Xi Radio and TV University was founded in 1979 and officially renamed at the end of 2020. Xi Radio and TV University, sponsored by Xi People's Government, is the only new-type institution of higher learning in Xi, which is supported by modern information technology, with rich and diverse educational resources and a school-running system covering urban and rural areas, meeting the diverse learning needs of social members and serving lifelong learning for all.

In the past 40 years, the school has always regarded moral education as the fundamental task, adhered to the initial intention and mission of "educating people for the party and the country", followed the development law of adult higher education, explored and promoted the deep integration of information technology and education and teaching, integrated high-quality higher education resources, and made a clear development idea of "1356" through the positive transformation from "four transformations" to "four platforms".

A "flat" school-running network with a reasonable layout and covering the whole city has been built, and a new multi-level and all-round educational pattern has been built, including academic education, community education, education for the elderly, education for cadres, international education for teaching Chinese as a foreign language, education for revitalizing talents in rural areas, and education for the disabled, forming a new model of distance open education that "everyone can learn, everywhere can learn, and always can learn".

At present, there are 69 undergraduate and junior college majors and 39 adult education majors in open education. More than 75,000 students have been registered, and more than 230,000 people have been trained with academic qualifications. The number of non-academic year training reached 1 10,000 person-times, which played an important role in Xi's economic and social development, promoting the fairness of mass education and building a lifelong education system for all.

Institutional setup of Xi Radio and TV University:

1. Party and government departments: school-run, organization and personnel department, finance department, development planning and infrastructure department, trade union.

2. Teaching management departments: foreign language teaching departments of science and technology, medicine, agriculture, finance and economics, grammar art teaching department, academic affairs office, vocational education office, community college preparation office, cadre education and training base, professional and technical personnel training center, teacher training center and staff training center.

3. Teaching auxiliary departments: modern educational technology departments and logistics support departments.

4. Teaching and research departments: research department and teaching supervision office.

5. Directly affiliated school units: directly affiliated No.1 Middle School (disabled college and NCO college), directly affiliated No.2 Middle School (technical secondary school), directly affiliated No.3 Middle School, directly affiliated No.4 Middle School, directly affiliated No.5 Middle School and directly affiliated high-tech branch school.