Yangzhou University is located in Yangzhou, the first historical and cultural city in China. It is a university jointly established by the People's Government of Jiangsu Province and the Ministry of Education, a key comprehensive university in Jiangsu Province, a class A construction university in the peak plan of high-level university construction in Jiangsu Province, the first batch of doctoral and master's degree awarding units in China, and the first university in China to run a school in a combined way. The school's predecessor was Tongzhou Normal School and Tonghai Agricultural School, which were founded on 1902 by Mr. Zhang Jian, a famous industrialist and educator in modern times. 1952, the departments of colleges and universities in China were adjusted, and their majors in agriculture, literature and history moved westward to Yangzhou to form Subei Agricultural College and Subei Normal College. At the same time, four other universities were established or moved to Yangzhou.