Zhejiang University of Technology

Zhejiang University of Technology (ZJUT, Chinese: 浙江工业大学) is a provincial public comprehensive university in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, China, co-built by the Zhejiang Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Education.浙江工业大学（Zhejiang University of Technology，简称浙工大）是位于中国浙江省会杭州的省属公立综合性大学，由浙江省人民政府与教育部共建。

Its origins reach back to the Zhejiang Secondary Industrial School of 1910, it was formally founded in 1953 as the Hangzhou School of Chemical Engineering, and it was renamed Zhejiang University of Technology in 1993, with engineering, especially chemical, mechanical, biological and pharmaceutical engineering, as its academic strength.该校渊源可追溯至 1910 年创办的浙江中等工业学堂，1953 年以杭州化学工业学校正式建校，1993 年更名为浙江工业大学；其学科强项为工程技术，尤以化学工程、机械工程、生物工程与制药工程见长。

In the QS World University Rankings 2027 it was placed 560th, the Times Higher Education 2027 placed it in the 501-550 band, the U.S. News 2026-2027 ranked it 550th and the ARWU 2026 placed it in the 201-300 band, and as of September 2026 it enrolled more than 22,000 full-time undergraduates and over 17,000 postgraduate students.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 560 位；2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名位于 501-550 区间；《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 排名列第 550 位；2026 年软科世界大学学术排名位于 201-300 区间；截至 2026 年 9 月，在校全日制本科生逾 2.2 万人、研究生逾 1.7 万人。

