Donghua University, formerly known as China Textile University. It is formed by the merger of textile departments of universities in East China, Central South China and Southwest China, such as the Textile Department of Jiaotong University. He is a founding member of national key universities directly under the Ministry of Education, "world-class discipline construction university", "2 1 1 engineering" construction university and "Belt and Road" World Textile University Alliance.

Its textile science and engineering is a first-class key construction discipline and the best textile industry university. Known as the "Whampoa Military Academy in the textile industry".

Donghua University has a wide range of textile research directions, from aerospace science and technology to medical textile materials, from national defense applications to new energy and photoelectric materials. There are more than 5,000 cooperation projects in Industry-University-Research, involving major strategic development needs of countries such as aerospace, national defense and military industry, and biomedicine. Actively meet major needs through modern textiles, intelligent textiles, biomedical textiles and other channels.

A large number of scientific research achievements are applied to aerospace, national defense and military, major construction projects, environmental protection and other fields.