Fuzhou University

Fuzhou University (FZU, Chinese: 福州大学) is a provincial public university in Fuzhou, Fujian, China, founded in 1958 and jointly built by the Ministry of Education and the Fujian Provincial People's Government.福州大学（Fuzhou University，简称福大）是福建省福州市的一所省属公立大学，1958 年创办，由教育部与福建省人民政府共建。

It is one of the two Project 211 universities in Fujian, entered the Double First-Class scheme in 2017 with chemistry as its designated discipline, and now runs 27 schools, 85 undergraduate programmes and 12 postdoctoral stations.该校是福建省两所「211 工程」高校之一，2017 年以化学为建设学科进入「双一流」，现设 27 个学院、85 个本科专业与 12 个博士后科研流动站。

Its main campus is at Qishan in the Minhou university town south of the Min River, while the original Yishan site in the west of the city now houses its independent college, and further campuses operate in Xiamen, Jinjiang and Quangang.学校主校区位于闽江南岸闽侯大学城的旗山校区，城西的怡山老校区现主要供独立学院使用，另在厦门、晋江与泉港设有校区。

History

• In 1957 Fujian's industrial output was low and its industrial base thin, so the provincial party committee decided to build an engineering university at Jijiuling outside the west gate of Fuzhou and named it Fuzhou University.1957 年福建工业总产值低、工业基础薄弱，省委决定在福州西门外祭酒岭新建一所工科大学，定名福州大学。
• A preparatory office opened in the autumn of 1958, and Xiamen University enrolled the first 634 students on its behalf in four engineering departments: mechanical, electrical, chemical and mining-metallurgy.1958 年秋福州大学筹备处成立，先由厦门大学代为招收机械、电机、化工、矿冶四个工科系的 634 名学生。
• Within the same year the new university added a civil engineering department and the science departments of mathematics, physics and chemistry.同年学校又增设土建系，以及数学、物理、化学三个理科系。
• The engineering departments mirrored the industries the province wanted to build, namely machinery, electrical equipment, chemicals and mining, while the three science departments supplied the basic training those engineers needed.四个工科系对应福建当时要发展的机械、电气、化工与矿冶等行业，三个理科系则为工科学生提供基础科学训练。
• The 1958 and 1959 engineering cohorts moved from Xiamen to the new Fuzhou buildings in February 1960, and the science students followed at the end of July.1960 年 2 月，工科 58、59 级各专业学生从厦门迁入新建成的校舍，理科各专业学生则于同年 7 月底迁入。
• Xiamen University transferred whole specialisations rather than scattered individuals: electron physics with its electron-tube workshop went to physics, part of physical chemistry and analytical chemistry went to chemistry, and computational mathematics, applied mathematics and probability and statistics went to mathematics.厦门大学以整个专门化调迁为原则支援福大：电子物理专业连同电子管试制车间转入物理系，物理化学与分析化学的一部分转入化学系，计算数学、应用数学与概率论数理统计转入数学系。
• Lu Jiaxi, a structural chemist later president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, moved to Fuzhou with his physical chemistry research students and became the university's vice-president.结构化学家、后来出任中国科学院院长的卢嘉锡带领物理化学专业研究生迁往福大，并担任副校长。
• By 1962, with Fujian on the front line of the Taiwan Strait confrontation, factories in the province were closing and public opinion began to ask whether the university should continue at all.到 1962 年，福建地处台海前线，省内工厂相继关闭，社会开始质疑福州大学是否还应办下去。
• Vice-presidents Zhang Gumei and Lu Jiaxi petitioned the provincial committee, which ruled in July 1962 that the university would continue but on a smaller scale.党委副书记、副校长张孤梅与副校长卢嘉锡等上书省委，省委于 1962 年 7 月决定学校继续办下去，但要缩小规模。
