Yugur. The center cultivates teachers for ethnic minority basic courses for senior middle schools, secondary technical schools and some branches of learning of institutions of higher learning. To meet the need for teachers in remote and frontier regions, with financial support from the state, normal schools in the hinterland enroll students from those regions with lower academic standards, who go back where they come from upon graduation. At present, a teacher training network for ethnic minority areas has taken shape, a network which has secondary normal schools and normal colleges as the backbone and includes ethnic minority teacher-training classes in general normal schools, EM teachers training centers and teacher-training specialities of some universities and nationalities institutes.
        A contingent of qualified EM teachers big enough to meet the need of educational requirements of China's ethnic minority people is the key to developing EM education. The system of EM teacher education has turned out large numbers of EM teachers for schools of different kinds. Teachers hired by local communities who have been on the job for many years are given the state employee status if they pass a qualifying test.