2. The history of Wuhan University can be traced back to 1893. Zhang Zhidong, Governor of Huguang, invited the Qing government to establish a self-improvement school. Later, it was named National Wuhan University on 1928, which was the first batch of national universities in modern China. In 2000, Wuhan University merged with Wuhan University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping and Hubei Medical University to form the new Wuhan University.