Lanzhou University of Technology

Lanzhou University of Technology (LUT) is a provincial public university in Qilihe District, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, co-built by the Gansu Provincial People's Government, the Ministry of Education and the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence, and a national defence education feature school.兰州理工大学（LUT）是位于中国甘肃省兰州市七里河区的省属公办大学，由甘肃省人民政府、教育部和国家国防科技工业局共建，也是国家国防教育特色学校。

Tracing its origin to the Gansu Provincial Technical School of 1919, it was renamed Lanzhou University of Technology in 2003 and now focuses on engineering with supporting programmes in science, management and the humanities.学校前身是1919年创办的甘肃省立工艺学校，2003年更名为兰州理工大学，现以工科为主，理学、管理学与人文学科协调发展。

The university operates two campuses in Lanzhou, enrolled 31,401 students in 2025 and is known for materials processing, fluid machinery, welding and civil engineering.学校在兰州拥有两个校区，2025年在校生31401人，在材料加工、流体机械、焊接与土木工程等领域具有鲜明特色。

History

• In May 1919 the Gansu provincial government founded the Gansu Provincial Technical School on Zhongshan Road in Lanzhou and appointed the surveying expert Niu Zaikun as its first president, when modern technical education was only beginning in north-west China.1919年5月，甘肃省署在兰州中山路创办甘肃省立工艺学校，委任测绘学专家牛载坤为第一任校长，当时西北地区的现代技术教育尚处于起步阶段。
• Niu Zaikun proposed the motto "self-reliance through hard work", which set the school's practical and vocational tone.牛载坤提出“艰苦自立”的校训，为学校奠定了注重实践与职业教育的办学基调。
• In 1921 the school was reorganised as the Gansu Provincial Class-A Industrial School, and Shui Nan, an advocate of industrial salvation, succeeded as president.1921年学校改制为甘肃省立甲种工业学校，具有实业救国思想的水枏继任校长。
• It was renamed the Gansu Provincial Industrial School in 1924, the Gansu Provincial Polytechnic Vocational School in 1927 and the Gansu Provincial First Industrial School in 1929.学校1924年改称甘肃省立工业学校，1927年改为甘肃省立工科职业学校，1929年又改名为甘肃省立第一工业学校。
• In 1936 it became the Gansu Provincial Lanzhou Industrial Vocational School, teaching textile, dyeing and leatherwork in three classes.1936年学校改为甘肃省立兰州工业职业学校，设纺织、编染、制革三科各一班。
• The school was upgraded in 1944 to the Gansu Provincial Lanzhou Senior Industrial Vocational School with departments of civil engineering, machinery, textiles, chemical engineering and telecommunications.1944年学校升格为甘肃省立兰州高级工业职业学校，设高级土木科、机械科、纺织科、化工科、电讯科各一班。
• By 1948, after three decades, the school had run 54 classes and produced more than 1,500 graduates for Gansu's early industry.至1948年的三十年间，学校累计编班54个，毕业学生1500余人，为甘肃早期工业输送了技术骨干。
• Lanzhou was liberated on 26 August 1949, and the senior industrial vocational school continued under the new government.1949年8月26日兰州解放，甘肃省立兰州高级工业职业学校由新政权接管并继续办学。
• In December 1950 the Gansu provincial party committee appointed Zhou Duyan as first vice president, and he became president in January 1956.1950年12月，甘肃省委任命周笃彦为第一副校长，1956年1月改任校长，主持学校向新型工科院校过渡。
• On 26 November 1952 the school was renamed the Gansu Provincial Lanzhou Industrial School under the Gansu Department of Industry.1952年11月26日，经西北军政委员会教育部批准，学校改名为甘肃省兰州工业学校，归属甘肃省工业厅领导。
• A permanent site of 420 mu was allocated at Langongping in Qilihe District, and the school moved there from Cuiyingmen in the second half of 1954.1952年学校在七里河区兰工坪获批420亩土地建设永久校舍，1954年下半年由萃英门旧址迁入新址。
