Xinzhou Teachers University is a full-time university founded through merger under the authorization of the Ministry of Education in March 2000. Situated at 10 Heping Street, Xinzhou, Shanxi, the University is 74km away from the provincial capital city Taiyuan. By the Yuanping-Taiyuan Expressway, it is only a 35 minutes' drive from the university to Taiyuan.

The university covers an area of over 600 mu with 150,000 square meters for buildings. At present, the university has got more than 800 teachers and workers (398 teachers of which 105 are professors and associate professors), and 6700 full-time undergraduates. With 13 departments and 25 specialties, the university has a multi-level and multi-standard educational structure with 3-year and 4-year teacher training as its principal element and higher vocational education and adult education as its complementary parts.

The university enjoys excellent conditions for teaching and researching, such as advanced computer networks (KM Ethernet), Unicom Internet and China Educational Teaching and Research Networks; information networks, audio-visual labs, physical labs, chemical labs and an electronic education center. The university has established a number of academic centers such as the institutes of Wutaishan Buddhist Culture, Taoism Culture, Yuan Haowen and Jin Dynasty Literature, Educational Science and Tao Xingzhi's Educational Theories. The university publishes a journal of both liberal arts and science and runs its own newspaper. The university is equipped with more than 10,000 teaching apparatus with the worth of over 20 million yuan. The library has got a collection of more than 400,000 copies of books, 800 kinds of periodicals, 5 electronic reading-rooms and 10 ordinary reading-rooms, all of which are administrated through automation.

After years of rigorous and comprehensive following of the state's educational policies and adherence to legal and democratic administration of the college, the university has not only developed a favorable atmosphere of "unity, openness, diligence and progress", but has also ranked among the province's best universities in terms of administration, quality of teaching and efficiency, as can be proven by its winning of over 40 state and provincial government awards. In particular, the "Project" has gained positive comments from the Ministry of Education, the Provincial Education Commission and a number of media such as the Xinhua News Agency, Xinhua Daily Telegram and China Education Daily.

Year after year, the university has turned out more than 30,000 qualified teachers and workers who have made significant contributions to the development of Shanxi's education, economy and culture.