Lanzhou University

Lanzhou University is a comprehensive research university in Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China, directly administered by the Ministry of Education, and it is placed in the 721-730 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings.兰州大学是一所位于中国甘肃省兰州市的综合性研究型大学，由教育部直属，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 721-730 区间。

It traces its origin to the Gansu Law and Politics School established in 1909, the earliest institution of higher education in north-western China, and it is a Double First-Class Class A university that was formerly part of the 985 and 211 projects.其源头为 1909 年创办的甘肃法政学堂，是中国西北地区最早的高等学府；该校是「双一流」A 类建设高校，并曾列入「985 工程」与「211 工程」。

Its motto is Zi Qiang Bu Xi, Du Shu Yi Zhi, meaning unceasing self-improvement and standing apart, and its OpenAlex record lists 102,055 works and 7,592,422 citations.其校训为「自强不息，独树一帜」，其 OpenAlex 记录列有研究成果 102,055 项、被引 7,592,422 次。

History

• The university's prehistory lies in the Gansu examination hall, established in Lanzhou by the governor-general Zuo Zongtang in the late Qing period so that Gansu candidates would not have to travel to Xi'an.其前史可追溯至清末由总督左宗棠在兰州设立的甘肃贡院，使甘肃考生无需长途赴西安应试。

• The hall's Zhigong Tang building survives within the campus of the university's second hospital, and its plaque, originally written by Zuo Zongtang himself, was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.贡院的「至公堂」建筑保存于该校第二医院院内，其匾额原为左宗棠手书，毁于文化大革命。

• The institutional lineage is traced to 1889, and in 1909 the Gansu Law and Politics School was founded, the beginning of the university as a modern institution.其机构沿革可追溯至 1889 年；1909 年甘肃法政学堂成立，被视为该校作为现代大学的起点。

• In 1913, after the revolution that ended the Qing dynasty, the school was renamed the Gansu Public Law and Politics College with Cai Dayu as its head.1913 年辛亥革命之后，该校改名为甘肃公立法政专门学校，校长为蔡大愚。

• In 1928 the institution was expanded into Lanzhou Zhongshan University, and between 1929 and May 1936 it was led by Deng Chungao, who moved it from its early stage into development.1928 年，该校扩建为兰州中山大学；1929 年至 1936 年 5 月由邓春膏担任校长，带领学校由草创走向发展。

• In February 1931 the Ministry of Education ordered that the name Zhongshan be dropped outside Guangdong, and the university became Gansu University, later the Provincial Gansu College in May 1931.1931 年 2 月，教育部下令除广东外各地一律取消「中山」二字，该校遂更名甘肃大学，随后于 1931 年 5 月改为省立甘肃学院。

• In March 1944 the institution became a national college, and in 1946 the National Lanzhou University was founded on its basis, with Xin Shuzhi appointed as its first president.1944 年 3 月，该校改为国立；1946 年在此基础上成立国立兰州大学，辛树帜受聘任首任校长。

• Xin Shuzhi travelled widely before taking office to recruit scholars, books and equipment, and the collection he assembled exceeded that of the Gansu library of the time.辛树帜上任前四处延揽人才、图书与设备，其所募集的藏书数量超过当时的甘肃省图书馆。

• The historian Gu Jiegang praised that collection as a magnificent store for the north-west, and it laid the foundation of the university's present departments.历史学家顾颉刚赞誉这批藏书为「卓然西北巨藏」，它们为该校今日的系科奠定了基础。

• In 1949, after the People's Liberation Army entered Lanzhou, the National prefix was dropped and the institution took the name Lanzhou University, which it has kept since.1949 年解放军进入兰州后，校名中的「国立」二字被取消，该校定名兰州大学并沿用至今。

• In the early 1950s the central government decided to develop the north-west and designated Lanzhou University a key comprehensive university under the Ministry of Education.1950 年代初，中央政府决定开发大西北，并把兰州大学确定为教育部直属的重点综合性大学。

• Professors were transferred to Lanzhou in that period from Fudan University, Nanjing University, Nankai University and Shandong University, giving the university its scientific strength.该时期从复旦大学、南京大学、南开大学与山东大学等校调入一批教授，为该校奠定了理科实力。

• In the nationwide departmental reorganisation of 1952 the university's Russian, English and minority language departments were separated out.在 1952 年全国院系调整中，该校的俄文、英文与少数民族语言系被分出。

• In 1953 the literature department of the Northwest Art College merged into the university, and the institution was confirmed as a key national comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education.1953 年，西北艺术学院文学系并入该校，学校被确立为教育部直属的全国重点综合性大学。

• In 1954 the medical faculty was separated to form Lanzhou Medical College, beginning a half-century of separate existence before reunification.1954 年，医学系分出成立兰州医学院，此后独立存在半个世纪后才重新合并。

