About ECUST

East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST, http://www.ecust.edu.cn/s/2/t/209/main.htm), originally named East China Institute of Chemical Technology, was founded in 1952. Its history dates back to 100 years to Nanyang Public School and Aurora University, its predecessor institutions. It was the first single-subject institute in China, consolidated by the chemistry departments of Jiaotong University, Aurora University, Utopia University, Soochow University and Jiangnan University, during a nation-wide restructuring of the country’s universities in the early 1950’s. It was among the first to be granted the permission to admit postgraduates in 1956. It was designated as a national key university by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in 1960 and renamed to its current name by the State Ministry of Education in 1993. In June 1996, ECUST was admitted into the national key subjects of the “211 Project”. It has been under the joint construction and administration of Shanghai Municipal Government and the State Ministry of Education since October 1997. Its graduate school was approved by the Ministry of Education of China in June 2000, and was picked to construct the Project 985 Innovation Platform in 2008. It is among the first 22 universities to implement the Admission Reform in China. With the effort of half a century, the University has developed itself into a national key research university with distinct characteristics of each discipline and a coordinated development of multi-disciplines.