Jiuhuashan Road, Baohe District, Hefei City. Anhui Open University was established in February, 1979, and its registered address is located at Jiuhuashan Road, Baohe District, Hefei City. It is the only provincial undergraduate college in Anhui Province that focuses on modern distance education and trains professional and applied talents. Anhui Province, referred to as "Anhui" for short, is the provincial administrative region of People's Republic of China (PRC) (China), the capital city of Hefei, located in the Yangtze River Delta in the east of China.