The school is located in Dali City, Yunnan Province. It is a full-time public undergraduate college approved by the Ministry of Education and the Yunnan Provincial People's Government, organized by the Yunnan Provincial People's Government and headed by the Yunnan Provincial Department of Education. It is the first batch of Universities of Applied Sciences approved by the Ministry of Education, one of the six precision assistance projects of the Ministry of Education in western Yunnan, and a member of Yunnan Surveying and Mapping Geographic Information Society.