Donghua University

Donghua University is a public university in Shanghai, China, directly affiliated with the Ministry of Education, and it belongs both to the national Project 211 programme and to the Double First-Class Construction, tracing its institutional origins to a textile institute founded in June 1951, and its degree programmes now span engineering, science, management, design and the humanities.东华大学是位于中国上海的公立大学，直属中国教育部管理，既列入国家「211 工程」又入选「双一流」建设，其办学源头可追溯到 1951 年 6 月创建的一所纺织专门学院，如今的学位教育覆盖工学、理学、管理学、设计学与人文学科。

Formerly named China Textile University, the institution retains its historic strength in materials science and textile engineering while teaching engineering, management and design across two principal campuses in Shanghai's Changning and Songjiang districts.该校曾名中国纺织大学，延续着材料科学与纺织工程上的传统优势，同时在工学、管理学与设计学等领域办学，校区分布于上海市长宁与松江两区。

In the QS World University Rankings 2027 it stands in the 851-900 band, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place it in the 451-500 band, the US News 2026-2027 Best Global Universities table ranks it 471st worldwide, and the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities puts it in the 401-500 group.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中它位于 851-900 区间，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名列第 451-500 位，2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名列世界第 471 位，2026 年软科世界大学学术排名列第 401-500 位。

History

• The university traces its earliest root to the Nantong Textile Dyeing Training Institute, founded in 1912 in the Jiangsu city of Nantong by Zhang Jian, the industrialist who pioneered modern textile education in China.学校最早的历史源头可追溯到 1912 年张謇在江苏南通创办的南通纺织染传习所，这位实业家是中国近代纺织教育的开创者。

• That Nantong teaching lineage was absorbed into the reorganized textile school in Shanghai in the early 1950s, which is why Donghua University counts the 1912 institute as the first page of its own history.这一南通办学脉络在 1950 年代初并入上海重组的纺织院校，因此东华大学把 1912 年的传习所视为本校历史的第一页。

• The university itself was founded in June 1951, in the first years of the People's Republic of China, when the new state was reorganising specialist higher education into single-discipline engineering institutes, and the new school was expected to supply engineers for the state's textile mills as industry was rebuilt.学校本部创建于 1951 年 6 月，即中华人民共和国成立初期，当时新政权正把专门高等教育改组为单科性的工学院体系，学院被寄望为重建中的纺织工业输送工程技术人才。

• At its 1951 birth the school was named the East China Institute of Textile Technology, written in Chinese as 华东纺织工学院, with a mission to train engineers for the textile industry.1951 年建校时定名为华东纺织工学院，其使命是为纺织行业培养工程技术人才。

• Well before 1951, Shanghai had grown into the heart of China's modern textile industry, so the decision to place a national textile institute in the city followed the industry it was built to serve.早在 1951 年之前，上海已成长为中国近代纺织工业的中心，国家把纺织专门院校设在这座城市，正是为了贴近它所服务的产业。

• In 1960, only nine years after its founding, the institute was designated a national key university, a status that brought priority funding and priority standing in state enrolment plans. Such designations were rare at the time, and the status has framed the school's self-description ever since.1960 年，距建校仅九年，学院被确定为全国重点大学，这一身份为其带来优先拨款与招生计划中的优先地位，此类认定在当时数量很少，这一身份此后成为学校自我定位的核心。

• As a designated key institution it became one of the Chinese universities authorised to confer all three degree levels, bachelor's, master's and doctorate, rather than a teaching-only college.作为重点院校，它跻身获准授予学士、硕士、博士三级学位的中国高校之列，而不再只是教学型学院。

• In September 1985 the institute was renamed China Textile University, written in Chinese as 中国纺织大学, upgrading its title from institute to university in line with its growing scale of teaching and research.1985 年 9 月，学院更名为中国纺织大学，校名由「学院」升格为「大学」，与其不断扩大的教学科研规模相称。

• In August 1999 China Textile University adopted the broader name Donghua University, and the institution has carried that title from the end of the twentieth century into the present day.1999 年 8 月，中国纺织大学启用更为宽泛的校名东华大学，这一名称从二十世纪末沿用至今。

• The word Donghua literally means East China, so the 1999 name keeps the regional identity of the original East China Institute of Textile Technology while setting aside the single-industry label.「东华」二字字面义即华东，1999 年的新校名既保留了华东纺织工学院的地域印记，又淡化了单一行业的标签。

