Hainan normal university is the only teacher education- oriented multi- courses key normal university. The former of the university is the Hainan normal college which was founded in the autumn of 1949. Now there are 15 departments, 18 research institutions, 38 majors and 2 key laboratories.
The university is located on the beautiful tropic island city--- Haikou. With the total area of 3,347 mu, the university has two branches. On of the branch is regarded as the garden unit of the city. The university forms the excellent school spirit of "esteem moral and study, seek the truth and innovations" during the process of running the school. And also the university develops the international collaboration with many countries such as American, Canada and Korea.