Jinggangshan University is a full-time comprehensive university under the supervision of Jiangxi Provincial Government. With beautiful campus scenery, it is located in the downtown of Ji’an City, which is at the foot of Mt. Jinggangshan —the famous cradle of Chinese Revolutionary and the excellent tourism area in China. Convenient in traffic, Jinggangshan University, with the River Guan passing nearby, is only 0.5km away from Beijing—Kowloon Railway and Ji’an Railway Station, 0.8 km away from National Highway No?05, 3 km away from Guan-yue Highway, 38 km   away from Jinggangshan Airport.

With a building area of 510,000 sq. m., Jinggangshan University covers an area of 2556 mu, possessing about 90 million yuan worth of equipments and apparatus for teaching and scientific research. With a total storage of 1,030,000 volumes of books, the library provides readers with electronic periodicals in Chinese or foreign languages and other net services such as foreign language database, diskette database, on-line database and so on. The university publishes its own academic monthly journal, The Journal of Jinggangshan University, including philosophy & social science, and nature science editions. The university also has modern language labs and computer centers. The campus network has been established, and the multi-media equipments have been widely used in teaching and scientific researches. There are altogether 194 practice bases including humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, modern engineering, technological sciences, education and medicine sciences. There is an affiliated hospital with 522 sick beds and 35 medical departments and sections. At present, the university has over 15,000 full-time students from 30 provinces, districts, and municipalities of China, of whom over 8800 are undergraduates. Besides, there are over 10,000 adult students at all levels.

In the December of 2004, the university passed the assessment of teaching level of undergraduates organized by the Ministry of Education of China. In the same year it was entitled by the Ministry of Education of China to enroll foreign students.

The staff of current professional teachers in our college numbers 922, of whom 52 are professors, 257 are associate-professors, and over 60 are PHDs, over 310 are masters. 33 provincial pacesetters or backbone teachers of disciplines, 40 are school-level pacesetters of disciplines and academic subjects. Academicians such as Wang Zhikun, Yu Xiao, Qie Zhengwu and a host of well-known scholars both at home and abroad are engaged as part-time professors of the university. Meanwhile over 50 teachers and researchers of the university are engaged as honor tutors of master degree in Tongji University, Qinghua University, Nanchang University, Jiangxi Normal University, Jiangxi University of Finance & Economics, Jiangxi Agricultural University, East China Jiaotong University, Jiangxi University of Science &Technology, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southwest Normal University, etc. They have guided more than 60 masters.

At present, the university has 15 schools and 44 undergraduate majors. The 14 schools are Politics and Law School, Liberal Arts School, Foreign Study School, Business School, Maths & Physics School, Engineering School, Chemistry School, Fine Arts School, Physical Education School, Medicine School, Nursing School, Information and Media Technology School, Biology School, Pedagogy School. And Adult Education School. Covering 9 fields----arts, science, pedagogy, administration, economics, history, engineering, medicine, and law, the 44 undergraduate majors includes English, Business English, Japanese, International Economy and Trade, Law, Chinese Literature, Internation