Founded in 1956, the Shanghai Normal University (SHNU) is a key comprehensive university and also a premium teacher training college in Shanghai. For the last five decades, SHNU has cultivated 120,000 talents of various domains. Almost 70% of primary and secondary school teachers and principals in Shanghai have been trained at the SHNU. The SHNU boasts a high quality academic staff of 2,845 teachers and researchers, including 1696 fulltime faculty members with close to 80% of them holding master’s or doctor’s degree. There are more than 22,000 undergraduates, 5000 graduate students, and another 12,000 continuing study students.