Guiyang city was liberated on November 15, 1949. The Guiyang Municipal People's Government was established on November 23. At the same time, Guiyang Special Zone was also set up, administering Guizhu, Xiuwen, Kaiyang, Xifeng, Huishui and Longli counties. The administrative office was located at Guizhu county (Huaxi). In 1952, Guiyang Special Zone was abolished and Guiding Special Zone was set up.
In 1954, Guizhu county was put under the administration of Guiyang city. In 1958, Guizhu county was abolished. In the suburb of Guiyang city, Huaxi and Wudang districts were set up. Approved by the State Council, Qingzhen, Xiuwen and Kaiyang counties of Anshun Special Zone as well as Huishui county of the Qiannan autonomous prefecture were put under the administration of Guiyang city. In 1959, Baiyun town was established equivalent to an administrative unit directly subordinate to Guiyang city. In 1963, Kaiyang county was put under the Zunyi prefectural administrative commissioner's office, Xiuwen and Qingzhen counties under the Anshun prefectural commissioner's office, and Huishui county under the Qiannan autonomous prefecture. In 1973, Baiyun district was re-established. In 1992, Qingzhen county was renamed Qingzhen city. Approved by the State Council, since January 1, 1996, Qingzhen city and the counties of Xiuwen, Xifeng and Kaiyang (that is, one city and three counties) were all put under the administration of Guiyang municipality. In January 2000, Xiaohe district of Guiyang municipality was established as approved by the State Council. In 2012, the State Council approved Guiyang's bid to combine the former Huaxi and Xiaohe districts to create Huaxi district. It also gave the nod to combine the Jinyang sub-district of Wudang district, Jinhua town, Zhuchang town and Qingzhen city's Baihuahu township to make Guanshanhu district.
Guiyang, the capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, is a modern city embraced by mountains and surrounded by forests. It is known as a "forest city" and a resort destination for those looking to avoid the summer heat. It is also known by many other names and titles, which are introduced below:
2021:National Demonstration City for Public Transport Development
2020:China National Travel's "Tourism City of China",National 45th on the overseas communication influence index ranking of China's top 100 cities in the first quarter of 2020
2011, 2015, 2017, 2020: National Civilized City
1994, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020: National Demonstration City for Military-Civilian Mutual Support Efforts
2019: City of Charm at the 17th China-ASEAN Expo; Top 100 Chinese City for Development Potential; China's Top 10 Most Popular Tourist City; Candidate city of China's Happiest City selection; National seventh in the evaluation of Chinese cities' basic public service capability; One of the 10 representatives of the special report commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China
2018: Leading City of International Business Environment Construction; Top 10 City for Green Development and Ecological Civilization Construction; China's Best Demonstration City of All-for-one Tourism Construction; City of the Year award by Influence China; Best Quality Tourism City; National Demonstration City for High-quality Products

About GZNU

Guizhou Normal University (GZNU), founded in 1941, with the former name of “National Guiyang Teacher’s College”, was one of the eight national teachers’ colleges in China at that time. In October 1950, it was renamed as “Guiyang Teachers’ College”. It was formally named “Guizhou Normal University” in 1985 and honored as one of the provincial key university jointly built by Ministry of Education and the People’s Government of Guizhou Province in 1996. In 2017 it was selected as “The First Batch of National Demonstration Universities for Deepening Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform”.
With Huaxi Campus as its main campus, GZNU comprises 25 schools and a School of Further Education. It has more than 41, 000 full-time students and a faculty team of 2, 576 members in total, including 337 professors and 651 associate professors. More than 300 talent and honorary titles at national or provincial level have been given to the faculty achieving great progress.GZNU has a full range of disciplines, covering 11 disciplines such as philosophy, literature and education.The University has developed 6 doctor’s programs in first-level disciplines, 24 master’s programs in first-level disciplines and 17 professional ones, and 85 bachelor’s programs.
Guizhou Normal University remains committed to broadening its education through global cooperation. Presently, it has established friendly partnerships and conducted programs with universities and institutions in the United States, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia and other countries, as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions.GZNU cooperates with the Scottish Qualification Management Committee to award the UK Diploma in Higher Education program (SQA-AD), with Chinese Service Center for Scholarly Exchange (CSCSE) tooffer the undergraduate international general education course (IGEC), withthe National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT) of India to developBachelor program of Data science and Big Data Technology (characteristic program),and with University of CentralOklahoma on Chinese-Foreign Cooperation in Running Schools program.
Until now, more than 300, 000 students graduated from GZNU, and GZNU is developing into a normal university with distinctive characteristics of teacher education and coordinated development of multi-disciplines, which has made a positive contribution to the economic and social development in Guizhou province.

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