Central South University is located in Changsha, a famous historical and cultural city in China, across the banks of Xiangjiang River, at the foot of the towering Yuelu Mountain and close to the surging Xiangjiang River. With elegant environment and pleasant scenery, it is an ideal garden for study and research. Adhering to an open school, the school has actively carried out international cooperation and exchanges, established long-term cooperative relations with more than 200 universities and scientific research institutions in more than 40 countries and regions, such as the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada, Japan, France, Germany and Russia, and carried out extensive cooperation with many multinational enterprise groups in Industry-University-Research.

School profile:

Central South University was formed in April 2000 by the merger of Hunan Medical University, Changsha Railway Institute and Central South University of Technology. The former Central South University of Technology was formerly known as Central South Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, founded in 1952, and the former Changsha Railway Institute was formerly known as Central South Institute of Architecture and Engineering, founded in 1953. The main disciplines of the two universities can be traced back to the course of Mining and Road in Hunan Higher Institute of Technology founded by 1903.