Ningxia University is a "joint construction" University between the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of the autonomous region, and a key construction University of the "211 Project" of the state.

Ningxia University was founded in 1958. In December 1997, Ningxia University merged with the former Ningxia Institute of Technology and Yinchuan Teachers College (including Ningxia Institute of Education); in February 2002, it merged with Ningxia Agricultural College to form a new Ningxia University, which opened a new page of school reform and development. The school is situated in Yinchuan, a famous historical and cultural city with a long history and beautiful scenery. The campus is full of buildings, flourishing flowers and trees, and elegant environment. It is an ideal garden for studying and studying.

Over the past 50 years, the school has been carrying forward the spirit of "Shazaoshu" and the tradition of "arduous entrepreneurship, hard struggle with heavy loads", daring to innovate and forge ahead. Especially in recent years, schools have seized historic opportunities such as the great development of the western region, the joint construction of provinces and ministries, and the project of enhancing the comprehensive strength of colleges and universities in the central and Western regions. They have made great efforts to promote the connotation development, improve the quality of running schools and take the road of characteristic development. All undertakings have developed rapidly, and the overall strength of running schools has been significantly enhanced.

The school covers an area of 2938 Mu and the teaching experimental farm is 1890 mu. There are 2627 faculty members in the school. For 28 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, there are 17,323 full-time undergraduate students, 3,725 graduate students, 2211 minority preparatory students and 141 overseas students. Four kinds of academic journals are published publicly. In 1995, it became the main node of Ningxia in the northwest of China Education and Scientific Research Computer Network (CERNET). It has modern digital library and multi-function gymnasium.

The school has 77 undergraduate majors. There are 1 national key disciplines, 1 national key (cultivation) disciplines, 18 autonomous region key disciplines, 8 autonomous region dominant characteristic disciplines, 8 autonomous region key disciplines in the 13th Five-Year Plan, and 10 disciplines selected as the first-class disciplines in the autonomous region. There are 6 First-Level Discipline doctoral programs, 31 First-Level Discipline master programs and 15 professional master degree authorization programs. There are three postdoctoral research mobile stations in ethnology, water conservancy engineering and grass science. There are 12 workstations for academicians in the autonomous region, such as energy and chemical industry, facility agriculture, biotechnology, ecological restoration, civil and hydraulic engineering, grass and livestock industry, food quality and safety. At present, there are one national college students'off-campus practical education base, two national famous teachers, one national excellent course, one national excellent resource sharing course, one national experimental teaching demonstration center, three national teaching teams, eight national characteristic specialties, one bilingual teaching demonstration course construction project and 240 National College Students' innovative experiment plans.

Among the faculty, there are one specially appointed professor in the "Yangtze River Scholar Award Scheme", three leaders in philosophy and Social Sciences in the National "Ten Thousand People Plan", one top young person in the National "Ten Thousand People Plan", two innovation teams in the "Yangtze River Scholar and Innovation Team Development Plan" of the Ministry of Education, and nine scientific and technological innovation teams in the autonomous region. There are 29 academicians and 34 well-known experts introduced flexibly. Seven people were selected from the first and second levels of the National "Millions of Talents Project". Fifteen people were selected from the third level of the National "Millions of Talents Project". One was awarded the second prize for national scientific and technological progress, three were awarded the title of "young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions from the country", two were awarded the "National Teaching Master Award", one was awarded the title of "four batches" of talents in the national propaganda and cultural system, and 16 enjoyed the title of "State Council". Special allowance ", 17 people enjoy the special allowance of the government of the autonomous region, 13 people are selected as members of the Supporting Plan for Excellent Talents in the New Century of the Ministry of Education, 3 people are selected as members of the Subject Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, 4 people are selected as members of the"Cypriot Talents"Project of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, 14 people are selected as the"Overseas Talents Introduction Scheme"of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and 11 people are selected as members of Ningxia Hui In the "312 Project of Introducing Talents in China" of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, 20 people were selected as "313 Talents Project" of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, 2 people were selected as reserve candidates for national academic and technical leaders of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, 4 people were selected as reserve candidates for regional academic and technical leaders of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region "Young Talents Training Project", and 1 person was selected as reserve candidates for Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. District "Youth Top Talents Training Project" Autonomous Region outstanding young backup backbone candidates. Two of them were awarded the title of "four batches of talents" in the propaganda and cultural system of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

