Facts and figures

•  Established in 1911 as “Hangzhou Business School” 
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•  Renamed in 1980 as “Hangzhou Institute of Commerce”
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•  Renamed in 2004 as “Zhejiang Gongshang University”
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•  Student populations: 26,000 students, including 1000 international students
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•  Library collection: 2.5 million books, 3000 journals & newspapers, over 21,000 digital journals  
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•  Total floor-space: 956,000 square meters, including two libraries (over 55,000 m2), classroom and office buildings (428,000 m2), and dorms (413,000 m2), gyms (46,000 m2)
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•  Assets: 1.81 billion RMB
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•  Equipments: 2.62 billion RMB, including 9000 computers for teaching, multi-media space with 41,888 seat capacity.
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•  Ranked as "Grade A" university by Ministry of Education in 2007
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• In 2008, won the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award - "Key Technology for Storage and Processing Capacity of Major Perishable and Browning Characteristic Fruits in the South"
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• In 2009, it was approved by the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Science and Technology as the "Innovation Team for Aquatic Products Processing Industry" of the Zhejiang Provincial Key Innovation 
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• In 2011, it was approved as a joint key laboratory for research on aquatic product processing technology in Zhejiang Province
• 2012: Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai Institute of Life Sciences Zhejiang Gongshang University Joint Institute of Food Nutrition Sciences was established
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• In September 2013, the Xiasha Building (Beinmei Building) of the college was officially opened, and the administrative body of the college was relocated to the new building for office work
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• October 2013: Approved as the second unit of Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Fruit and Vegetable Preservation and Processing Technology Research
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• February 2014: Food Science and Engineering was awarded the top priority first level discipline in Zhejiang Province during the 12th Five Year Plan period
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• In June 2014, the Food Engineering and Quality Safety Experimental Teaching Center was awarded the "Twelfth Five Year Plan" Provincial Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center (Key Construction)
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• In September 2014, the innovation and practice of the "integration of industry and commerce" talent training model for food majors won the first prize for teaching achievements in Zhejiang Province
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• In September 2014, the Food Science and Engineering major was awarded the construction project of emerging characteristic majors in ordinary universities in Zhejiang Province during the 12th Five Year Plan period
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• In October 2014, we were awarded the first batch of national pilot projects for the reform of the cultivation mode of outstanding agricultural and forestry talents (food)
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• In January 2015, the Food Engineering and Quality Safety Experimental Teaching Center was approved as a national level experimental teaching demonstration center
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• In June 2015, the Modern Food Safety and Nutrition Collaborative Innovation Center was approved as the "2011 Collaborative Innovation Center" in Zhejiang Province
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• January 2016: Food Science and Engineering was awarded the first-class discipline (Class A) in Zhejiang Province
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• May 2016: Food Science (belonging to the Agricultural Science category) entered the top 1% of global ESI rankings
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• In July 2016, the Food Science and Engineering major was certified by the International Food Science and Technology Alliance
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• November 2016: Won the gold medal in the 2016 "Creating Youth" National College Student Innovation Competition
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• In November 2016, the LMWZ Food Science and Nutrition Research Alliance was established
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• December 2016: Food Science and Engineering was awarded the "13th Five Year Plan" for the construction of advantageous majors in Zhejiang Province's universities
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• In March 2017, Zhu Beiwei was appointed as a "Double Appointed Academician" of our university
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• In April 2017, the Food Quality and Safety major was awarded the "Thirteenth Five Year Plan" for the construction of characteristic majors in Zhejiang Province's universities
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• October 2017: Approved as the Zhejiang Province International Science and Technology Cooperation Base for "Food Nutrition and Functional Food"
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• In November 2017, an international conference titled "Food Science and Nutrition Plus Alliance - Food Industry Forum" was held
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• In March 2018, the second level discipline of doctoral degree authorization (Food Science) was added to the first level discipline (Food Science and Engineering)
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• September 2018: Approved for Zhejiang Engineering Laboratory of Functional Food Manufacturing“
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• In December 2018, the Food Quality and Safety program was certified by the International Food Technology Alliance
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• December 2018: Approved as the "National Center for Functional Fermented Food Digestion and Nutrition Evaluation"
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• In April 2019, our university officially signed a joint undergraduate and graduate training agreement with the University of Leeds in the food industry
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• October 2019: Convened the International Conference on Food Science and Nutrition - Frontier Forum of Disciplines
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• October 2019: Establishment of the International Postdoctoral Innovation Center for Food Science and Nutrition
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• December 2019: Food Science and Engineering was selected as a first-class undergraduate major construction site in Zhejiang Province
• December 2019: Food Quality and Safety Major was selected as a national first-class undergraduate major construction site
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• In December 2019, "Key Technologies for Targeted Screening and Industrialized Application of Functional Lactic Acid Bacteria" won the Second Prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award
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• In June 2020, the Food Science and Engineering major passed the Engineering Education Professional Certification of the Ministry of Education
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• September 2020: Approved for the Ministry of Education's New Agricultural Science Research and Reform Practice Project
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• April 2021: Approved Food Function and Nutrition Health Discipline Innovation Introduction Base (National "111" Introduction Base)
• November 2021: Joined the Finland China Food and Health Network (FCFH)
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• June 2022: The Food Science and Engineering major was approved as a national first-class professional construction site under the Double 10000 Plan
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• In December 2022, the "Zhejiang UK Food Sensory Science Joint Laboratory" was recognized by the International Joint Laboratory of the Provincial Department of Science and Technology
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• December 2022: The food discipline was selected as a first-class discipline in the provincial "14th Five Year Plan" Class A