[1] It is currently owned and operated by the private Huaxia Group Holdings Limited Company (华夏集团控股有限公司).
[2] In 2004, the private Nanjing Meiya Education Investment Limited Company (南京美亚教育投资有限公司) and the Communication University of China signed a university-name licensing contract.
The contract allowed the company to open a no-relation independent private undergraduate college in Nanjing under the name Communication University of China, Nanjing (中国传媒大学南广学院; lit.
[3][4][5][6] In 2008, the Ministry of Education of China required such independent colleges to change their names.
[7][8] The college never had any affiliation with the Communication University of China in Beijing.