Lanzhou University is located in Lanzhou, an important town of the ancient Silk Road and an important node city of the Belt and Road Initiative. It is a national key comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education, a national key construction university in the "985 Project" and "2 1 1 Project", and one of the national "double-class" construction universities.
The school was founded in 1909, and its predecessor was Gansu Law and Politics School established during the New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty. 1928 was expanded to Lanzhou Sun Yat-sen University, and 1946 was named National Lanzhou University. After the founding of New China, Lanzhou University developed rapidly, and was identified as one of the national 14 comprehensive universities in the adjustment of colleges and universities, becoming a university with an important strategic position in the national higher education pattern.
Since the reform and opening up, the school has seized the historical opportunity of the country to implement the strategy of "rejuvenating the country through science and education" and "strengthening the country through talents" and the "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Project" to comprehensively improve the level of running a school. In 2002 and 2004, the former Gansu Grassland Ecological College and Lanzhou Medical College merged and returned to Lanzhou University, which ushered in a period of rapid development in history.
In 20 17, Lanzhou university was successfully selected into the national list of "double-class" universities (Class A), and four first-class disciplines of chemistry, atmospheric science, ecology and grass science were selected into the list of "double-class" disciplines, and the development of the university entered a new era.