• In 1954 the school passed from provincial to central control under the Ministry of Electrical Machinery Industry.1954年学校改由国家电机制造工业部领导，隶属关系由地方转移到中央。
• In 1956 the civil engineering section was separated to form the Lanzhou Urban Construction Engineering School under the Ministry of Urban Construction.1956年，城市建设部与电机制造工业部协商，把土木科从兰州工校分离出来，另建兰州城市建设工程学校。
• In April 1958 Gansu decided to upgrade the school into the Lanzhou Institute of Technology, and in September it merged with Gansu Jiaotong University to become Gansu University of Technology on 1 October 1958.1958年4月甘肃省委决定将学校改建为兰州工学院，9月将甘肃交通大学并入，同年10月1日正式命名为甘肃工业大学。
• In March 1965 the university was transferred to the First Ministry of Machine Building, and entire departments of hydraulic machinery, chemical machinery, oil-field machinery and welding moved in from the Northeast Heavy Machinery Institute and the Beijing Institute of Machine Building.1965年3月学校划归第一机械工业部，东北重型机械学院和北京机械学院的水力机械、化工机械、石油矿场机械和焊接工艺及设备专业整建制迁入。
• Hunan University and Hefei University of Technology also supplied experienced foundation-course teachers to strengthen the faculty after the 1965 transfer.同年学校还从湖南大学、合肥工业大学抽调一批优秀基础课教师充实师资队伍。
• In 1971 the university admitted 382 worker-peasant-soldier students in seven majors on three-year programmes, and by 1976 it had enrolled 2,020 such students across seven cohorts.1971年学校在机械制造、铸造、焊接、水力机械、液压传动、化工机械、工业与民用建筑等7个专业招收工农兵学员382名，至1976年共招收7届2020名。
• In 1981 the State Council's Academic Degrees Committee approved the university among the first batch of institutions authorised to award master's and bachelor's degrees.1981年国务院学位委员会批准学校为国内首批硕士学位和学士学位授予单位。
• Fluid machinery and fluid power processing gained master's authority, while ten specialties including machinery manufacturing, casting, welding and heat treatment received bachelor's authority.流体机械及流体动力加工学科获得硕士学位授予权，机械制造、铸造、焊接、热处理等10个专业获得学士学位授予权。
• In August 1998 the university moved from the Ministry of Machine Building to joint central-local administration with the province taking the leading role.1998年8月，学校由机械工业部领导转制为“中央与地方共建，以地方管理为主”的院校。
• In 2000 the university began building the Pengjiaping campus, now known as the West Campus, to accommodate its growing enrolment.2000年学校开始筹建彭家坪校区，即现在的西校区，以容纳不断扩大的办学规模。
• In April 2003 the Ministry of Education and the Gansu provincial government approved the name change to Lanzhou University of Technology.2003年4月，经教育部和甘肃省人民政府批准，学校正式更名为兰州理工大学。
• Southeast University began paired support in December 2012, followed by the Beijing University of Science and Technology and Dalian University of Technology in later years.2012年12月东南大学与学校签署对口支援协议，此后北京科技大学、大连理工大学也陆续加入对口支援行列。
• A graduate school was established in March 2013, and in September the university opened a Jiuquan campus and a new energy college with the Jiuquan city government, plus a Wenzhou graduate branch in Zhejiang.2013年3月学校设立研究生院，9月在酒泉市设立校区并与酒泉市政府共建新能源学院，同时在浙江成立温州研究生分院。
• The Gansu provincial government and the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence signed a co-building agreement in August 2015, making LUT the province's first such jointly built university.2015年8月，甘肃省人民政府与国家国防科技工业局签署共建协议，学校成为甘肃省第一所省局共建重点大学。

