Tongling University is a multidisciplinary institution of higher learning and one of the provincial application-oriented model universities founded in 2003. It is located in Tongling City of Anhui Province, a landscape ecological city called “Ancient Bronze Capital of China”. The university consists of 12 academic schools with 43 undergraduate programs covering 7 academic areas: economy, management, engineering, literature, science, art and law. The university also has several teaching organizations: public sports teaching department and school of continuing education. What’s more, 16 scientific research institutions attach to the university, of which Wanjiang Economic Development Research Center has developed into provincial humanities and social science key research center. Optoelectronics Application Center and Bronze Culture Research Center are all well known research centers in Anhui. So far, the university has over 16000 full-time students (2012-2013) and 788 staff members, among them are over 200 full and associate professors. The university currently has two campuses. It has an area of more than 873,630 square meters, construction area of about 338,000 square meters equipped with teaching facilities and equipments valued at 59 million Yuan all together. The library has about 940,000 volumes of books and 1,500 kinds of journals in Chinese and other languages. Its academic publication is Journal of Tongling University.