Yinchuan Institute of Energy is located in Yinchuan, a famous historical and cultural city in China, with the Yellow River in the east and Helan Mountain in the west. It is an undergraduate college mainly in engineering approved by the Education Department of the Autonomous Region and Yinchuan Municipal Government. The current president is Professor Sun.

The school enrolls students in nearly 30 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions such as Ningxia, Shaanxi, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong and Jiangsu. The school currently covers an area of 1.200 mu, with a building area of 1.946 square meters and total assets of 720 million yuan.

By the end of 20 12, the school had more than 2800 students of all kinds, including full-time students 10200; There are 520 faculty members, including 352 full-time teachers and 5 foreign teachers.