• The retrenchment closed civil engineering and mining-metallurgy and capped annual enrolment at 500 students, including no more than 90 in the sciences, for a total body of about 3,000.这次收缩停办了土建系与矿冶系，每年招生不超过 500 人，其中理科不超过 90 人，全校规模约 3000 人。
• Ten specialities survived the 1962 retrenchment, and the university did not recover the breadth of its founding year until teaching was reorganised after 1978.1962 年收缩后学校保留十个专业，直到 1978 年后调整教学制度，才重新恢复建校初期的学科广度。
• The Cultural Revolution from 1966 wrecked normal teaching, Zhang Gumei was expelled from the party and died in January 1969, and Lu Jiaxi was sent to isolated labour.1966 年文化大革命爆发后正常教学秩序遭到严重破坏，张孤梅被开除党籍并于 1969 年 1 月含冤病逝，卢嘉锡亦被隔离劳动。
• Enrolment stopped and resumed only in 1970, when the closure of Fujian Normal College and Huaqiao University led Fuzhou University to add an education department and a civil engineering department.学校一度停止招生，直到 1970 年才恢复，其间因福建师范学院与华侨大学停办，福大增设教育系与土建系。
• After 1978 the university rebuilt its teaching system, and in 2000 the Xiamen Academy of Arts and Design, founded in 1952, was formally merged into it.1978 年后学校拨乱反正、调整教学制度，2000 年创办于 1952 年的厦门工艺美术学院正式并入。
• Fuzhou University entered Project 211 in 1999, the central programme that concentrated resources on about a hundred key universities.1999 年，福州大学进入「211 工程」，这是国家把资源集中投向约一百所重点大学的计划。
• From 2004 the university built the Qishan campus in the Minhou university town, and the main teaching site moved there from Yishan.2004 年起学校在闽侯大学城兴建旗山校区，办学主体随之从怡山迁往旗山。
• In 2010 it became a national pilot for comprehensive reform of professional degree postgraduate education and was named one of 50 innovative universities for engineering master's training.2010 年，学校成为全国专业学位研究生教育综合改革试点单位，并跻身全国 50 所工程硕士研究生教育创新高校。
• Chemistry was listed among the Double First-Class construction disciplines in September 2017, the only discipline at the university to receive that designation.2017 年 9 月，化学入选「双一流」建设学科名单，是该校唯一获此认定的学科。
• Chemistry kept its Double First-Class status when the second round of the list was published in 2022.2022 年第二轮「双一流」名单公布，化学继续保持建设学科地位。
• Jia Jiumin, concurrently a vice-governor of Fujian, was the first president from 1958 to 1978, and Lu Jiaxi served as honorary president from 1981 until 2001.时任福建省人民委员会副省长的贾久民兼任首任校长至 1978 年，卢嘉锡则在 1981 年至 2001 年间任名誉校长。
• Later presidents included Huangfu Lin, Huang Jinling, Qian Kuangwu, Wei Kemei and Wu Minsheng, and Fu Xianzhi led the university from May 2010 to December 2023.此后的校长包括皇甫琳、黄金陵、钱匡武、魏可镁与吴敏生，付贤智则于 2010 年 5 月至 2023 年 12 月执掌学校。
• Wu Minghong, an environmental scientist, took office as president in December 2023.环境科学领域的吴明红于 2023 年 12 月就任校长。
• The petrochemical school moved to a new campus at Qianhuang in Quangang District, Quanzhou, in September 2016, and was renamed the College of Chemical Engineering in December 2023.石油化工学院于 2016 年 9 月入驻泉州泉港区前黄镇的新校区，并于 2023 年 12 月更名为化工学院。
• The present institution is not the school that took the name Fuzhou University in a 1951 renaming, which became a predecessor of Fujian Normal University.今天的福州大学并非 1951 年改名后称福州大学的那所学校，后者后来成为福建师范大学的前身之一。

