The College is located in Yinchuan, a famous historical and cultural town outside the Great Wall with a long history and beautiful scenery, covering an area of 2,938 mu, with an experimental teaching farm of 1.890 mu and a teaching building with a total construction area of 870,000 square meters. There are 2690 faculty members in the school. It enrolls students from 28 provinces, autonomous prefectures and municipal districts. At present, there are 19296 full-time undergraduate graduates, 6355 master students, 997 ethnic minority preparatory students and 179 overseas students. There are many houses, lush flowers and elegant natural environment on campus, which is an ideal learning garden.
Colleges and universities have a number of laboratories and scientific research bases with excellent standards and sound infrastructure. The value of experimental instruments for teaching and scientific research is nearly 200 million RMB. At present, there are 38 scientific research institutes and 93 laboratories in various disciplines. The key laboratory of coal chemical industry (natural gas conversion) and the key laboratory of land degradation and ecological restoration in northwest China are provincial key laboratories of national cultivation industrial base, and the energy and chemical resources recycling laboratory of Ningdong industrial base is a national regional collaborative engineering laboratory.
The key laboratories for the protection and utilization of natural resources with characteristics in the central and western regions and the restoration and reconstruction of degraded ecosystems in the northwest are the key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, the engineering research centers of Hongti and Red Wine and the efficient utilization of modern agricultural water resources in arid areas are the engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education, and the Xixia Institute is the key research base of social sciences of the Ministry of Education.