University Profile
Shangqiu Normal University is located in Shangqiu City of Henan Province, the famous historical and cultural city of China, which, with its rich resources, beautiful environment and profound cultural background, enjoys geographical advantages and broad prospects of development.
Shangqiu Normal University is a provincial undergraduate (four-year) university approved by the State Educational Ministry. It has an area of 1,880 Mu (12,533 acres) and a floorage of 450,000 square meters. At present, there are 17,000 full-time students, 7,000 adult students of various kinds. The university has a teaching and administrative staff of 1,300 of which 56 are professors, 260 are associate professors and 230 have doctor or master degrees. The university has 18 departments and 50 undergraduate majors, covering eight branches of learning: literature, science, engineering, management, economics, history, education and law. The library of this university has a collection of 1,600,000 copies of various kinds of books and 4,500 kinds of journals published in China and other countries. In this university, there are 86 laboratories of different kinds with advanced instruments and equipment.
Campus Life
1. Accommodation
For students the institute has rooms of different standards as follows: double
room ,single-bed room, IDD telephone, boiler, air-conditioning, and toilet, bathroom, color
TV, public washing machine, Internet, closet, Refrigerator.
2. Meals
International students' cafe provides Chinese and western food for students. Monthly cost is approximately US $ 60. Meals expense can be reduced to about US $ 40 per month if students have their meals in Chinese students' dining-hall. It could be even cheaper for students to cook their own meals.
3. Transport, communications and banking
It takes about 5 minutes' bike from the campus to downtown. Students can also choose bus transport to go shopping and sightseeing. Route 2,9,19,26 bus stops are all at the university gates, which enables students to reach most parts of the city. A local call costs about US $ 0.01 per minute. A long distance call between cities costs US $ 0.05 or so per minute and for an international call the expense is approximately US $ 0.6 a minute. Postage for mailing an international letter is US $ 0.8. Students can walk to a post office or a bank within 5 minutes. Keeping a bankcard at hand is recommended for both convenience and safety
4.Recreation and sports
In the university there are cinema, ballroom, bar, billiards-room, table-tennis room, tennis-court, basketball-playground, soccer-playground and gym. University Sports Event for staff and students is held every autumn. In normal times there are quite a few ballgames. Off the campus it takes 2 minutes' bike to Qingshuiwan Swimming Pool.
5.Spectacular spots
Shangqiu is a historical city full of fertility and promise, and she is glamorous for its history, culture and more.
Applicant Qualifications
Shangqiu City is located in the eastern part of Henan province at the juncture of four provinces, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, and Anhui. It has six countries, three districts and one city under its jurisdiction covering an area of 10,704 square kilometers with a population of 8.1 million people.
Shangqiu has a long history being one of the birthplaces of China’s culture. The city is the cradle of “Businessman, commerce, and Shang Culture”. In the year 1986, it was named China’s Historical Cultural City.
Longhai Railway, traverses the city and crosses Beijing-Kowloon Railway here; No 105 and No 301 State Highway goes past at Shangqiu City. The expressway named Lian-Huo and the 3 expressways being built Shang-Bo, Shang-He, Shang-Zhou, make Shangqiu an important hub of communications in China.
Shangqiu is known as the state major grain producing area, agricultural and sideline producing bases and also the prestige of “Hometown of paulownia”.
Shangqiu actively carries out strategy of Open-driving and steps up to the outside world. Diligent, good faith and open-minded Shangqiu people warmly welcome all walks of life, both at home and abroad, to Shangqiu.