Academics

• As of September 2025 the university has 27 schools, including one independent college, Zhicheng College, and one Sino-foreign joint college, the Maynooth International Engineering College.截至 2025 年 9 月，学校设有 27 个学院，其中包括独立学院至诚学院与中外合作办学的梅努斯国际工程学院。
• It offers 85 undergraduate programmes, 39 first-level master's programmes, 19 first-level doctoral programmes and 12 postdoctoral research stations.学校开设 85 个本科专业，拥有 39 个硕士学位授权一级学科、19 个博士学位授权一级学科与 12 个博士后科研流动站。
• Between them the 19 doctoral and 39 master's disciplines cover engineering, science, economics, management, humanities, law and art, the seven fields the university cites in its own description of a multidisciplinary institution.19 个博士学科与 39 个硕士学科合起来覆盖工、理、经、管、文、法、艺七个门类，这正是学校自述的多科性大学格局。
• Chemistry anchors the research profile, with chemical engineering, materials science and environmental science clustered around it as the university's strongest group of disciplines.化学是学校科研的核心，化学工程、材料科学与环境科学围绕它形成校内最强的学科群。
• In the fourth round of the Ministry of Education's discipline evaluation, announced in 2017, chemistry was graded A-, the highest grade the university has received.在教育部 2017 年公布的第四轮学科评估中，化学获评 A-，是该校取得的最好等级。
• Chemistry, engineering and materials science appear in the top 1 per cent of the ESI global citation rankings.化学、工程学与材料科学均进入 ESI 全球引用排名前 1%。
• Engineering is taught through the schools of electrical engineering and automation, mechanical engineering and automation, civil engineering, environment and safety, materials science and engineering, and architecture and urban planning.工科教学由电气工程与自动化学院、机械工程及自动化学院、土木工程学院、环境与安全工程学院、材料科学与工程学院以及建筑与城乡规划学院承担。
• Science and computing are organised in chemistry, mathematics and statistics, physics and information engineering with microelectronics, computer and big data with software, and artificial intelligence.理科与信息学科分布在化学学院、数学与统计学院、物理与信息工程学院（微电子学院）、计算机与大数据学院（软件学院）以及人工智能学院。
• The professional schools cover economics and management, law, foreign languages, humanities and social sciences, Marxism, biological science and engineering, and physical education.人文社科类学院包括经济与管理学院、法学院、外国语学院、人文社会科学学院、马克思主义学院、生物科学与工程学院以及体育教学研究部。
• Several units carry a distinct identity: the Zijin School of Geology and Mining, the Xiamen Academy of Arts and Design, the School of Marine Science, and the School of Advanced Manufacturing.若干学院具有鲜明的行业或地域特色：紫金地质与矿业学院、厦门工艺美术学院、海洋学院与先进制造学院。
• Newer bodies include the School of Medicine, the Future Membrane Technology School and the Institute of Medical-Engineering Interdisciplinary Research.新设机构包括医学院、未来膜技术学院与医工交叉研究院。
• The university has one directly affiliated hospital, the Fujian Provincial Hospital in Fuzhou, which serves as its main clinical teaching base.学校有 1 家直属附属医院，即位于福州的福建省立医院，它是该校主要的临床教学基地。
• The Ministry of Education has authorised it to enrol students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and from foreign countries, and it holds agreements with more than 20 universities abroad.教育部批准学校招收港澳台地区与外国留学生，学校并与境外 20 多所大学建立了合作关系。
• The Library of the Western Belvedere, which the university describes as China's first centre for western works, and the Institute of International Sinology support its foreign-studies teaching.学校建有被称为中国首家西方文献中心的「西观藏书楼」，并设国际汉学研究所，支撑其涉外研究教学。
• The Maynooth International Engineering College delivers joint engineering degrees with Maynooth University in Ireland.梅努斯国际工程学院与爱尔兰梅努斯大学联合培养工程类学位。
• Research strength lies in catalysis and structural chemistry, fields associated with Wei Kemei, Fu Xianzhi, Lu Jiaxi, Wu Xintao and Hong Maochun.科研优势集中在催化与结构化学，魏可镁、付贤智、卢嘉锡、吴新涛与洪茂椿的工作都与这些方向相关。
• An older English-language profile of the university listed four postdoctoral stations and nine first-level doctoral programmes, against 12 stations and 19 doctoral programmes today.较早的英文简介记载学校有 4 个博士后流动站与 9 个博士学位授权一级学科，如今已增至 12 个流动站与 19 个一级学科博士点。

