红河学院前身是创建于1978年的蒙自师范专科学校，2003年4月升级为省属本科院校。

Honghe University, formerly Mengzi Normal College, was founded in 1978 and upgraded to a provincial undergraduate college in April 2003.

学校秉持“博远有鸣，开阔弘毅”的校训和“道不虚谈，学贵实效”的校风，坚持“根植红河，服务云南，辐射南亚东南亚，具有区域国际影响力的一流应用型大学”的办学定位。2016年获批国家三部委“十三五”职业教育产教融合工程应用型本科高校转型试点项目。

Just as its motto indicates, Honghe university embraces great embitions and attaches importance to concreat doing rather than pointless talking. Located in Honghe Prefecture, the university tried its best to serve the whole province, and further more, extends its services to South Asia and Southease Asia, in an effort to build a first-class application-oriented univerity with regional international influence. In the year 2016, a national pilot project was approved to the university, marking its transformation towards “Integration of production and education” .

建校以来，为云南培养了4.6万名“下得去、留得住、用得成”的高素质应用型人才。荣获国家级教学成果二等奖1项，省级教学成果一等奖1项，二等奖7项。学校以服务国家和云南省发展战略需求为导向，紧扣云南省打造世界一流“三张牌”以及省州经济社会和重点产业发展需求，聚焦服务对外开放、中华传统文化守正创新、区域经济和产业发展构建学科群。

Reputable enough, the university has trained 46,000 high-quality talents for Yunnan province, and was awarded a second prize of national teaching achievements, a first prize of provincial teaching achievements and 7 second prizes. To meet the needs of economic, social and key industriesl development of national and local governments, the university reconstruct subjects and programs in the drive of surpotting the opening up strategy, carrying forward traditional Chinese culture, promoting regional economy and industrial development.

以“国门大学”新理念为牵引，主动服务国家“一带一路”倡议，积极打造沿边地区高等教育新高地。目前，学校建设有习近平总书记亲自见证签署的斯里兰卡科伦坡大学孔子学院、斯里兰卡兰比尼孔子课堂、孟加拉国山度·玛丽亚姆-红河孔子课堂共3个国际中文教育项目；

By taking the geographic advantages, the university went all out to serve the state’s "Belt and Road" Initiative, and aims to build new heights of higher education in border regions. The Confucius Institute at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka, the Confucius Classroom at Rambini in Sri Lanka, and the Confucius Classroom at Sandu Mariam-Honghe in Bangladesh are the most well-known international Chinese education projects operated by Honghe University.获批“2021年亚洲合作资金项目”1项，面向GMS五国语种实现专业全覆盖；“服务国家发展战略的‘国门大学’东南亚语种人才培养体系改革实践项目”荣获第八届云南省高等教育教学成果一等奖；越南语专业入选第三批国家级一流本科专业建设点。The university offers undergraduate programs of languages of GMS countries, and the Vietnamese language program was nominated as the third batch of national first-class. 

与越南太原大学合作开展境外办学项目，开创了云南高校境外本科办学的先河，学校顺利通过留学生教学管理第三方评估。2016-2022年，累计招收留学生达到1150多人；搭建了红河流域大学校长论坛、中越红河流域社会发展论坛、中越文体交流三个中越合作交流平台。The university started undergraduate program in Vietnam, in cooperation with Vietnam's Taiyuan University, the first to do so among universities in Yunnan Province. Honghe University successfully passed the third-party evaluation of international students' teaching management. From 2016 to 2022, it has enrolled more than 1,150 international students. Three cooperation and exchange platforms have been set up, namely, the Honghe River University Presidents' Forum, the China-Vietnam Honghe River Community Development Forum, and the China-Vietnam Cultural and Sports Exchange.

建设云南少数民族传统体育基地、红河哈尼梯田保护与发展研究中心、建水紫陶非物质文化遗产传承与发展研究中心、红河流域乐舞研究中心等科研平台，推动少数民族优秀文化创造性转化和创新性发展；与周边县市签署合作框架协议，展开多层次、宽领域、全方位深度合作，与蒙自市人民政府合作共建红河学院附属学校落地运行；与科大讯飞共建人工智能工程中心和研究院。

To promote the creative transformation and innovative development of the outstanding cultures of ethnic minorities, we will build research platforms such as Yunnan Ethnic Minority traditional sports Cultivation Base, Honghe Hani Rice Terraces Protection and Development Research Center, Jianshui Purple Pottery Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritance and Development Research Center, Honghe River Basin Music and Dance Research Center, etc. Signed cooperation framework agreements with neighboring counties and cities, carried out multi-level, wide-ranging and all-round in-depth cooperation, and cooperated with the People's Government of Mengzi City to build and operate the affiliated School of Honghe University; Jointly build the artificial Intelligence Engineering Center and research Institute with Iflytek Co.Ltd.