Founded in 1950, Anhui Science and Technology University (AHSTU) is a provincial university with a long history and profound cultural heritage. AHSTU started undergraduate education in 1965, and now it stands as a  multidisciplinary university with a set of coordinated developed disciplines. There are 17,226 full-time undergraduates and postgraduates, with more than 100,000 outstanding graduates serving for global economic and social development.
Today’s AHSTU has two campuses—Fengyang campus and the Bengbu Longhu campus, covering an area of approximately 2,000 mu with floor area of 580,000 square meters. The total value of teaching and research equipment amounting to 250 million yuan, AHSTU has 5 basic experimental teaching centers and 26 experimental Centers (labs) for professional groups, and 7 subject platforms. In addition, there are 3 national science and technology innovation platforms, 1 national off-campus practical education base for college students, 15 provincial science and technology innovation platforms, and 9 provincial demonstration experimental training centers. The university library is currently housing a collection of 1.37 million paper books and 1.28 million e-books.  
AHSTU at present consists of 14 colleges which offer 50 undergraduate programs. It has formed a professional system of applied disciplines that focuses on superior agricultural science and emerging engineering science, and multiple disciplines supporting each other and developing coordinately. AHSTU hosts more than 1,200 faculty members, including 394 professors and associate professors, 863 teachers with doctoral and master's degrees, 11 national and provincial honored teachers, 2 new century outstanding talents of the Ministry of Education, 5 provincial academic and technical leaders and reserve candidates, and 8 experts enjoying special allowances from the State Council and the provincial government. Flexible time working faculty with provincial-level leading talent teams such as the micro-nano molecular sensor team. There are 4 provincial-level “115” research and innovation teams, 17 provincial-level teaching teams, 16 provincial-level teaching celebrities, and 34 provincial-level teaching stars.
AHSTU places great emphasis on scientific research and technology development. In the past five years, the university undertook over 1600 research projects at various levels, including the National Natural Science Fund and the Social Science Fund; more than 400 of them are at the provincial (ministerial) level or above. Over 65 academic monographs and more than 1,200 academic papers have been published. The university has won 71 scientific research awards above the city level and has obtained 1,055 patents, including 255 invention patents, which made it one of the top ten universities for many years in Anhui Province. There are more than 500 cooperation research projects jointly carried out by AHSTU with local governments and related enterprises. The university is vigorously advancing the “International Cooperation in Running Schools Project” and has established exchanges and cooperation relationships with 26 universities in the United States, South Korea and the United Kingdom. The university currently has 3 national-level Sino-foreign cooperative programs, 255 students went to the United States and South Korea to study in double degree undergraduate programs, and 94 graduates went abroad to study for master’s degrees.
In the long-term practice of school-running, the university has formed a good teaching spirits "dedication and devotion, moral leading and nurturing, meticulous and rigorous scholarship, and pursuing perfection" and the learning spirits of "diligence in learning, thinking, hardworking, unity and cooperation". The university got “Excellent” level twice in the Ministry of Education's undergraduate teaching evaluation in 2002 and 2008 respectively. In 2013, AHSTU was selected by the Ministry of Education as one of the first batch of the pilot institutions which receive the undergraduate teaching review and evaluation, and AHSTU was highly praised by the evaluation experts. In 2017, the university was approved to be a provincial high-level applied university, and successfully passed the project acceptance of the professional master’s degree talent training project serving the national special needs, which made AHSTU among the “double first-class” universities in Anhui Province.
On the way of a new historical journey, the new generation of AHSTU faculty, under the guidance of Xi Jinping’s socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, carry out in-depth study and put the guiding principles of the national and provincial education conferences into practice. Guided by the university’s motto “ Morality, Knowledge, Practice, and Innovation” , they carry forward the AHSTU spirit of “hard work, pioneering and innovative, seeking the truth and being pragmatic, and selfless dedication”, earnestly accomplish the goals and fulfill the tasks set by the university’s Third Party Congress, adhering to morality, deepening connotation development, and vigorously implementing the five strategies of “quality school, strengthening schools with talents, revitalizing schools with characteristics, famous cultural schools, and governing schools according to law”. All of these will comprehensively improve the talent training capabilities of the university, thus high-quality development achieved, and the people of AHSTU will strive to build the university into a modern, first-class applied university in the country.