Huazhong Normal University, referred to as "Huazhong Normal University", is located in Wuhan, Hubei Province. It is a key comprehensive normal university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC) and jointly established by the Ministry of Education and the Hubei Provincial People's Government. The national "2 1 1 engineering" and "985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform" are key construction institutions, and the national "double-class" construction universities.
Selected into the national "20 1 1 plan", "11plan", the national public postgraduate plan to build a high-level university, the national college students' cultural quality education base, the founding university of the China-Japan Humanities Exchange University Alliance, the joint running member of seven universities in Wuhan, and the first batch of doctoral and master's degrees awarded in China.
Huazhong Normal University mainly has three predecessors: Huazhong University, Zhonghua University and Chung Yuan Christian University School of Education. Since its establishment, Huazhong University has been adhering to the school-running philosophy of "basing on local culture and looking at human civilization".
Chinese University adheres to the philosophy of "morality, talent, independence and enterprising"; The College of Education of Chung Yuan Christian University adheres to the lofty belief of "loyalty to the Party's educational cause".
At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, according to its normal orientation, the school formulated the eight-character motto of "loyalty, hard work, erudition and joy in teaching" to unify the school-running ideas and standardize educational behavior.
In the course of running a school for decades, the school has always advocated "respecting teachers and loving students" and "being a teacher". In preparation for the 90th anniversary of the founding of the school, the school has formulated a new motto of "be realistic and innovative, be a model for others", which was revised to "be realistic and innovative, and educate people through moral education" in 1998.