Lanzhou University of Technology is located in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province. It is a university jointly established by Gansu Provincial People's Government, Ministry of Education and National Defense Science, Technology and Industry Bureau, and it is the first batch of high-level universities in Gansu Province. The basic capacity building project of universities in the central and western regions, the national innovative experimental plan for college students and the outstanding engineer plan of the Ministry of Education were selected into universities and national defense education characteristic schools.
The school was formerly the Gansu Technical School founded by 19 19. 1958, on the basis of establishing Lanzhou Institute of Technology, Gansu Jiaotong University was merged and named Gansu University of Technology. 1965, the school was placed under the first Ministry of Machinery Industry. At the same time, the departments of hydraulic machinery, chemical machinery, oil and mineral machinery, welding technology and equipment of Northeast Heavy Machinery Institute and Beijing Institute of Machinery all moved in, and a group of teachers were transferred from Hunan University and Hefei University of Technology to work in the school.
1998, transformed into an institution of "central and local * * * construction, focusing on local management"; In 2003, it was officially renamed Lanzhou University of Technology. After a hundred years of construction and development, the school has gradually formed the "Liu Hong Spirit" with the main connotation of "hard work, self-improvement, seeking truth from facts, pioneering and innovating", and has cast the spirit of "seeking truth from facts", basically built first-class engineering, solid science and distinctive liberal arts, and entered the ranks of high-level universities of similar universities in China.
The school has 19 college, 1 teaching and research section, graduate school and Wenzhou graduate school. There are 29,975 full-time students, including 22,632 undergraduates, 6,398 postgraduates and 448 international students. At present, there are two campuses, Langongping Campus and Pengjiaping Campus, covering an area of 2,430 mu, with a building area of 1.2 1.000 square meters, a library with 21.6 million books, e-books 1.22 million books, a laboratory area of more than 50,000 square meters, and the asset value of teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment.