Capital Normal University (首都师范大学, pinyin: Shǒudū Shīfàn Dàxué, or 首师大 for short) is a university in Beijing, China. It is a Chinese state Double First Class University Plan university, identified by the Ministry of Education of China. Founded in 1954, formerly known as Beijing Normal College. In 1992, the branch of Beijing Normal College was merged into Beijing Normal College, and the school was renamed Capital Normal University. General Capital Normal University (CNU) was founded in 1954. As a top university included in China's Double First-Class Initiative and a province-ministry co-constructed university co-constructed by Beijing and the Ministry of Education, CNU provides various disciplines including literature, science, engineering, management, law, education, foreign language and art. Over the past 60 years, CNU has cultivated more than 200,000 senior talents and has been an important base for talent cultivation in Beijing. Presently, CNU runs 17 first-class disciplines for doctoral degree, 101 doctoral programs, 14 postdoctoral research centers, 26 first-class disciplines for master's degree, 142 master programs, 1 doctoral degree type and 16 master's degree types. CNU also has 4 national key disciplines, 1 discipline under national key cultivation, 8 municipal first-class key disciplines, 12 municipal second-class key disciplines, 2 first-class disciplines under municipal key construction, 13 second-class disciplines under municipal key construction, 4 first-class disciplines under municipal key cultivation and 2 municipal key interdisciplines. As for research facilities, CNU has 1 national center for applied mathematics in Beijing, 1 national key laboratory cultivation base under province-ministry co-construction, 2 key laboratories under the Ministry of Education, 1 key research base for humanities and social science of higher education supervised by the Ministry of Education, 1 engineering science research center under the Ministry of Education, 1 key laboratory under the Ministry of Civil Affairs, 1 national experiment teaching demonstration center, 1 national teaching center for virtual simulation experiment, 1 national teaching program for virtual simulation experiment, 1 municipal teaching program for virtual simulation experiment, 1 national and international technological cooperation base, 1 scientific research base under the State Language Work Committee, 1 transformation base for technological achievements under the Ministry of Education, 1 municipal high-tech innovation center of higher education, 1 municipal laboratory, 11 municipal key laboratories, 1 municipal transformation platform for technological achievements, 1 municipal intellectual property pilot unit, 2 municipal engineering research centers of higher education, 1 municipal engineering laboratory, 1 municipal research base for collaboration and innovation of social science and