Yanbian University (Yanbian University) is located in Yanji City, the capital of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin Province, which enjoys the reputation of "the hometown of education". The People's Government of Jilin Province and the Ministry of Education jointly support the construction of universities, the People's Government of Jilin Province and the National Ethnic Affairs Commission jointly support the construction of universities.

Founded in 1949, the school is one of the earliest universities established by the Communist Party of China in minority areas. Now there are 22 colleges, 75 undergraduate majors; 10 first-level doctoral degree authorized disciplines; 32 first-level master's degree authorized disciplines; 22 professional master's degree authorized points, 4 post-doctoral research stations, and 1 post-doctoral research workstation , 5 postgraduate workstations in Jilin Province. In 2017, the foreign language and literature discipline was selected as a national "double first-class" construction discipline. In addition, the school has 1 national key discipline, 15 characteristic high-level disciplines of Jilin Province, and 15 key disciplines of Yanbian University.

The school currently has 2,239 faculty members, including 1,377 full-time teachers, 781 full-time teachers have a doctorate, 536 have a master's degree, and 797 have associate senior titles or above. , Academician Chen Fen'er and more than 100 well-known domestic and foreign experts have launched the "Tumenjiang Scholars Support Plan" for high-end talents, honorary professors, part-time professors and visiting professors of our school to strengthen the construction of high-level talent teams and cultivate And introduce a group of leading talents and young academic backbones with great development potential.

The school recruits students from 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country. There are currently 28,844 full-time students (including 6,357 doctoral and master students, 20,282 undergraduates, and 2,205 junior college students), and international students from 16 countries. 102 people. At present, there are 44 scientific research institutions above the provincial and ministerial level, including the Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education for Beef Cattle Science and Technology Innovation in the Northeast Cold Region, and the Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education - North Korea and South Korea Research Center. Great international academic forum brand. In the past three years, the school has undertaken major projects of the National Social Science Fund, key projects of the National Social Science Fund, national key research and development plan projects, sub-topics of key research and development projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, projects of the National Social Science Fund, and national art projects. There are 185 national and ministerial-level projects such as funds, projects of the Ministry of Education, and ethnic research projects of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission; 371 provincial-level and department-level projects, and 27 international cooperation projects; 5,168 academic papers have been published, including three international ones. There are 1,318 scientific and technological literature retrieval papers (SCI, EI, ISTP), and 318 journal papers in SSCI, A&HCI, and CSSCI; 38 scientific research awards above the provincial level and 123 patents have been obtained.

The school adheres to the internationalization strategy, and has established cooperation and exchange relations with 277 colleges and research institutions or international academic organizations in 29 countries and 2 regions (Hong Kong, Taiwan). Steadily develop the education of international students, and obtain the qualification to accept the "Chinese Government Scholarship International Students in China" issued by the Ministry of Education. Strengthen the construction of the "Yanbian University Chinese and Foreign Language and Culture Exchange and Cooperation Center", and have successively established intercollegiate universities with world-renowned universities such as Russia's Far Eastern Federal University, Japan's Meiji University, South Korea's Seoul National University, North Korea's Kim Il Sung University, Sweden's Stockholm University, and the United States' University of Pittsburgh. Nearly a thousand experts and scholars exchange visits every year.

The campus covers an area of 1.96 million square meters, and the building area of the school building is 930,000 square meters. The library has a collection of more than 1.9 million volumes of various paper books. The beautiful campus, excellent school conditions, complete infrastructure, advanced teaching buildings, laboratory buildings, neat student dormitories, canteens, multi-functional gymnasiums and activity centers meet the needs of teaching, research and student growth.

Since its establishment 73 years ago, the school has always adhered to the leadership of the party and firmly adhered to the direction of running a socialist school. Under the brilliance of the party's ethnic policy, it has always received the cordial care of the party and the country. Premier Zhou Enlai, Chairman Zhu De, Acting Chairman Dong Biwu and other leaders of the older generation, as well as party and state leaders such as Hu Yaobang, Jiang Zemin, Jia Qinglin, Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng, etc. have visited the school in person and wrote inscriptions, pointing out the direction for the development of the school.

Standing at the historical intersection of the "two centenary" goals, Yanbian University will adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, continuously strengthen the construction of party organizations, and implement The fundamental task of "cultivating morality and cultivating people", adhering to the school motto of "seeking truth, perfection, and integration", and carrying forward the spirit of "hard work, pioneering and enterprising, inheriting culture, highlighting characteristics, national unity, co-teaching and learning, extensive exchanges, and multilateral cooperation" Excellent school-running tradition, firmly grasping the major opportunities of the country's "double first-class" construction and Jilin Province's "dual characteristics" construction, guided by the school-running goals determined by the 13th Party Congress of the school, focusing on innovative development, quality development, and characteristic development , integrated development, adhere to the core position of talent training, take the construction of first-class disciplines as the leader, further promote education and teaching reform, strengthen connotative high-quality development, and strive to realize the goal of building a high-level university with first-class domestic, internationally renowned and distinctive characteristics as soon as possible. Dream"!