Founded by the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in 1984, Zhejiang Shuren University (ZJSRU) is one of the first batch of full-time private undergraduate institutions of higher education in China approved by the Ministry of Education and supervised by the Provincial Department of Education. Its educational path has been fully affirmed by the then Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Comrade Xi Jinping, in September, 2004, when he came to visit our university and put forward ardent hopes.

Since its foundation, our university has vigorously promoted the Shuren Spirit while firmly maintaining a socialist orientation in running educational institutions and upholding the principle of non-profit educational operation, as well as the fundamental task of Fostering Virtue Through Education, thus steadily promoting its educational quality and social reputation. Our university has two campuses, namely, Hangzhou Gongchenqiao Campus and Shaoxing Yangxunqiao Campus, covering an area of over 1,230 mu, with a construction area of around 670,000 square meters. The total value of teaching and research equipment assets is about 480 million yuan. There are over 2.26 million volumes of paper books and over 2.8 million kinds of e-books in its library’s collection, with the venues well-equipped with advanced facilities. There are over 17,000 full-time students and over 200 jointly-educated postgraduates on campus. Our university has cultivated nearly 120,000 outstanding talents of various types for the country and society including entrepreneurs serving Fortune Global 500 companies and Zhejiang craftsmen. Our university has passed the Qualification Assessment of Undergraduate Teaching by the Ministry of Education in 2011, identified as the Zhejiang Provincial Model Institution for Application-Oriented Education Pilot Reform in 2015, approved as a Master’s degree-granting Unit in 2024, ranking first among private universities in China in the ShanghaiRanking’s 2025 Best Chinese Universities Ranking.

Our university maintains the strategy of building institutional strength through disciplinary excellence. There are 8 discipline categories (Medicine, Literature, Economics, Management Science, Science, Law, Engineering and Art Studies) and 5 provincial first-class disciplines including Clinical Medicine (Grade A) as well as 4 key discipline construction platforms in our university. Our university has 12 secondary colleges including Shulan International Medical College and 4 research institutes, offering 52 undergraduate programs and 8 Junior College Programs. Among them there are 1 national first-class undergraduate program, 1 national characteristic program, 4 provincial key programs and 11 provincial first-class undergraduate programs as well as 4 provincial “13th Five-Year Plan” advantageous and emerging characteristic programs. Our university offers over 2,000 courses, among which there are 2 national first-class undergraduate courses and 106 provincial first-class undergraduate courses. Our university is driving a new round of leapfrog development of disciplines with the construction of new medical science, actively promoting cross-disciplinary integration in medicine, science, engineering, humanities and social sciences.

Our university maintains an application-oriented positioning. Our university persists in the collaboration among schools, governments and enterprises, and deepens the integration of industry, academia and research to actively serve the high-quality development of the regional economy and society as well as the major strategic demands of national development. There are 12 industry colleges established, including the Smart Health and Elderly Care Industry College, which is among the first batch of key-supported modern industry colleges in Zhejiang Province. There are over 220 off-campus internship and training bases in our university. Among them there are 1 national off-campus practical education base for college students, 3 provincial off-campus practical education bases for college students, 1 provincial industry-education integration talent cultivation alliance and 3 provincial industry-education integration demonstration bases (talent cultivation type). In the last three years, our university has won over 1,000 awards in various national and provincial science and technology competitions for college students.

Our university maintains the strategy of talent-driven university development. Our university currently has over 1,400 staff members, including more than 1,130 full-time teachers. Among them, over 500 have doctoral degrees, and more than 90% hold master’s degrees or above. There are also more than 400 teachers with senior professional titles. Our university has introduced and trained over 70 high-level talents recently, such as the National Excellent Teachers, the Provincial Teaching Masters, the Leaders of the Provincial “Special Support Program”, the Young Top-Notch Talents, the Provincial Teaching Elites and the New Century Talents of the Ministry of Education, as well as the Provincial Mid-Career Academic Leaders. Our university has hired over 10 high-level talents, including Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, foreign academicians, Distinguished Young Scholars, National Teaching Masters and experts enjoying special government allowances of the State Council. Thus, a strong, well-structured and dynamic talent team has been initially formed. Our university will further deepen the Strategy of Strengthening the University through Talents, comprehensively enhance the development of the “Three Teams”, and accelerate the building of a first-class faculty.

Our university maintains the strategy of research empowerment. Our university currently has 9 provincial and ministerial-level scientific research platforms, including the Innovation and Development Center for Ideological and Political Work in Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education, Belarus Country and Regional Research Center of the Ministry of Education, International Science and Technology Cooperation Base for Remote Sensing Image Processing and Applications, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Pollution Exposure and Health Intervention, Zhejiang Modern Service Industry Research Center, Zhejiang-Netherlands Joint Laboratory of Digital Diagnosis and Treatment for Oral Diseases, Provincial Key Laboratory of Artificial Organs and Computational Medicine, Zhejiang Engineering Research Center for Smart Health Public Services and Collaborative Innovation Center for Whole-Process Monitoring and Green Management of Emerging Pollutants. In the last three years, our university has obtained over 170 provincial and ministerial-level or higher scientific research projects and over 1,000 core and above-level papers, monographs, and approved achievements. The scientific research funds in 2024 have exceeded 200 million yuan. The Journal of Zhejiang Shuren University has its academic influence steadily elevated.

Our university maintains open educational practices. Laying the emphasis on international cooperation and exchanges, our university has signed inter-university cooperation agreements with over 90 colleges and institutions in countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Australia, Italy, Spain, Belarus, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and the Philippines, as well as regions such as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. A close collaborative relationship has been established. Our university has led and established the Cross-Strait, Hong Kong and Macao Private Education Research Alliance. Laying the emphasis on the cultivation of international talents, our university selects a certain number of outstanding students to go to overseas universities for exchange and study every year.

Four decades of excellence, bearing fruits of wisdom and mentorship. On a new start for its new journey, our university upholds the guidance of the Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly studies, propagates and implements the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the CPC, while earnestly implementing the spirit of Xi Jinping’s important speeches during his visit to our university. In addition to remembering the instructions and bravely shouldering the mission, our university vigorously promotes the Shuren Spirit and the Spirit of Educators. Anchoring the goal of building a high-level applied comprehensive university, our university focuses on high-quality connotative development, and deepens education and teaching reforms. Focusing on cultivating a new generation capable of undertaking the mission of national rejuvenation, our university strives to chart a new “Shuren chapter” in building a distinctive prestigious university and explore the “Shuren Path” of high-quality development and non-profit education.

(Data Cut-off Date: July 15, 2025)