Xianning College has a long history and profound cultural background. Approved by the Ministry of Education in 2002, it was formed by the merger of Xianning Normal College and Xianning Medical College. Xianning Teachers College was founded in 1937, and has gone through the period of Hubei Puyin Normal School, Xianning Normal School and Wuhan Normal College Xianning Branch. Xianning Medical College was founded in 1965, formerly known as Xianning Branch of Hubei Medical College. 1977 began to recruit undergraduates, 1985 was granted the right to award bachelor's degrees with the approval of the State Council, and 1997 passed the undergraduate teaching qualification assessment of the Ministry of Education. After nearly a hundred years of hard work and decades of construction and development, Xianning College has become a comprehensive university with reasonable scale and structure, excellent teaching quality, remarkable school-running benefits, social recognition of scientific research, teaching and service, and a certain reputation at home and abroad.