Shanxi Normal University is a top-tier comprehensive teachers’university directly administered by the Ministry of Education and under the key construction of the state’s “211” Project.  During its 70－year history, the university has constantly adhered to the principle of “Educating People”, and advocates the motto “Virtuousness, Learning, Aspiration and Action”. For the future, the university targets developing itself into a comprehensive research type university featuring teacher education.

There are five national experts and five provincial experts with outstanding contributions, respectively, one post of specially-hired professor and one lecturer under the Project of Changjiang Scholars Award, one national celebrated teacher, eleven provincial celebrated teachers, three candidates of the first and second hierarchs under the “National Project of Millions of Persons”, one candidate in the national “New Century Project of Millions of Persons”, twelve candidates in the “New Century Excellent Talents Supporting Project”, seven candidates in the "Awards and Subsidizing Project of Outstanding Young Teachers", ten candidates in the “Three-Five Personnel Cultivation Project of Shanxi Province”, six State outstanding teachers, one candidate in the National Propaganda and Culture System, one national teaching group and four provincial teaching groups. In recent years, the university has actively adjusted its policy for personnel introduction, and as a result, almost one hundred well-known domestic scholars have been invited as part-time professors, among whom there are ten members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.  The school continues to increase the intensity of foreign exchanges and cooperation, and has successively cooperated with more than 30 countries including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Kazakhstan and more than 160 universities in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Established friendly cooperative relations with educational institutions and carried out various forms of exchanges and cooperation; actively responded to the national "One Belt One Road" initiative, and initiated the establishment of the Silk Road "Teacher Education Alliance", "Humanities and Social Sciences Alliance", and "Book Archives Publishing Alliance".