Located in Xi’an, the provincial capital of Shaanxi, Xi’an University (Xi'an-U) is a full-time four-year university with students enrollment nationwide. Approved by the Chinese Education Ministry in 2003, the university is sponsored by the People’s Government of Xi’an Municipality and jointly built by the provincial and municipal governments.The university is merged by the former Xi’an University, Xi’an Normal School, Xi’an Education Institute, and Xi’an Kindergarten Teachers School and Xi’an Normal College. The history can be traced back toas early as Shaanxi Normal School established in 1903.

　　Under the nation’s educational guidelines of “student-oriented education with character-building as first priority” in combination withthe Guanzhong Academy’s commitment of “practice, application, simplicity and dedication”, Xi'an-U upholds the motto of “Morality, Diligence, Practice and Excellence”. The University has established “Localization, Application and Openness” as her orientation with a pattern of normal, arts and engineering and management disciplines as priorities under a coordinated development of multi disciplines, while making constant effort on striving to transform the university into an innovation-driven institution of higher learning with high value and competitiveness.

　　In 2011, Xi'an-U passed theEvaluation of Undergraduate Teaching of the Ministry of Education and became the Provincial Pilot of Transformation Development and the Demonstration Station to Jointly Cultivate Postgraduate in 2014 with two provincial demonstration stations of Master Degree of Education and Engineering. In 2016, it became the pilot university of Xi’an National Comprehensive Innovation and Reform Experimental Zone. In 2017, it was approved as provincial Newly-added Master Degree Project Construction Unit and as“Provincial First-class Applied Four-year University” construction unit in 2018. The award of Excellent Performance of Xi'an Annual Assessment has fallen on the universityfor nine consecutive years.

　　There are three campuses, namely the Gaoxin Campus, the Taibai Campus and the Shuyuan Gampus. The university covers a total area of approximately 500,000 square meters with 1.63 million volumes of books anda fixed asset of 1.1 billion yuan (RMB), and 210 million yuan in teaching instrument and equipment.

　　Xi'an-U currently has more than 1,100 faculties and staff, more than 400 full-time teachers with the title of associate professorand above. Faculties with master degree and above accounts for more than 80%. There are also three part-time academicians of the two Academies, 52 introduced part-time talents, including 12 chief discipline experts, 19 national, provincial and municipalexperts. The university has 15 honorary titles such as Provincial Teaching Masters, Excellent Teachers, and Models in Teaching Ethics and one provincial Demonstration Model Team in Teaching Ethics  and 15 teaching and research innovation teams.

　　The university currently has more than 13,000 full-time undergraduates, 14 second-level schools, one school of Continuing Education and one Guanzhong Acadamy with 50 undergraduate programs, including nine disciplines such as literature, science, engineering, pedagogy, management, economics, law, history, and art, etc. Eight professional clusters, namely normal education, intelligent manufacturing, cultural innovation, electronic information, biochemical engineering, trade and logistics, social governance and wellness services are gradually formed.

　　At present, there are one national start-up space, one first-class program construction point, one first-class course, 12 provincial first-class program construction points, four key disciplines, 53 quality courses, quality resource sharing courses, moral education demonstration courses and first-class courses and 27 education and teaching achievement awards, and 31 education and teaching reform researches. There are 13 municipal first-class professional construction points and 14 first-class key construction disciplines. Two provincial key laboratories, one “Four Subjects and One Joint” Engineering Technology Research Center, one Philosophy and Social Science Key Research Base, seven Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centers, three Talent Training Model Innovation Experimental Zones, two College Student Off-campus Practice Education Base, two Municipal Engineering Research Centers, five key labs have been approved.

　　The university has accelerated its integration into the Qinchuangyuan Innovation Platform with an establishment of an achievement and technology transfer center. In recent years, the number of 4T contracts (Contact for Technical Service, Technology Development (Cooperative) Contract, Technology Development (Commissioned) Contract,  Contract for Technical Consultancy)and the amount of money have increased continuously. The number of patent applications, authorizations and transfers has reached new high, driving the growth of the school's research funds, scientific and technological achievements awards, and research projects above provincial and ministerial. The university has been recognized as  demonstration university for the local transformation of scientific and technological achievements in Xi'an, an international scientific and technological cooperation base in Xi'an, andthe Achievements and Technology Transfer Center of Xi'an-U has also been recognized as a demonstration institution for technology transfer in Xi'an provincially and municipally.

　　Recent years have witnessed the rapid uplift in the quality of our university’s application candidates and a significant rise in the enrollment ranking, listed the forefront among similar universities in the province. The employment rate of the graduates is always above the provincial average. Up to now, Xi'an-U has jointly cultivated more than 600 postgraduates with Xi'an Jiaotong University, Shaanxi Normal University, Xidian University and other universities.