• In 1965 the second physics department and radiochemistry speciality of Nankai University were merged into the university's modern physics department.1965 年，南开大学物理二系（核物理系）与放化专业并入该校现代物理系。

• During the political upheavals from 1958 the university suffered serious disruption, and its president Jiang Longji carried out a rectification programme centred on raising teaching quality.1958 年以来的政治运动使该校遭受严重破坏，校长江隆基开展了以提高教学质量为中心的全面整顿工作。

• In 1996 the university passed the pre-review for the 211 Project, becoming one of the institutions given priority in the ninth five-year plan.1996 年，该校首批通过「211 工程」部门预审，成为「九五」期间国家重点建设的高校之一。

• In 2001 it entered the 985 Project and signed an agreement with the Gansu provincial government for joint provincial and ministerial construction.2001 年，该校进入「985 工程」建设行列，并与甘肃省政府签署省部重点共建协议。

• In 2002 the Gansu Grassland Ecological Research Institute merged into the university, strengthening its work in ecology and grassland science.2002 年，甘肃省草原生态研究所并入该校，增强了其在生态学与草地科学方面的力量。

• On 18 November 2004 Lanzhou Medical College merged back into the university, enlarging its scale and restoring its medical faculty.2004 年 11 月 18 日，兰州医学院重新并入该校，扩大了办学规模并恢复了医学院。

• The university marked its centenary in 2009, receiving congratulations from the then general secretary and state president Hu Jintao and a visit from the state councillor Liu Yandong.2009 年，该校迎来百年校庆，时任中共中央总书记、国家主席胡锦涛发来贺信，国务委员刘延东出席庆典并讲话。

• On 21 September 2017 the university was placed in Class A of the world-class university construction list issued by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance and the development commission.2017 年 9 月 21 日，教育部、财政部与国家发展改革委公布的名单将兰州大学列入一流大学建设高校 A 类。

Academics

• The university covers eleven discipline categories including science, engineering, agriculture, literature, history, economics, philosophy, law, education, management and medicine.该校学科涵盖理学、工学、农学、文学、历史学、经济学、哲学、法学、教育学、管理学与医学等十一个门类。

• It was among the first Chinese universities authorised to grant bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees and among the first to establish postdoctoral research stations.该校是中国首批具有学士、硕士、博士学位授予权的高校之一，也是首批建立博士后科研流动站的高校之一。

• Its strengths lie in the natural sciences, with research in organic chemistry, cell biology, theoretical physics, nuclear physics and technology, magnetism, plant physiology and ecology.其优势在于自然科学，研究领域包括有机化学、细胞生物学、理论物理、原子核物理与技术、磁学、植物生理学与生态学。

• Further research strengths include basic mathematics, mechanics, physical geography, synoptic dynamics, inorganic chemistry, analytical chemistry and palaeontology.其进一步的研究优势还包括基础数学、力学、自然地理学、天气动力学、无机化学、分析化学与古生物学。

• The university has 23 colleges and 64 undergraduate programmes, together with 109 master's specialities and 44 doctoral specialities.该校设 23 个学院、64 个本科专业，并有硕士学位授权专业 109 个、博士学位授权专业 44 个。

• Seven national bases for basic research and teaching talent training in nuclear physics, physics, chemistry, biology, life sciences, geography and history operate within the university, alongside two provincial bases.该校建有核物理、物理、化学、生物、生命科学与技术、地理学、历史学等七个国家级基础研究与教学人才培养基地，另有两个省部级基地。

• Ten postdoctoral research stations cover chemistry, physics, mechanics, biology, mathematics, geography, atmospheric science, applied economics, history and ethnology.其十个博士后科研流动站涵盖化学、物理、力学、生物、数学、地理、大气科学、应用经济学、历史学与民族学。

• Six disciplines are national key disciplines, including ecology, botany, organic chemistry, particle physics and nuclear physics, physical geography and regional economics.其六个学科为国家重点学科，包括生态学、植物学、有机化学、粒子物理与原子核物理、自然地理学与区域经济学。

• Research platforms include the State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry and three Ministry of Education key laboratories in western environment, magnetism and magnetic materials, and arid and grassland ecology.其科研平台包括功能有机分子化学国家重点实验室，以及西部环境、磁学与磁性材料、干旱与草地生态三个教育部重点实验室。

• The university also hosts an agriculture ministry key laboratory for grassland agro-ecosystems and two Ministry of Education research bases in Dunhuang studies and north-western ethnic minorities.该校还设有草地农业生态系统农业部重点实验室，以及敦煌学研究所与西北少数民族研究中心两个教育部人文社科重点研究基地。

• Its teaching staff numbers about 4,285, including 1,986 full-time teachers, 449 doctoral supervisors and nine academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering.其教职工约 4,285 人，其中专任教师 1,986 人、博士生导师 449 人，并有中国科学院与中国工程院院士 9 人。