History

• The institution traces its origins to the Zhejiang Secondary Industrial School, established in 1910, which was renamed the Zhejiang Public Secondary Industrial School in 1912.该校的渊源可追溯至 1910 年创办的浙江中等工业学堂，1912 年更名为浙江公立中等工业学校。
• In 1920 the school was upgraded to the Zhejiang Public Industrial Specialised School, and a secondary industrial school was attached to it, an event regarded as a starting point of today's university.1920 年，该校升格为浙江公立工业专门学校，并附设甲种工业学校，这一事件被视为今日浙江工业大学的建校起点之一。
• In 1927 it became the engineering college of Zhejiang University, then known as the Third Zhongshan University, and the attached school was renamed the Affiliated Senior Industrial Middle School.1927 年，该校成为浙江大学（时称第三中山大学）的工学院，其附设学校更名为附设高级工科中学。
• In 1933 the attached senior industrial middle school became independent as the Provincial Senior Industrial Vocational School run on behalf of National Zhejiang University, and in 1935 it was renamed the Zhejiang Provincial Hangzhou Senior Industrial Vocational School.1933 年，附设高级工科中学独立发展，定名为国立浙江大学代办浙江省立高级工业职业学校；1935 年更名为浙江省立杭州高级工业职业学校。
• The school was suspended after the outbreak of the War of Resistance against Japan, and it was re-established in Hangzhou in 1946 under the same name.抗战爆发后该校停办，1946 年在杭州以原校名复校。
• In 1950 the Hangzhou senior industrial vocational school merged with other schools to form the Zhejiang Industrial Cadre School, and in 1953 it merged again to become the Hangzhou Industrial School of Zhejiang Province.1950 年，杭州高级工业职业学校与其他学校合并为浙江工业干部学校；1953 年再次合并为浙江省杭州工业学校。
• In June 1953 the chemical engineering department of the Hangzhou Industrial School was combined with the chemical departments of other schools to form the Hangzhou School of Chemical Engineering, the date the university now treats as its official founding.1953 年 6 月，浙江省杭州工业学校的化工科与其他学校化工科合并组建杭州化学工业学校，这一天被该校视为正式的建校起点。
• In 1958 the school was upgraded to a junior college and renamed the Zhejiang Chemical Engineering Specialised School.1958 年，该校升格为专科，更名为浙江化工专科学校。
• In 1960 it was upgraded to degree level as the Zhejiang Chemical Engineering Institute, and the campus was relocated to Quzhou in western Zhejiang.1960 年，该校升格为本科，更名为浙江化工学院，并迁址至浙江西部的衢州。
• Normal enrolment stopped after the Cultural Revolution began in 1966, and teaching was disrupted for more than a decade.1966 年「文化大革命」开始后学校停止正常招生，教学中断十余年。
• In 1978, on the basis of the Zhejiang Chemical Engineering Institute, the Zhejiang Institute of Technology was established and moved back to Hangzhou, while the former Quzhou site became an independent Zhejiang Institute of Technology Western Branch.1978 年，以浙江化工学院为基础组建浙江工学院并迁回杭州；衢州原校址则成立独立建制的浙江工学院浙西分校。
• In 1979 the institute began enrolling master's students, and the undergraduate programmes covered by its master's degree points entered priority-batch admission.1979 年，该校开始招收硕士研究生，其硕士点所覆盖的本科专业进入重点批次招生。
• In 1993 the institution was renamed Zhejiang University of Technology and designated a key provincial university, upgrading its status within Zhejiang's higher education system.1993 年，该校更名为浙江工业大学并被列为省属重点大学，在浙江高等教育体系中的地位得以提升。
• The Zhejiang Cadre Institute of Economics and Management merged into the university in 1994, followed by the Hangzhou Shipbuilding Industrial School in 1997, which became the basis of the Zhijiang campus.浙江省经济管理干部学院于 1994 年并入该校，杭州船舶工业学校于 1997 年并入，并成为之江校区的基础。
• In 1998 the university was approved to award doctoral degrees, and because Zhejiang University had merged its four campuses that year, it became the only provincial institution in Zhejiang with doctoral degree-awarding authority.1998 年，该校获批博士学位授予权；由于同年浙江大学四校合并，浙江工业大学成为全省唯一拥有博士学位授予权的省属高校。
• The Zhejiang Building Materials Industrial School merged into the university in 2001, further broadening its engineering base.浙江建材工业学校于 2001 年并入该校，进一步拓宽了其工程学科基础。
• In 2003 the university's overall strength entered the top 100 Chinese universities, though its attempt to change its name to Hangzhou University did not succeed.2003 年，该校综合实力进入全国高校百强行列，但其更名为「杭州大学」的尝试未能成功。
• The Pingfeng campus was opened in 2004, giving the university the Zhaohui, Pingfeng and Zhijiang campuses, and in the same year it entered priority-batch admission across Zhejiang.屏峰校区于 2004 年启用，使该校拥有朝晖、屏峰、之江三个校区；同年，该校在浙江省整体进入重点批次招生。
• On 8 June 2009 Zhejiang University of Technology became the first university on China's eastern seaboard to be co-built by the provincial government and the Ministry of Education.2009 年 6 月 8 日，浙江工业大学成为东部沿海地区第一所由省政府与教育部共建的高校。
• In 2013 the Yangtze River Delta Green Pharmaceutical Collaborative Innovation Centre, led by the university, was selected into the national 2011 Plan, making it one of the first 14 such centres in China.2013 年，由该校牵头建设的长三角绿色制药协同创新中心入选国家「2011 计划」，成为全国首批 14 家协同创新中心之一。
• In 2015 Zhejiang University of Technology was listed among the first batch of key construction universities of Zhejiang province.2015 年，浙江工业大学入选浙江省首批重点建设高校。
• The Moganshan campus in Deqing county was opened in 2019, named on 27 May 2019, and it focuses on green pharmaceutical and related fields.位于德清县的莫干山校区于 2019 年启用，并于 2019 年 5 月 27 日定名，重点发展绿色制药及相关领域。
• In 2024 the university took the lead in forming a national key laboratory, received a first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, and in August 2024 the provincial party committee approved its plan to build a high-level university.2024 年，该校牵头组建全国重点实验室，并获国家科技进步奖一等奖；2024 年 8 月，省委常委会审议通过其高水平大学建设方案。

