Lanzhou City University

Lanzhou City University is a provincial full-time general undergraduate college approved by the Ministry of Education in February 2006. The school is located in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province, and has 14,300 full-time students.

[History] The school's predecessor was Lanzhou Normal College, which was founded in June 1958, and Baili Petroleum School, which was founded by New Zealander Louis Alley in May 1942. In August 2007, with the approval of the Gansu Provincial Government, Gansu Provincial Preschool Normal School was merged into the school as a whole.

[School Building Resources] The school currently has three campuses: the main campus, Baili Campus, and East Campus, covering an area of ​​505,400 square meters and a school building area of ​​449,700 square meters. The total value of fixed assets is 744 million yuan, of which the value of teaching and scientific research equipment is 190 million yuan. The library has 1.2441 million paper documents, 1 million electronic books, and 24 electronic resource databases.

【Faculty】The school currently has 1,161 faculty members, including 120 professors, 338 associate professors, 179 doctors, and 608 masters. There are 2 people selected for the "New Century Excellent Talent Support Program" of the Ministry of Education, 2 national excellent teachers, 1 national model of teacher ethics, 1 national excellent counselor of colleges and universities, 6 leading talents in Gansu Province, 1 Feitian Scholar in Gansu Province, 5 talents in Gansu Province's "333" and "555" talent projects, 3 outstanding experts in Gansu Province, 11 winners of Gansu Province's "Gardener Award", 5 talents in Gansu Province's publicity and cultural system's "four batches", 6 provincial teaching masters, and 3 provincial innovation and entrepreneurship teaching masters.

【Disciplines and Majors】 The school has 18 secondary colleges and 23 research institutes (institutes) including Gansu Urban Development Research Institute, Gansu Cultural Translation Center, and Rewi Alley Research Center. There are 55 undergraduate majors, covering 9 disciplines of engineering, science, economics, management, law, education, literature, history, and art, forming three major professional clusters of service city, teacher education, and engineering technology. It has 1 national college Chinese excellent traditional culture inheritance base, 1 first batch of undergraduate major comprehensive reform pilot majors in local colleges and universities of the Ministry of Education's "Undergraduate Teaching Project", 1 undergraduate major course teaching pilot project of the Ministry of Education, 13 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 8 provincial characteristic majors, 5 provincial key disciplines, 2 provincial engineering research centers, 2 provincial key laboratories of colleges and universities, 3 provincial key research bases of humanities and social sciences of colleges and universities, and 1 provincial new think tank of colleges and universities.

【Talent Cultivation】The school adheres to the school motto of "using hands and brains together, creative analysis" advocated by Mr. Louis Alley, and is committed to the cultivation of applied talents. It has gradually formed the school spirit of "diligent learning, moral cultivation, discernment, and honesty", the teaching style of "high learning as a teacher, upright conduct as a model", and the style of study of "enjoying learning, thinking well, and applying what you have learned". The graduates trained have been widely recognized by all aspects of society for their diligent and down-to-earth, positive and progressive style, solid professional basic knowledge, good professional basic ability, high sense of social responsibility and professionalism.

【Cooperation and Exchange】The school adheres to the concept of open cooperation in running schools, actively promotes school-enterprise and school-local cooperation and domestic (overseas) exchanges, and has successively built 233 internship and training bases with governments, universities, research institutes, enterprises and institutions; established international education cooperation relations with more than 10 foreign universities such as European University of Cyprus, Georgia Southwestern State University in the United States, Penza State University in Russia, Eurasian Higher School of Management in France, and ARA Canterbury Institute of Technology in New Zealand; established joint training cooperation relations with dozens of foreign and domestic universities such as Kunshan University of Science and Technology in Taiwan, Taipei City University of Science and Technology, and East China Normal University. In 2015, the school joined the "Belt and Road" University Alliance; established a teacher education alliance with 7 universities in the province, and established an industry strategic alliance with 12 petroleum universities across the country. In 2015, it became the first batch of pilot universities of applied technology in Gansu Province. In 2016, it became a member unit of the China School-Enterprise Collaborative Industry-University-Research Innovation Alliance. In 2017, it was listed as a counterpart support school of East China Normal University by the Ministry of Education. In 2018, it was listed as a project construction unit for the awarding of master's degrees. In 2020, it signed a school-local strategic cooperation agreement with the People's Government of Anning District, Lanzhou City, and in 2020, it signed a strategic cooperation agreement for paired assistance with Tianjin Chengjian University.

[Honors] The school has successively won the titles of National Civilized Unit, National Advanced Unit for Spiritual Civilization Construction, National Advanced Unit for College Students' Social Practice, National Advanced Unit for College Students' Mental Health Education, National Red Cross Model Unit, the first "Civilized Campus" in Gansu Province, Advanced Grassroots Party Organizations in Gansu Province, Advanced Collectives of Ideological and Political Work in Gansu Province, Advanced Units of Talent Work in Gansu Province, the Third Batch of Demonstration Units for the Introduction of Foreign Intellectual Achievements in Gansu Province, Demonstration Schools for the Inheritance of Red Genes in Gansu Province, and Excellent Units for the Construction of Safe Gansu, etc.

The school aims to build a high-level applied university with distinctive urban characteristics, adheres to the urban, applied and local school-running positioning, establishes the school-running ideas of expanding the "city", improving "education" and strengthening "engineering", serves urban development, connects with the local economy, and strives to build the school into a regional applied talent training base, urban planning and construction consulting think tank, engineering technology research and development and application center, and local cultural inheritance and innovation platform.

(Note: The data is as of June 2021)