The school was founded on February 1978 and officially opened on February 6th. 1979. The school is led by the people's government of the autonomous region, and its business is guided and managed by the Education Department of the autonomous region and the Central Radio and TV University. The main tasks are: to carry out undergraduate and junior college higher education and provide opportunities for employees of industrial enterprises, military non-commissioned officers and other members of society to receive higher education.
Carry out non-academic education such as job training and rural practical technical training, and provide educational services for all kinds of social members to update their knowledge and master new skills; Make overall use of the educational resources of RTVU in the whole region, build a public service system for distance education, and provide learning support services for universities and other educational institutions to carry out distance education.
The school has built a Gigabit backbone network, a campus computer local area network from 100 Mbps to the desktop, 100 Mbps optical fiber access to the education and research network, and 45 Mbps optical fiber access to the Ningxia Telecom public network, which is networked with the RTVU system in the whole region, forming a modern distance education platform integrating Skynet, Ground Network and Human Network.
Ningxia Radio and TV University, relying on the resource advantages of Central Radio and TV University, implements a two-level school-running and two-level management system. The school has set up 9 disciplines including engineering, economics, management, literature, law and education 105 majors. Up to now, a total of 75,000 higher education graduates have been trained.