Founded in 1911, it is a well-known provincial institution of higher learning in finance and economics, which mainly promotes the coordinated development of economics and management, as well as law, engineering and other disciplines, and its statistics and business administration disciplines have been selected into the list of provincial advantageous and characteristic disciplines
Zhejiang Gongshang University, located in Hangzhou, the capital city of Zhejiang Province, was formerly known as Hangzhou Secondary Business School, which was founded in 1911. In 1980, Hangzhou Business School was established with the approval of the State Council, and in 2004, it was renamed Zhejiang Gongshang University with the approval of the Ministry of Education. For more than 100 years, the school has been adhering to the tradition of running a business school, especially since 1998, when it was changed from a college directly under the Ministry of Commerce to "jointly built by the central and local governments, with local management as the mainstay", the school has adhered to the road of running a school with special characteristics, focusing on economics and management, and coordinating the development of multiple disciplines such as law and engineering, and continuously improving the level of running a school. In 2015, the university was identified as a university jointly established by the Zhejiang Provincial People's Government, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Education. In 2017, the university was identified as a key construction university in Zhejiang Province, and the disciplines of statistics and business administration were selected into the list of provincial advantageous and characteristic disciplines.
The university has 9 university disciplines, including management, economics, engineering, literature, law, science, history, philosophy, and art, and has the right to confer doctorates, master's degrees, bachelor's degrees, master's professional degrees, and foreign students, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan students. There are more than 27,900 full-time students, including more than 22,800 undergraduates, more than 3,500 graduate students, and nearly 1,600 international students.
The school consists of the School of Business Administration (including Zhejiang Business Research Institute), the School of Tourism and Urban-Rural Planning, the School of Finance and Accounting, the School of Statistics and Mathematics, the School of Economics, the School of Finance, the School of Food and Biological Engineering, the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, the School of Information and Electronic Engineering, the School of Computer and Information Engineering, the School of Management Engineering and E-Commerce (including the Modern Business and Trade Research Center), the School of Law (School of Intellectual Property), the School of Humanities and Communication, the School of Public Administration, the School of Foreign Chinese Languages, the School of Oriental Languages and Cultures, There are 25 colleges, including the School of Art and Design, the School of Marxism, the International Business School, the Hangzhou Business School (Independent College), the Zhang Naiqi College (the School of Entrepreneurship), the MBA College, the School of International Education (including the Alliance Française), the School of Continuing Education, the People's Armed Forces College, and the Modern Business Research Center, the Zhejiang Entrepreneurs Research Institute, the East Asia Research Institute, the Collaborative Innovation Center for the Construction of Modern Commerce and Trade Circulation System, the Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Food Safety and Nutrition, and the Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Solid Waste Treatment and Resource Utilization. There are nearly 100 research institutions, including the Engineering Laboratory of E-commerce and Business Big Data Technology, Zhejiang Industrial Environmental Protection Design and Research Institute, China Academy of Commerce, China-Arab Belt and Road Research Center, China Internet Culture Industry Research Institute, Big Data and Statistical Index Research Institute, etc.
The school has established the goal of cultivating application-oriented, interdisciplinary and innovative talents and the talent training concept of "professional success and spiritual adult", and strives to embody the characteristics of "big business" talent training. At present, there are 2 national-level talent training model innovation experimental areas, 1 national-level excellent agriculture and forestry (food) talent training base, 1 national-level excellent legal talent education and training base, 5 national-level characteristic majors, 15 provincial-level key majors, and 67 undergraduate majors. It has 1 national teaching team, 3 national excellent courses, 1 national bilingual teaching demonstration course, and 3 national experimental teaching demonstration centers.
The school implements "large-category enrollment" for 28 provinces (municipalities and districts) across the country, and the first "new college entrance examination" large-category enrollment plan in 2017 was completed online. In 2006, he was awarded the excellent evaluation of undergraduate teaching by the Ministry of Education. Since 2008, when the province carried out the undergraduate teaching performance assessment, the school has ranked among the top 5, and in 2016, it ranked second among the universities in the province.
The university has 3 first-level discipline doctoral programs, 23 second-level discipline doctoral programs, 15 first-level discipline master's programs, 92 second-level discipline master's programs, 13 master's professional degree categories (covering 21 enrollment fields), and 3 postdoctoral mobile stations. In the selection of provincial first-class disciplines at the beginning of 2016, 13 disciplines of the university were approved as first-class disciplines in Zhejiang Province, ranking high among provincial universities.
