Yangtze Normal University (simplified Chinese: 长江师范学院; pinyin: Cháng​jiāng​ shī​fàn ​xué​yuàn​) 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. The university has two campuses (Jiangdong & Lidu), occupying an area of 1,700 acres (6.9 km), with a built area of 400,000 square meters. The history of the university dates back to 1901 (the 27th year of Emperor Guangxu), as the Fuling Official Academy of Classical Learning. It was founded as a college in 1982, was renamed Fuling Teachers College in 1993, and promoted to university status in 2001 by merging Fuling Teachers College and Fuling Education Institute. In 2006, Fuling Normal University changed its name to Yangtze Normal University with the ratification of the Ministry of Education.