Guizhou University

Guizhou University is a provincial public university in Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province in south-western China, and the flagship institution of higher learning in the province.贵州大学是位于中国西南贵州省会贵阳的省属公立大学，也是贵州省高等教育的龙头高校。

It is affiliated with the Guizhou Provincial People's Government and co-funded by that government and the Ministry of Education, and it belongs both to Project 211 and to the Double First-Class Construction.学校隶属贵州省人民政府，由贵州省人民政府与教育部共建，是「211 工程」和「双一流」建设高校。

Guizhou University was placed in the 301-400 band of the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026, is absent from the QS World University Rankings 2027 and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, and stood 888th in the U.S. News global ranking for 2026-2027.该校在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位列第 301-400 名区间，未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名和 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学排名中位列第 888 名。

History

• The university traces its origin to the Guishan Academy, a Confucian school founded in Guiyang in 1735, whose site and traditions supplied the base on which the modern institution was built.贵州大学的源头可追溯至 1735 年在贵阳创办的贵山书院，这所书院的旧址与文脉成为近代贵州大学办学的依托。
• In 1902 Deng Huaxi, then governor of Guizhou, petitioned the Qing court to establish the Guizhou Institute of Higher Learning, appointing Yin Jiazhao as its supervisor and engaging Zhou Gongshou and Liao Hang among its first instructors.1902 年，贵州巡抚邓华熙上奏清廷设立贵州大学堂，任命候补道尹嘉诏为监督，并聘请周恭寿、廖杭等人为教习。
• The school was reorganised as the Guizhou Higher School in 1904 under governor Cao Hongxun, and in November 1905 it became the preparatory course of that higher school.1904 年，巡抚曹鸿勋对学堂加以整顿，将其改名为贵州高等学堂，1905 年 11 月又改为贵州高等学堂预备科。
• In 1905 the school sent twenty students to Japan in two groups under the leadership of Zhou Gongshou, an early case of organised overseas study from inland Guizhou.1905 年，学堂分两批派出 20 名学生赴日本留学，由教习周恭寿带队，这是贵州内陆地区较早的官派留学之举。
• A further reorganisation in 1906 turned it into the Guizhou Normal School, and in 1909 it was converted into the Guizhou Official Mining Middle School.1906 年，学校经再次整顿改为贵州师范学堂，1909 年又改办为贵州官立矿业中学堂。
• The mining school closed in May 1912, and its ungraduated students and teaching equipment passed to the Guizhou Provincial Agriculture and Forestry School, which was renamed the Guiyang A-grade Agricultural School in 1916.1912 年 5 月，矿业中学堂停办，未毕业的学生与教学设备全部转入贵州省立农林学校，该校 1916 年改名为贵州省立贵阳甲种农业学校。
• That agricultural school was closed by order in 1927 and absorbed in March 1928 into the Provincial Guizhou University, which the administration of Zhou Xicheng created on the site of the Provincial No. 2 Middle School.这所农业学校 1927 年奉令停办，1928 年 3 月并入省立贵州大学，该校由周西成主政的省政府以省立二中校址设立。
• Zhou Gongshou served as its first president, and the new university opened departments of economics, medicine, civil engineering and mining together with preparatory classes in arts and sciences.周恭寿兼任首任校长，新校设经济、医学、土木工程、矿业等专科，以及文、理两科预科。
• Provincial disorder in May 1929 drove Zhou Gongshou from office and scattered the students, and the university was forced to close in January 1931, its premises taken over by the Guiyang Senior High School.1929 年 5 月省城秩序大乱，周恭寿去职，学生纷纷返家，学校于 1931 年 1 月被迫停办，校址转由贵州省立贵阳高级中学使用。
• In the winter of 1939 the provincial assembly revived the plan for a Guizhou university to train personnel for the war effort, and in January 1940 the Ministry of Education and the Executive Yuan approved a National Guizhou College of Agriculture and Engineering at Huaxi.1939 年冬，贵州省第一届临时参议会提出设立贵州大学以培养抗战建国人才，1940 年 1 月国民政府教育部审议、行政院通过，决定在花溪设立国立贵州农工学院。
