Founded in 1956, it is a well-known independent sports institution of higher learning, a provincial competitive sports training base, and a provincial key construction university jointly managed by Jiangsu Provincial Sports Bureau and Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education

Founded in 1956, Nanjing Institute of Physical Education was formed by the merger of Nanjing Sports School, Jiangsu Normal University Physical Education Department and Jiangsu Provincial Sports Cadre Training Course, which is the only independent sports institution of higher learning in Jiangsu Province and an important provincial competitive sports training base, and is a provincial key construction university jointly managed by Jiangsu Provincial Sports Bureau and Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education, and is known as the "cradle of world champions".

The school is located in the ancient capital of Nanjing, with four campuses: Linggu Temple, Xianlin, Wukesong (in preparation) and Binjiang. The main campus of Linggu Temple is located at the former site of the Central Stadium of the Republic of China at the southern foot of the Purple Mountain in the eastern suburbs of Nanjing, covering an area of more than 640 acres. The school has 12 units and 14 undergraduate majors, involving 5 disciplines of education, literature, management, science and art, with 7,032 students. There are 5 units of badminton department, tennis academy (China Tennis Academy), gymnastics department, fencing and cycling department, and swimming department, 11 provincial excellent sports teams, and 355 professional athletes.

The school actively promotes the construction of disciplines and education and teaching reform, and physical education has been approved as the project discipline of the construction project of advantageous disciplines in Jiangsu universities, and has 5 master's degree awarding points and 1 master's degree awarding point of physical education major in the first-level discipline of physical education; It has 3 national-level characteristic major construction sites, 2 pilot projects of the Ministry of Education's "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" professional comprehensive reform, 2 characteristic major construction sites of colleges and universities in Jiangsu Province, 3 brand major construction sites of colleges and universities in Jiangsu Province, 2 key majors (categories) of colleges and universities in Jiangsu Province, and 2 first-phase projects of Jiangsu University Brand Major Construction Project (including 1 class A); He has won 1 National Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award, 3 first prizes and 5 second prizes of Provincial Higher Education Teaching Achievement Awards, 3 second prizes and 3 third prizes of the Education and Teaching Achievement Award of the State General Administration of Sports, 12 provincial excellent and excellent courses, 5 provincial excellent graduate courses, 1 provincial excellent course group, 16 provincial excellent multimedia courseware, 1 national undergraduate planning textbook for general higher education during the 13th Five-Year Plan, and 19 provincial excellent textbooks, excellent textbooks and key textbooks. There is 1 construction site of experimental teaching demonstration center for basic courses in colleges and universities in Jiangsu Province, 1 construction site of provincial practical education center, and more than 80 internship and training bases.

As the main force and base camp of competitive sports in Jiangsu, the school actively serves the development of sports, and has successively produced a large number of sports industry leaders such as Yuan Weimin, former director of the State General Administration of Sports, and Cai Zhenhua, deputy director of the State General Administration of Sports. A total of 15 people, 23 people, 20 times won the Olympic championship, 99 people, 310 people, 197 times won the world championship, 172 people, 475 people won the Asian championship in 362 times, of which 94 people, 151 people, 111 times won the Asian Games championship; Participated in the 1st to 13th National Games and won 204.5 gold medals for Jiangsu Province.

In recent years, the university has conscientiously implemented the strategy of "rejuvenating the body through science and technology", vigorously carried out scientific and technological research and scientific and technological services, and won 5 projects of the National Social Science Foundation, 1 project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and more than 600 scientific research projects at all levels, including more than 60 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects; He has won 25 awards for various scientific research achievements at all levels; It has been authorized 6 invention patents, more than 40 utility model patents and 4 software copyrights; published more than 100 monographs, compilations and textbooks; He has published more than 4,500 papers (including more than 300 in core journals and 22 in SCI, EI, CPCI-S); It has 1 cultivation and construction site of Jiangsu Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center and 1 key construction laboratory of Jiangsu Provincial Colleges and Universities; It has established Jiangsu Provincial Student Physical Health Monitoring and Behavior Intervention Research Center, Jiangsu Campus Football Research Center, Jiangsu Provincial Sports Event Research Center, Olympic Education Research Center, Scientific Training Research Center and other research institutions. The school actively participates in the national and provincial preparations for the Olympic Games and the National Games for scientific and technological research services, and has been commended by the superior departments; In recent years, it has carried out cooperative research with more than 10 units such as the Institute of Sports Science of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China, Beijing Sport University, Shanghai University of Sport, Nanjing University and other fields in the fields of sports biomechanics, exercise physiology, sports training, sports biochemistry, etc., and has achieved gratifying results.

Based on the principles of positioning, mission, scale, structure, quality and efficiency, the school strives to build a qualified and usable team of teachers (including coaches), with 390 full-time teachers (including 122 private mechanisms), including 33 with senior professional titles (3 from private mechanisms), 87 with deputy senior professional titles (4 from private mechanisms), and 115 with intermediate professional titles (27 from private mechanisms); Among the teachers, 34 have doctoral degrees and 237 have master's degrees (55 are in private institutions). There are 124 coaches, including 30 national coaches, 44 senior coaches and 32 first-level coaches. Among the teaching staff, there are 6 people who enjoy the "Special Government Allowance of the State Council", 4 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions at the provincial level, 28 people who have been selected for the provincial "333 Project" training objects, 46 people who have been trained by the "Blue Project" of provincial colleges and universities, 2 people who have been trained in the "100 Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Professional and Technical Talents Program" of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China, 7 people who have been trained by the "Double Hundred Training Program for Elite Coaches", and 110 master's tutors (including 38 external teachers).

The university actively carries out foreign cooperation in running schools, and has established exchanges and cooperation relations with universities, scientific research institutes and sports organizations in more than 10 countries and regions, including the United States, Australia, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong and Taiwan. More than 100 foreign experts have come to the school to give lectures and guide training, and more than 100 foreign aid experts have been sent to various sports, covering more than 40 countries and regions.

Over the past 60 years, the school has adhered to the characteristic development path of "integration of learning and training, educating people to win bids, innovating and progressing, and serving the society", and has achieved fruitful results in running the school, which has been fully affirmed by the party and state leaders, the State General Administration of Sports, the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, the International Olympic Committee and President Bach, and has won many national and provincial awards.

Facing the future, Nanjing University of Physical Education will continue to inherit and carry forward the fine tradition of running a school, constantly improve the "trinity" mode of teaching, training and scientific research, adhere to the school motto of "strict and simple", take "sports characteristics, domestic first-class" as the goal, and cultivate all kinds of outstanding sports talents as the foundation, continuously enhance the comprehensive strength of running a school, improve the efficiency of running a school, expand the influence of running a school, and build a high-level sports university with distinctive characteristics as soon as possible, so as to make new contributions to the development of sports and education in Jiangsu Province and the country.