Lanzhou University Lanzhou University, for short, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of education of the people's Republic of China. It is under the direct control of the central government. It is jointly constructed 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. It is a class a university. It is a national "985 Project" and "211 Project" key university. It is selected into the national "Everest plan", "2011 plan" and "1 project" 11 program, excellent legal personnel education and training program, excellent doctor education and training program, excellent agriculture and forestry personnel education and training program, National College Students' innovative experiment program, National College Students' innovation and entrepreneurship training program, national construction of high-level university public postgraduate program, new engineering research and practice program, Chinese government scholarship receiving institutions for foreign students in China, all over the world It is one of the first batch of universities in China with the right to grant bachelor's, master's and doctor's degrees and the first batch of universities to set up post doctoral research mobile stations. It is an independent degree authorization auditing unit and a pilot University of the strong foundation program.Lanzhou University was founded in 1909, its predecessor was Gansu law and politics school established during the New Deal period in the late Qing Dynasty; it was expanded to Lanzhou Zhongshan University in 1928; it was named national Lanzhou University in 1946. In 1952, Lanzhou University was identified as one of the 14 national comprehensive universities; in 1954, postgraduate education began; in 2001, the Ministry of education and Gansu provincial government signed an agreement on key joint construction between the province and the Ministry; in 2002 and 2004, the former Gansu Grassland Ecological Research Institute and Lanzhou Medical College joined Lanzhou University.As of November 2019, Yuzhong and Chengguan campuses cover an area of 3545 mu, with 42 teaching and research units and 103 undergraduate majors; there are 21 post doctoral research stations, 24 first-class discipline doctoral programs, 1 professional degree doctoral program, 45 first-class discipline master programs and 21 professional degree master programs; there are 19964 undergraduate students, 11408 master students and 2885 doctoral students; There are 2228 teaching and research personnel.