Gansu University of Political Science and Law, founded in 1909, is the first modern institution of higher learning in northwest China. 1928, expanded to Lanzhou Sun Yat-sen University. 1946, renamed National Lanzhou University. After the founding of New China, it was identified as one of 14 comprehensive universities in the adjustment of colleges and universities.
Since the reform and opening up, it has been selected into "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Project" to build universities. In 2002 and 2004, Gansu Grassland Ecological Research Institute and Lanzhou Medical College merged and returned to Lanzhou University. In 20 17, he was selected as a world-class university construction university (Class A).
Discipline construction:
Adhering to the scientific research concept of "indomitable spirit", the school pays equal attention to basic research and applied research, transforms the regional comparative disadvantages into comparative advantages based on natural endowments, promotes the major issues of economic and social development in the western region to national strategies and even international scientific issues, and builds four first-class disciplines: chemistry, atmospheric science, ecology, grassland science, magnetism, nuclear science, cell activity and adversity adaptation.
Significant achievements have been made in the fields of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, glacial permafrost, sandstorm control, polypeptide drugs, high-incidence diseases in western China, Dunhuang studies, ethnology, China Marxism, Central Asian issues, government performance management, emergency management and regional economics. Focusing on the construction of the "Belt and Road", we will promote the development of the western region in the new era and form a new pattern of ecological civilization construction and rural revitalization.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Lanzhou University