Jiangnan University, located in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, is a university directly under the Ministry of education of the people's Republic of China. It is a national "world-class discipline construction university" and a key construction University of the national "211 Project" and "985 project advantage discipline innovation platform". It has been selected into the national "111 plan", excellent agriculture and forestry talents education and training plan, excellent engineer education and training plan, and national construction high-level university One belt, one road, one is China, the other is the national university student innovation program, the national university student innovation and entrepreneurship training program, and the national new engineering research and practice project. It is a member of the high quality resource sharing alliance of the high level industry featured universities, a member of the food and education technology alliance of the "one belt and one way" University, the Chinese government scholarship student receiving institution and the national university student culture element. Quality education base, the first batch of colleges and universities scientific and technological achievements transformation and technology transfer base.Jiangnan University originated from Sanjiang normal school founded in 1902 and went through the development period of National Central University and Nanjing University. In 1952, the Department of food industry of Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University) was established by the related departments of former Nanjing University, Fudan University, Wuhan University, Zhejiang University and private Jiangnan University. In 1958, the Department moved eastward to Wuxi to establish Wuxi Institute of light industry. In 1962, the Department of food industry of Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University) was established Wuxi Institute of textile technology was merged into Wuxi Institute of light industry in 1995 and renamed Wuxi University of light industry in 1995. In 2001, Wuxi University of light industry, Jiangnan University and Wuxi Institute of education merged to form Jiangnan University; in 2003, Wuxi campus of Donghua University merged into Jiangnan University.As of September 2019, the University covers an area of 3250 mu, with a building area of 1.07 million square meters; the library has a collection of 2.514 million books; there are 18 professional colleges (departments) and 4 directly affiliated colleges (including 1 honorary College); in 2019, the university will recruit students in 49 undergraduate majors (categories); there are 3343 teaching staff, including 2056 full-time teachers (including 1290 graduate tutors); there are 20153 undergraduates and postgraduates There are 8940 postgraduates and 1285 international students.