Under normal circumstances, the dean of a local undergraduate college is the main hall class, and the college below the university is the main hall class. Independent colleges have no administrative level. Hetao College is a comprehensive and applied local undergraduate college in western Inner Mongolia. So the dean of the college is the main hall class.

The predecessor of Hetao College was Hetao University founded by 1985, which was approved by the people's government of the autonomous region and put on record by the Ministry of Education. Liangbi Chen, a famous economics professor, was the first president.