Harbin Normal University is located in Harbin, a famous historical and cultural city known as the "Ice City of Summer". It is an important talent training base and scientific research base for education, art, humanities and social sciences and natural sciences in Heilongjiang Province. It is a key construction of Heilongjiang Province. A high-level university is an excellent school for undergraduate teaching evaluation by the Ministry of Education. The school is a national "Middle and Western University Basic Ability Building Project" and one of the 100 central and western undergraduate colleges and universities supported by the state during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period.　　　The school was established in 1951. Its predecessor was Songjiang Provincial Xingzhi Normal School established by our party in the Northeast Liberated Area in 1946. It has experienced Harbin Teachers College (1951—1956) and Harbin Teachers College (1956—1980). In 1980, it was renamed Harbin Normal University. In 2000, Hulan Teachers College and Heilongjiang Agricultural Reclamation Teachers College were merged. In 2002, Heilongjiang Material School (Heilongjiang Material Workers University) merged to form the new Harbin Normal University.　　The school adheres to the socialist direction of running a school, promotes the university culture represented by the "spirit of knowledge and practice", practices the principle of "learning from high schools, and acts as a model", and upholds the school motto of "honoring students and promoting perseverance" , Persist in establishing morality, improving quality, and innovative development. The school has successively won the titles of "Heilongjiang Province Civilized Unit Model", "National Advanced Unit of Spiritual Civilization Construction", "National Civilized Unit" and "National Civilized Campus".