Lishui University

Lishui University is a regional public comprehensive university which offers undergraduate education at the moment. The university was established in May, 2004 with the approval of the State Ministry of Education of China on the basis of Lishui Teachers' College and Lishui Vocational & Technical College. Though a newly established university, its history can be traced back to Chuzhou Teachers' School for training elementary school teachers founded in 1907 by Mr. SUN Yirang, a master of Chinese culture of the late Qing dynasty. So the institution has over a century's experience. The young university's ambition is to develop itself into one of China's top-notch local universities with its own distinctive characteristics among those established in the 21st century and begin to offer master education in 5 years' time. It successfully received the Undergraduate Education Quality Review by the State Ministry of Education of China in May, 2010. Situated in a leafy surrounding, