Zhejiang University of Technology

Zhejiang University of Technology (Zhejiang University of Technology), referred to as ZJTU, has its main campus in Hangzhou. It is one of the first batch of key universities in Zhejiang Province jointly built by the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Zhejiang Province, and one of the first batch of leading universities in the national "2011 Plan". It has been selected into the "111 Plan", the first batch of "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program", "Excellent Teacher Training Program", "New Engineering Research and Practice Project", National College Student Innovation Experiment Program, National College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program, Chinese Government Scholarship Receiving University for International Students, Confucius Institute Scholarship Receiving University, the first batch of colleges and universities scientific and technological achievements transformation and technology transfer bases, and is a member of the Asian Planning Schools Association (APSA) and CDIO Engineering Education Alliance.

Zhejiang University of Technology is the first provincial and ministerial co-constructed university in the eastern coastal area, the first batch of national "Higher Education Innovation Capacity Enhancement Plan" (2011 Plan) Collaborative Innovation Center leading university and the first batch of key construction universities in Zhejiang Province. It is located in Hangzhou, a famous historical and cultural city and scenic tourist destination in China. The school was founded in 1953. Its predecessor can be traced back to the Zhejiang Secondary Industrial School founded in 1910. It has gone through the development stages of Hangzhou Chemical Industry School, Zhejiang Chemical College, Zhejiang Chemical Institute and Zhejiang Institute of Technology. It was renamed Zhejiang University of Technology in 1993.

During his tenure as the head of Zhejiang, General Secretary Xi Jinping instructed the school to "actively give play to its own disciplinary advantages and talent and intellectual advantages, and strive to build the school into a training base for all kinds of outstanding talents and a research and development base for engineering science and technology, so as to accelerate Zhejiang's comprehensive construction of a well-off society and basically realize modernization ahead of schedule and make new and greater contributions." The school keeps in mind the instructions of General Secretary Xi, adheres to the construction of first-class disciplines as the main line, takes "based in Zhejiang, serving the region, going to the whole country, and connecting with the world" as the school's purpose, and highlights the school's characteristics of "running schools with the spirit of Zhejiang and interacting with regional development". Adhering to the school motto of "virtue and vigor", the school promotes the spiritual tradition of "hard work, pioneering and innovation, and striving for excellence", the teaching style of "dedication and dedication" and the style of study of "taking essence and using it", focusing on cultivating first-class talents, producing first-class results, and actively serving the national and regional economic and social development.

The school has three campuses, Chaohui, Pingfeng and Moganshan, covering an area of ​​3,365 acres, with 26 secondary colleges and 1 department, and an independent college, Zhijiang College. There are 19,727 full-time undergraduate students, 12,732 postgraduate students, and 1,041 international students. There are 3,425 faculty members, including 2,522 full-time teachers, including 4 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 4 academicians of the two academies, 11 Zhejiang Provincial Special Experts, 2 Distinguished Professors of the Yangtze River Scholars Program of the Ministry of Education, 4 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, 11 leading talents of the National "Ten Thousand Talents Program", 3 national teaching masters, 4 Young Yangtze River Scholars of the Ministry of Education, 9 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, 1 young top talent of the National "Ten Thousand Talents Program", 10 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions at the national level, and 10 selected candidates of the "Hundred Thousand Talents Project" of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.

The school adheres to the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, takes top innovative talents as the guide, high-level application-oriented talents as the main body, and compound talents as the feature, and vigorously cultivates industry elites and leading talents with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor, and is rich in patriotism, international vision, innovative spirit, and practical ability. Since its establishment, the university has trained and supplied more than 300,000 outstanding talents of various types for the country. There are 66 undergraduate majors, covering 10 categories including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, science, engineering, medicine, management, and art. It has 13 first-level doctoral degree authorization points, 2 doctoral professional degree authorization points, 29 first-level master's degree authorization points, 3 second-level master's degree authorization points not covered by the first-level discipline, 22 master's professional degree authorization points, and 9 postdoctoral mobile stations. In the fourth round of discipline evaluation by the Ministry of Education, the chemical engineering and technology discipline received an A- grade, and the mechanical engineering discipline and business administration discipline received a B+ grade. Eight disciplines including chemistry, engineering, materials science, environmental science and ecology, agricultural science, biology and biochemistry, computer science, pharmacology and toxicology entered the top 1% of the global ESI.

The school insists on serving the major needs of national and regional development as its mission, and strives to strengthen the strategic layout of the government-industry-university-research-application cooperation network. There are 10 national research centers and 55 provincial and ministerial scientific research platforms. Nearly 620 scientific research achievements of the school have won national, provincial and ministerial scientific research achievement awards, including 24 national science and technology awards and 11 outstanding achievements in humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education. Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, 10 key projects of the National Key R&D Program have been added, 34 first prizes of provincial and ministerial science and technology have been won, and 33 major horizontal projects with a contract amount of more than 10 million yuan have been signed. In 2021, the school received 1.032 billion yuan in scientific research funds. The school has established comprehensive cooperation or scientific and technological cooperation relations with more than 60 cities, counties (districts) inside and outside the province, and has served more than 6,300 enterprises and institutions.

The sky is high and the sea is wide, and the sails are strong, riding the wind and waves to write a new chapter. Today's Zhejiang University of Technology adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implements the instructions and requirements of General Secretary Xi Jinping to the school during his tenure in Zhejiang, fully implements the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, and accelerates the construction of a "research-oriented university with distinctive regional characteristics and first-class domestic characteristics", and promotes the construction of Zhejiang Province as an "important window", a pioneer province of socialist modernization, and a "high-quality development and construction of common prosperity demonstration zone", and helps to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Make new outstanding contributions.