Anhui University is located in a famous historical and cultural city, Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province. Hefei has the reputation of "Hometown of the Three Kingdoms, Hometown of Bao Zheng, and the First County in Jianghuai". The school is one of the first universities listed in the world's "double first-class" and the national "2 1 1 project". It is a university jointly established by the Anhui Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Education. It is a key comprehensive university in Anhui Province and an institution of higher learning with a red revolutionary tradition.
Over the past century, Anhui University has shouldered the great responsibility of national rejuvenation, adhering to the ideal of "culture prospers the nation" and adhering to the school motto of "sincerity, firmness, erudition and perseverance", and has trained more than 320,000 outstanding graduates for the party and the country. It is the university with the largest number of graduates, the widest distribution and the greatest influence in Anhui Province, and is known as the "vanguard" of provincial universities.