　　A total of 455 Provincial Students’ Innovation and Start-ups Training Programs and 161 National Programs have been approved respectively. In terms of discipline competitions, more than 1,200 provincialand abovelevel have been awarded. In 2021, the discipline competitions ranked 303rd among universities in China and Xi'an-U held the finals of the Northwest Division of the Chinese Collegiate Computer Competition and the Northwest Division of the National University Students’ Opt-Sci-Tech Competition and other important competitions.

　　The university also boasts of its prominent alumni, who have greatly contributed to the social development, including Fu Hao, the former Vice Foreign Minister, Prof. Wei Jie in Tsinghua University, Prof. Dou Er-xiang of Peking University, Prof. Kang Zhen of Beijing Normal University, well-noted photographer, Bo Yuguo and Tao Jiangang, the national “Most Devoted Graduate Working in Rural Places”, etc.

　　In collaboration with governments, enterprises and social organizations, the university has established more than 30 research institutes, including Xi'an Basic Education Teacher Development Research Center, Xi'an University, Middle School and Primary School Moral Education Course Integration Construction Guidance Center, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Surface Engineering and Remanufacturing, Shaanxi Artificial Intelligence Joint Laboratory, Chang'an Historical and Cultural Research Center, Shaanxi Jiusan Society Political Participation Research Center, Shaanxi Plant Breeding in Space Engineering Technology Research Center, Huawei Kunpeng Industrial College, Xi'an Qinling Research Institute, Xi'an Satellite Remote Sensing Service Center, Xi’an Clean Governance Research Center, Xi'an Silk Road Economic Zone Education and Cultural Exchange Research Center, Xi'an Economic and Social Development Research Center, etc.

　　Nine academic societies, including China Wangwei Research Society, Shaanxi Nano Technology Society, Shaanxi Botanical Society Orchid Branch, Xi'an Economic Mathematics Society, Xi'an Artificial Intelligence Robot Society, and Xi'an Film and Television Critics Society, are affiliated to our school. The university has also built more than ten bases with local government and social organizations, including Xi'an University Cadre Education and Training Base, Xi’an Clean Governance Education and Training Base, Xi'an Startup Incubation Demonstration Base, Xi'an Social Science Popularization Demonstration Base, etc. Training, technological innovation, and consulting services has been provided in QinLing Mountains protection, discipline inspection and supervision, culture and museum protection, urban and rural planning, culture inheritance, basic education, cadre education and other fields, which has produced considerable benefits and contributed our own wisdom to the high-quality development of local economy and society.

　　In the past five years, Xi'an University has completed 128 national, provincial and municipal training projects, providing training for 22000 teachers in Xi'an. The Organization Department of the Municipal Committee, the Municipal Commission forDiscipline Inspection, municipal departments, commissions and bureaus, districts, counties and development zones and other cadres education and 327 training programs, withtotally 25000 person-times trained.

　　The recent three years have seen the fruitful research results made by our faculties in the publication of over 700 papers, and more than 100 monographs and teaching materials. More than 481 research projects at national, provincial and municipal levels have been finished,126 patent applications have been approved, and 68 research awards have been granted by provincial and municipal governments.

　　Xi'an University has established friendly cooperation with more than 50 universities and institutions abroad, Taiwan and Hong Kong and has carried out academic education, short-term exchange, practice and the development of international students; sending young teachers to universities abroad for collaborative research, internships and training. Xi'an University has received nearly 500 international students from South Korea, Thailand, Central Asia, South Asia, and other countries and regions to study. More than 600 students have joined exchange programs with universities and colleges from 7 countries and regions.

　　Xi'an-U has established friendly cooperation with many universities in the United States, Canada, Japan, Thailand, Cambodia, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Croatia, Switzerland, New Zealand, Hungary, Italy and China Taiwan and Hong Kong. Exchange students for internships, academic education, and overseas study; sending young teachers to study abroad, conduct collaborative research, and training. Nearly 300 students have been sent to the United States, Japan, Hungary, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan and Hong Kong for internship and practice, and nearly 200 international students from South Korea, Thailand, Central Asia countries have been sent to Xi’an-U.

　　Xi'an-U has won in succession 40 honorary titles, including Advanced Community of Construction of Teacher’s Morality at Provincial Level, Spiritual Campus at Provincial Level, Safe Campus at Provincial Level, Health Demonstration Unit at Provincial Level, Green Unit at Provincial Level, and Excellent Assessment Unit at Municipal Level. Guided by principle of building future based on history and tirelessly going forward, we will take quality promotion as its core, embark on the inclusive development path so as to build ourselves into a talent base for society, an innovative base with more featuring contributions, and an influential education base. Our aim is to develop into an applied metropolitan university that will coordinate with the demands of Xi’an, serve the construction of Xi’an, and integrate with the development of Xi’an.