Zhengzhou Institute of Light Industry is a university approved by the Henan Provincial People's Government and the State Tobacco Monopoly Bureau. It is an excellent engineer education and training program university, a key construction university in Henan Province, a key project construction unit awarded a doctorate in Henan Province, and the first batch of universities in the comprehensive reform pilot of "three rounds of education" in Henan Province, and was selected as a dominant discipline construction project in Henan Province.

The school was founded in 1977, then named Zhengzhou Institute of Light Industry, which was originally under the Ministry of Light Industry. 1998 to Henan provincial people's government; In 2009, it was listed as a doctoral degree awarding unit in Henan Province to build a university; 20 1 1 became a university established by the Henan Provincial People's Government and the State Tobacco Monopoly Bureau; In 20 18, the school was confirmed as the key project construction unit awarded doctoral degree in Henan Province, and in the same year 12, it was renamed Zhengzhou Institute of Light Industry.