• In May 1942 the Executive Yuan resolved to create the National Guizhou University by absorbing that college, added colleges of arts and sciences and of law and commerce, and appointed Zhang Tingxiu as president on 22 May.1942 年 5 月，行政院决议将国立贵州农工学院归并，成立国立贵州大学，增设文理、法商两学院，并于 5 月 22 日任命张廷休为校长。
• The university adopted the four-character motto jianyi dushi, meaning resolute and earnest, and by June 1948 it had four colleges, sixteen departments, one specialised programme and one preparatory class.学校制定了「坚毅笃实」四字校训，到 1948 年 6 月全校已发展为 4 个学院、16 个系、1 个专修科和 1 个先修班。
• During the war with Japan students of the university joined the Chinese Expeditionary Force and went to the front, a chapter that the university still records in its own history.抗日战争时期，贵州大学的男生参加中国远征军开赴抗日前线，这段经历至今仍见于校史记载。
• The Guiyang military control commission took over the National Guizhou University on 25 November 1949, and in October 1950 the institution was renamed simply Guizhou University.1949 年 11 月 25 日，贵阳市军事管制委员会正式接管国立贵州大学，1950 年 10 月学校改称贵州大学。
• The agriculture department of North Sichuan University was merged into it in 1952, shortly before the nationwide restructuring of higher education.1952 年，川北大学农艺系并入贵州大学，此时全国高校院系调整即将展开。
• The 1953 adjustment moved most of its arts and sciences faculty to Guiyang Normal College, engineering to Chongqing University, agriculture to what became Southwest Agricultural University, foreign languages to Sichuan University and engineering departments to Yunnan University.1953 年全国院系调整中，文理学院大部分并入贵阳师范学院，部分工科并入重庆大学，农学类并入后来的西南农业大学，外文系调入四川大学，工学院各系调入云南大学。
• The same adjustment sent its law faculty to the Southwest Institute of Political Science and Law and its economics faculty to the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics.同一轮调整还把法学系调入西南政法学院，把经济系调入西南财经学院。
• Guizhou Agricultural College was founded in 1954 on the former campus of the National Guizhou University, and the present university's agricultural strength descends from that college.1954 年，贵州农学院在原国立贵州大学校址建立，今日贵州大学的农学传统即源于这所学院。
• On 3 July 1958 the provincial party committee decided to restore Guizhou University separately from Guiyang Normal College, rebuilding it around the arts and sciences faculty transferred there five years earlier.1958 年 7 月 3 日，贵州省委决定恢复重建贵州大学并与贵阳师范学院分校，以 1953 年调整到该院的原文理学院为基础复校。
• Guizhou Minzu College was merged into the university in 1959 and separated again in 1974.1959 年，贵州民族学院并入贵州大学，1974 年又分离出去。
• Guizhou Agricultural College was merged back in August 1997, and in August 2004 the Ministry of Education and the provincial government built a new Guizhou University on the foundation of the former Guizhou University and the Guizhou University of Technology.1997 年 8 月，贵州农学院等院校并入，2004 年 8 月教育部与贵州省人民政府在原贵州大学、贵州工业大学的基础上组建新的贵州大学。
• The university entered Project 211 on 8 September 2005, was named one of fourteen priority universities in the Midwest comprehensive-strength programme in November 2012 and helped found the Midwest University Alliance in July 2013.学校于 2005 年 9 月 8 日进入「211 工程」建设行列，2012 年 11 月入选「中西部高校综合实力提升工程」14 所重点建设大学，并于 2013 年 7 月参与发起中西部高校联盟。
• It signed a strategic agreement with Guizhou Provincial People's Hospital in December 2015 to co-run a medical school, opened a tea college with Meitan County in November 2016 and joined the world-class discipline list in September 2017.2015 年 12 月，学校与贵州省人民医院签署战略合作协议，合作举办贵州大学医学院，2016 年 11 月与湄潭县共建贵州大学茶学院，2017 年 9 月入选世界一流学科建设高校名单。

