The predecessor of the school is Anhui Xinhua Vocational College, which was founded by Anhui Xinhua Group Investment Co., Ltd. in 2000. In May 2005, the school was upgraded to an ordinary undergraduate college with the approval of the Ministry of Education and renamed as Anhui Xinhua College. From June 5438 to February 2005, the Party Committee of Anhui Xinhua College was formally established, becoming the first private university in Anhui Province to set up a Party Committee.
In 2009, it successfully passed the evaluation of the right to award bachelor's degree and became the first private undergraduate university in Anhui Province to obtain the right to award bachelor's degree. In 20 13, the school successfully passed the undergraduate teaching qualification assessment of the Ministry of Education, becoming the first private undergraduate college in Anhui Province to pass the undergraduate teaching qualification assessment of the Ministry of Education. In 20 15, the school was successfully approved as a local application-oriented high-level university project construction unit in Anhui province.
The school adheres to the tenet of "education for the people, educating people for the people and serving the society", and implements the overall plan of "running schools with experts, developing schools with talents, establishing schools with quality and strengthening schools with characteristics" in accordance with the school-running idea of "demand-oriented, dislocation and development with characteristics".