Library of Shanxi University

Shanxi University's lecturers have had remarkable achievements. It has 2,141 full-time teachers, 1,169 of them with advanced academic titles. It has members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences with national "Outstanding Professional and Technical Talent" titles, special professors and lecturers under the Yangtze River Scholar Program, State-level experts with prominent contributions, winners of the national Foundation for Eminent Youth, national model teachers, leading teachers with Education Ministry recognition, and nearly 100 experts with special government stipends. It also sponsors State-level innovative research groups, State-level teaching teams and the innovative research groups supported by the Education Ministry. Nine of its textbooks compiled by Shanxi University teachers have been selected as State-level teaching materials under the "11th Five-Year Plan" (2006-2010) and the "12th Five-Year Plan" (2011-2015). Ten of its doctoral dissertations have won a national Excellent Doctoral Dissertation award or have been nominated for it.

The school now has 24,096 undergraduates and 7,432 graduate students full time, some of whom have won national competitions, such as the Mathematical Contest in Modeling, "Challenge Cup" for Extracurricular Science and Technology Work, Electronic Design Competition, Advertising Art Contest, and the English Competition.

The school has also increased international exchanges and has relations with more than 60 universities and institutions in the United States, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada and elsewhere and it has worked with Yerevan State Linguistic University, Armenia and Pfeiffer University, in the US, in setting up Confucius Institutes there. It provides more opportunities for Chinese students to continue their tertiary education abroad and for international students to study here in China.

Now, as the school faces new opportunities and challenges, it is making every effort to overcome difficulties and improve itself overall in hopes of becoming an exemplary research-oriented university with special regional characteristics.