Academics

• The university is organised into 39 colleges and schools that together cover eleven academic divisions: agriculture, administration, economics, education, engineering, history, law, liberal arts, medicine, philosophy and the sciences.学校设有 39 个学院，覆盖农学、管理学、经济学、教育学、工学、历史学、法学、文学、医学、哲学、理学等 11 个学科门类。
• It awards associate, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees, and its degree-granting authority extends across those divisions.学校可授予专科、学士、硕士和博士学位，学位授权覆盖上述各学科门类。
• Guizhou University was selected for the national Double First-Class Construction in 2017, having been a Project 211 university since 2005.贵州大学 2017 年入选国家「双一流」建设高校，此前自 2005 年起为「211 工程」高校。
• In May 2017 the province had already designated it a Guizhou first-class discipline university, and the national world-class discipline list followed in September of the same year.2017 年 5 月，学校先行入选贵州省一流学科建设高校，同年 9 月又进入国家世界一流学科建设高校名单。
• Research is built around key laboratories devoted to green pesticides and agricultural bioengineering, karst environments and geological hazard prevention, modern manufacturing technology and mountain animal genetics and breeding.学校的研究平台以重点实验室为骨干，涵盖绿色农药与农业生物工程、喀斯特环境与地质灾害防治、现代制造技术、高原山地动物遗传育种与繁殖等方向。
• Further laboratories work on the conservation and germplasm innovation of mountain plant resources, the reliability of semiconductor power devices, structural engineering, fine chemicals and high-performance computational chemistry.其他实验室则聚焦山地植物资源保护与种质创新、半导体功率器件可靠性、结构工程、精细化工和高性能计算化学。
• Others address fermentation engineering and biopharmaceuticals, optoelectronic technology and applications, micro-nano electronics and software, game decision and control systems and mountain agricultural pests.还有实验室从事发酵工程与生物制药、光电子技术及应用、微纳电子与软件技术、博弈决策与控制系统、山地农业病虫害等研究。
• A further group covers material structure and strength, macrocyclic and supramolecular chemistry, comprehensive use of non-metallic mineral resources, biomass chemical utilisation, tobacco quality, medicinal plant breeding and intelligent power systems.另有一批实验室研究材料结构与强度、大环化学与超分子化学、非金属矿产资源综合利用、生物质化学利用、烟草品质、药用植物繁育与种植和电力系统智能化技术。
• Taken together, the laboratory portfolio reflects Guizhou's karst plateau setting and its farm, mineral and power industries rather than a single dominant discipline.整体来看，这套实验室布局反映的是贵州喀斯特高原的自然条件与农业、矿产、电力产业，而非某一门学科独大。
• The Guizhou University Medical School was created in December 2015 through a strategic partnership with Guizhou Provincial People's Hospital, which supplies clinical teaching for its students.贵州大学医学院于 2015 年 12 月通过与贵州省人民医院的战略合作成立，由该院承担学生的临床教学。
• The Guizhou University Tea College, opened with the Meitan County government in November 2016, trains specialists for the tea industry.2016 年 11 月与湄潭县人民政府共建的贵州大学茶学院，为茶产业培养专门人才。
• A national New Rural Development Research Institute was established at the university in January 2014 to work on rural policy and agricultural extension.2014 年 1 月，学校建立国家级新农村发展研究院，从事农村政策与农业推广研究。
• In December 2012 it signed a strategic cooperation framework with Sichuan University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Chongqing University, Southwest University, Yunnan University, Central South University and Guangxi University.2012 年 12 月，学校与四川大学、西安交通大学、重庆大学、西南大学、云南大学、中南大学、广西大学签订战略合作框架协议。
• It co-founded the Midwest University Alliance in July 2013, a grouping of comprehensive universities in China's central and western provinces.2013 年 7 月，学校发起创建中西部高校联盟，成员为中西部地区的综合性大学。
• As a university co-built by the Ministry of Education and the provincial government, it draws support from both the central ministry and the province.作为教育部与贵州省人民政府共建高校，学校同时获得中央部委与省级两方面的支持。
• It was a national key university in the One Province, One School project for the Midwest, a designation that singled out one institution per western province for priority support.学校曾是国家「一省一校」中西部重点建设高校，该项目在西部每个省份重点支持一所高校。
• With more than 30,000 students, Guizhou University is one of the largest universities by enrolment in south-western China.贵州大学有在校学生 3 万余人，是中国西南地区办学规模最大的高校之一。
• Agriculture has been taught on the Huaxi site since the National Guizhou College of Agriculture and Engineering was placed there in 1940.自 1940 年国立贵州农工学院选址花溪以来，农科教学便一直在这片校址上进行。

