Yangtze University, located in Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, has not only been selected as a national "Basic Capacity Building Project for Universities in Central and Western Regions", but also a key university in Hubei Province. It is jointly built by Hubei Province, Sinopec, PetroChina, CNOOC and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. This is a very valuable school.

The school was formed by the merger and reorganization of Jianghan Petroleum University, Hubei Agricultural University and Jingzhou Normal University. It has comparative advantages in petroleum, geology and agriculture. According to the results of the fourth round of national discipline evaluation, geological resources and geological engineering in our school are Class B disciplines, and oil and gas engineering is Class C+ disciplines, which are the two most powerful disciplines. Its landscape architecture, crop science and geophysics were rated as Class C disciplines and developed well.

The reason why Yangtze University is called "Xiao 211";

Yangtze University was named "Xiao 2 1 1" because it was selected as the "Basic Capacity Building Project of Universities in the Midwest".

The basic capacity building project of colleges and universities in the central and western regions is an indispensable part of the revitalization plan of higher education in the central and western regions. It aims to promote the development of higher education in the central and western regions. It is not limited to the construction of school infrastructure, but focuses on improving the comprehensive school-running level, talent training ability and teaching staff construction of colleges and universities in the central and western regions. Implemented jointly by the Ministry of Education and the National Development and Reform Commission. Focus on supporting a number of characteristic colleges to accelerate their development.

Yangtze University, as the key university of this project, is also a part of the revitalization plan of higher education in the central and western regions, and it is a high-level university with local characteristics. The state will allocate special funds every year to help its development and construction.