Northwest University for Nationalities is located in Lanzhou, an important node city of the Belt and Road Initiative. It is the first national institution of higher learning founded after the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, it is a public institution jointly established by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the Ministry of Education, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the People's Government of Gansu Province, and a high-level university construction unit determined by Gansu Province.

The school was founded by China * * * Production Party in Yan 'an in 194 1 and later merged into Yan 'an University, and was renamed Northwest People's Revolutionary University in 1949. 1950 In August, Northwest University for Nationalities was formally established on the basis of three departments of Northwest People's Revolutionary University, Lanzhou Branch. In April 2003, it was renamed Northwest University for Nationalities. In 2007, the school passed the undergraduate teaching level evaluation of the Ministry of Education with "excellent" results. The school has Northwest Xincun Campus, Yuzhong Campus, affiliated hospitals, affiliated middle schools, affiliated primary schools and affiliated kindergartens, with a total campus area of 1776 mu and a total construction area of 770,000 square meters. The library has more than 4.06 million books (including e-books), and the total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment is about 500 million yuan. After more than 70 years' development, the school has formed the spirit of Northwest University for Nationalities, which is characterized by "Yellow Land" and "Yellow River", "unpretentious, willing to be poor, indifferent to fame and fortune, selfless dedication" and "ambitious, persistent and brave", and has trained more than 6.5438+0.9 million professionals at all levels for the country.