Lanzhou University, referred to as "Lanzhou University" for short, is directly managed by the central government and jointly established by the State Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and the Ministry of Education. It is a national "double first-class" world-class university and a national "985 Project" and "21/project" key university.

Lanzhou University was founded in 1909, and its predecessor was Gansu Law and Politics School established during the New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty. 1928 extended to Lanzhou Sun Yat-sen University; 1946 was named National Lanzhou University. 65438-0952 Lanzhou University was identified as one of the fourteen comprehensive universities in China. In 2002 and 2004, the former Gansu Grassland Ecology Institute and Lanzhou Medical College were merged into Lanzhou University.

985 universities can be divided into these five grades.

1. superclass 985(2 institutes)

Peking University, Tsinghua University.

2. Level 1 985(6 institutes)

Fudan University, Zhejiang University, University of Science and Technology of China

Nanjing University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Renmin University.

3. Second-rate 985( 13 College)

Xi Jiaotong University Harbin Institute of Technology Nankai University Tianjin University

Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan University Sun Yat-sen University Tongji University

Beihang University Beijing Normal University Southeast University

Xiamen University Beijing Institute of Technology

4. Sanliu 985(9 institutes)

Jilin University Sichuan University Dalian University of Technology South China University of Technology

Northwestern Polytechnical University Central South University National University of Defense Technology

East China Normal University China Agricultural University

5. The last stream 985(9 institutes)

Shandong University Northeastern University Hunan University Lanzhou University

University of Electronic Science and Technology of Chongqing University China Ocean University

Minzu University of China Northwest A&F University