The address of Wanxi College is on Moon Island, west of Yunlu Bridge, Lu'an City, Anhui Province. The postal code is 237012.
West Anhui University is a provincial comprehensive undergraduate institution established in March 2000 with the approval of the Ministry of Education. It is composed of the former Wanxi United University, Lu'an Normal College and Lu'an Normal School. The three schools were merged to form.
The school’s history can be traced back to the Anhui Provincial Third Class A Agricultural School founded in 1918 by Mr. Zhu Yunshan, former Vice Chairman of the National People’s Congress.
As of March 2015, the school’s campus covers an area of ??1,581 acres, with a total construction area of ??more than 460,000 square meters. The library has a total collection of nearly 1.6 million volumes, and the total value of teaching and scientific research equipment is 138 million yuan.
It has 13 secondary colleges and 54 undergraduate majors. Human geography is a provincial key discipline, with 20,262 full-time students and 1,046 faculty and staff. It is the construction unit of the "Construction of Local Application-oriented High-level University" project of the Higher Education Revitalization Plan of Anhui Province. In July 2015, it became a major member school of the "Dabie Mountains Revolutionary Old Areas Colleges and Universities Alliance".
From 2005 to 2015, the school published more than 4,700 academic papers in various academic journals, of which 340 were included in major retrieval systems. It published more than 60 academic monographs, edited more than 60 books, and compiled teaching materials. Nearly a hundred.
It has obtained 595 scientific research projects of various types above the department level, including 24 national-level projects and 235 provincial and ministerial-level projects. The academic achievements have won 12 awards at the provincial and ministerial level or above, including 1 second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award and 52 awards at the department level or above. 30 achievements have passed the appraisal of scientific and technological achievements by the Provincial Department of Science and Technology and the Forestry Department. *** Obtained more than 140 patents, including 19 national invention patents.