Guilin University of Technology is a university funded by the central and local governments and mainly managed by Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The school originated from Guilin Geological School, which was established by the former Guangxi Ministry of Heavy Industry 1956. After five changes of ownership and ten changes of school name, it was renamed Guilin Institute of Metallurgical Geology on 1978, Guilin Institute of Technology on 1993, and Guilin University of Technology in 2009. Qu Jiuhui, academician of China Academy of Engineering and member of National Environmental Advisory Committee, is the honorary president of the school.
The school has four campuses, namely, Feng Ping in Guilin, Yanshan in Guilin, Anji in Nanning and Nanning Airport, with a total campus area of more than 3,300 mu. Guilin Feng Ping Campus and Yanshan Campus train all kinds of senior professionals such as doctoral students, master students and undergraduates, while Nanning Airport Campus and Anji Campus train applied technical talents such as applied undergraduates and higher vocational students.
The school has more than 2,000 full-time teachers, including more than 900 senior professional and technical teachers and 0/00 doctoral supervisors. There are more than 40 national high-level experts and talents such as "National 100 Million Talents Project Candidates"; There are more than 90 provincial and ministerial-level high-level talents such as Guangxi "Bagui Scholars". Harold kroto, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was appointed as honorary professor, and a number of well-known experts and scholars, such as academicians of the two academies and Changjiang Scholars, were appointed as lecture professors and visiting professors.