Campus

• Guizhou University has three campuses, all of them in Huaxi District on the southern edge of suburban Guiyang.贵州大学有三个校区，均位于贵阳城郊南部的花溪区。
• The East Campus stands at No. 2708, South Section of Huaxi Avenue, Huaxi District.东校区位于花溪区花溪大道南段 2708 号。
• The South Campus occupies a site on Xiahui Road in the same district.南校区位于同区的下惠路。
• The West Campus lies on Jiaxiu South Road and holds the university's administrative centre, which stands beside the Huaxi River.西校区位于甲秀南路，学校的行政中心设在这里，紧邻花溪河。
• The Huaxi site was chosen in 1940, when the national government selected Huaxi town as the location of the National Guizhou College of Agriculture and Engineering.花溪校址奠基于 1940 年，当时国民政府选定花溪镇作为国立贵州农工学院的院址。
• Because the three campuses sit inside one district, the university's teaching, administration and student housing are concentrated in a single suburban zone rather than spread across the city.由于三个校区同处一区，学校的教学、行政与学生住宿集中在同一片城郊区域，而非分散于全城。
• The university describes its setting as suburban Guiyang, and the Huaxi district in which it sits has given its name to the river running past the West Campus.学校将自己的区位描述为贵阳城郊，其所在的花溪区也为流经西校区的河流提供了名称。

Reputation

• In the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026, Guizhou University is listed in the 301-400 band rather than at a single numerical position.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，贵州大学列于第 301-400 名区间，而非某一个具体名次。
• The university stood 888th in the U.S. News global university ranking for 2026-2027.在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学排名中，该校位列第 888 名。
• It does not appear in the QS World University Rankings 2027, and it was likewise not listed in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.该校未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名，也未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。
• The Nature Index 2025 annual tables placed Guizhou University 252nd among leading academic research institutions worldwide for high-quality publications in the natural sciences.在《自然》指数 2025 年度榜单中，贵州大学以自然科学高质量论文位居全球主要学术研究机构第 252 位。
• The CWTS Leiden Ranking 2024 put the university 379th in the world on the basis of its publications for 2019 to 2022.2024 年莱顿大学科学技术研究中心排名依据 2019 至 2022 年的论文表现，将该校列为世界第 379 位。
• SCImago placed Guizhou University 803rd among research universities worldwide in its 2024 institutions ranking.在 SCImago 2024 年机构排名中，贵州大学在全球研究型大学中位列第 803 位。
• Several major international university rankings place it first among the universities of Guizhou Province.在多个主要国际大学排名中，贵州大学都位居贵州省内高校首位。
• As the province's flagship university, it is the Guizhou institution carrying both Project 211 status and a place in the Double First-Class plan.作为全省的龙头高校，贵州大学是贵州省同时拥有「211 工程」身份与「双一流」建设资格的高校。
• Its selection in November 2012 as one of fourteen universities in the Midwest comprehensive-strength programme made it a priority recipient of central funding for western higher education.2012 年 11 月入选「中西部高校综合实力提升工程」14 所高校，使其成为中央支持西部高等教育的重点投入对象。

