Yangtze Normal University (Chinese: 长江师范学院; pinyin: Chángjiāng shīfàn xuéyuàn) is a full-time, comprehensive university under the administration of the Chongqing Municipal Government of the Peoples Republic of China. The campus is located in Fuling District, at the conjunction of the Yangtze and Wu Rivers, the historic capital of the ancient Ba Tribe. It is the only teachers college in the ecological and economic zone of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area and the minority area in South-East Chongqing.
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