Abiding by the guidance of "Patriotism, Contribution, Dedication, and Cultivation" and the university motto "Contemplation, Honesty, Erudition, Creativity", Guizhou Normal University(GZNU) is now a university specialized in teacher's education. 260 thousands of graduates have dedicated their wisdom and energy to the educational cause and become the backbone in their career, widely appreciated throughout the university's remarkable history of both hardships and achievements.
Founded in 1941, the university was originally named as National Guiyang Teachers' College, and renamed as Guiyang Teachers' College in 1950. In 1985, it was formally entitled Guizhou Normal University and honored as one of the provincial key universities in 1996. The year 2004 marked a new stage in the university's development when the Provincial Vocational College of Technology was merged with it. GZNU is in the name list of the Program of Partner Assistance with Western Universities of Ministry of Education, and has set up the partner-assistance relationship with Xiamen University in 2006. In 2013, it was approved to grant Ph.D. by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, and two years later, honored as a university co-constructed by the Ministry of Education of P.R.China and Guizhou Province. From the year of 2016, GZNU started the in-depth cooperation and the synergy innovation with Lanzhou University with mutual strategic cooperation agreements reached. And in the following year, the university successfully became the first and currently the only institution in Guizhou Province entering into the ‘Overseas Expertise Introduction Project for Discipline Innovation’ implemented by China’s Ministry of Education and the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs.