Lishui University is located in known as "xiushan lishui, their happiness health and longevity of the township" known as "China first city" - lishui, master of Confucian classics' history can be traced back to 1907, Mr Sun yiranh guidance established in state primary normal schools.In December 1978, lishui normal college was established with the approval of the state council.In May 2004, in lishui normal junior college and lishui vocational and technical college merger on the basis of the status changed its name to lishui University, approved by the ministry of education in May 2010 by the ministry of education undergraduate course teaching qualified evaluation, in November 2016 by the ministry of education undergraduate teaching assessment.

The campus covers an area of 1008.16 mu, with a construction area of 387,400 square meters and a total value of 144 million yuan for teaching and scientific research equipment.The library holds 1.5669 million printed books, 643,200 electronic books, 52,800 electronic journals and 35 electronic resource databases.School existing national institute, institute of teacher education, ecological institute, institute of technology, medicine and health sciences, school of business, college of Chinese celadon, vocational and technical college, such as eight secondary school, the other with marxism institute, school of continuing education, overseas Chinese school, entrepreneurship institute, China academy of (lishui) two mountains, lishui industrial technology research institute for teaching and scientific research institutions, etc.The university now has 46 undergraduate majors, with 12,777 full-time students, including 10,679 undergraduates.Existing staff 1113 people, including 87 professors, Dr., 196 people, with the national "one thousand project" and "youth one thousand people plan" distinguished experts each 1, the ministry of education of higher education teaching steering committee of experts 1 person, 3 people to enjoy the state council special allowance experts, 1 in zhejiang have made outstanding contribution to the young and middle-aged experts, selected "151 talents project" 18 people in zhejiang province, zhejiang province colleges and universities young and middle-aged leading 24 people, 2 outstanding teachers in colleges and universities in zhejiang province.School existing five first-class disciplines, in zhejiang province, zhejiang province, "2011" collaborative innovation center 1, 1 key laboratory of zhejiang province, zhejiang province science and technology innovation service platform, the state policy of national theory research base 1, advantage majors at the provincial level 2, provincial characteristic professional 7, 1 national demonstration base of traditional minority national sports, 1 provincial college students off-campus practice base, provincial experimental teaching demonstration center construction point 1, 4 provincial experimental teaching demonstration center, 3 provincial teaching team, 1 state-level teaching material of planning department, the provincial high-quality goods curriculum 15,In 2016, longquan celadon craft was selected as one of the first online open courses of high-quality products in zhejiang province.The school has won two second prizes in 2016 zhejiang higher education education teaching achievements.The university also has one academician workstation and one provincial postdoctoral workstation.School is the national advanced unit of spiritual civilization construction, national advanced collective national unity progress, the national workers "pioneer" unit, the national national sports advanced collective, national model green unit and civilized unit of zhejiang province and zhejiang province "5 a" safe campus.