Yangtze University, located in Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, is a key university in Hubei Province, a national "Basic Capacity Building Project for Universities in the Midwest" and a "National First-class University Construction University" in Hubei Province.

It is also a university jointly established by Hubei Provincial People's Government, China Petroleum and Natural Gas Corporation, China Petrochemical Corporation and China Offshore Oil Corporation, and it is also a university jointly established by Hubei Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China.

It is also a university jointly established by Hubei Provincial Department of Education and Jingzhou City. It has been selected into the excellent engineer education and training plan, excellent agricultural and forestry talents education and training plan, excellent doctoral education and training plan, new engineering research and practice project, China government scholarship for foreign students in China, and national demonstration university for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform. ?

In April 2003, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, it was formed by the merger of Jianghan Petroleum College, Hubei Agricultural College, Jingzhou Normal College and Hubei Medical College of Health Workers. Jianghan Petroleum Institute was formerly known as Beijing Institute of Petroleum Technology founded in 1950.

General undergraduate education started at 1978, which belongs to China Oil and Gas Group. Since 2000, it has been jointly established by the central and local governments and placed under the management of Hubei Province. Hubei Agricultural College, Jingzhou Teachers College and Hubei Medical College of Health Workers were founded in 1977, 1936 and195/year respectively. ?

As of March 2022, the school covers an area of 5 1 18 mu, with a building area of10.058 million square meters, fixed assets of 3.294 billion yuan, teaching and research instruments and equipment with a total value of 832 million yuan, and 4.33 million paper books in the library.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yangtze University.