Donghua University, located in Shanghai, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, and a national "double-class" and "21/project" construction university. Selected into "20 1 1 plan", "1/plan", "two million plan", outstanding engineer education and training plan, national innovative experiment plan for college students, 20+20 cooperation plan between Chinese and African universities, national innovative and entrepreneurial training plan for college students, and national postgraduate plan for building high-level universities. State-level new agricultural scientific research reform practice project, China government scholarship receiving institution for overseas students in China, national typical universities with experience in deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, Shanghai's first batch of demonstration universities with innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, Shanghai's practice education innovation and entrepreneurship base, Shanghai's excellent journalism and communication talent training base, the first batch of doctoral and master's degree awarding units in China, and one of the 40 key universities in the "Construction Plan for Aid to Xinjiang" of the Ministry of Education. China is one of the first batch of 28 national quality certification institutions for studying abroad, and a founding member of the "Belt and Road" World Textile University Alliance. School history can be traced back to Nantong Textile Printing and Dyeing Institute founded by Zhang Jian in 19 12. The school was founded in 195 1, named East China Institute of Textile Technology, which was formed by the merger of the Textile Department of Jiaotong University and other textile departments in East China, Central South and Southwest China. 1985 was renamed China Textile University, and 1999 was renamed Donghua University.