• OpenAlex attributes 102,055 works and 7,592,422 citations to the institution, a substantial research output for a university in western China.OpenAlex 记录该校 102,055 项成果与 7,592,422 次被引，对中国西部一所大学而言科研产出可观。

• The university is a leading centre for grassland science in China, a position reinforced by the 2002 merger of the Gansu Grassland Ecological Research Institute.该校是中国草地科学的领先中心，2002 年甘肃省草原生态研究所的并入进一步巩固了这一地位。

• Its schools of nuclear science and technology continue a tradition that dates from the 1965 merger of Nankai University's nuclear physics department into the institution.其核科学与技术学院延续了 1965 年南开大学核物理系并入该校以来的传统。

• Graduate education is organised through a graduate school, and the university offers professional master's degrees in business administration, law, public administration, engineering and agricultural extension.其研究生教育由研究生院组织，并在工商管理、法律、公共管理、工程与农业推广等领域开设专业硕士学位。

Campus

• The university's campuses cover 3,828 mu in total and are distributed across nine sites, including the Panxuan Road campus, the Yuzhong campus and the medical campus.该校校园总面积 3,828 亩，分布于九处校区，包括盘旋路校区、榆中校区与医学校区。

• It operates four directly affiliated hospitals, the first and second hospitals along with a dental hospital and a university hospital, supporting its medical teaching.该校设有四所直属医院：第一医院、第二医院、口腔医院与校医院，支撑其医学教学。

• The Panxuan Road campus covers 684 mu and focuses on research, postgraduate education and continuing education.盘旋路校区占地 684 亩，功能以科研、研究生教育与继续教育为主。

• The Yuzhong campus came into use in September 2001 and covers 2,353 mu about 42 kilometres from the city, with teaching focused on undergraduates.榆中校区于 2001 年 9 月启用，占地 2,353 亩，距市区约 42 公里，教学以本科生为主。

• The medical campus covers 583 mu including the first and second hospitals and adjoins the Panxuan Road campus, with its main function the teaching of medicine.医学校区占地 583 亩（含第一、第二医院），与盘旋路校区毗邻，主要功能为医学教育。

• The university library occupies more than 21,000 square metres and holds 2.4 million volumes, together with analysis and testing, network and medical experiment centres.其图书馆面积逾 21,000 平方米，藏书 240 万册，另设有分析测试中心、网络中心与医学实验中心。

• Its geographical coordinates are approximately 36.05701 degrees north and 103.83987 degrees east, in the Yellow River valley at Lanzhou.其地理坐标约为北纬 36.05701 度、东经 103.83987 度，位于兰州所在的黄河河谷。

• Lanzhou is a narrow city stretched along the Yellow River, and the university's campuses reflect that geography with sites in the city and a large campus in the surrounding county.兰州是一座沿黄河延伸的狭长城市，该校各校区也反映这一地理格局，既有市区校区，也有位于周边县区的大型校区。

• The campus of the second hospital preserves the Zhigong Tang of the old Gansu examination hall as a surviving architectural link to the institution's prehistory.第二医院院内保存着旧甘肃贡院的至公堂，成为该校前史在建筑上的遗存。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Lanzhou University is placed in the 721-730 band, according to the official ranking table.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，兰州大学处于 721-730 区间。此排名以官方榜单为准。^[1]

• It is 425th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities and placed in the 201-300 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities published by ShanghaiRanking.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列第 425；在软科发布的 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 201-300 区间。

• The university was not placed in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, having not submitted the data required for that table.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，因其未提交该榜所需数据。

• OpenAlex attributes 102,055 works and 7,592,422 citations to the institution, one of the largest research outputs of any university in western China.OpenAlex 记录该校 102,055 项成果与 7,592,422 次被引，是中国西部各大学中科研产出最大的之一。

• As a Double First-Class Class A university and a former 985 and 211 institution, it holds a leading position in the national higher education system.作为「双一流」A 类高校与原「985 工程」「211 工程」院校，它在全国高等教育体系中居于领先位置。

• Its national key disciplines in organic chemistry, ecology, botany and particle physics give it recognised strength in the basic sciences.其有机化学、生态学、植物学与粒子物理等国家重点学科，使它在基础科学领域具有公认实力。

• The State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry and the Ministry of Education key laboratories anchor its research reputation in chemistry and environmental science.功能有机分子化学国家重点实验室与各教育部重点实验室，支撑其在化学与环境科学领域的研究声誉。

• Its Dunhuang studies institute and north-western ethnic minorities research centre give the university a distinctive position in the humanities and social sciences.其敦煌学研究所与西北少数民族研究中心，使该校在人文学科与社会科学方面具有独特地位。