• The renaming stood within a wider wave in which Chinese specialist institutes adopted broader names to signal multi-disciplinary ambitions rather than service to a single industrial sector.这次更名处于一股更广的潮流之中，中国的专门院校纷纷改换更宽泛的校名，以表明多学科抱负而非只服务单一产业部门。

• The university was selected into Project 211, the national programme launched in 1995 through which China concentrated investment in a defined group of priority universities for the twenty-first century.该校入选「211 工程」，这是 1995 年启动的国家计划，集中投资一批面向二十一世纪的重点大学。

• It also belongs to the Double First-Class Construction, an initiative built on a 2015 framework under which selected universities and disciplines receive state funding to reach world-class standards.它还列入「双一流」建设，这一战略以 2015 年出台的总体方案为基础，对遴选出的高校和学科给予资助以冲击世界一流。

• When the first Double First-Class list was published in September 2017, textile science and engineering at Donghua was named among the disciplines approved for world-class development, and textile science and engineering has remained the university's flagship discipline in the Double First-Class era.2017 年 9 月首轮「双一流」建设名单公布时，东华大学的纺织科学与工程学科被列入世界一流学科建设名单，在「双一流」建设时期始终是学校的旗帜性学科。

• The Ministry of Education of China directly supervises the university, one of a limited group of ministry-affiliated national key universities whose development is steered from the national capital.该校由中国教育部直属管理，属于数量有限的部属全国重点大学，其发展由国家统筹规划。

• Its academic identity was built on the materials science and textile programmes inherited from the 1951 institute, and these remain the founding core disciplines of the whole university.学校的学科身份建立于自 1951 年学院继承而来的材料科学与纺织类专业，它们至今仍是全校最早的核心学科。

• Alongside materials and textiles the modern university emphasises engineering, management and design, so its curriculum now spans several fields instead of one specialty.在材料与纺织之外，如今的学校还侧重工学、管理学与设计学，课程已覆盖多个领域而非单一专业。

• The 1985 promotion from institute to China Textile University had already signalled this widening, because a university title in China implies multi-disciplinary teaching and research rather than a single track.1985 年由学院升格为中国纺织大学就已预示了这一扩展，因为在中国的办学体系中，「大学」之名意味着多学科的教学与研究。

• The neutral name adopted in 1999 signalled a second widening, moving the institution beyond a textile-worded identity toward a comprehensive and more city-wide profile.1999 年采用的中性校名标志着第二次扩展，使学校跳出以纺织命名的单一身份，走向更为综合的城市大学形象。

• Across its three successive names, the East China Institute of Textile Technology, China Textile University and Donghua University, the school has formed an unbroken line since 1951.历经华东纺织工学院、中国纺织大学与东华大学三个校名，这所学校自 1951 年以来一脉相承、延续至今。

• With national key-university status and three-level degree authority, it has trained several generations of specialists who went on to work in China's textile, materials and design industries.凭借全国重点大学身份与三级学位授予权，该校培养了数代专门人才，他们投身于中国的纺织、材料与设计行业。

• The university's motto is the Chinese phrase 崇德博学、砺志尚实, rendered as honouring virtue, broadening learning, steeling aspiration and keeping to the practical, a spirit the school presents as inherited from its founders.学校的校训是「崇德博学、砺志尚实」，倡导崇尚德行、广博学习、砥砺志向与求真务实，学校将其视为一脉相承的精神传统。

• The 1999 choice of Donghua also placed the university in a loose family of similarly named Chinese institutions, among them Xihua University, Beihua University and Nanhua University.1999 年选择「东华」之名，也使学校进入一个名称相似的中国高校序列，其中包括西华大学、北华大学与南华大学。

• Because three official starting points coexist, the 1912 Nantong school, the June 1951 institute and the two later renamings, the university's history mirrors the whole arc of modern Chinese textile education.由于 1912 年的南通传习所、1951 年 6 月的学院与随后的两次更名这三个起点并存，学校的历史几乎映照了中国近代纺织教育自民国初年以来的完整轨迹。

