Donghua University is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of China. It is a national "double-class" "2 1 1 Engineering" university, and was selected as "201/Plan" and "Two Million Plan". The school is located in Shanghai, with Party Secretary Liu Chenggong and President Yu. The motto of the school is "advocating virtue, erudition and firm ambition".
By the end of 20021,1 1, the school has established Songjiang Campus, Yan 'an Road Campus and Xinhua Road Campus, covering an area of nearly 2,000 mu, with a total construction area of more than 830,000 square meters and 2,320 faculty members. The history of the school can be traced back to Nantong Textile Printing and Dyeing Institute founded by Zhang Jian in 19 12. The school was founded in 195 1, named East China Institute of Textile Technology, which was formed by the merger of the Textile Department of Jiaotong University and other textile departments in East China, Central South and Southwest China. 1985 was renamed China Textile University, and 1999 was renamed Donghua University.
Teaching construction:
In September, 2022, official website showed that the school had 18 national first-class undergraduate specialty construction sites, 10 national specialties,10/specialty of "excellent engineer education and training plan" of the Ministry of Education, 4 national new engineering research and practice projects, 7 China engineering education specialty certification majors, and "innovative talents" of the National Fund for Studying Abroad.
There are 3 national engineering practice education centers, 2 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 national virtual simulation experimental teaching center 1, 1 national college students' cultural quality education base 1, 1 national creative space 1, 3 Shanghai municipal experimental teaching demonstration centers, 3 Shanghai joint training bases for software talents, and 1 Shanghai college students' art practice base 1.