The history of Huizhou University can be dated back to as early as 1254 AD in the Song Dynasty when FenghuCollege was established on the very site of the Old Campus.As one of the four major schools in Guangdong at that time, Fenghu College was a centre of higher learning and, is now a tourist attraction of cultural and historic value.You can still see the famous couplet by Song Xiang, a renowned Qing Dynasty scholar, carved on the gateway of FenghuSchool:“A culture like the ancient state of Lu, a landscape like Pengying.” Thus, comparing Huizhou and its cultural heritage to the home of Confucius.
In 1901, during Emperor Guangxu's reign of the Qing Dynasty, Fenghu School was renamed Fenghu Middle School of Learning, which was again renamed Fenghu Middle School after the Xinhai Revolution led by Dr. Sun Yet-sen.In 1929,on its anniversary, the Middle School set up a monument with the words “Inherit the proud tradition and from it, create a future of promise”. The school was later renamed the Guangdong Provincial No3. Middle school.During the Anti-Japanese War, Huizhou was occupied by the Japanese four times.The school was forced to move to LankouTown in Zijin county and was renamed DongjiangProvisionalMiddle School.In the spring of 1946, Guangzhou's Yuexiu Middle School moved from LianxianCounty to Huizhou and joined the Guangdong Provincial No3. Middle School, which had by then moved back to Fenghu, and, together, they formed the GuangdongProvincialHuizhouNormal School.
700 years of history had conserved the school's culture and tradition, so, after liberation, the local government attached immense importance to HuizhouNormal School and its renovation. In 1965, the school moved to HuidongCounty and, again, in 1970, to BoluoCounty to merge with Guangdong Gengdu Normal School and be renamed “Huiyang DistrictNormal School”.In 1977, the school began to enroll diploma students.On December 28,1978, upon the approval from the State Council of the PRC, it became the HuiyangTeachers College. In 1986, HuiyangTeachers College merged with Huizhou Educational College.
In 1989, the school invited the Northwest Institute of Textiles to set up a Huizhou Branch, substantially expanding the College in size and economy. In March 2000, with the approval from Ministry of Education of PRC, the College became Huizhou University with the authority to offer Degree courses.The first Bachelor Degree students graduated in June 2004.