CCNU is a key normal university directly under the Chinese Ministry of Education. Located in Wuhan, a major hub of transportation, it has a campus of over 2,000 mu with a construction area of more than 600,000 square meters on Guizishan, a hill bordering the East Lake and the South Lake. It has brilliant flowers and green woods all year round. With a serene environment, especially the fragrance of osmanthus flowers all over, the campus is an ideal place for teaching and studying.

A hundred years of vicissitudes and striving fostered this celebrated university. The predecessor of HZU is the combination of Huazhong University, Zhonghua University and the Pedagogical College of Zhongyuan University, with Huazhong University as the main part. Huazhong University was the largest and most influential mission university in South Central China, it developed from Wenhua Academy (the first college of mission school) that was founded in 1903. In 1951, the public Huazhong University came into being after the Pedagogical College of Zhongyuan University merged with Huazhong University. Then, it was reorganized into Huazhong Higher Normal School in 1952 and later renamed Huazhong Teachers College in 1953. In 1985, the university was formally entitled Huazhong University and Deng Xiaoping, one of the founders of Zhongyuan University, inscribed the new name of the university. In1993, President Jiang Zemin wrote an inscription for the university "Developing normal education, improving the nation's quality". 

華中師范大學位于九省通衢的湖北省武漢市，坐落在武昌南湖之濱的桂子山上，毗鄰武漢新技術開發區，占地面積2000多畝，是中國教育部直屬重點綜合性師范大學，國家“211工程”重點建設的大學，是國家培養中、高等學校師資和其他高級專門人才的重要基地。
學校具有悠久的歷史，她是在 1903年創辦的文華書院大學部（始于1871年創辦的文華書院，1924年改名為華中大學）、1912年創辦的中華大學、1949年創辦的中原大學教育學院的基礎上，1951年組建公立華中大學，1952年改制為華中高等師范學校，1953年定名為華中師范學院，1985年學校更名為華中師范大學，并由中原大學創始人之一——鄧小平同志親筆題寫校名。1993年江澤民總書記為學校九十周年校慶題詞：“發展師范教育事業，提高民族文化素質”。學校在百余年的發展中既繼承了中國傳統文化的精華，又汲取了外來文化的養分，更弘揚了革命文化教育的傳統，形成了“忠誠博雅、樸實剛毅”的華師精神，為國家培養了18萬多優秀人才。

The College of International Culture Exchange (CICE) of CCNU is responsible for the teaching and administration of international students. CICE has a team of experienced professional Chinese Language instructors, and is equipped with modern teaching facilities and language labs. All of the teachers are qualified with Certificates of Teaching Chinese to Foreigners. A considerable proportions of them have experiences of teaching Chinese abroad. Professor Xing Fuyi, a well-known linguist and Chairman of the Chinese Society of Teaching Chinese to Foreigners, leads the team.

The college attaches utmost importance to the quality of teaching, which is done in small-sized classes of no more than 15 students carefully organized according to their language proficiency. Language learning tuition fee is $800 per semester. Bachelor's programs of Chinese language tuition fee is $1800 per academic year. One to eight weeks Short-term Programs of Chinese Language and Traditional Culture are regularly run all year round. All the programs, long-term or short-term, involve classroom instruction, extra curriculum tutoring, cultural lectures, recreation activities and sports, and field work. To satisfy the special need of some students, CICE also offers one on one language instruction cause.

Located in East Lake New & High-tech Development Zone of the great metropolitan city of Wuhan, the university enjoys the convenient public transport facilities, and very pleasant environment. International students can choose to live in the dorms for them on campus, to stay in the three-star campus hotel, to have a home-stay on campus or to live outside the campus.

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Adds: No.152 Luoyu Lu, Wuhan, Hubei, P.R.China   430079

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