Wenzhou University (WZU), the only comprehensive university across the region of Southern Zhejiang Province, Northern Fujian Province and Eastern Jiangxi Province, and the key university supported by Zhejiang Municipal Government, is located in Wenzhou City, a dynamic historical and cultural city which boasts its distinct natural scenery. Its predecessors include Wenzhou Normal College (founded in 1956, evolved from Wenzhohu Normal School established in 1933) and former Wenzhou University (founded in 1984), the two of which were merged in 2004. In the past 88 years, many talented professionals have contributed to the growth and prosperity of the University, one of which was Academician Gu Chaohao, the winner of the China’s highest science and technology award, who worked here as the president.

We provide undergraduate programs, postgraduate programs, continued education programs, international student programs, and international exchange/joint education programs in 20 colleges/schools. The disciplines include arts, science, engineering, law, education, economics, history, management and fine arts.

With two campuses respectively located at Chashan Town and Xueyuan Road, Wenzhou University covers a total land area of 1973.44 mu (approximately 1,315,626.67 sq.m.). The main campus has a library collection of 2,315,700 paper books and 1,844,800 E-books, as well as various electronic periodicals in Chinese and foreign languages and 93 databases. We currently employ 1,202 academic staff, 737 (61.15%) of which have doctoral degrees and 686 (57.07%) have senior professional titles. We also have 27 national-level talents including academicians, Yangtze River scholars, highly distinguished medium-aged and young experts, candidates for “national talent project”, national outstanding youth fund winners, etc. 158 academic professionals were selected as talents at or above provincial level in total.

Having been granted the qualification of awarding the master’s degree in 2003, we provide 17 postgraduate programs (academic pathway) for first-level disciplines and 12 postgraduate programs (professional pathway). In 2017, WZU was granted the qualification to apply for doctoral programs. We have a post-doctoral workstation and cooperate with 18 well-known universities and research institutions at home and abroad to train doctors and post-doctors. Ecology is rated as the key discipline of Zhejiang Province, and other 9 disciplines, including chemistry, Chinese language and literature, electrical engineering, law, Marxist theory, applied economics, mechanical engineering, ecology, and civil engineering, are rated first-class disciplines in the Province. Chemistry, materials science, and engineering are among the top 1% of ESI ranking in the world.

Teaching Quality. We have 15 national first-class undergraduate programs, 9 provincial first-class programs, and 18 national-level courses. 4 programs are certified by the Ministry of Education for engineering education and 3 for teacher training. The University has so far been subsidized with 100 million yuan for industry-education integration projects.

Scientific Research. We pursue the coordinated development of basic and applied research, and the synchronized advancement of humanities and social sciences, natural sciences and engineering technology research, all of which has put WZU among the cohort of national intellectual property pilot universities. We are proud to have 3 national-level scientific research platforms, 29 provincial-level scientific research platforms, 4 provincial key innovation teams and 4 provincial high-level university teams. Our academic staff has undertaken 9 national key science and technology projects, 2 projects with grant from National Science Fund for Outstanding Youths, 2 projects with grant from National Science Funds for Excellent Youths, 32 projects with grant from National Natural Science Fund and Social Science Fund, and 673 other national projects. They have also published 235 books, and won 145 national, provincial and ministerial awards such as the second prize of National Technological Invention, the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress, the first prize of Excellent Scientific Research Achievement Award (Humanities and Social Sciences) sponsored by Ministry of Education, and the Chinese Patent Gold Award.

Industry-university-research Cooperation. To serve the local community, we built 9 industrial research institutes and 3 provincial industrial innovation service complexes together with the local government, and the number of patent commercialization ranks 74th among domestic universities. We are contributing to the regional industrial transformation & upgrading with our research in ecological protection, laser photoelectric technology, and low-voltage electrical appliances. The national-level “Distributed sewage treatment technology” has been applied in 8 places including Wenchang National Aerospace Launch Base. We have also built China’s first cyanobacteria bloom physical jet treatment ship to help address the environmental problems. The “Island special power supply system”, which won China Patent Gold Medal promotes the rapid development of national islands, port construction and shipbuilding. The fast laser precision processing technology, the brainchild of a national key R&D project has helped solve the problem of manufacturing air film holes in C919 large aircraft blades. The course General Theory of the History of Ancient Chinese Opera, which won the first prize for outstanding teaching achievements sponsored by the Ministry of Education promotes the inheritance and innovation of excellent traditional culture. We also fully utilized our teacher training resources, established a basic education development center, and expanded the construction of affiliated schools. 10 affiliated primary and secondary schools and kindergartens have been built to meet the local demands for education.

Global Footprint. We, together with Kean University in the United States, built Wenzhou-Kean University. Rated as “Zhejiang Key University with High-quality International Exchange and Cooperation”, we have established good relationship with 125 universities across 27 countries and regions, and built a Confucius Institute at Burapha University in Thailand. The “International Water Ecology and Environmental Research Center” and the “International Water Resource and Ecology Research Center” were jointly established with the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University, respectively. We worked with Samara State Aerospace University in Russia, North Columbia University in Canada, Chonnam University in South Korea, etc. to train doctoral students. The establishment of College of Overseas Chinese in 2020 further underlines our advantages in Overseas Chinese Education.