Honghe University, located in mengzi city, the capital of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, is a provincial-level comprehensive undergraduate college. The school implements the management system of "building * * management by province, focusing on province".

The school, formerly known as Mengzi Teachers College, was founded in 1978. In April 2003, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, it was formed by the merger of Mengzi Teachers College and Yunnan Radio and TV University Honghe Branch.

In April 2020, the school official website showed that the library had paper documents 104 1572 volumes, electronic books1000000 volumes and 7 databases. It subscribes to as many as 9,082 printed and electronic newspapers and periodicals every year, with an average of 4 new books added each year. Among them, books for teaching and scientific research account for about 7 1% of the total number of books in the collection, professional journals related to this major opened by the school account for about 80% of the total number of journals, and core journals of disciplines account for about 40% of professional journals.