Fujian Normal University (FNU), a century-old university based in Fuzhou, a historic cultural city known as "Land of Culture on the Coast", is a time-honored and well-acclaimed provincial institution of higher learning. Founded as Fujian Superior Normal School in 1907 by the famous late-Qing scholar Chen Baochen, who once served as the teacher of China's last emperor, the University was renamed Fujian Normal University and has been thus referred to since 1972. In 2012, the Ministry of Education and Fujian government began to jointly support the development of the University. FNU was designated as provincial high-level university for prioritized construction in 2014 and as provincial first-class university in 2018.Since its establishment, FNU has graduated over 500,000 of students talented at various levels and of diversified types, thus making a tremendous contribution to the economic and social development of the province and the country.Currently there are over 23,000 full time undergraduate students, over 7000 graduate students of various types, and 1800-strong teaching and auxiliary staff on the main campuses. As one of the earliest institutions in China to offer courses to overseas students, FNU has over 5,000 international students from over 100 countries and regions.