Inner Mongolia University is located in Hohhot, the capital city of Inner Mongolia. It was founded in 1957, and is the earliest comprehensive university ever established in the ethnic regions of China. It started to enroll the graduate students in 1962. It was confirmed as a national key comprehensive university by the Ministry of Education of China in 1978 and authorized to confer the Doctor’s degrees in 1984. It became one of 100 universities of the “211 Project” universities for key construction and development in 1997. In 2004, it became the university to be jointly constructed by the Ministry of Education of China and the People’s Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and became one of the universities of National Project to Enhance the Comprehensive Strength for the Universities in the Middle and Western Regions in 2012. The current President is Prof. Chen Guoqing. Inner Mongolia University’s academic system is wide-ranging and it covers 10 disciplines such as philosophy, economics, law, literature, history, sciences, engineering, agriculture, management and art theory. Two of the state-level key disciplines, Chinese Ethnic Language & Literature and zoology, with their distinctive local and ethnic characteristics enjoy high prestige at home and abroad. Now the University consists of 23 schools and one independent department for general education. Inner Mongolia University has been assessed to be one of the A-class universities for undergraduate teaching. It is also ratified to be one of the National Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Project universities and one of the pilot universities for the Educational Comprehensive Innovation for the specialized Master Degree program students. Now it has 7 first-level and 3 second-level disciplines Doctor Degree programs, 26 first-level and 6 second-level disciplines Master Degree programs, 10 specialized Master Degree programs, 81 undergraduate majors and 6 post-doctorate working stations. The University has 2 state-level key disciplines of Chinese Ethnic Language & Literature and Zoology, and 18 regional-level key disciplines, 4 state-level and 2 regional-level bases for the basic scientific researches and personnel trainings, 1 national base for the improvement of college students’ cultural qualities, 8 state-level characteristic specialties and 6 model curriculums, 1 national key training laboratory jointly constructed by the Ministry of Education of China and the People’s Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, 1 key base for humanity and social science researches of the Ministry of Education of China, 1 key laboratory of the Ministry of Education of China, 1 ethnological document and information center for ethnic studies of the Ministry of Education of China and 31 regional key laboratories. And it also has 42 National Undergraduate Teaching Engineering programs and 193 Regional Undergraduate Teaching Engineering programs. It has set up 6 kinds of scholarships and has about 30 kinds of donated scholarships to support and encourage students to study and innovate. Students of Inner Mongolia University enjoy an educational system of various levels, including full-time education, vocational education, adult education and the international education. The University has formed education programs of different levels such as doctoral, postgraduate, undergraduate and higher vocational and technical education programs, etc. The current number of students at different levels in the University amounts to 34,193, including 467 post graduate students, 4,420 graduate students, 20,054 undergraduate students, 2,159 vocational college students and 4,149 adult education students. Since its establishment, around 110 thousand students have graduated. Many of them have become famous scientists and educators, senior administrative leaders, entrepreneurs, artists and social activists including 4 Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Science and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. The University has 2,768 teachers and staff. The full-time teachers and researchers are 1,770 including 142 doctorate supervisors, 261 professors and 501 associate professors. The University boasts 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 5 double-employed academicians, 71 Special Government Allowance winners, 5 candidates of “Hundred-thousand-ten thousands Expert Project”, 13 candidates of the “New Century Supporting Program for Outstanding Personnel of the Ministry of Education of China”, 1 key discipline innovation team of the Innovative Talents Promotion Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology, 2 research teams of Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University on the Ministry of Education of China, 12 innovation teams of Grassland Talents Engineering, 12 regional innovation teams of science and technology and 20 teaching teams. And there are 3 members in the Discipline Assessment Group of the Academic Degrees Committee under the State Council, and 8 members in the National Higher Education Teaching Guidance Committee, 1 member in the Social Science Committee, 1 member in the Science and Technology Committee and 1 member in the Division of the Science and Technology Committee under the Ministry of Education of China. Now Inner Mongolia University has a total value of RMB 582 millions of teaching and research equipment and a collection of 3.15 million books. Its library is the regional center of CALIS Center in Inner Mongolia. Inner Mongolia University has also been vigorously strengthening its discipline construction and promoting its scientific research and social service capacities. In recent five years, it has gained more than 100 million scientific research funds per year, and it has made significant progresses in the fields of Mongolian studies and the development of Inner Mongolia ethnic groups , grassland ecology and agricultural and animal husbandry biotechnologies, and resource utilization and environmental protection. It successfully produced the first cloned transgenic cow expressing omega-3 fatty acids. A number of high-quality beef cattle, transgenic cloned cashmere goats and somatic cell nuclear transferred cashmere goats were also generated and ovine spermatogonial stem cell transplantation was carried out and offspring from donor ram has been obtained. Its National Research Center for Animal Transgenic Biotechnology was established and this center has become an important platform for new livestock variety production in China. Inner Mongolia University has also achieved important results in the key technique research of the development of potato industry. Now Inner Mongolia University has a large number of cooperation with local government and enterprises and a lot of achievements have been adopted. Attaching great importance to international academic exchange and cooperation, Inner Mongolia University has been actively enhancing its exchanges and cooperation with international universities and research institutes and it has officially signed agreements of inter-collegiate exchange and cooperation with more than 86 universities in 13 foreign countries Macao and Taiwan. It has set up a Confucius Institute in Kalmyk, Russia and has been entitled to enroll the Chinese Government Scholarship and Confucius Institute Scholarship foreign students. And it became one of the first universities of the demonstrative bases of the Ministry of Education of China for foreign students to study in China in 2013 and now there are over 600 foreign students from 23 countries studying in Inner Mongolia University.