The president of Lanzhou University is the vice minister. Lanzhou University is directly under the Ministry of Education and a vice-ministerial institution directly under the Central Government. As the president of Lanzhou University, he naturally belongs to the "official position" of the deputy ministerial level.

It is worth mentioning that there are not many such deputy ministerial-level universities in China, which does not mean that schools can be rated as key ones. There are only 365 and 438+0 deputy ministerial-level universities such as Tsinghua Peking University, China Renmin University, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing Normal University, China Agricultural University and Nankai University. Even in the comprehensive strength of the national ranking, Lanzhou University is not comparable to Tsinghua, but the position of the president can be shared, which means that the level of the president of Lanzhou University is the same as that of the president of Tsinghua.