The school is located in the west of Dali ancient city and the center of Dali provincial tourist resort.

Dali No.5 Middle School, referred to as Dali No.5 Middle School. The school, formerly known as Dali Normal School for Nationalities, was founded in 1985, and 1986 began to recruit students. It has successively set up the majors of general teacher, physical education teacher and kindergarten teacher. By July 2005,

More than 3,500 qualified teachers have been trained in mountainous areas and ethnic minority areas in 0/2 counties and cities of our state/KLOC. As the training base of Shanghai Teacher Training Center of German Hans Saidel Foundation, Dali has trained more than 2,000 primary school backbone teachers for eight states in western Yunnan. These outstanding students have become the backbone of basic education in ethnic areas.

Campus style

Dali No.5 Middle School (Yuanzhou Normal School for Nationalities) is a full-time senior high school for students in Dali. The school is located in the west of Dali ancient city and the center of Dali provincial tourist resort. In addition to the regular teaching equipment with complete functions, the school also has a standard language laboratory, computer room, psychological laboratory, electronic lesson preparation room,

Modern educational facilities such as microteaching, campus Internet, intelligent broadcasting network and school classrooms are all multimedia classrooms. The campus layout is reasonable, the architectural modeling is beautiful, the trees are shaded and the flowers are everywhere. It is an "excellent educational school", "experimental school of modern educational technology" and "school with outstanding educational and teaching achievements" in Dali.