Nanjing University of the Arts, referred to as "Nanyi", is located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. It is a university jointly founded by the Ministry of People, Culture and Tourism of China and the People's Government of Jiangsu Province. It is the only comprehensive art college in Jiangsu Province, and also the earliest independent art institution established in China and continues to this day.
China is the first of the six art colleges, and the comprehensive strength of art disciplines ranks first in the country. It has been selected into the national-level talent training mode innovation experimental zone, the national-level characteristic specialty construction project, the "Two Million Plan" of the Ministry of Education, the collaborative innovation center of cultural creativity of universities in Jiangsu Province, the dominant discipline construction project of universities in Jiangsu Province, and the first batch of new key high-end think tanks in Jiangsu Province. Nanyi gave birth to the earliest artistic academic system in China and initiated the earliest university disciplines such as art, music, dance, theory and drama in China.