Founded in 2000, Anhui Xinhua University covers an area of 165 acres, and has more than 23,000 full-time students and 1,400 teachers, among whom, the proportion of those who have gained the title of associate professor and above accounts for 42%. The university has 11 schools, 2 teaching departments and 247 labs, and offers 62 undergraduate and 22 junior college programs, focusing on engineering and management, supplemented by economics, education, literature, medical studies and arts.

The university has been implementing the application-oriented and internationalization strategy, committed to its mission of training students with noble moral characters, following the development path of “valuing employment and market, linking industry and classroom, staggered competition and characteristic development” and adopting the teaching philosophy of “cultivating talents with moral integrity and professional competence'. It has witnessed an ongoing improvement in graduate quality, academic research, community service, cultural transmission and innovation, international communication and cooperation. It is forging toward achieving the objective of building itself into a prestigious and characteristic high-level application-oriented university in China.