Academics

• LUT is organised into 17 colleges, one teaching and research department and one teaching centre, with a graduate school responsible for postgraduate training.学校设有17个二级学院、1个教学研究部和1个教学中心，并设研究生院负责研究生培养。
• The university offers 63 undergraduate programmes and holds six first-level doctoral degree programmes and 25 first-level master's degree programmes.学校开设63个本科专业，拥有6个一级学科博士点和25个一级学科硕士点，形成了本硕博贯通的培养体系。
• Three postdoctoral research stations cover materials science and engineering, civil engineering, and mechanical design and manufacturing.学校建有3个博士后科研流动站，分别覆盖材料科学与工程、土木工程和机械设计制造及其自动化。
• Its State Key Laboratory of Advanced Processing and Recycling of Nonferrous Metals is jointly built by the province and the national science ministry, and works on copper, aluminium and rare-earth metals.学校建有省部共建有色金属先进加工与再利用国家重点实验室，这是其最高层级的科研平台，研究覆盖铜、铝与稀土金属的加工与循环利用。
• Four disciplines, engineering, materials science, chemistry and environment and ecology, are listed in the ESI global top 1 percent, an indicator compiled by Clarivate from journal citation data.工程学、材料科学、化学、环境与生态学四个学科进入ESI全球前1%，该指标由科睿唯安依据期刊论文引用数据编制。
• Engineering first entered the ESI top 1 percent in 2016, marking the university's initial breakthrough at that citation level.工程学学科于2016年首次进入ESI全球前1%，实现了学校在该指标上的首次突破。
• Twelve disciplines, including materials science and engineering, power engineering, control science and mechanical engineering, are provincial key disciplines.材料科学与工程、动力工程及工程热物理、控制科学与工程、机械工程等12个学科为省级重点学科。
• Materials science and engineering was selected for Gansu's breakthrough project for first-class disciplines at provincial universities.材料科学与工程入选甘肃省属高校国家“一流学科”突破工程，是学校重点建设的龙头学科。
• The university employs 2,512 staff, including more than 700 professors and associate professors and two academicians shared with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering.学校有教职工2512人，其中教授、副教授等副高级以上职称700余人，并与中国科学院、中国工程院共享院士2人。
• The library holds 2.71 million printed books and 1.26 million electronic books, supporting engineering and applied science programmes.图书馆馆藏纸质图书271万册、电子图书126万册，为工科与应用科学的教学科研提供文献保障。
• Laboratory space reaches 66,000 square metres, and teaching and research equipment is valued at about 811 million yuan.学校实验室面积达6.6万平方米，教学科研仪器设备资产值约8.11亿元。
• Five undergraduate specialties hold national designation, including programmes linked to the university's machinery, materials and civil engineering strengths.学校有5个国家特色专业建设点，主要依托机械、材料与土木工程等优势领域。
• Postgraduate training includes 17 engineering master's fields and a Master of Business Administration programme.研究生教育设有17个工程硕士授权领域和1个工商管理硕士专业学位授权点。
• The Jiuquan campus hosts the New Energy College, created with the Jiuquan city government in 2013 to serve the wind and solar industries of western Gansu.酒泉校区设有2013年与酒泉市政府共建的新能源学院，服务河西走廊的风电与光伏产业。
• The Wenzhou graduate branch in Zhejiang extends the university's engineering education into the Yangtze River Delta.学校在浙江设立的温州研究生分院，把工程教育延伸到长江三角洲地区。
• The university runs a national-level innovation and entrepreneurship college and participates in the Ministry of Education's Excellence Engineer programme.学校建有国家级创新创业学院，并入选教育部卓越工程师教育培养计划。
• LUT is one of the institutions covered by the national programme for strengthening basic capacity in central and western higher education.学校是国家“中西部高校基础能力建设工程”重点建设高校之一。
• Its engineering focus spans machinery, materials, energy and power, electrical engineering, civil engineering and petrochemicals.学校工科布局覆盖机械、材料、能源动力、电气、土木与石油化工等主要领域。
• The university operates a university-enterprise cooperation network that includes 12 provincial engineering research centres and 15 university-enterprise engineering centres.学校建有12个省级工程研究中心和15个校企工程研究中心，形成了产学研协同创新网络。
• Research on nonferrous metal processing, fluid machinery and welding metallurgy reflects the industrial base of Gansu and the upper Yellow River region.有色金属加工、流体机械与焊接冶金研究紧扣甘肃及黄河上游地区的产业基础。

