West Anhui University, a comprehensive under-graduate course university approved by Chinese Ministry of Education, is directly governed by the Education Commission of Anhui Province. It is situated in the prosperous and traffic convenient central city of Lu’an in the west of Anhui.—which is very famous for its rich culture and long history.

The campus, which is composed of the base, eastern area and northern area, has an area of 1502 mu. The University reconstructed by merging Lu’an Teachers’ College, Lu’an teacher-training school, West Anhui Polytechnics in 2000. The base campus, which is surrounded by water in all sides, has got a-200- mu peach garden. During the spring season, the campus is full of peach blossom. It is a real picturesque view.

The university has eight faculties: they are: literature, Law, Economics, Management, Science, Engineering, Education and Agriculture with 14 departments and centers, 28 undergraduate-course majors and over 30 urgently demanded technological specialties, seven research institutes under the faculties and departments.

The university has got a staff of 970, including 540 teaching staff, over 200 professors and associate professors. Currently the University boast eleven hundred thousand two hundred and twenty-four full time students, added to 2400 adult students.

West Anhui University is a young university. With the pace of accelerating the development, it attaches great importance to the external exchange and cooperation. Currently, it has established cooperation relation with over 100 famous colleges and universities within China such as Tsinghua University, Beijing University, and Chinese Science and Technology University. At the same time, it has established cooperation with Britain, France, Singapore and Hongkong.