Academics

• Zhejiang University of Technology covers twelve discipline categories, including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, art and interdisciplinary studies.浙江工业大学的学科涵盖哲学、经济学、法学、教育学、文学、理学、工学、农学、医学、管理学、艺术学与交叉学科等 12 个门类。
• The university has 29 teaching units and an independent college, Zhijiang College, and offers 67 undergraduate programmes, of which 46 are national first-class undergraduate programme construction points.该校设有 29 个教学机构以及独立学院之江学院，开设 67 个本科招生专业，其中 46 个为国家级一流本科专业建设点。
• Twenty-two of its programmes have passed the China Engineering Education Accreditation, and its students ranked 19th nationally in the national college student competition ranking.该校有 22 个专业通过中国工程教育专业认证，其学生在全国高校大学生竞赛排行榜中位列第 19 位。
• It holds 16 first-level doctoral degree authorisations and five professional doctoral categories, 32 first-level master's authorisations and 23 professional master's categories, and 13 postdoctoral research stations.该校拥有一级学科博士学位授权点 16 个、博士专业学位授权类别 5 个，一级学科硕士学位授权点 32 个、硕士专业学位授权类别 23 个，以及博士后流动站 13 个。
• Thirteen of its disciplines rank in the global top one per cent by ESI, namely chemistry, engineering, materials science, environment and ecology, agricultural science, biology and biochemistry, computer science, pharmacology and toxicology, social sciences general, clinical medicine, geosciences, physics, and economics and business.该校有 13 个学科进入 ESI 全球前 1%，即化学、工程学、材料科学、环境科学与生态学、农业科学、生物学与生物化学、计算机科学、药理学与毒物学、社会科学总论、临床医学、地球科学、物理学以及经济学与商学。
• Among these, chemistry, engineering and materials science rank in the global top one per mille, placing the university among China's stronger provincial institutions in these fields.其中化学、工程学与材料科学进入 ESI 全球前 1‰，使该校在这些领域位居中国省属高校前列。
• In the Ministry of Education's fourth-round discipline evaluation of 2017, twenty disciplines of the university were listed, with chemical engineering and technology rated A-minus in the national top ten per cent.在教育部 2017 年第四轮学科评估中，该校共有 20 个学科上榜，其中化学工程与技术获评 A-，位列全国前 10%。
• Its mechanical engineering and business administration disciplines were rated B-plus in the top twenty per cent, while environmental science and engineering, pharmacy, control science and engineering, computer science and software engineering were rated B.其机械工程与工商管理获评 B+，位列全国前 20%；环境科学与工程、药学、控制科学与工程、计算机科学与技术、软件工程等获评 B。
• Zhejiang University of Technology is not among the national Double First-Class institutions, but it is a provincial key construction university and a high-level university construction university of Zhejiang.浙江工业大学未列入国家「双一流」建设高校名单，但它是浙江省重点建设高校与高水平大学建设高校。
• Its disciplines are supported through provincial programmes, with one provincial peak discipline, five advantage and characteristic disciplines and nine provincial first-class disciplines.该校学科通过省级计划予以支持，拥有省「登峰学科」1 个、「优势特色学科」5 个与省「一流学科」9 个。
• As of 2024 the university reported six academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering on its staff, together with seven National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and seventeen Excellent Young Scientists.截至 2024 年，该校在职人员中有 6 名中国科学院与中国工程院院士，以及 7 名国家杰出青年科学基金获得者与 17 名优秀青年科学基金获得者。
• The university has more than 3,400 staff and over 2,500 full-time teachers, and it hosts one National Natural Science Foundation innovation group and two national Huang Danian-style teacher teams.该校有教职工 3,400 余人、专任教师 2,500 余人，并拥有国家自然科学基金创新研究群体 1 个、全国高校黄大年式教师团队 2 个。
• It maintains eleven national-level research platforms and eighty-nine provincial and ministerial platforms, and has received thirty National Science and Technology Awards in total.该校建有 11 个国家级科研平台与 89 个省部级科研平台，累计获国家科学技术奖 30 项。
• Since 2024 it has received one first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, and lead-built or participated in two national key laboratories.2024 年以来，该校获国家科技进步奖一等奖 1 项，并获批牵头和参与建设全国重点实验室 2 家。
• Its research funding reached 1.36 billion yuan in 2025, and its researchers have published twelve papers in Science, Nature and Cell as first or corresponding institution.2025 年该校科研经费到款 13.6 亿元；其科研人员以第一单位或通讯单位在《Science》《Nature》《Cell》三大期刊发表论文 12 篇。
• The university has established twenty local research institutes and 424 university-enterprise joint research centres, and has served nearly 13,000 enterprises and institutions.该校建有地方实体研究院 20 家与校企联合研发中心 424 个，累计服务企事业单位近 1.3 万家。
• Its library holds about 3.47 million volumes, and the university has a fixed asset value of 5.44 billion yuan.该校图书馆藏书约 347 万册，固定资产总值 54.44 亿元。
• It runs the Zhejiang University of Technology Exeter Joint College and has partnerships with more than 180 overseas universities in 35 countries, including 27 of the world's top 100 universities.该校设有浙江工业大学埃克塞特联合学院，并与 35 个国家的 180 余所海外高校建立合作关系，其中包括 27 所世界百强高校。
• Since its founding the university has trained nearly 380,000 graduates, including more than 50,000 entrepreneurial alumni who have founded over 80,000 enterprises, 85 of them listed companies.建校以来，该校共培养各类优秀人才近 38 万人，其中企业家校友 5 万余人，创办各类企业 8 万余家，其中上市公司 85 家。

