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 is situated in Chaohzou City - a state historic and cultural city, which is known as "a Renowned Prefecture in East Guangdong". In recent years, because of the development of garment industry and ceramics craft, Chaozhou has become a new and developing famous city known as "City of World Evening and Wedding Dress" and "Chinese Porcelain Town". Chaozhou has unique folk customs such as Chao embroidery, wedding gown, Chaozhou cuisine, Chaozhou Gongfu Tea, Chaozhou handicraft and ceramics craft, which are made known the world over by Chaozhou overseas Chinese. The climate here is excellent, it is an ideal place for teaching, study abroad, holiday and tourism.

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. By the year 2006, the school has 12269 full-time students and 10,000 students for adult education.

The school has abundant qualified teachers. Now, it has 933 teaching staff, 35% of whom have received masters degrees and 40% of whom possess high-ranking academic titles, 16 specialists like Rao Zongyi, the famous Sinologist, are engaged as visiting professor.

The school campus is situated at the foot of Hanshan and besides the Hangjiang River with an easy reach to some places of historical interest and tourist attraction such as Hanwen Memorial Temple and Xiangzi Bridge.