chinese styles building in 50's, some  of  them 
are "protected buildings" named by Beijing environment protection bureau.
The compus is beautiful,with areas of grass,tress and flowering  shrubs,
and is a nice place to study.

     
The university actively carries out the policies of reform and
opening to the outside world as well as international academic exchange
programs. Up to this point, we have  established  cooperative  relations 
with 30 countries and areas by  paying  mutual  visits  and  developing 
joint projects. The  University  also  has  sined  academic  cooperative 
agreements with the following universities: University in Canada, Alaska 
Pacific University, and Washington  University  seattle  in  the  U. S. ,
Momoyama College and Okinawa University in Japan, as well as Chulalongon
University, Chiangma University and  Rajabhat  Institute  Pibulsongkram 
phitsanulok in Thailand.


  
    Author Name: Xiuchuan Li
    Address    : Computer Science Dept.
                 Central University for Nationalities
                 BeiJing, China