Campus

• The main Zhaohui campus lies at 18 Chaowang Road in the Gongshu district of Hangzhou, in the city centre and near the Chaowang Road metro station.朝晖校区（本部）位于杭州市拱墅区潮王路 18 号，地处市中心，邻近潮王路地铁站。
• The Pingfeng campus stands at 288 Liuhe Road in the Xihu district, in the Xiaohashan higher education park on the outskirts of Hangzhou, and has been in use since around 2004.屏峰校区位于杭州市西湖区留和路 288 号，坐落于市郊的小和山高教园区，约自 2004 年起投入使用。
• The Moganshan campus, also called the Deqing campus, is located at 999 Changhong East Street in Deqing county and mainly serves chemical, biological, materials, pharmaceutical, environmental and food disciplines.莫干山校区（又称德清校区）位于德清县长虹东街 999 号，主要服务化工、生物、材料、药学、环境与食品等学科。
• The Zhijiang campus at 182 Zhijiang Road in Hangzhou occupies the site of the Hangzhou Shipbuilding Industrial School that merged into the university in 1997.位于杭州市之江路 182 号的之江校区，其校址为 1997 年并入该校的原杭州船舶工业学校所在地。
• The university's three campuses together cover 3,334 mu, and the Zhaohui campus houses the Shaoke Building used by the university leadership.该校三个校区共占地 3,334 亩，朝晖校区内设有学校领导办公所用的邵科馆。
• Each campus has its own accommodation and teaching facilities, and the Pingfeng campus is home to faculties including computer science, mathematics, civil engineering, design, education, humanities and foreign languages.各校区均配有住宿与教学设施，其中屏峰校区分布着计算机、数学科学、土木、设计与建筑、教育、人文与外国语等学院。
• The university library holds about 3.47 million volumes and serves readers across the campuses.该校图书馆藏书约 347 万册，为各校区的读者提供服务。
• The main campus lies at coordinates 30.29365 north and 120.16142 east, in the north-western part of Hangzhou's urban core.主校区位于北纬 30.29365、东经 120.16142，处于杭州城区西北部。
• Besides the three main campuses, the university's Zhijiang College has moved to a new campus at 958 Yuezhou Avenue in the Keqiao district of Shaoxing.除三个主要校区外，该校之江学院已迁至绍兴市柯桥区越州大道 958 号的新校区。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Zhejiang University of Technology was placed 560th in the world.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，浙江工业大学位列世界第 560 位。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place it in the 501-550 band, and the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 ranks it 550th.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列入 501-550 区间；《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 最佳全球大学排名列第 550 位。
• The Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 places it in the 201-300 band, a strong position for a provincial institution.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名将其列入 201-300 区间，对省属高校而言是相当靠前的位置。
• In the 2025 ShanghaiRanking Best Chinese Universities Ranking, Zhejiang University of Technology was placed 62nd nationally.在 2025 年软科中国大学排名中，浙江工业大学位列全国第 62 位。
• Its students ranked 19th among Chinese universities in the national college student competition ranking, reflecting strong practical and innovation training.该校学生在全国高校大学生竞赛排行榜中位列第 19，反映出扎实的实践与创新训练。
• Thirteen of its disciplines enter the global top one per cent by ESI, with chemistry, engineering and materials science in the global top one per mille.该校有 13 个学科进入 ESI 全球前 1%，其中化学、工程学与材料科学进入全球前 1‰。
• In the Ministry of Education's 2017 fourth-round discipline evaluation, chemical engineering and technology was rated A-minus, in the top ten per cent nationally.在教育部 2017 年第四轮学科评估中，其化学工程与技术获评 A-，位居全国前 10%。
• OpenAlex credits Zhejiang University of Technology with 62,884 scholarly works and 3,813,721 citations.OpenAlex 收录浙江工业大学的学术成果 62,884 篇，被引 3,813,721 次。
• The university is a provincial key construction and high-level university, a lead institution of the national 2011 Plan, and the first university on China's eastern seaboard co-built by a provincial government and the Ministry of Education.该校是省重点建设高校与高水平大学，国家「2011 计划」牵头高校，也是东部沿海地区第一所由省政府与教育部共建的高校。
• It has accumulated thirty National Science and Technology Awards, eleven national-level research platforms and twelve papers in Science, Nature and Cell, a record strong among provincial universities.该校累计获国家科学技术奖 30 项，建有国家级科研平台 11 个，并在《Science》《Nature》《Cell》发表论文 12 篇，这一成绩在省属高校中相当突出。

