Donghua University: referred to as Donghua for short, is located in Shanghai, China. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education and under the national 2 1 1 project. It is a national double-class and world-class discipline construction university. Selected in 1 1 1 plan, 20 1 1 plan, excellent engineer education and training plan, overseas high-level talent introduction plan, national college students' innovation experiment plan, national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training plan, and national postgraduate plan for building high-level universities.

Donghua University: it is a member of the high-quality resource sharing alliance of high-level industry-specific universities, the first batch of quality certification institutions for studying abroad in China, the first batch of typical experience-oriented universities featuring deepening the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education in China, one of the 40 key universities in the discipline construction plan of aiding Xinjiang by the Ministry of Education, and one of the first batch of universities in China with the right to award doctoral, master's and bachelor's degrees.

Key University: refers to the university supported by People's Republic of China (PRC) (PRC), which has different meanings in different periods. Key universities in the modern sense include universities with national key construction projects, former national key universities not included in national key construction projects, and provincial key universities and municipal key universities established by the governments of provinces, municipalities directly under the Central Government and autonomous regions.