Lanzhou City University Located in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province, the University was founded in 2006. It is a member unit of Applied Technology University (College) alliance, Gansu University Teacher Education Alliance, Anning five university strategic alliance, National Petroleum University Cooperation Conference, CDIO Engineering Education Alliance, and one of the first batch of Applied Technology University Pilot Universities in Gansu Province, supported by East China Normal University.Its predecessor is Lanzhou Teachers College, which was founded in June 1958, and Peili Petroleum School, which was founded in May 1942 by New Zealand friend Louis Ailey. In February 2006, it was approved by the Ministry of education as a provincial full-time regular undergraduate college. In August 2007, with the approval of Gansu provincial government, Gansu preschool normal school was integrated into the school as a whole.As of November 2018, the university has three campuses, namely the headquarters, Peili and East campuses, covering an area of 505400 square meters, with 18 secondary departments and 52 undergraduate majors, 2 provincial key disciplines, 8 provincial characteristic majors and nearly 1150 staff.