Xuzhou Normal University, a provincial higher-learning institution founded in 1956, is located at Xuzhou. The university is composed of 4 campuses: Yunlong, Quanshan, Kuiyuan and Jiawang campuses. Its total area is more than 200 hectares. XuzhouNormalUniversity is a full-major normal university with 20 schools and departments, 55 specialties, 1,400 full-time postgraduates and 20,761 undergraduates. In addition, it has 10,036 students in night school and by long-distance education.

    Xuzhou Normal University has a high level research and teaching staff team of 1,286, among whom are 158 professors and 416 associate professors. The university has 28 labs and two provincial key laboratories and it is entitled to award Masters Degree in 53 disciplines. The university library has a building area of 26,102 square meters with a book collection of 1,947,800 volumes. The whole university is imbued with learning atmosphere. It serves as a cradle of knowledge in which students are growing up with knowledge and skills. The institution has been quite vigorous in research. Modern Chinese as a national higher-learning text book of liberal arts, written by Professor Liao Xudong with the university, a famous linguist, has been printed and been sold over 3,000,000 sets. The accomplished full-length proof-reading book of All Language of Tang Dynasty (1,000 volumes) is published home and abroad. All the achievements have gained the university a good academic reputation.

    Xuzhou Normal University is carrying out an open policy. It has extensive cultural exchanges with higher-learning institutions and academic circles of many countries. Every year it invites here foreign cultural and educational experts and delegations to teach or visit. Besides, the university has sent many of its staff abroad to visit, research, lecture and study. Xuzhou Normal University attaches much importance to international education exchange and co-operation. From the mid 1970s, the university began to send teachers abroad to teach Chinese language and culture. It began to receive international students in 1986. In 1993 XuzhouNormalUniversity was appointed by the Chinese State Education Commission one of the first national universities qualified to enroll international students. In order to enhance international education, the university has set up its Institute of International Culture and Education to take charge of international students enrollment, teaching and management. The institute has quite a number of highly qualified teachers, experienced and caring managing staff.