Campus

• The university has two campuses in Lanzhou, Langongping and Pengjiaping, covering 2,307 mu with 1.2605 million square metres of building floor area.学校在兰州拥有兰工坪和彭家坪两个校区，占地2307亩，校舍建筑面积126.05万平方米。
• The Langongping campus at 287 Langongping Road in Qilihe District is the older site and houses the main administrative and teaching buildings.兰工坪校区位于七里河区兰工坪路287号，是学校的老校区，集中了主要行政与教学建筑。
• The Pengjiaping campus at 36 Pengjiaping Road in Qilihe District, begun in 2000, is known as the West Campus and accommodates newer facilities.彭家坪校区位于七里河区彭家坪路36号，2000年开始筹建，被称为西校区，建有较新的教学设施。
• The Jiuquan campus at 66 Jiefang Road in Suzhou District was opened in 2013 and focuses on new energy education.酒泉校区位于肃州区解放路66号，2013年启用，以新能源领域的教学与科研为主。
• A graduate branch in Yongjia County, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, provides off-campus postgraduate training for eastern China.学校在浙江省温州市永嘉县设立研究生分院，为华东地区提供异地研究生培养。
• The library system holds 2.71 million printed volumes and 1.26 million electronic books across the campuses, with an emphasis on engineering and technology titles.各校区图书馆共藏纸质图书271万册、电子图书126万册，馆藏以工程技术类文献为重点，形成覆盖工科各专业的文献体系。
• Laboratory space of 66,000 square metres supports materials testing, fluid machinery experiments and civil engineering research.6.6万平方米的实验室面积为材料测试、流体机械实验和土木工程研究提供了条件。
• The Lanzhou campuses lie along the Yellow River, the geographic and industrial axis of Gansu Province.兰州的两个校区依黄河而建，黄河正是甘肃省的地理与工业轴线。
• In May 2004 the National Afforestation Committee named LUT a National Greening Model Unit, recognising decades of tree planting on the dry Loess Plateau edge around its campuses.2004年5月，全国绿化委员会授予学校“全国绿化模范单位”称号，以表彰其在校区周边干旱黄土高原边缘地带持续数十年的植树绿化工作。
• Teaching and research equipment across the campuses is valued at about 811 million yuan, reflecting sustained investment in engineering laboratories.全校教学科研仪器设备资产值约8.11亿元，体现了学校对工程实验室的持续投入。

Reputation

• LUT was placed in the 801-900 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.学校在2026年软科世界大学学术排名中位列第801-900名区间。
• The university was not included in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.学校未进入2027年QS世界大学排名。
• It was also not included in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.学校同样未进入2027年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。
• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities rankings LUT placed 1,823rd worldwide.在2026-2027年度U.S. News全球大学榜单中，学校位列第1823名。
• Its four ESI top 1 percent disciplines place it among the stronger engineering universities in western China.四个ESI全球前1%学科使学校跻身中国西部工科实力较强的高校行列。
• LUT is co-built by Gansu Province, the Ministry of Education and the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence.学校由甘肃省、教育部和国家国防科技工业局共建，这一体制为其国防科技与工程研究提供了稳定支持。
• It was the first university in Gansu to be jointly built by a provincial government and the national defence industry administration, in 2015.2015年学校成为甘肃省第一所由省政府与国家国防科技工业局共建的重点大学。
• The State Key Laboratory of Advanced Processing and Recycling of Nonferrous Metals anchors its national research profile in materials.省部共建有色金属先进加工与再利用国家重点实验室，奠定了学校在材料领域的国家级科研地位。
• Paired support from Southeast University, the Beijing University of Science and Technology and Dalian University of Technology strengthens its engineering programmes.东南大学、北京科技大学和大连理工大学的对口支援，持续强化了学校的工科建设。
• Its selection for the Excellence Engineer programme and a national innovation and entrepreneurship college reflects its applied training model.学校入选卓越工程师计划并建有国家级创新创业学院，体现了其应用型人才培养模式。

