Ningbo University, referred to as "Ningda", is located in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province. It is a university co-founded by China people, Ministry of Education, Zhejiang Provincial People's Government and Ningbo Municipal People's Government. It is a university jointly established by the State Oceanic Administration and the Ningbo Municipal People's Government. It is a national "double first-class" construction university and the first batch of key construction universities in Zhejiang Province. It has been selected into the national "128 plan", the outstanding agricultural and forestry talents education and training plan, the innovation experimental zone of the national college students' self-employment teaching mode, the national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training plan, the first batch of demonstration universities in China to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, the scholarship receiving institution of China government for overseas students, the national college practical education and innovation and entrepreneurship base, the national new engineering research and practice project, and the Zhejiang mass entrepreneurship innovation demonstration base. It is a member of CDIO Engineering Education Alliance and the lead unit of Ningbo National University Science Park.