Lishui University () is a

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located in

Lishui Lishui (; Lishuinese: ''li⁶ syu³'' ) is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It borders Quzhou, Jinhua and Taizhou to the north, Wenzhou to the southeast, and the province of Fujian to ...

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China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

. It has an area of about and a building area of about . As of fall 2017, the university has one campuses, a combined student body of 13,983 students, 1,126 faculty members, and over 200,000 living alumni.

History

Lishui University traces its origins to the former Chuzhou Normal School (), in 1907 and would later become the Zhejiang No. 11 Normal School (). In 1923, Zhejiang No. 11 Normal School and Zhejiang No. 11 High School merged and was divided into secondary school department and teacher education department. In 1937, after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident broke out, the school stopped recruiting students. In 1939,

Yingshi University National Yingshih University (Traditional Chinese: 國立英士大學, Simplified Chinese: 国立英士大学), or shortly Yingshih University and formerly Provincial Yingshih University (Traditional Chinese: 省立英士大學, Simplified Chinese: ...

was founded in the site of Lishui Normal School. In 1946, Chuzhou Normal School was reconstructed in

Yunhe County Yunhe County () is a county in the southwest of Zhejiang province, China. It is under the administration of the Lishui, Zhejiang, Lishui city. History Yunhe hosted the Provincial government of Zhejiang from the summer of 1942 till Japan's surren ...

. Three years later, the school moved to

. After the establishment of the

Communist State A communist state, also known as a Marxist–Leninist state, is a one-party state in which the totality of the power belongs to a party adhering to some form of Marxism–Leninism, a branch of the communist ideology. Marxism–Leninism was ...

in 1953, it was officially renamed Lishui Normal College. In August 2000, Zhejiang Minorities Normal College and Songyang Normal College merged into Lishui Normal College. In March 2003, Lishui Normal College merged with Lishui Vocational and Technical College. In May 2004, the college was upgraded to an undergraduate university. Lishui Normal College was officially renamed Lishui Normal University, which is still used today. In March 2007, Lishui Health School was merged into the university.

Schools and Departments

The university consists of 8 colleges, with 45 specialties for undergraduates. * School of Project and Design * School of Ecology * School of Teacher Education * School of Business * School of Nationalities * School of Medical and Health Sciences * Vocational college * School of Continuing Education

Culture

* Motto: . The motto of the school is cited from ''

Great Learning The ''Great Learning'' or ''Daxue'' was one of the " Four Books" in Confucianism attributed to one of Confucius' disciples, Zengzi. The ''Great Learning'' had come from a chapter in the '' Book of Rites'' which formed one of the Five Classi ...

'' and ''

Book of Rites The ''Book of Rites'', also known as the ''Liji'', is a collection of texts describing the social forms, administration, and ceremonial rites of the Zhou dynasty as they were understood in the Warring States and the early Han periods. The '' ...

''. * College newspaper: ''Lishui University Journal'' () * Library: the library contains 1,566,900 volumes of paper books, 643,200 volumes of electronic books, 52,800 kinds of electronic periodicals and 35 electronic resources database.

Affiliated schools

* Secondary School attached to Lishui University

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lishui University Universities and colleges in Zhejiang Universities and colleges established in 1907 1907 establishments in China 1907 in Lishui