Academics

• Teaching and research are organised around the discipline core inherited from the 1951 institute, materials science and textile engineering, which still anchors the university's academic profile today.教学与研究围绕 1951 年学院传承下来的学科核心展开，即材料科学与纺织工程，它们至今仍支撑着学校的学术格局。

• Around that textile base the curriculum has widened into engineering, management and design, giving Donghua a multi-disciplinary profile rare among the former single-industry institutes.在纺织基础之外，课程已扩展到工学、管理学与设计学，使东华在由单科院校转型的学校中形成了少见的多学科格局。

• Degree programmes run at all three levels, bachelor's, master's and doctorate, so a student can complete a full course of study without leaving the institution.学位项目覆盖学士、硕士、博士三个层次，学生无需离开本校即可完成完整的学业历程。

• Design and fashion form a signature strength, and the recognised Best Chinese Universities Ranking places Donghua first in China for Fashion Design.设计与服装是招牌优势学科，在广受认可的「最佳中国大学排名」中，东华大学的服装设计位列全国第一。

• The same ranking also puts the university first in China for Textile Engineering and for Fiber Materials Science, confirming the depth of its materials lineage.同一榜单还把该校的纺织工程与纤维材料科学列为全国第一，印证了其材料学科的深厚积淀。

• As a ministry-affiliated national key university its graduate education is anchored by doctoral programmes in materials, textiles and related engineering fields.作为教育部直属的全国重点大学，其研究生教育以材料、纺织及相关工程领域的博士项目为支柱。

• Engineering disciplines standing beside materials form a large teaching block that preserves the applied-technology orientation of the original textile college.与材料并列的工学学科构成一大教学板块，延续着最初纺织学院的应用技术取向。

• Management studies were added as the institute developed beyond a single textile specialty into a broader university with several faculties and a wider range of degrees.管理学是在学院跳出单一纺织专业、发展为多学院、多学位类型的综合性大学过程中增设的。

• Textile engineering is still taught as the founding core discipline, and it is one of the fields in which the university is placed first in the whole country.纺织工程仍作为建校核心学科开设，也是该校在全国位列第一的学科之一。

• Fiber materials science is offered as a distinct programme within the wider materials family that Donghua inherited from its textile origins.纤维材料科学作为独立项目开设，隶属于该校自纺织渊源继承而来的更广泛材料学科体系。

• Fashion design is taught among the design disciplines that grew up when the university broadened its curriculum beyond pure textiles.服装设计是学校课程跳出纯纺织之后发展起来的设计学科之一。

• The coexistence of materials science with engineering, management and design lets a single student body move between technical study and applied-artistic training.材料科学与工学、管理学、设计学并存，使同一学生群体可在技术研习与应用艺术训练之间自由跨越。

• Because it awards doctorates, the university sustains research training in its signature materials and textile fields alongside its taught degree programmes.由于拥有博士学位授予权，学校在开设授课型学位项目的同时，于招牌的材料与纺织领域维持科研人才培养。

• At college level the university includes the College of Textiles and the College of Materials Science and Engineering, the two faculties closest to its 1912 and 1951 origins.在学院层面，学校设有纺织学院与材料科学与工程学院，这两个学院与其 1912 年和 1951 年的渊源最为贴近。

• The College of Fashion and Art Design carries the design and fashion disciplines, including the Fashion Design programme placed first in the country.服装与艺术设计学院承载设计与服装类学科，其中包括位列全国第一的服装设计专业。

• Engineering teaching is further organised through the College of Information Science and Technology and the College of Mechanical Engineering, which serve the broad industrial region around Shanghai.工程教学还通过信息科学与技术学院与机械工程学院展开，服务于上海周边广阔的产业地带。

• The College of Environmental Science and Engineering and the College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology extend the applied sciences into environment and chemical fields.环境科学与工程学院与化学化工与生物工程学院把应用科学延伸到环境与化工领域。

• Business and management are taught in the Glorious Sun School of Business and Management, while the College of Humanities completes the academic map with humanities and social science teaching.工商管理类学科在旭日工商管理学院开设，人文学院则以人文与社会科学教学补全了学科版图。

• On the research side the university hosts the State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, its principal national platform for fibre and polymer research, reflecting the materials and textile focus that runs through the whole university.在科研平台方面，学校设有纤维材料改性国家重点实验室，这是其纤维与高分子研究的核心国家级平台，集中体现了贯穿全校的材料与纺织特色。

