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Lanzhou University (Lanzhou University), referred to as "Landa", is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and the People's Republic of China. It is directly managed by the central government at the deputy ministerial level. It was established by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and the Ministry of Education. It is a national

"Double First-Class" world-class university construction university Category A, national "985 Project", "211 Project" key construction universities, selected into the national "Everest Plan", "2011 Plan", "111 Plan", Excellent Legal Talent Education and Training Plan

, Excellent Doctor Education and Training Program, Outstanding Agricultural and Forestry Talent Education and Training Program, National College Student Innovative Experiment Program, National College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program, National Construction High-level University Publicly-sponsored Postgraduate Program, New Engineering Research and Practice Project, Chinese Government Scholarship to China

It is a university that accepts international students, a national demonstration university for deepening the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, one of the first universities in the country with the right to award bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees, and the first batch of universities to establish a postdoctoral research mobile station, an independent review unit for degree authorization, and a pilot university for the strong foundation plan.

School history: Lanzhou University was founded in 1909. Its predecessor was the Gansu School of Law and Politics established during the New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty. In 1928, it was expanded to Lanzhou Sun Yat-sen University; in 1946, it was named National Lanzhou University.

In 1952, it was identified as one of the fourteen comprehensive universities in the country; graduate education began in 1954; in 2001, the Ministry of Education and the Gansu Provincial Government signed a provincial and ministerial key university construction agreement.

In the course of more than 110 years of running a school, the school has stayed in the west and strived for the country. It has embarked on the path of establishing a world-class university in areas where the economy is yet to be developed. It has created "eight academicians in one subject" in chemistry and "three generations of teachers and students in earth science".

The "Three Pole of the Earth", the "Lanzhou University Army" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the LONGi University Partners and other "Lanzhou University Phenomenon" are well-known at home and abroad.

School conditions: Lanzhou University started as Gansu School of Law and Politics and is the first institution of higher learning with modern significance in northwest China.

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After the founding of New China, during the adjustment of colleges and universities, it was identified as one of the 14 comprehensive universities in the country.

Since the reform and opening up, it has been selected into the “211 Project” and “985 Project” universities. In 2017, it was selected into the world-class university construction universities (Category A).

The campus covers an area of ??3545.298 acres, with 2 campuses and 3 affiliated hospitals.

Faculty: As of 2021, the school currently has 19,775 undergraduate students, 10,572 master's students, and 2,559 doctoral students.

The school currently has 3,718 faculty and staff, including 2,135 teaching and scientific research personnel, 836 full-time management personnel, and 142 on-site postdoctoral fellows, including 45 faculty postdoctoral fellows.

There are 588 professors and associate professors, 927 associate professors and associate professors, 101 clinical medicine professors and 252 associate professors.

There are 1,695 graduate tutors, including 578 doctoral tutors and 1,117 master’s tutors.

There are 16 academicians of the two academies, 14 "*" leading talents, 18 distinguished professors of the Ministry of Education's "* Award Program", 22 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, 12 national candidates for the Hundreds and Thousands of Talents Project, "Innovative Talent Promotion"

There are 7 young and middle-aged leading talents in scientific and technological innovation in the "Program", 4 "famous teachers in colleges and universities" from the Ministry of Education, 2 cultural celebrities and "four batches" talent project candidates, 6 "*" young top talents, and "top-notch young talents" from the Ministry of Education.

*Award Program" 4 young scholars, 23 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, 110 New Century (Cross-Century) Talents of the Ministry of Education, 27 distinguished teachers in higher education institutions in Gansu Province, 104 leading talents in Gansu Province, National Natural Science Foundation of China

There are 4 innovative research groups of the National Science Foundation, 8 innovative teams of the Ministry of Education, 5 national teaching teams, and 1 "National University Huang Danian-style Teacher Team".

Teaching construction: As of March 2020, the school has 4 world-class discipline construction disciplines, 8 national key disciplines, 2 national key (cultivation) disciplines, 35 provincial key disciplines, and 3 provincial key (cultivation) disciplines

; 47 first-level disciplines authorized for master's degree, 25 first-level disciplines authorized for doctoral degree, 21 professional master's degree authorized types, 1 professional doctoral degree authorized type, and 21 postdoctoral research mobile stations.

Talent training: As of July 2018, the school has established exchange and cooperation relationships with 153 universities and scientific research institutions in 35 countries and regions around the world, with partners all over Asia, the United States, Europe, Africa, and Oceania.

In the past five years (2013-2017), the school has received 7,853 foreign guests and guests from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. A total of 3,414 faculty members have gone abroad for business and to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan to participate in academic conferences, cooperative research and other activities, and nearly 4135 people have been dispatched.

Current undergraduates and graduate students go abroad to exchange, study or pursue degrees; it recruits and trains more than 2,000 international students.