Hanshan Normal University, a school with long history and profound culture, is run by the government of Guangdong Province. It was established in Qing dynasty in 1903, which was the first school to train teachers in Guangdong and was one of the earliest normal schools in China.Hanshan Normal University has cultivated a good tradition and a excellent school spirit of working hard at teaching and learning in order to be worthy of the name of teacher, and has trained large number of talented people for Guangdong elementary education and all circles of society for over 100 years.
The school has 11 departments such as Institute of Mathematics and IT, Institute of Political Science and Law, the Chinese Language and Literature Department, the Physics Department, the Foreign Language Department and the Education Science Department, and 2 compulsory-subject teaching and research departments ( the College English Department, the Public PE Department ), and 7 scientific research institutions ( the Shantou-Chaozhou Cultural Research Institute, Hanyu Research Institute, the Research Institute of the economy and social Department in Eastern Guangdong, the Research Institute of Environmental and Chemical Applied Technology), and the second- degree institutions ( Chaozhou Normal School , the Ceramic School). They contain 33 specialities such as Chinese language and literature, radio and television news, computer science and technology, electronic information science and technology.