Student life

• In 2025 LUT enrolled 31,401 students, including 22,086 undergraduates, 8,254 master's students and 657 doctoral candidates.2025年学校在校生31401人，其中本科生22086人、硕士研究生8254人、博士研究生657人。
• A further 404 international students from more than 30 countries study on the Lanzhou campuses.另有来自30多个国家的404名国际学生在兰州校区学习。
• The university also enrols 17,363 adult and continuing-education students through its continuing education college, a tradition that dates to the technical training programmes of the 1950s.学校继续教育学院还招收成人本专科学生17363人，这一办学传统可追溯至20世纪50年代的技术培训项目，长期服务地方在职人员。
• International cooperation includes 2+2 and 1+2+1 programmes with overseas universities, allowing students to split their degrees between China and a partner institution.学校与海外高校开展“2+2”和“1+2+1”联合培养项目，学生可在中外两校分段完成学业。
• The Hongliu spirit, named after the desert tamarisk that survives arid Gansu, is described as hard work, self-reliance, truth-seeking and innovation, and shapes campus culture.以生长于干旱甘肃的荒漠柽柳即红柳命名的红柳精神，以“艰苦奋斗、自强不息、求真务实、开拓创新”为内涵，塑造了校园文化与学生的精神气质。
• The motto "forge ahead and seek truth" is displayed across the campuses and used in university ceremonies.“奋进求是”的校训见于各校区的主要建筑，并贯穿于学校的各类仪式与教育活动。
• The Jiuquan campus offers specialised study in wind power, solar energy and energy storage for students from western Gansu.酒泉校区为河西地区学生提供风电、光伏与储能等新能源方向的专门学习机会。
• Engineering students use the 66,000 square metres of laboratory space for experiments in materials, fluid power and structural testing.工科学生利用6.6万平方米的实验室开展材料、流体动力与结构测试等实验。
• The two Lanzhou campuses and the Jiuquan site give students access to both the provincial capital's industry and the western energy base along the Hexi Corridor, while the Wenzhou branch links them to the Yangtze River Delta.兰州的两个校区与酒泉校区使学生既能接触省会工业体系，也能深入河西走廊的新能源基地，温州分院则把他们与长江三角洲联系起来。

Notable people

• Niu Zaikun, a surveying expert, was the first president in 1919 and proposed the motto "self-reliance through hard work".牛载坤是测绘学专家，1919年出任首任校长，并提出“艰苦自立”的校训。
• Shui Nan succeeded as president in 1921 and promoted industrial salvation through technical education.水枏于1921年继任校长，主张以实业教育实现救国图强。
• Zhou Duyan served as first vice president from 1950 and president from 1956, overseeing the move to the Langongping campus.周笃彦1950年起任第一副校长、1956年任校长，主持了学校迁入兰工坪校区的相关工作。
• Chen Jianhong, a former president and welding metallurgy expert, is known as the "king of welding in Asia", chaired the Chinese Welding Society and served as vice chairman of the Gansu Provincial CPPCC.陈剑虹为学校原校长、焊接冶金专家，被誉为“亚洲焊王”，曾任中国焊接学会理事长和甘肃省政协副主席。
• Ji Hong, a professor of fluid power and LUT graduate, became president in September 2025 after serving as vice president.冀宏为流体传动与控制领域教授、学校校友，2025年9月由副校长升任校长。
• Wanyan Di, a graduate of Gansu University of Technology, co-founded Lanzhou Technology and Business University and chairs its board.完颜弟毕业于甘肃工业大学，参与创办兰州工商学院并担任董事长。
• Lu Wenjiang, another LUT graduate, taught materials science at the university and later became executive president of Lanzhou Technology and Business University.路文江同样毕业于学校，曾在材料科学与工程学院任教，后出任兰州工商学院执行校长。
• Zhao Lixiang, a former mayor of Zhangye, became party secretary of LUT in October 2024.赵立香曾任张掖市市长，2024年10月起任兰州理工大学党委书记。