Yangtze Normal University

The campus is in Fuling District, at the conjunction of the Yangtze and Wu Rivers, the historic capital of the ancient Ba Tribe.

The history of the university dates back to 1901 during the reign of the Guangxu Emperor in the late Qing dynasty, as the Fuling Official Academy of Classical Learning.

Fuling Teachers College is the setting of Peter Hessler's memoir River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, completed and published after he served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer from 1996 to 1998.

At that time, Fuling Teachers College was in the Jiangdong area, while now it is in the newly built Lidu (李渡镇) neighborhood.

The library, equipped with an electronic reading-room with 120 seats, has a collection of over 1,000,000 books and 160,000 copies of E-books, and subscribes to more than 2,000 Chinese and overseas periodicals.