Student life

• From 2005 Guizhou University hosted United States Peace Corps volunteers, who taught at both undergraduate and graduate level in the School of Foreign Languages.自 2005 年起，贵州大学接待美国和平队志愿者，他们在外国语学院承担本科与研究生阶段的教学。
• Guizhou Agricultural College, then a separate institution, began hosting teachers from Voluntary Service Overseas in its Foreign Language Department in 1989.1989 年，当时尚为独立院校的贵州农学院开始在外语系接待英国海外志愿服务社的教师。
• In 1990 the university began hosting foreign teachers from the AISH programme in Australia as well as participants in visiting teacher programmes in New Zealand and at the University of Alabama.1990 年，学校开始接待澳大利亚 AISH 项目的外籍教师，以及新西兰和阿拉巴马大学访问教师项目的参与者。
• Volunteers from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands were also recruited to teach at other Guiyang institutions, including a school of fashion and a catering college.来自英国与荷兰的志愿者还被聘到贵阳其他院校任教，其中包括一所服装学校和一所烹饪学校。
• The university has a sister-school relationship with Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina, which runs a Chinese language programme for fifteen American students each year.学校与美国南卡罗来纳州克林顿市的长老会学院结为姊妹学校，后者每年为 15 名美国学生开设中文课程。
• The short name Guida, formed from the first characters of Guizhou and daxue, is used on the university emblem and in everyday student speech.学校的简称「贵大」取自「贵州大学」的前两个字，既出现在校徽上，也是学生日常称呼校名的方式。
• In 2018 the university signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of The Gambia to establish a Confucius Institute there, part of its educational exchange with African partners.2018 年，学校与冈比亚大学签署谅解备忘录，在该校设立孔子学院，这是其与非洲伙伴教育交流的一部分。
• Medical students complete clinical training at Guizhou Provincial People's Hospital under the cooperation agreement signed in December 2015.依据 2015 年 12 月签署的合作协议，医学生在贵州省人民医院完成临床训练。
• The university's emblem is a roundel with a red seal-script character for gui on a white inner field, a character that also combines the two characters of the short name Guida, with 1902 beneath it.学校校徽为内圆外环图案，内圆白底红字，印篆书「贵」字，该字同时是「贵大」二字的组合，篆字下方横排「1902」字样。

Notable people

• Chen Yiqin, former secretary of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, studied at the university.贵州省委原书记谌贻琴曾在该校学习。
• Long Yongtu, former director-general of the Department of International Trade and Economic Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, is counted among its alumni.原对外经济贸易部国际经贸关系司司长龙永图是该校校友。
• Chen Shiju, deputy director of the General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, graduated from Guizhou University.中央办公厅副主任陈世炬毕业于贵州大学。
• Qin Rupei, vice chairman of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region government, is also an alumnus.广西壮族自治区人民政府副主席秦如培同样是该校校友。
• Wang Zhengfu, former chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, studied at the university.贵州省政协原主席王正福曾在该校求学。
• Hao Xiaojiang, a chemist of plant and natural products chemistry, is listed among the university's distinguished academic alumni.植物化学与天然产物化学家郝小江被列为该校知名学术校友。
• Zhou Weijian, a geologist, also appears on the university's roster of academic alumni.地质学家周卫健同样见于该校学术校友名录。
• The actress Ning Jing and the actors Nie Yuan and Zhang Yu all studied at Guizhou University.演员宁静与演员聂远、章宇都曾在贵州大学学习。
• Rao Xiaozhi, a film director, and Song Yinke, a painter who directed the Guizhou Provincial Academy of Chinese Painting, are alumni as well.电影导演饶晓志，以及曾任贵州省国画院院长的画家宋吟可，也是该校校友。
• Chen Haifeng, Sun Guoqiang and Kong Lingzhong, all former vice chairmen of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, studied at the university.贵州省政协原副主席陈海峰、孙国强、孔令中三人均曾在该校学习。
• Li Zaiyong, a vice governor of Guizhou, Duan Dundou, a former vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, and the metallurgist Que Zhenhuan also appear among its alumni.贵州省副省长李再勇、全国总工会原副主席段敦厚，以及冶金学家阙振寰，也都在该校校友之列。