• The university is often described as a key institution for the development of western China, a role reinforced by its 1950s designation as a ministry key university.该校常被称为中国西部发展的关键院校，这一角色因其 1950 年代被确定为教育部重点大学而得到强化。

• Grassland science, nuclear science and technology, and arid-environment research are the fields in which its national contribution is most often cited.草地科学、核科学与技术以及干旱环境研究，是其国家贡献最常被提及的领域。

Student life

• The university's motto is Zi Qiang Bu Xi, Du Shu Yi Zhi, adopted to express unceasing self-improvement and the ambition to stand apart.该校校训为「自强不息，独树一帜」，表达不断进取与力求独立的志向。

• Its former motto, Bo Xue Du Xing, Zi Qiang Wei Xin, is remembered from earlier periods, and the university also states a work style of diligence, truth-seeking and enterprise.其旧校训「博学笃行，自强为新」为早期沿用；该校还提出「勤奋、求实、进取」的校风。

• The institution has no official song at present, though a song survives from its period as the Provincial Gansu College.该校目前无正式校歌，但其前身省立甘肃学院时期留有一首校歌。

• Because the Yuzhong campus is 42 kilometres from the city, undergraduate teaching there operates as a largely residential community with its own student facilities.由于榆中校区距市区 42 公里，其本科教学形成相对独立的寄宿式社群，并配有自身的学生设施。

• Students on the Panxuan Road and medical campuses work closer to the city's research institutes and hospitals, giving postgraduate and medical students a different daily setting.盘旋路校区与医学校区的学生更靠近城市的研究机构与医院，使研究生与医学生拥有不同的日常环境。

• The university's museums, archives and analysis centres support student research, and its library of 2.4 million volumes is the principal study resource.该校的博物馆、档案馆与分析中心支撑学生研究，240 万册藏书的图书馆则是最主要的学习资源。

• Student organisations operate at college level, with activity concentrated in the sciences, medicine and the humanities, matching the university's disciplinary profile.学生组织以学院为单位运作，活动集中在理科、医学与人文学科，与其学科结构相符。

• Its four affiliated hospitals give medical students clinical training within the university's own health system.其四所直属医院使医学生得以在大学自有的医疗体系内接受临床训练。

• Graduates form a network across north-western China and beyond, particularly in the basic sciences, medicine and public administration.其毕业生在中国西北及更广范围形成网络，尤其在基础科学、医学与公共行政领域。

• Its anniversary is marked each year, and the centenary celebrations in 2009 brought national recognition of the university's role in developing higher education in western China.该校每年举行校庆，2009 年的百年庆典使外界对其在中国西部发展高等教育中的作用给予国家层面的肯定。

Notable people

• Zuo Zongtang, the Qing governor-general, established the Gansu examination hall in Lanzhou and wrote the plaque for its Zhigong Tang hall.清朝总督左宗棠在兰州设立甘肃贡院，并为其中「至公堂」题写匾额。

• Cai Dayu led the Gansu Public Law and Politics College from 1913, the institution's first phase as a modern college.蔡大愚自 1913 年起主持甘肃公立法政专门学校，这是该校作为现代院校的第一阶段。

• Deng Chungao served as president from 1929 to May 1936, a period in which the university moved from its founding stage into development.邓春膏于 1929 年至 1936 年 5 月担任校长，其间学校由草创阶段走向发展。

• Xin Shuzhi was appointed the first president of the National Lanzhou University in 1946 and assembled the books and scholars that founded its departments.辛树帜于 1946 年获任国立兰州大学首任校长，并募集了奠定其系科基础的图书与人才。

• Jiang Longji, president in the late 1950s and 1960s, carried out a rectification programme centred on improving teaching quality after the disruptions of that period.江隆基于 1950 年代末至 1960 年代任校长，在当时的动荡之后开展了以提高教学质量为中心的整顿。

• Gu Jiegang, the historian, assessed the university's early library as a magnificent store for the north-west, a judgement still quoted in its history.历史学家顾颉刚曾评价该校早期藏书为「卓然西北巨藏」，这一评语至今仍被其校史引用。

• Hu Jintao, then general secretary and state president, sent a congratulatory letter for the university's centenary in 2009, and Liu Yandong attended the celebration.时任中共中央总书记、国家主席胡锦涛于 2009 年为该校百年校庆发来贺信，刘延东出席庆典。

• Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering number nine among its staff, alongside 449 doctoral supervisors.该校教师中有中国科学院与中国工程院院士 9 人，另有博士生导师 449 人。

• Its faculty have led work in organic chemistry, particle physics, grassland ecology and Dunhuang studies, the fields in which its national reputation is concentrated.其教师主导了有机化学、粒子物理、草地生态与敦煌学等方向的工作，这些领域集中体现了该校的全国声誉。