Hefei University is located in Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province. It is an ordinary university jointly sponsored by the state and local governments and jointly built by provinces and cities. The predecessor of Hefei United University was founded by Zheng Rui, then Secretary of Hefei Municipal Party committee, and Mr. Yang Chengzong, vice president of China University of science and technology. In March 2002, with the approval of the Ministry of education, the former Hefei United University, Hefei Institute of education and Hefei Normal University merged to form Hefei University. In February 2017, Hefei University officially launched the preparatory work.The university is a "demonstration base of Sino German education cooperation", a master's degree awarding unit, a university with the right of independent evaluation of deputy senior professional titles, the first batch of universities with "excellent engineer education and training plan" by the Ministry of education, a vice chairman unit of the National Committee of application-oriented universities, a chairman unit of the Yangtze River Delta application-oriented universities alliance, and a permanent chairman unit of Anhui application-oriented universities alliance It is a high-level university construction unit, a training school entrusted by Chinese government scholarship for international students, a national model university for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, a member unit of national new engineering education and research, a member unit of Sino German Economic Advisory Committee, and a strategic partner of global SME alliance.