Suzhou University of Science and Technology, referred to as Suzhou University of Science and Technology, is located in Suzhou, a famous historical and cultural city in China, adjacent to Shihu Lake. It is a comprehensive general institution of higher learning jointly funded by the central and local governments, Jiangsu Province and Suzhou City, and mainly managed by Jiangsu Province. The school has ten disciplines, and it is a comprehensive university with distinctive characteristics in engineering, science, arts and sciences, management, art and other disciplines. Suzhou University of Science and Technology, formerly known as Suzhou Institute of Science and Technology, was formed by the merger of Suzhou Institute of Urban Construction and Environmental Protection, a university directly under the former Ministry of Construction, and Suzhou Railway Teachers College, a university directly under the former Ministry of Railways, in September 20001. On March 20 16, it was renamed Suzhou University of Science and Technology with the approval of the Ministry of Education. 1 Suzhou university of science and technology covers an area of 2008 mu, with Jiangfeng, Shihu and Tian Ping campuses, 14 colleges (departments) and 58 undergraduate majors, with a school building area of nearly 600,000 square meters and a teaching and research administration building area of nearly 400,000 square meters. The library has a collection of/kloc-0.62 million volumes, 33 electronic databases in Chinese and foreign languages, and 2.68 million kinds of electronic documents. There are more than 25,000 full-time undergraduates and more than 0/000 graduate students. Since its establishment, the school has trained more than 80,000 undergraduates including Zhou Xiyuan, academician of China Academy of Sciences, and Ye Keming, academician of China Academy of Engineering, and more than 500 full-time graduate students/kloc-0.