• Internationally, Donghua co-operates in running a Confucius Institute with Moi University in Kenya, part of its wider programme of overseas academic partnerships and Chinese-language teaching.在国际合作上，东华大学与肯尼亚莫伊大学合作共建孔子学院，这是其海外学术合作与汉语教学项目的一部分。

Campus

• Donghua University maintains two principal campuses in Shanghai, one in Changning District and the other in Songjiang District, each serving a different part of its teaching mission and together forming the base of its teaching and research.东华大学在上海设有两个主要校区，一个位于长宁区，另一个位于松江区，各自承担教学任务的不同部分，共同构成全校教学与科研的基地。

• Most bachelor's-degree courses are taught at the Songjiang campus, so the main undergraduate population gathers on the newer south-western site rather than in the city centre.大部分本科课程在松江校区讲授，因而本科生的主体聚集在较新的西南侧校址，而不在市中心。

• The Changning campus is the older urban site, known as the Yan'an Road campus, developed from the historic grounds that predate the Songjiang expansion.长宁校区是较老的市区校址，又称延安路校区，由松江新校区开发之前的历史校园发展而来。

• A road tunnel runs beneath the Changning campus along Xinhua Road, a distinctive physical feature of this inner-city site in west-central Shanghai.一条公路隧道沿新华路方向从长宁校区下方穿过，是这处上海市区中西部校址的独特地貌特征。

• The campuses stand in Shanghai at latitude 31.22222 degrees north and longitude 121.45806 degrees east, inside one of the largest and most international cities in China.校区地处上海，坐标为北纬 31.22222 度、东经 121.45806 度，位于中国规模最大、最国际化的城市之一。

• Songjiang lies on the south-western fringe of the Shanghai municipality, giving the undergraduate campus a suburban setting well away from the dense city core.松江位于上海市域的西南外围，使以本科教学为主的校区远离密集的市中心而带有郊区气息。

• The pairing of an inner-city heritage campus with a suburban teaching campus mirrors the expansion that many Chinese universities undertook in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.老城历史校区与郊区教学校区并立的格局，与许多中国高校在二十世纪末、二十一世纪初实施的校园扩张如出一辙。

• The Songjiang campus forms part of the Songjiang University Town, a planned higher-education cluster shared with several other Shanghai universities, so its students live inside a wider student district and mix daily with students of the neighbouring institutions.松江校区属于松江大学城的组成部分，这一规划中的高校园区与其他多所上海高校共享，学生因此生活在一个更大的学生城区之中，与相邻院校学生日常往来。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Donghua University is placed in the 851-900 band, the position on which this bilingual entry is based.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，东华大学位于 851-900 区间，本双语条目即据此档位收录。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place the university in the 451-500 band, a markedly higher standing than its QS range for the same year.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名把该校列在第 451-500 位，比其同年 QS 档位明显靠前。

• The US News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027 lists Donghua University at number 471 in the world, a single figure rather than a range.2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名把东华大学列在世界第 471 位，这是单一数值而非区间。

• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, published by ShanghaiRanking, places the university in the 401-500 band, the strongest of its four headline league-table results.由软科发布的 2026 年世界大学学术排名把该校列在第 401-500 区间，是其四大榜单名次中最为靠前的一项。

• As of 2025 the university sits among the world's top 500 institutions in several widely read tables, including the Academic Ranking of World Universities and the US News Best Global Universities ranking.截至 2025 年，该校已在多个广受阅读的榜单中跻身世界前 500，包括软科世界大学学术排名与 US News 全球最佳大学排名。

• On the subject dimension the recognised Best Chinese Universities Ranking places Donghua first in China for Textile Engineering, Fiber Materials Science and Fashion Design, its three signature disciplines.在学科维度上，广受认可的「最佳中国大学排名」把东华大学的纺织工程、纤维材料科学与服装设计列为全国第一，这是它的三个招牌学科。

• Its institutional standing rests on national key-university status held since 1960 and on membership of both the Project 211 programme and the Double First-Class initiative.其制度性地位源于自 1960 年起的全国重点大学身份，以及「211 工程」与「双一流」两项国家计划的成员资格。