The school has a number of advanced laboratories and scientific research bases with perfect facilities. There are 35 provincial and ministerial science and technology innovation platforms and 93 laboratories in various disciplines. The Key Laboratory of High Efficiency Coal Utilization and Green Chemical Industry is a national key laboratory jointly built by the provincial ministry, the Key Laboratory of Land Degradation and Ecological Restoration in Northwest China is a national key laboratory cultivation base jointly built by the provincial ministry, the Laboratory of Coal Chemical Resources Recycling in Ningdong Base is a national joint engineering laboratory, and the Arab Research Center of Ningxia University is a foundation for regional and national research The key laboratories of conservation and utilization of characteristic biological resources in the West and restoration and reconstruction of degraded ecosystems in the northwest are the key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, the laboratories of development and environmental management of characteristic resources in the arid areas of Central Arab States are the joint laboratories of international cooperation of the Ministry of Education, and the research centers of grape and wine engineering and the engineering research centers of efficient utilization of modern agricultural water resources in the arid areas are the education centers. The Ministry of Engineering Research Center and Xixia Research Institute are the key research bases of Humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education. A National Research Institute for new rural development has been established. It has been approved to build the National University Science Park.

Schools always adhere to people-oriented, and constantly improve the quality of personnel training. Strengthen the central position of personnel training, cultivate innovative talents according to the goal of "solid foundation, sound personality, social adaptability and development potential", and determine the teaching reform ideas of "strengthening foundation, strengthening practice, developing expertise, focusing on innovation and diversion training", and through the construction of two programs (professional training program, personality training program), improve the two. Individual system ("four in one" classroom teaching quality evaluation system and teaching quality monitoring system), build five platforms (general education platform, teacher education platform, curriculum construction platform, students'practical ability training platform, students' innovative ability training platform) to implement. The school strives to make all undergraduates participate in the cultivation of innovative spirit and ability in different ways, and make 30% of them have certain innovative ability.

The scientific research work in schools is closely related to the national and regional strategic needs, driven by innovation-driven development, revitalizing the innovative elements through institutional mechanism innovation, focusing on basic research, strengthening applied research, and promoting the transformation of achievements. Since the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, the school has undertaken more than 2200 scientific research projects at or above the autonomous region level. He has won 25 awards for scientific and technological progress in the autonomous region and 164 awards for outstanding achievements in Social Sciences in Ningxia. The school has established comprehensive cooperative relations with more than 120 enterprises in 5 municipalities of the autonomous region, dispatched more than 100 scientific and technological commissioners, expert service groups, scientific and technological talents and post scientists, and established a technological innovation alliance of the grass and livestock industry. "Industry-University-Research Innovation Alliance, etc. Relying on major scientific and technological projects, a number of technologies and equipment have been applied and popularized.

The school insists on walking away from the road of running a school. On the basis of innovating the work mode of counterpart support of Shanghai Jiaotong University, we have established substantive communication and cooperation relations with Shandong University, Northwest University of Agriculture and Forestry, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Jilin University, Zhejiang University and Xiamen University. Based on regional characteristics and superior disciplines, we have established cooperative relations with dozens of universities in more than a dozen countries and regions. The first Confucius Institute in the Gulf was established in cooperation with Dubai University of the United Arab Emirates. The school is the first university approved by the Ministry of Education to accept foreign students. It is the only HSK (Chinese Language Proficiency Examination) test site in Ningxia approved by the Chinese Government Scholarship Academy, the National Hanban/Confucius Institute Headquarters Scholarship Academy and the National Hanban/Confucius Institute Headquarters. Since 1992, more than 2000 international students from more than 40 countries have come to study.

Facing the future, the school will further adhere to the principles of "people-oriented, scientific development, striving for first-class, managing schools according to law and comprehensive reform", promote the development of school characteristics, innovative development and sustainable development, and strive to build Ningxia University into a "high-level teaching and research university with distinctive regional characteristics, outstanding ability to serve local areas and first-class in the west".