Zhejiang University is a national key university with a long history. Its predecessor Qiushi Academy was founded in 1897, and it is one of the earliest institutions of higher learning for China people. In the early 1950s, when the national colleges and universities were adjusted, they were divided into several single-subject schools. Among them, four schools in Hangzhou, namely Zhejiang University, Hangzhou University, Zhejiang Agricultural University and Zhejiang Medical University, merged again in September 1998 to form today's Zhejiang University. After 100 years of construction and development, the school has become a research-oriented comprehensive university with solid foundation, strong strength, distinctive features, first-class domestic and great international influence. It is one of the first key universities to enter the national "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Plan". The current president is Professor Pan Yunhe, an academician of China Academy of Engineering and an expert in artificial intelligence.
The school is located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, a famous historical and cultural city in China and a world-famous scenic spot. It is an important city in the Yangtze River Delta along the southeast coast of China, with Suzhou and Shanghai in the north, Yungang in the east and Fujian and Guangdong in the south. The school has six campuses, Yuquan, Xixi, Huajiachi, Hubin, Zhijiang and Zijin Port, covering an area of 5.33 square kilometers and distributed in different directions in Hangzhou. The campus is surrounded by mountains and waters, with elegant environment, lush flowers and trees, lush green grass and pleasant scenery, which complement each other with the beautiful scenery of the West Lake. It is an ideal garden for study and research.
In the long-term course of running a school, Zhejiang University has cultivated a large number of outstanding talents with a rigorous "seeking truth from facts" style of study, and created fruitful results with a persistent spirit of scientific innovation, enjoying a good reputation at home and abroad. It was once praised as "Oriental Cambridge" by Joseph Needham, a famous British scholar. Famous scholars such as Zhu Kezhen, Ma Yinchu, Lu Jiaxi, Su, Qian Sanqiang, Wang, Bei, Chen, Qian Lingxi, Tan, Gu Chaohao, Zheng, Liang, Xia Chengtao, Jiang Liangfu, Li Zhengdao, Wu Jianxiong and Lu Yongxiang all worked or studied in schools. Among the alumni of Zhejiang University, 140 people were elected as academicians of China Academy of Sciences and China Academy of Engineering, including more than 80 scholars from Zhejiang University.
The disciplines of Zhejiang University cover eleven categories, including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine and management. At present, there are 1 10 undergraduate majors, 39 post-doctoral mobile stations, 3 1 first-class disciplines, 0/81doctoral programs and 264 master's programs. In addition, there are doctor's degree authorization points in clinical medicine and master's degree authorization points in law (JM), business administration (MBA), management (MPA), education, physical education, agricultural extension, landscape architecture, veterinary medicine, hygiene, engineering, architecture, clinical medicine and stomatology 13. It has 24 national key disciplines, 13 national key (professional) laboratories, 5 national engineering (technical) research centers, 3 national key research bases of humanities and social sciences, 7 national training bases for basic scientific research and teaching talents, 4 national teaching bases for basic engineering courses, 3 national training bases for strategic industrial talents, and 1 national cultural quality education base for college students.
The school has a strong faculty, with more than 8,400 faculty members, including 2 academicians of China Academy of Sciences/KLOC-0 and 9 academicians of China Academy of Engineering. There are more than 2400 professors and other full-time vocational staff 1 100, and associate professors and other associate vocational staff. The school has more than 44,000 full-time students. There are more than 7000 graduate students1000, including master students1kloc-0/000 and 6000 doctoral students. In addition, there are more than 4500 people studying for professional postgraduate degrees; There are more than 24,000 undergraduates and 200 international students/kloc-0.
The school has excellent comprehensive conditions and complete infrastructure. The total construction area of the school building is more than 2 million square meters. It has advanced teaching and research institutions such as computing center, analysis and testing center and modern educational technology center. Science and technology museum (building), gymnasium (field), activity center, swimming pool and other public facilities are complete, providing complete conditions for Chinese and foreign study, life and academic and cultural exchange activities. With a total construction area of more than 83,000 square meters and a total collection of 6.26 million books, the libraries in each campus are one of the largest, most widely distributed and most comprehensive comprehensive university libraries in China. Press 1. There are 6 affiliated hospitals with a total of 5459 beds. The school also founded the National University Science Park of Zhejiang University, and set up branches in Nanchang, Ningbo, Wenzhou, Jiaxing and Shaoxing. The high-speed computer backbone network with a total length of 1.20 km and special bus lines connect all campuses and affiliated hospitals.
"State equality, Zhejiang coastal". Today, Zhejiang University, with a glorious history of one hundred years, shoulders a new historical mission. As one of the pilot projects of higher education management system reform in China, she will strive to become a first-class university with the characteristics of "comprehensiveness, research and innovation" and the world advanced level through reform and development, and make due contributions to the implementation of the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, national rejuvenation and national prosperity.