• National academy membership supplies the university's hardest measurable honour, with three of its professors, Yu Jianyong and Zhou Xiang of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Zhu Meifang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, holding academy titles.国家级学术称号是该校最可量化的荣誉：其教授中有 3 人拥有院士头衔，即中国工程院院士俞建勇、周翔与中国科学院院士朱美芳。

• The available material records no publication or citation count for the university, so its research standing is expressed here through ranking bands and subject results rather than bibliometric totals.现有资料未记载该校的发文量与被引数，因此这里以榜单档位与学科名次来呈现其科研地位，而不采用文献计量总数。

Student life

• The university is well known as an international institution and is ranked among the top five of the list of most international-friendly universities in China.该校素以国际化著称，在中国最国际友好大学榜单中位居前五。

• It was among the first Chinese universities to accept international students, an early opening to overseas enrolment that set it apart from most of its peers.它是最早招收留学生的中国高校之一，这一较早的开放举措使它区别于多数同侪。

• To date Donghua University has hosted international students from almost 140 countries, giving its two campuses a broad and long-standing foreign-student presence.迄今东华大学已接收来自近 140 个国家的留学生，使两个校区拥有广泛而持久的国际学生群体。

• The university attends to the needs of international students through programmes such as the Shanghai Summer School, which brings overseas participants onto its campus each year.学校通过上海暑期学校等项目回应留学生需求，每年都吸引海外参与者到校学习。

• Undergraduate life is concentrated at the suburban Songjiang campus, where most bachelor's courses are taken, while the inner-city Changning site keeps the older teaching buildings and facilities.本科生活集中在郊区松江校区，大多数本科课程在此讲授，市区的长宁校址则保留较老的教学楼宇与设施。

• As a three-level degree-granting national key university it supports postgraduate as well as undergraduate study, so master's and doctoral students share the same academic community.作为可授予三级学位的全国重点大学，它同时支持研究生与本科教育，硕士生和博士生共处同一学术共同体。

• Shanghai Metro Line 9 links the Songjiang campus directly with the central city, so the planned university town is not cut off from downtown Shanghai.上海地铁 9 号线把松江校区与市中心直接相连，使这座规划中的大学城并不与上海市区隔绝。

• Overseas students are served by the International Cultural Exchange School, which offers Chinese-language training and preparatory courses before degree study.留学生由学校的国际文化交流学院提供服务，该院在学位学习之前开设汉语培训与预科课程。

Notable people

• Zhang Jian, the late-Qing and Republican-era industrialist, stands at the head of the genealogy as founder of the Nantong Textile Dyeing Training Institute in 1912.张謇是清末民初的实业家，1912 年创办南通纺织染传习所，在这份人物谱系中居于源头位置。

• Qian Baojun, one of the founders of chemical fibre science in China, spent decades at the school as a professor and academic leader as it grew from institute to university, and his academic imprint remains in its fibre research tradition.钱宝钧是中国化学纤维科学的奠基人之一，在该校担任教授与学术领导数十年，亲历其由学院到大学的发展，其学术印记留在该校纤维研究的传统之中。

• Yu Jianyong, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in textile materials, has served as the university's president.俞建勇是中国工程院院士、纺织材料专家，担任过东华大学校长。

• Zhu Meifang, elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2019, works on fibre and polymer materials as a professor at the university.朱美芳 2019 年当选中国科学院院士，在该校任教授，研究纤维与高分子材料。

• Zhou Xiang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is associated with the university's textile chemistry and dyeing-and-finishing specialities.周翔是中国工程院院士，与该校的纺织化学与染整工程专业密切相关。

• Hao Jianxiu, the model textile worker who rose into national political leadership, studied at the East China Institute of Textile Technology and remains one of its best-known alumni.郝建秀由纺织模范工人成长为国家领导人，曾在华东纺织工学院学习，是该校最著名的校友之一。

• Beyond these names the scholarly core is formed by textile, materials and design scientists descended from the 1951 programme, whose work underpins the top-ranked disciplines.除这些人物之外，该校的学术核心由承自 1951 年办学传统的纺织、材料与设计学者构成，他们的研究支撑着排名第一的学科。

• No Nobel, Turing or Fields-level affiliation is recorded in the available material, so the institution's distinctions remain national, resting on its key-university, Project 211 and Double First-Class status.现有资料未见诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖级别的人物关联，该校的荣誉因此属于国家级层面，依托其重点大学、「211 工程」与「双一流」身份。