Hangzhou Dianzi University is a teaching and research university with outstanding electronic information characteristics and obvious advantages in economic management, with the mutual penetration of engineering, science, economics, management, literature, law, teaching and art. The school is a university jointly established by Zhejiang Province and the National Defense Science and Technology Bureau. It is the first information technology university founded by the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. The school is located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. The school has been affiliated to the Second Ministry of Machinery Industry, Fourth Ministry of machinery industry and the Ministry of Electronic Industry. In 2000, the school management system established by Zhejiang Province and the Ministry of Information Industry was implemented, with Zhejiang Province as the main management. In 2007, it became a university jointly established by Zhejiang Province and the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.
The school is based in Zhejiang, relying on industry, facing the world, serving the society and supporting national defense, adhering to the fine tradition of "unity and diligence, seeking truth from facts, pioneering and innovating", carrying forward the school motto of "diligence in learning, integrity and innovation", and striving to build a high-level research and teaching university with distinctive characteristics and first-class domestic characteristics.