Jiangnan University, located in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, directly under the Ministry of Education of China, is a national "2 1 1 project" and "double-class" construction university. The school was selected into the first batch of "Excellent Agricultural and Forestry Talents Education and Training Program", "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program", "Academic Innovation and Intelligence Introduction Program in Colleges and Universities", "National Construction of High-level University Postgraduates Program" and "National Innovative Experiment Program for College Students".

The National College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Plan, the National New Engineering Research and Practice Project, the National College Practice Education and Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base, the National Health Food Professional Creative Space, and the National College Students' Cultural Quality Education Base are "National Innovative and Entrepreneurship Typical Experience Universities" and "Deepening Innovative and Entrepreneurship Education Reform Demonstration Universities". Party Secretary Zhu and President Chen Wei. The motto of the school is "Keep learning and stop at perfection".

Teaching construction:

By June, 2022, the school had 4 national comprehensive reform pilot specialties, 5 characteristic specialty construction sites/kloc-0, and 26 national first-class undergraduate specialty construction sites. The Ministry of Education has 10 outstanding engineers and outstanding talents in agriculture and forestry, and 17 "new engineering" and "new agricultural science" research and practice projects; There are 5 national-level innovative experimental zones (including national life science and technology talent training bases), 8 engineering practice education centers and experimental teaching demonstration centers.

There are 28 national excellent courses (including excellent video open course, resource sharing course and excellent network open course), 9 national first-class undergraduate courses/kloc-0, and 56 national excellent and planning textbooks.

The school explores elite education under the background of popularization and establishes Zhishan College; Established a national college practice education innovation and entrepreneurship base, a national college students' cultural quality education base, and the first batch of cultural exhibition halls such as school history museum, design museum, folk costume museum, art museum and Qian Shaowu Art Museum, wine museum and humanities museum were selected into the National College Museum Education Alliance; The undergraduate major of food science and engineering is the first major in Asia that has passed the international certification of the American Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFT).