Zhejiang Sci-Tech University

Zhejiang Sci-Tech University (ZSTU) is a provincial public university in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, built around engineering and known for textile science, silk, fashion and design.浙江理工大学（Zhejiang Sci-Tech University，简称 ZSTU）是中国浙江省杭州市的一所省属公立大学，以工科为主，纺织科学、丝绸、服装与设计是其特色。

It descends from the Sericulture Academy founded in 1897 beside West Lake, now has 21 colleges and 52 undergraduate majors, and enrols about 39,800 students.该校源自 1897 年在西湖边创办的蚕学馆，现设 21 个学院、52 个本科专业，在校学生约 39 800 人，包含本科生与研究生。

It holds the 1201-1400 band in the QS World University Rankings 2027, ranks 1,158th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global table and sits in the 501-600 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 1201-1400 区间，在 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球榜单中位列第 1 158 名，在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中处于 501-600 区间。

History

• Zhejiang Sci-Tech University traces its origin to the Canxue Guan, or Sericulture Academy, founded in 1897 by Lin Qi, the prefect of Hangzhou, at Jinsha Port beside West Lake.浙江理工大学的前身是蚕学馆，1897 年由杭州知府林启在西湖畔金沙港创办。
• Lin Qi was a reform-minded official who wanted practical industry and modern schooling to strengthen the country, and in the same year he founded the Qiushi Academy that grew into Zhejiang University.林启是一位主张实业与新知救国的官员，同年他还创办了求是书院，后者发展为浙江大学。
• The academy is regarded as China's first modern school of silk and sericulture, teaching mulberry growing, silkworm rearing, reeling and weaving with imported Japanese methods and equipment.蚕学馆被视为中国第一所现代丝绸与蚕桑学校，教授桑树栽培、养蚕、缫丝与织造，并引进日本的方法与设备。
• Jiang Shengjin served as the first chief instructor, and two Japanese teachers engaged through the Japanese consul in Hangzhou led the classroom until 1904, when graduates took over the teaching.江生金出任首任总教习，后来经日本驻杭州领事介绍聘用的两位日本教习主持教学，直到 1904 年改由毕业生任教。
• In 1908 the Qing court approved its elevation to the Zhejiang Higher Sericulture School in recognition of its results, the first time the institution carried the word higher in its name.1908 年，清政府因其办学成绩卓著批准升格为浙江高等蚕桑学堂，这是该校校名中首次出现“高等”二字，也标志着办学层次的上移。
• A branch was added at the Chongwen Academy in 1910, extending the school into one of Hangzhou's old academies and allowing a larger intake of students.1910 年，学校在崇文书院增设分部，教学空间扩展到杭州一座古老书院之中，招生规模随之扩大。
• The 1911 revolution brought the name Zhejiang Secondary Sericulture School in 1912, followed in 1913 by Zhejiang Public Sericulture School and then Zhejiang Provincial First Class Sericulture School.辛亥革命后，学校于 1912 年改称浙江中等蚕桑学校，1913 年又先后改称浙江公立蚕桑学校与浙江省立甲种蚕业学校。
• Through the Republican decades the school was renamed and moved repeatedly, yet it kept teaching through war, dislocation and the financial crises that closed many Chinese institutions.民国时期，学校多次改名迁址，却在战乱、流离与财政危机中坚持办学，而当时许多中国学校被迫停办。
• After 1949 the school was reorganised within the new national system of specialised colleges, and in 1959 it began recruiting undergraduates for the first time.1949 年之后，学校在新建立的全国专门学院体系中被重组，并于 1959 年首次招收本科生。
• The State Council fixed the name Zhejiang Silk Engineering College in 1964, an identity the university still treats as the foundation of its engineering profile.1964 年，国务院将校名定为浙江丝绸工学院，这一身份至今仍被该校视为其工科底色的根基。
• Postgraduate recruitment began in 1979, when the college admitted its first master's students, and the move marked its transition from a teaching-only body to one with a research mission.1979 年，学院开始招收硕士研究生，此举标志着学校从单纯教学机构向兼具科研使命的机构转变。
• The college won the authority to confer master's degrees in 1983, completing the academic ladder that had begun with undergraduate teaching in 1959.1983 年，学院获得硕士学位授予权，补齐了自 1959 年本科教学以来逐步搭建的学位体系。
• In 1999 the Ministry of Education approved the name Zhejiang Engineering College, a change that signalled the school's move beyond silk into wider engineering and science.1999 年，教育部批准学校更名为浙江工程学院，这一变化显示学校已从丝绸领域拓展到更广泛的工程与科学。
• The present name, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, was approved in 2004 as the institution widened into design, economics, law, foreign languages and the arts.2004 年，学校获准更名为浙江理工大学，其时学科已扩展到设计、经济、法学、外语与艺术等领域。
• Two years later, in 2006, it gained the right to award doctoral degrees, the last step in a ladder that had begun with the 1897 academy.两年后的 2006 年，学校获得博士学位授予权，完成了自 1897 年蚕学馆以来逐级攀升的学位体系建设。
• At its 110th anniversary in 2007 the university adopted the motto Hou De Zhi Yuan, Bo Xue Dun Xing, which asks students to cultivate virtue and pursue learning widely.2007 年建校 110 周年之际，学校确定了“厚德致远、博学敦行”的校训，勉励学生修身立德、广博学习。
• Chen Wenxing, a specialist in fibre materials, became president in 2016 and has led the university through the expansion of its Linping campus and its fashion programmes.纤维材料专家陈文兴于 2016 年出任校长，主持了临平校区建设与服装学科扩展。
• Chen was elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2021 in recognition of his research on fibre materials, becoming the university's first sitting president to hold that title.2021 年，陈文兴因其纤维材料研究当选中国工程院院士，成为该校首位在任期间获此称号的校长。
• On 29 August 2022 the Linping campus opened after a construction programme costing 2.04 billion yuan, giving the fashion and design schools a dedicated base in eastern Hangzhou.2022 年 8 月 29 日，投资 20.4 亿元的临平校区正式启用，为服装与设计类学院提供了位于杭州东部的专属基地。
• In 2024 the Zhejiang Silk Engineering College name reached its sixtieth anniversary, a date that underlines how far the institution has moved from its sericulture origins.2024 年，浙江丝绸工学院这一校名迎来六十周年，这一时间节点凸显了学校自蚕桑起源以来走过的距离，也标志着从蚕桑学堂到理工大学的转变。

Academics

• ZSTU is organised into 21 colleges and schools and offers 52 undergraduate majors, a portfolio that runs from textile engineering and fashion design to mechanical engineering, computer science, law and journalism.浙江理工大学下设 21 个学院，开设 52 个本科专业，覆盖纺织工程、服装设计、机械工程、计算机科学、法学与新闻传播等领域。
• The 52 undergraduate majors span engineering, science, economics, management, law, literature and art, a breadth assembled after the 1999 and 2004 renamings.52 个本科专业覆盖工学、理学、经济学、管理学、法学、文学与艺术学，这一格局是在 1999 年与 2004 年两次更名之后逐步形成的。
• It holds six doctoral degree authorisation points and 24 master's points, and its graduate school oversees programmes in engineering, science, design, economics and management.学校拥有 6 个博士学位授权点与 24 个硕士学位授权点，研究生院负责工程、理学、设计、经济与管理等学科的研究生培养。
• About 39,849 full-time students are enrolled, including undergraduates, master's candidates and doctoral researchers, and the student body is concentrated in engineering and design.学校共有约 39 849 名全日制学生，包括本科生、硕士生与博士生，学生规模集中在工程与设计学科。
• The teaching staff numbers 2,848, among them one member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a group of appointees to national and provincial talent programmes.学校有教职工 2 848 人，其中包括 1 名中国工程院院士以及一批国家级与省级人才计划入选者。
• Textile science and engineering is the flagship discipline, supported by materials science, design, mechanical engineering and control science, and the university describes textiles as its root.纺织科学与工程是该校的龙头学科，材料科学、设计学、机械工程与控制科学为其支撑，学校将纺织视为自身的根基。
• Chemistry, materials science and engineering all sit within the top two per mille, meaning the top 0.2 per cent, of the Essential Science Indicators rankings.化学、材料科学与工程均进入基本科学指标数据库全球前千分之二，即前 0.2% 的行列。
• The Ministry of Education's Key Laboratory of Advanced Textile Materials and Manufacturing Technology is based at ZSTU and works on fibres, composites and textile processing.教育部先进纺织材料与制备技术重点实验室设在该校，研究纤维、复合材料与纺织加工技术。
• The College of Textile Science and Engineering, also known as the International Silk College, trains engineers for silk, wool, synthetic fibres and nonwovens and carries the university's silk heritage.纺织科学与工程学院又称国际丝绸学院，培养丝绸、毛纺、合成纤维与非织造领域的工程师，延续学校的丝绸传统。
• Its fashion school is among the oldest in China, and the university was the first in the country to create a professional model-training programme, which fed the Hangzhou women's wear industry.该校服装学院是中国历史最悠久的服装院系之一，学校还在全国率先开设模特培养专业，为杭州女装产业输送人才。
• Eight undergraduate majors have been designated national-level distinctive specialties and fifteen provincial key majors, concentrated in textile, fashion, design and mechanical engineering.学校有 8 个国家级特色专业与 15 个省级重点专业，集中在纺织、服装、设计与机械工程领域。
• The Qixin Honours College selects high-scoring undergraduates for small-cohort teaching and early research training across science, engineering and design.启新学院从各专业选拔高分本科生，以小型班级形式开展教学与早期科研训练，覆盖理学、工学与设计学。
• International teaching includes a joint fashion design institute with Istituto Marangoni of Italy and a long-running cooperation with the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.学校的国际化办学包括与意大利马兰戈尼学院合办的时尚设计学院，以及与纽约时装学院长期开展的合作项目。
• The independent College of Science and Art, based in Shangyu, offers applied programmes in art and design, textiles and business to students outside the main campus.独立学院科技与艺术学院位于上虞，面向主校区之外的学生开设艺术设计、纺织与商科等应用型专业。
• An international education college teaches Chinese language and culture to foreign students, and a continuing education school runs adult and part-time degree programmes.学校设有国际教育学院，向外国学生教授汉语与中国文化，另设继续教育学院开展成人教育与业余学位项目。
• Research spans textile materials, digital printing, biomedical materials, agricultural science and machine vision, with provincial key laboratories in several of these fields.学校科研覆盖纺织材料、数码印花、生物医用材料、农业科学与机器视觉，并在其中若干领域设有省级重点实验室。
• ZSTU awards bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees and runs professional master's programmes in engineering and design for students who combine coursework with industry projects.浙江理工大学授予学士、硕士与博士学位，并开设工程与设计类专业硕士项目，供学生结合课程与企业项目学习。
• The motto shapes the teaching ethos, and the phrase Qiushi Dushi, meaning seek truth and practise earnestly, is used as the university's official school spirit.校训塑造了教学风气，“求是笃实”被确定为该校的校风表述，意为追求真理、踏实做事。
• Teaching is mainly in Chinese, with English-taught courses in textile engineering, computer science and business for international students recruited largely from Asia and Africa.教学以中文为主，纺织工程、计算机科学与商科设有英文授课课程，国际学生主要来自亚洲与非洲。

Campus

• The university operates three campuses and one innovation centre, a layout it calls san xiaoqu yi zhongxin, with the Xiasha campus as the main site for undergraduates and research.学校采用“三校区一中心”的布局，其中下沙校区是本科生与研究生的主要校区。
• The Xiasha campus covers about 1,500 mu in the Qiantang District higher education park, and before 2022 almost all undergraduates and postgraduates studied there.下沙校区位于钱塘区高教园，占地约 1 500 亩，2022 年之前几乎全部本科生与研究生都在此学习。
• The Xiasha site sits in one of China's largest higher education parks, with more than a dozen universities nearby and metro links to central Hangzhou.下沙校区位于中国规模最大的高教园区之一，周边有十余所高校，并有地铁通往杭州中心城区。
• The Xiasha campus is addressed at 928 Second Avenue and holds the main library, the central laboratories and most of the university's student housing.下沙校区位于二号大街 928 号，设有主图书馆、中心实验室以及学校的大部分学生宿舍。
• The old Wen Yi Road campus in Xihu District covers about 150 mu and now houses continuing education, training bodies and some adult programmes.位于西湖区的文一西路老校区占地约 150 亩，现主要用作继续教育、培训机构与部分成人教育项目的校舍。
• The Linping campus opened in August 2022 on Kangtai Road in Donghu Subdistrict, with 517 mu of land, about 300,000 square metres of floor space and 22 new buildings, on a site whose construction began in May 2020.临平校区于 2020 年 5 月开工，2022 年 8 月在杭州临平区东湖街道康泰路启用，用地 517 亩，建筑面积约 30 万平方米，新建 22 栋单体建筑。
• Eighteen of the Linping buildings are teaching, administrative or residential blocks and four are ancillary facilities, and the campus hosts about 8,000 students and staff, a third of the university.临平校区 22 栋建筑中 18 栋为教学、行政与生活用房，4 栋为附属设施，入驻师生约 8 000 人，占全校三分之一。
• The Linping site houses the fashion, art and design, law and politics, Shi Liangcai journalism, international fashion technology and Marangoni institutes, clustering the university's creative fields.临平校区入驻服装、艺术与设计、法政、史量才新闻与传播、国际时装技术以及马兰戈尼等学院，集中了学校的创意学科。
• The university's name is set in characters assembled from the calligraphy of Sha Menghai, the twentieth-century Hangzhou master of seal and running script.校名采用集自沙孟海书法的方法，沙孟海是 20 世纪杭州著名的篆书与行书大家。
• The innovation centre in the layout is the Zhejiang Modern Textile Technology Innovation Center in Keqiao, Shaoxing, which links campus laboratories to the province's textile mills.“一中心”指位于绍兴柯桥的浙江省现代纺织技术创新中心，它把校内实验室与全省纺织企业连接起来。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027, ZSTU is placed in the 1201-1400 band, the group in which QS lists institutions just outside the top 1,200, a published range rather than a single numerical placing.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，浙江理工大学位列 1201-1400 区间，这一区间汇集了紧邻世界前 1 200 名之外的高校，属于 QS 公布的并列区间而非单一具体名次。
• The university does not appear in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 and is therefore absent from that table for this cycle.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，因此在本轮榜单中没有名次。
• U.S. News places it 1,158th in its 2026-2027 Best Global Universities rankings, a standing based on research output, citations and regional academic reputation.在 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列第 1 158 名，其位置依据科研产出、引用与地区学术声誉。
• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, compiled by ShanghaiRanking, places ZSTU in the 501-600 band, its strongest result among the four major global tables.由软科编制的 2026 年世界大学学术排名将浙江理工大学列入 501-600 区间，这是该校在四大全球榜单中的最好成绩。
• OpenAlex records 31,923 works and 1,734,782 citations for the university, figures that reflect sustained output in materials, chemistry, engineering and textile science.开放学术数据库 OpenAlex 收录该校 31 923 项成果与 1 734 782 次引用，反映出其在材料、化学、工程与纺织科学方面的持续产出。
• Its textile programme is usually grouped with those of Donghua University, Soochow University and Jiangnan University when the history of Chinese silk and fibre education is discussed.在讨论中国丝绸与纤维教育史时，该校的纺织学科通常与东华大学、苏州大学和江南大学相提并论。
• In design and fashion the university is tied to Hangzhou's clothing industry, and its graduates are credited with shaping the Hangzhou women's wear style that emerged in the 1990s.在设计与服装领域，该校与杭州服装产业紧密相连，其毕业生被认为塑造了 1990 年代兴起的杭派女装风格。
• Within China its closest comparators are Donghua University in Shanghai and Wuhan Textile University in Hubei, both built around textile engineering and both older than ZSTU in their current form.在中国国内，与该校最接近的参照是上海的东华大学与湖北的武汉纺织大学，两者都以纺织工程为核心，且以现有形态而言历史长于浙江理工。
• Fashion and textile faculties benchmark their work against institutions such as Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the London College of Fashion.该校服装与纺织院系常以北京服装学院、香港理工大学和伦敦时装学院等院校作为对照基准。
• The university is a priority-construction institution in Zhejiang's provincial higher education plan, a status that brings extra funding for disciplines tied to the textile and fashion economy.该校是浙江省高等教育重点建设高校，这一身份为其纺织与时尚经济相关学科带来额外经费支持。

Student life

• About 39,849 students live and study across the three campuses, and the 8,000 people at Linping give that site a younger, design-led atmosphere.约 39 849 名学生在三个校区学习生活，临平校区 8 000 名师生使那里呈现出更年轻、更偏设计的气质。
• Fashion students present graduation collections in runway shows each year, and the model-training programme supplies catwalk talent for Hangzhou's apparel brands.服装专业学生每年以走秀形式发布毕业设计系列，模特培养项目则为杭州服装品牌输送秀场人才。
• More than a hundred student societies cover silk culture, robotics, debate, dance, photography and entrepreneurship, and club fairs are held at the start of each academic year.学校有百余个学生社团，涵盖丝绸文化、机器人、辩论、舞蹈、摄影与创业，每学年开学时举行社团招新。
• An annual sports meeting, inter-college basketball and football leagues and campus running events use the grounds and gymnasiums on the Xiasha and Linping sites.一年一度的运动会、院际篮球与足球联赛以及校园跑步活动，使用下沙与临平校区的场地和体育馆。
• Undergraduate dormitories and canteens are provided on all three campuses, and the Linping residential blocks were built as part of the 22-building first phase.三个校区均提供本科生宿舍与食堂，临平校区的学生公寓是首期 22 栋建筑群的组成部分。
• The motto and the school spirit Qiushi Dushi frame student life, and anniversary concerts and the school song mark each founding day in the autumn term.校训与“求是笃实”的校风塑造着学生生活，每年秋季校庆期间会举行纪念音乐会并演唱校歌。
• Hangzhou's West Lake, the Qiantang River and the city's apparel and e-commerce districts give students internships in fashion, textiles, design and online retail.杭州的西湖、钱塘江以及服装与电商街区，为学生提供时尚、纺织、设计与网络零售方面的实习机会。
• High-speed trains reach Shanghai in about an hour, which extends internships and graduate job searches from Hangzhou to the wider Yangtze River Delta.高铁约一小时可达上海，使学生实习与毕业求职的范围从杭州延伸到整个长三角地区。
• International students mix with Chinese classmates in textile and business courses and join the same dormitory and sports structures, with Mandarin courses offered alongside their degrees.国际学生在纺织与商科课程中与中国同学一起学习，并共享宿舍与体育设施，学校同时为学位生开设中文课程。

Notable people

• Lin Qi, the Hangzhou prefect who founded the Sericulture Academy in 1897, also founded the Qiushi Academy and is remembered as a pioneer of modern education in Zhejiang.林启是 1897 年创办蚕学馆的杭州知府，他还创办了求是书院，被视为浙江近代教育的先驱。
• Jiang Shengjin, the academy's first chief instructor, helped establish the curriculum in sericulture and silk reeling that the university's textile school still traces back to.江生金是蚕学馆首任总教习，参与奠定了蚕桑与缫丝课程，该校纺织学科至今仍追溯于此。
• Zhu Qifeng, a later prefect of Hangzhou, succeeded Lin Qi as head of the academy and kept the school running in its early, financially fragile years.朱启凤是继林启之后出任蚕学馆总办的杭州知府，在经费拮据的早期维持了学校运转。
• Shi Liangcai, the Republican-era publisher of the Shenbao newspaper, studied at the sericulture academy and is commemorated in the name of the university's journalism school.史量才是民国时期《申报》的经营者，曾在蚕学馆求学，该校新闻与传播学院以他的名字命名。
• Tan Xihong, an early president, promoted sericulture education and helped carry the school through the reorganisations of the Republican period.谭熙鸿是学校早期校长，致力于蚕桑教育，帮助学校度过民国时期的多次改组。
• Zhu Xinyu, a silk specialist who led the college in the mid-twentieth century, worked on silk processing and trained a generation of textile engineers.朱新予是 20 世纪中叶主持校务的丝绸专家，从事丝绸加工研究并培养了一代纺织工程师。
• Zhao Yun, president from 1999 to 2004, led the institution through its renaming as Zhejiang Engineering College and the expansion beyond silk.赵匀于 1999 至 2004 年任校长，主持学校更名为浙江工程学院并推动学科走出丝绸领域。
• Qiu Songliang, a mathematician and president from 2004 to 2016, oversaw the change to university status and the growth of graduate education.裘松良是数学家，2004 至 2016 年任校长，主持学校升格为大学并推动研究生教育发展。
• Chen Wenxing, president since 2016 and a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, researches fibre materials and has championed the Linping campus.陈文兴自 2016 年起任校长，是中国工程院院士，研究纤维材料并推动临平校区建设。
• Li Jialin, a textile artist and professor at the university, developed a digital silk-weaving technique used to reproduce photographs and paintings in woven form.李加林是该校教授、纺织艺术家，开发了数码仿真丝织技术，可将照片与绘画以织造形式再现。
• Chen Shimin, an early president, guided the school through Republican-era reorganisations and helped keep sericulture teaching alive in Hangzhou.陈石民是学校早期校长，在民国时期的多次改组中主持校务，使杭州的蚕桑教学得以延续。
• Ni Shaowen was another early president, serving in the Republican period when the school was repeatedly renamed and moved between temporary sites.倪绍雯也是学校早期校长，其任内正值民国时期，学校多次改名并在临时校址之间迁移。
• Yuan Guanluo led the college in the 1990s, a decade when its engineering programmes widened beyond silk and the ground was prepared for university status.袁观洛在 1990 年代主持校务，这一时期学校的工程学科走出丝绸领域，为升格为大学奠定基础。