Student life

• The university motto is Houde Jianxing, meaning to cultivate great virtue and to combine knowledge with practice, a phrase drawn from the I Ching.该校校训为「厚德健行」，出自《易经》，勉励师生树立高尚品德、做到知行合一。
• Its stated study ethos is Qujing Yonghong, from the Zuo Zhuan, expressing the idea that learning requires accumulation before its essence can be widely applied.其学风表述为「取精用弘」，出自《左传》，意为治学须先积累方能汲取精华、广泛应用。
• Its institutional spirit is the three-creation spirit, meaning hard pioneering, innovative exploration and striving for first-class standards.其精神传统为「三创精神」，即艰苦创业、开拓创新、争创一流。
• Its characteristic approach is described as running the university in the spirit of Zhejiang and interacting with regional development.其办学特色表述为「以浙江精神办学，与区域发展互动」。
• The university song is the Song of Zhejiang University of Technology, with collective lyrics and music composed by Diao Yuquan.该校校歌为《浙江工业大学之歌》，集体作词，刁玉泉作曲。
• The university's name on its emblem is written in the style of Guo Moruo's calligraphy, and the emblem carries the year 1953, the founding date.校徽上的校名取郭沫若书法集字，并带有「1953」字样，即建校年份。
• The emblem is a blue-on-white double circular badge whose inner ring combines the characters gong and da into a stylised image, reflecting the idea of people first.校徽为白底蓝色双圆套圆形徽标，内环正中由「工」「大」二字艺术叠合成形，体现「以人为本」的办学理念。
• Jinghong Network, a student-run internet community and media platform, has long served as a hub of student life at the university, alongside numerous student clubs.由学生运营的网络社区与媒体平台「精弘网络」长期是该校学生生活的枢纽之一，此外还有众多学生社团。

Notable people

• Xu Guangxian, an alumnus and a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 1980, received the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award in 2008 for his work on rare-earth chemistry.校友徐光宪于 1980 年当选中国科学院学部委员（院士），并于 2008 年因稀土化学研究荣获国家最高科学技术奖。
• Wang You, an organic chemist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was among the notable scholars who studied or worked at the university.有机化学家、中国科学院院士汪猷是曾在该校求学或工作过的著名学者之一。
• Shen Yinchui, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering elected in 1997 and a leading expert in biological pesticides, served as president of the university from 2000 to 2005 and is now its honorary president.沈寅初于 1997 年当选中国工程院院士，是生物农药领域的领军专家，2000 至 2005 年任该校校长，现任名誉校长。
• Zheng Yuguo, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is a professor of biochemical engineering at the university and has led major work on industrial biotechnology.郑裕国是中国工程院院士、该校生物工程教授，在工业生物技术领域主持了多项重大研究。
• Gao Xiang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering working on energy and environmental engineering, became president of the university in July 2023.从事能源与环境工程研究的中国工程院院士高翔，于 2023 年 7 月起任该校校长。
• Gao Congjie, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a specialist in chemical engineering and membrane science, is among the academicians associated with the university.中国工程院院士、化学工程与膜科学专家高从堦是与该校渊源深厚的院士之一。
• Bao Gang, an alumnus who became a mathematician, and Du Shigui, an alumnus working in mining engineering geology, are among its scientist graduates.校友、数学家包刚与从事矿山工程地质研究的校友杜时贵，都是该校的科学家校友代表。
• Cai Yuanqiang, a professor of geotechnical engineering, has served as party secretary of the university since July 2015.岩土工程教授蔡袁强自 2015 年 7 月起担任该校党委书记。
• Xing Qiuhen, a specialist in solid rocket motors, and Zhou Guangyao, an expert in inorganic chemical engineering, were among the academicians who studied or worked at the university.固体火箭发动机专家邢球痕与无机化工专家周光耀，都是曾在该校求学或工作过的院士。
• Many of its graduates have become leading engineers and managers in Zhejiang's chemical, pharmaceutical and manufacturing industries, and its alumni have founded more than 80,000 enterprises.该校许多毕业生已成为浙江化工、制药与制造业的骨干工程师与管理者，其校友创办的企业超过 8 万家。