Campus

• The university operates seven campuses: Yishan, Qishan, Tongpan and Jinjiang, plus Gulangyu and Jimei in Xiamen and Quangang in Quanzhou, covering more than 333 hectares.学校共有七个校区：怡山、旗山、铜盘、晋江，以及厦门的鼓浪屿与集美、泉州的泉港，合计占地 333 公顷以上。
• Yishan campus at 523 Gongye Road is the original site, the main campus until 2006, and now houses Zhicheng College and some research institutes beside Xichan Temple.位于工业路 523 号的怡山校区是建校原址，2006 年以前为办学主体，现主要供至诚学院与部分研究机构使用，与西禅寺毗连。
• Qishan campus at 2 Xueyuan Road, Shangjie, Minhou County, was built from 2004 onwards and is now the main site, on the south bank of the Min River below Qi Mountain.旗山校区位于闽侯县上街镇学园路 2 号，2004 年后陆续建成，地处闽江南岸、旗山脚下，现为学校办学主体。
• The Qishan site was planned after Fuzhou redrew its urban districts, and the university town it anchors gathers several Fuzhou institutions on the south bank of the river.旗山校区是在福州重新规划城市片区之后规划建设的，它所在的大学城在闽江南岸聚集了福州多所高校。
• The Min River separates the old Yishan site on the north bank from the new Qishan site on the south bank.闽江把北岸的怡山老校区与南岸的旗山新校区隔开。
• Tongpan campus at 89-1 Software Avenue lies below Wufeng Mountain south of the Software Park Phase II and became an extension of Qishan after the marine school moved to Jinjiang.铜盘校区位于软件大道 89-1 号、软件园二期南侧五凤山麓，海洋学院迁往晋江后成为旗山校区的扩展。
• Jinjiang campus at Jinjie in Jinjiang, administered by Quanzhou, is laid out as two colleges and two parks: advanced manufacturing and marine science teaching, plus a science park branch and a student entrepreneurship park.晋江校区位于泉州晋江市金井镇，按「两院两园」布局：先进制造学院与海洋学院两个办学单位，以及国家大学科技园晋江分园和大学生创业教育园。
• Gulangyu and Jimei campuses in Xiamen belong to the Xiamen Academy of Arts and Design, a school founded in 1952 and merged into the university in 2000.厦门的鼓浪屿与集美两个校区属于厦门工艺美术学院，该院 1952 年创办，2000 年并入福州大学。
• Quangang campus at Qianhuang in Quanzhou has hosted the chemical engineering school since September 2016, placing it next to the local petrochemical industry.泉港校区位于泉州前黄镇，化工学院自 2016 年 9 月起入驻，紧邻当地石化产业。
• Fuzhou Metro Line 2 has a station named Fuzhou University at the east gate of Qishan campus, and bus routes 55, 97 and 48 connect the campus with the city centre.福州地铁 2 号线在旗山校区东门设有「福州大学」站，55 路、97 路与 48 路公交车连接校区与市中心。
• The seven sites spread across three cities, but teaching and administration are concentrated at Qishan.七个校区分布在三座城市，但教学与行政主要集中于旗山。

Reputation

• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities places Fuzhou University in the 201-300 band, the strongest of its three global results.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名把福州大学列入第 201-300 名区间，这是它三项全球榜单成绩中最好的一项。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 puts it in the 701-800 band.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列入第 701-800 名区间。
• U.S. News ranks it 382nd in its 2026-2027 Best Global Universities list.在 2026 至 2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学排名中，学校位列第 382 位。
• Fuzhou University does not appear in the QS World University Rankings 2027, so any four-table comparison rests on ARWU, THE and U.S. News alone.福州大学未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名，因此四项主榜的横向比较只能依赖软科、泰晤士与 U.S. News 三项。
• Its standing rests first on national designations: Project 211 in 1999 and Double First-Class with chemistry in 2017 and 2022.学校的地位首先来自国家层面的身份：1999 年进入「211 工程」，2017 年与 2022 年以化学入选「双一流」。
• It is one of only two Project 211 universities in Fujian, the other being Xiamen University, which is directly under the Ministry of Education.它是福建省仅有的两所「211 工程」高校之一，另一所是教育部直属的厦门大学。
• The A- grade in chemistry from the 2017 discipline evaluation remains its highest subject rating and the basis of its presence in global tables.2017 年学科评估中的化学 A- 至今仍是该校最高的学科等级，也是它能够进入全球榜单的基础。
• The Zijin School of Geology and Mining is named after Zijin Mining Group, whose chairman Chen Jinghe graduated from the university's geology and mining department in 1982.紫金地质与矿业学院以紫金矿业集团命名，该集团董事长陈景河 1982 年毕业于福州大学地质采矿工程系。
• ARWU, which relies on bibliometric indicators, ranks the university far higher than THE, whose survey component weighs reputation among academics and employers.以文献计量指标为主的软科把学校排得远高于泰晤士，而后者的问卷调查部分更看重学者与雇主声誉。
• The three placements diverge because the indicators differ: ARWU counts highly cited papers and Nobel laureates, THE adds teaching and reputation surveys, and U.S. News weights research reputation across regions.三项名次之所以不同，是因为指标口径不同：软科统计高被引论文与诺贝尔奖得主，泰晤士加入教学与声誉调查，U.S. News 则看重跨区域的研究声誉。

