I. About SCMUSouth-Central Minzu University (SCMU) operates under the direct administration of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission and receives joint support from the Commission, the Ministry of Education, Hubei Provincial Government, and Wuhan Municipal Government. Located on the shores of South Lake in Wuhan, a city known as the "homeland of White Clouds and Yellow Cranes", SCMU spans ove...

On May 18, the National Center for Philosophy and Social Sciences Documentation (NCPSSD) released theNCPSSD Achievement Report (2016-2026)and theNCPSSD Most Popular Journal Report (2025). The Journal of SCMU (Humanities and Social Sciences Edition) was honored with the title of “NCPSSD Most Popular University Journal of 2025”, with a popularity index of 0.1247. It ranked 19thamong 289 univers...

On May 15, the summary conference of the 6thHubei Provincial College Teachers’ Teaching Innovation Competition was held at SCMU. Qiao Zhiqiang, Second-level Inspector of the Department of Education of Hubei Province; Zhou Yingjia, President of the Hubei Association of Higher Education; and Xu Yeqin, Secretary of the University Party Committee, attended the conference. More than 170 people atte...

On the morning of May 11, a delegation led by Zha Daolin, Secretary of the University Party Committee and Head of the United Front Work Department of Central China Normal University (CCNU), visited SCMU for a focused research and exchange on the course development of “Introduction to the Community for the Chinese Nation”. Ma Yutang, Member of the Standing Committee of the University Party Com...

In April, the Ministry of Education announced the results of the 2025 registration and approval of undergraduate majors at regular institutions of higher education. The Future Robotics major submitted by SCMU was successfully approved. This marks the second interdisciplinary major approved at SCMU, following the approval of the Intelligent Medical Engineering major last year. Both majors are am...

On April 8, Professor Zhang Zehui’s research group from the School of Chemistry and Materials Science / Key Laboratory of Catalytic Conversion and Energy Materials Chemistry of the Ministry of Education published their latest findings inNature Communications, titled“Controlled Transfer-reduction of Functional Groups with Ethanol by Their Interaction Strength with the Oxygen Vacancies”(source...

In March, the College of Life Sciences of our University and the Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Characteristic Plant Germplasm Resources in the Wuling Mountains, in collaboration with the Guangxi Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, published a research paper in the international academic journal PhytoKeys, of...

In early March, the compilation of theHubei Volume of the Compilation of Historical Materials on the Exchanges, Interaction and Integration of the Chinese Nation(hereinafter referred to as theCompilation – Hubei Volume) passed the final acceptance of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission. As a core component of the compilation project ofThe History of Exchanges,Interaction and Integration of ...

At the start of the academic year, two flagship papers by faculty members from the School of Literature, Journalism & Communication were published concurrently in the national leading Chinese academic journalLiterary Review(2026, no. 2). These are Professor Gong Jushan’s sole-authored paper “The Constructive Logic of Bakhtin’s Pragmatic Poetics and Its Implications” and Lecturer Zhou Bin’s...

In early March, Professor Li Changzhong of the School of Literature, Journalism & Communication at our university was approved as the leading expert for the project “A Century-Long History and Experience of Chinese Ethnic Minority Literature in Advancing the Development of the Community for the Chinese Nation”. The project was awarded as a Major Project under the 2025 Special Program on Forgi...