Henan Normal University is a provincial key university. Its predecessor was Zhongzhou University founded by 1923 and Pingyuan Teachers College founded by 195 1. In many social changes, it has gone through the periods of Science College of Sun Yat-sen University, Henan University and National Henan University.
By April 2022, the school had undertaken 2526 scientific research projects, including the national key R&D plan, the major key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, the major key projects of the National Social Science Foundation, the National Outstanding Youth Fund, the National Spark Plan, the National Fund and the provincial and ministerial key projects. Won the National Innovation Award, the China Patent Gold Award, the second prize of the National Natural Science Award, the second prize of the National Scientific and Technological Progress Award and the second prize of the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education.
Academic resources:
In August, 2022, the official website of the school library showed that the school library had more than 3 million paper books, more than 8 million electronic books, the database 1 12, more than 6,000 back issues, nearly 1500 issues, and nearly 700 bound newspapers. Among them, the Special Collection Department of Ancient Books has 4,327 original ancient books of the Qing Dynasty, nearly 60,000 kinds of precious photocopied ancient books such as The Collection of Ancient and Modern Books, The Rare Book of China, The Collection of Books of the Republic of China, and The Series of Four Treasures, and more than 3000 copies of Xinxiang local characteristic documents/kloc-0.
In August, 2022, official website of College of Life Sciences showed that there were nearly 6,000 kinds of animal, plant, fungus, human and fossil specimens in the school's biological specimen museum, with the total number exceeding120,000. Among them, there are more than 3,600 species and 28,000 species of plant specimens, including more than 30 species of national key protected plants, such as ginseng, Davidia involucrata, Taihang flower, gastrodia elata, hedgehog, ginkgo and Cercidiphyllum japonicum. Four precious Chinese herbal medicines, Achyranthes bidentata, Rehmannia glutinosa, Chrysanthemum and Yam, are also collected in this museum, and the rich resources of Chinese herbal medicines have played an important role in promoting the economic development of Henan.