Founded in 1909, Lanzhou Univerisity was originally named Gansu School of Law and Politics. The name was changed to Lanzhou University in 1946.

In 1953, with the readjustment concerning higher education in China, Lanzhou University was built as a key comprehensive university, with an emphasis on basic teaching and research in the arts and sciences. On Nov. 18th 2004, Lanzhou Medical College merged into Lanzhou University, which added medicine to the university’s previous disciplines of humanities and social sciences, management, pedagogy, natural science, engineering science, etc.

Currently, it houses 30 schools that consisting of 144 teaching and research units, 4 hospitals, 5,578 teachers and staff (among which 2,237 are teaching and research members), 6 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 2 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. The university has 32,109 students, 56 disciplines for graduates, 187 disciplines for postgraduates, 76 specialties for undergraduates, 10 post-doctoral mobile stations, 6 state-level key disciplines, 6 state training bases for teaching and research personnel for fundamental disciplines and 1 state key laboratory.

Lanzhou University actively promotes international exchange and cooperation. So far, it has built up the relationships of academic cooperation and exchange with 50-odd universities and research institutes in more than 30 foreign countries and regions, including the USA, Japan, UK, France, Germany, Australia, Canada, Russia and Hong Kong, to name only a few. In the past five years, it has sent over 500 young teachers to study abroad or to pursue higher degrees, received over 800 foreign experts’ visits for inspections and lectures, and trained over 400 international students from various countries.

Lanzhou University is implementing the strategy of revitalizing the nation through science and education. Its faculty and students will exert advantages in all aspects to work for an internationally renowned university.