Hebei Normal University Located in Shijiazhuang City, the capital of Hebei Province, the university is jointly built by the Ministry of education of the people's Republic of China and the people's Government of Hebei Province. It is a provincial key university with a hundred years of history and glorious tradition. It is a first-class national university supported by Hebei Province. It is one of the early established and large-scale normal universities in China. It has been selected into the excellent teacher training program, the Chinese and western education program It includes the basic ability construction project of the Ministry of education of the people's Republic of China, the public postgraduate project of the national construction of high-level universities, the national "characteristic key discipline project" construction universities, the new engineering research and practice project, the national innovation and entrepreneurship training plan for college students, the national model universities of deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, and the construction universities of the Ministry of education's overseas study demonstration base.Hebei Normal University originated from shuntianfu school in Beijing in 1902 and Beiyang women's normal school in Tianjin in 1906. In June 1996, the former Hebei Normal University and Hebei Normal University merged with Hebei Institute of education founded in 1952 and Hebei Vocational and Technical Normal University founded in 1984 to form a new Hebei Normal University. In September 2011, the original campuses were moved to the current site to realize centralized education. In November 2014, the people's Government of Hebei Province and the Ministry of Education decided to jointly build Hebei Normal University.As of April 2020, the new campus of the University covers an area of 1829 mu, with a collection of 3.03 million books and 67 Chinese and foreign language databases; it has 25 professional colleges and an independent college (Huihua College), with 11 first-class disciplines and 1 doctoral professional degree authorization point authorized for doctoral degree; 29 first-class disciplines and 14 master professional degree authorization points authorized for master's degree; 9 mobile post doctoral research stations and 4 undergraduate professional research centers authorized for master's degree There are 2598 in-service staff, 24303 undergraduates, 4837 postgraduates, 366 doctoral students and 10592 adult education students. Chemistry, botany and zoology are in the top 1% of ESI.