Hunan City College is a full-time general undergraduate college sponsored by the Hunan Provincial People's Government. The school is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the core city of the ecological economic circle on the south bank of Dongting Lake-Yiyang City, Hunan Province.
The predecessor of the school was the Yiyang District Teachers College founded in 1970 and the Yiyang Basic University founded in 1978. In March 2002, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the then Yiyang Normal College and Hunan Chengjian College merged into Hunan City College.