Student life

• In 2025 the university enrolled about 39,333 full-time undergraduates and 17,730 postgraduate students, alongside continuing-education and part-time learners.2025 年学校有全日制本科生 39333 人、博硕士研究生 17730 人，另有继续教育与非全日制学生。
• Since 1958 it has produced nearly 200,000 graduates at bachelor's, master's and doctoral level.自 1958 年建校以来，学校已培养近 20 万名本专科与博硕士毕业生。
• Most undergraduates study and live at Qishan, in the Minhou university town shared with other Fuzhou institutions and linked to the city by Metro Line 2.多数本科生在旗山校区学习生活，这里与福州其他高校同在闽侯大学城，经地铁 2 号线与城区相连。
• Zhicheng College students remain at Yishan, a central urban site on Gongye Road beside Xichan Temple.至诚学院的学生仍在怡山校区，那是工业路旁紧邻西禅寺的一处市中心校址。
• The Jinjiang campus is planned for 4,500 students in its two colleges, with places for a further 2,500 people in the entrepreneurship park.晋江校区按两个学院 4500 名学生的规模建设，创业教育园另可容纳 2500 人。
• Students from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and abroad enter under a separate Ministry of Education authorisation and study at Qishan with mainland classmates.港澳台学生与外国留学生经教育部单独授权招收，与内地同学一同在旗山校区学习。
• Because the marine and advanced manufacturing schools are based at Jinjiang, students in those fields complete their studies in Quanzhou rather than Fuzhou.由于海洋学院与先进制造学院设在晋江，这些专业的学生在泉州而非福州完成学业。
• Physical education is coordinated by a dedicated teaching and research department rather than by a single campus sports faculty.体育教学由专门的体育教学研究部统一组织，而非依托单一校区的体育院系。
• The motto, 'Illustrious virtue and utmost sincerity, broad learning and far-reaching aspiration', joins a Confucian demand for self-cultivation to the breadth of learning expected of an engineer.校训「明德至诚，博学远志」把儒家对修身的要求与工科人才应有的广博学识并列。

Notable people

• Lu Jiaxi, a structural chemist who presided over the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1981 to 1987, moved to Fuzhou with his research students in 1960 and was honorary president until 2001.结构化学家卢嘉锡 1981 年至 1987 年任中国科学院院长，1960 年带领研究生迁入福大，并任名誉校长至 2001 年。
• Wei Kemei, a chemical engineer and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, graduated from the chemistry department in 1965 and was president from 1999 to 2002.工业催化剂专家、中国工程院院士魏可镁 1965 年毕业于化学系，1999 年至 2002 年任校长。
• Wu Xintao, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in structural chemistry, completed postgraduate study in physical chemistry at Fuzhou University in 1966 and worked at the Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter.中国科学院院士、结构化学家吴新涛 1966 年在福州大学物理化学专业研究生毕业，长期任职于中国科学院福建物质结构研究所。
• Hong Maochun, an inorganic chemist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, graduated from the chemistry department in 1978 and later directed the Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter.无机化学家、中国科学院院士洪茂椿 1978 年毕业于化学系，后任中国科学院福建物质结构研究所所长。
• Lin Huimin, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in computer software, graduated from the computer science department in 1982 and works at the Institute of Software.计算机软件专家、中国科学院院士林惠民 1982 年毕业于计算机科学系，现任职于中国科学院软件研究所。
• Fu Xianzhi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering known for photocatalysis research, was president from May 2010 to December 2023.以光催化研究著称的中国工程院院士付贤智，2010 年 5 月至 2023 年 12 月任校长。
• Wu Minghong, an environmental scientist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, has been president since December 2023.环境科学家、中国工程院院士吴明红自 2023 年 12 月起任校长。
• Chen Jinghe, chairman of Zijin Mining Group, graduated from the geology and mining department in 1982.紫金矿业集团董事长陈景河 1982 年毕业于地质采矿工程系。
• Wang Qinmin, who studied in the geology and mining department from 1974 to 1977, later served as a vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.王钦敏 1974 年至 1977 年在地质采矿工程系学习，后任全国政协副主席。
• Zhou Zhenhe, a historical geographer at Fudan University and one of China's first two doctoral graduates in the humanities, graduated from the mining department in 1963.历史地理学家、中国首批两名文科博士之一的周振鹤 1963 年毕业于矿冶系，后任教于复旦大学。
• Jia Jiumin, the first president, held the post from 1958 to 1978 while also serving as a vice-governor of Fujian.首任校长贾久民 1958 年至 1978 年在任，同时兼任福建省副省长。