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Lanzhou University is a national key comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education, one of the national "double first-class" universities under the "985 Project" and "21/project". The school was founded in 1909, and its predecessor was Gansu Law and Politics School, which was established during the New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty, marking the beginning of modern higher education in Gansu.
It opened the precedent of higher education in northwest China. 1928 was expanded to Lanzhou Sun Yat-sen University, and 1945 was named National Lanzhou University. After the founding of New China, Lanzhou University adhered to the Party's educational policy, adhered to the correct direction of running a school, developed and expanded, and rose rapidly. In the adjustment of colleges and universities, it was identified as one of the 14 comprehensive universities in China;
Guided by the strategic objectives of "developing the northwest" and "establishing the strategic rear", it has become a university with an important strategic position in the national higher education pattern, shouldering the historical responsibility of cultivating senior professionals and developing science and technology culture for the country, especially the western region. Since the reform and opening up, the school has firmly grasped the historical opportunity of the country to implement the strategy of "rejuvenating the country through science and education", "strengthening the country through talents", "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Project", taking emancipating the mind as the guide.
Driven by reform and opening up, the level of running schools has been comprehensively improved. In 2002 and 2004, the former Gansu Institute of Grassland Ecology and Lanzhou Medical College merged into Lanzhou University, with more complete disciplines and more prominent comprehensive advantages, which ushered in a period of rapid development in history.
In 20 17, it was successfully selected into the list of "double first-class" universities (Class A), and four first-class disciplines, including chemistry, atmospheric science, ecology and grass science, were selected into the list of "double first-class" disciplines, and the development of the school entered a new era. The campus covers an area of 3545.298 mu, with 2 campuses and 3 affiliated hospitals.
Undergraduate students 19775, graduate students 10572 and doctoral students 2559. The school has 37 18 faculty members, including 2 135 teaching and research personnel, 836 full-time managers and 42 postdoctoral 142, including 45 postdoctoral teachers.
There are 588 professors, 927 associate professors, clinical medicine professors 10 1 person and 252 associate professors. Postgraduate tutors 1695, including 578 doctoral tutors and 7 master tutors11. Academicians of the two academies 15, "Thousand Talents Program" distinguished professor 1 1 person, "Ten Thousand Talents Program" leading talent1person.
Distinguished professor 18 of Changjiang Scholar Award Program of Ministry of Education, 22 winners of National Outstanding Youth Fund, 12 national candidates of 100 million talents project, 8 young and leading scientific and technological innovation talents in innovative talents promotion program, 4 famous teachers in universities of Ministry of Education, 6 young people in thousand talents program and 5 young top-notch talents in ten thousand talents program.
There are 3 famous teachers of "Ten Thousand Talents Program", 4 young scholars of "Changjiang Scholar Award Program" of Ministry of Education, 23 winners of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 27 famous teachers of universities in Gansu Province, 88 leading talents in Gansu Province, 4 innovative research groups of National Natural Science Foundation of China, and 8 innovative teams and national teaching teams of Ministry of Education.
Reference source: Lanzhou University-official website.