Yuquan Campus of Zhejiang University is located in the northwest corner of West Lake, next to Hangzhou Botanical Garden. The campus covers an area of 1.700 mu, and the school has a total construction area of 700,000 square meters. Yuquan Campus is the former site of Zhejiang University. At present, there are rational college, electrical engineering college, mechanical and energy engineering college and material and chemical engineering college.
School of Information Science and Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Science, School of Economics, School of Management, School of Computer Science and other 10 university party and government organs are all located in this campus. The campus has excellent comprehensive conditions for running schools and complete infrastructure.
The school is located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, a famous historical and cultural city in China and a world-famous scenic spot. It is an important city in the Yangtze River Delta along the southeast coast of China, with Suzhou and Shanghai in the north, Yungang in the east and Fujian and Guangdong in the south.
The school has six campuses, namely Zijingang, Yuquan, Xixi, Huajiachi, Zhijiang and Ningbo, covering an area of 5. 18 square kilometers, which are distributed in different directions of Hangzhou and Ningbo National High-tech Zone. The campus is surrounded by mountains and waters, with elegant environment, lush flowers and trees, lush green grass and pleasant scenery, which complement each other with the beautiful scenery of the West Lake. It is an ideal garden for study and research.
In the long-term course of running a school, Zhejiang University has cultivated a large number of outstanding talents with a rigorous and realistic style, and created fruitful results with persistent innovative spirit, enjoying a good reputation at home and abroad. It was once praised as "Oriental Cambridge" by Joseph Needham, a famous British scholar.