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Northwest Normal University is located in the city of Lanzhou, capital of Gansu province. Lanzhou is a hub of communication in northwestern China. It is also the economic, political and cultural center of Gansu province. Northwest Normal University, located in a green suburb and by the side of Yellow River, is amid beautiful surroundings.

The predecessor of NWNU is The National Beiping Normal University which grew out of The Faculty of Education of The Metropolitan University founded in 1902. After the July 7 Incident of 1937, Beiping Normal University moved to Shanxi Province and then to Lanzhou in 1941. In 1988 the university was renamed Northwest Normal University.
The university boasts a good capacity of scientific research and has won great academic success in the field of educational theory, Chinese Literature, ancient Chinese language, chemistry and chemical engineering and the study of inscription on bamboo slips and wood tablets. The university occupies a total area of 60 hectares and all the buildings on the campus have a floor space of 460 thousand square meters. The university library has a collection of 1.82 million volumes.