The university has a number of high-level scientific research platforms: 1 key research base of humanities and social sciences jointly established by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Education, 1 cultivation base of the "National and Regional Research Center" of the Ministry of Education, 1 national sub-center of agricultural product processing technology research and development, 2 Zhejiang 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center, 2 Zhejiang Provincial Key Research Bases of Philosophy and Social Sciences, 6 Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratories, 3 Zhejiang Provincial Engineering Laboratories, 2 Zhejiang Provincial International Science and Technology Cooperation Bases, and 1 Provincial Industry Innovation Platform. 1 "Internet Application Innovation Open Platform Demonstration Base" of the Science and Technology Development Center of the Ministry of Education, 1 Zhejiang Provincial Statistical Science Research Base, and 2 Zhejiang Provincial Social Science Popularization Demonstration Bases. At the same time, it also has 6 key innovation teams in Zhejiang Province and 6 innovation teams in colleges and universities in Zhejiang Province.
The school has made outstanding achievements in scientific research and social services, and has won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the Outstanding Achievement Award of Humanities and Social Sciences in Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education, and the Outstanding Achievement Award of Science and Technology. In cooperation with relevant state departments, the China-Arab Belt and Road Research Center and the China Internet Culture Industry Research Institute have been established, and the relevant policy recommendations have been approved or adopted by the leaders of the State Council, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government. More than 10 indexes, such as Yiwu Small Commodity Index and Zhongguancun Electronic Product Index, developed by the school's statistics team, have the status of market vane. The Zhejiang Merchants Museum hosted by the school has become an important window to display the achievements of Zhejiang businessmen, spread the culture of Zhejiang businessmen, and promote the spirit of Zhejiang businessmen.
The "Business Economics and Management" and "Journal of Zhejiang Gongshang University" published by the university are publicly distributed at home and abroad. Business Economics and Management is a national core journal of Chinese, a core journal of Chinese humanities and social sciences and a source journal of Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index (CSSCI), and has been rated as a national university excellent social science journal and a national top 30 university social science journal. Journal of Zhejiang Gongshang University is an excellent social science journal in national universities, a core academic journal of RCCSE in China (Class A), a CSSCI source journal, and an important source journal of the National People's Congress. Zhejiang Gongshang University Press is one of the three university presses in Zhejiang Province.
The school has more than 2,280 faculty members, including more than 1,790 full-time teachers, 57 doctoral supervisors, more than 300 senior professional titles, more than 710 associate senior professional titles, and more than 790 doctoral degrees. It has double-employed academicians, special experts in Zhejiang Province, candidates for the national "Ten Thousand Talents Program" and the national "New Century Millions of Talents Project", national "Thousand Talents Program" talents, national "four batches" talents, the Ministry of Education's "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program", provincial experts with outstanding contributions, provincial "Thousand Talents Program" talents, provincial "Qianjiang Scholars" distinguished professors, provincial famous teachers and other high-level talents.
In 2016, the school was approved as the first batch of construction units of "Zhejiang Province International Characteristic Universities". There are nearly 1,600 international students from 100 countries and regions around the world, distributed in 11 colleges, and 13 undergraduate, 15 master's and 4 doctoral programs have implemented all-foreign language teaching. It has signed inter-university cooperation agreements with more than 100 universities and scientific research institutions in more than 20 countries, including the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea. It has carried out extensive international exchanges and cooperation in the fields of East Asian studies, food safety, economic management, and information technology. At present, there are many training and cooperation programs in Chinese and Chinese language and culture, China and Chinese business, and business Chinese. Since 2004, the school has cooperated with the University of Quebec in Canada to train a Master of Project Management (MPM). Alliance Française of Zhejiang Gongshang University is the only partner of Alliance Française in Zhejiang Province. The university cooperated with the University of West Flanders in Belgium to establish a Confucius Institute.
The school covers an area of 1,657,800 square meters, which is divided into Xiasha Campus, Jiaogong Road Campus and Tonglu Campus of Hangzhou Business School. The total value of teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment is 386 million yuan, and there are more than 8,380 teaching computers. The library has more than 328 paper books and 90,000 GB of digital resources.
Zhejiang Gongshang University adheres to the school motto of "Sincerity, Perseverance, Diligence and Simplicity", and is vigorously implementing the development strategy of "Strengthening the University with Innovation, Characteristic Famous School, Integrated Development, and Striving for First-class", and strives to build a first-class and internationally renowned high-level university in China.
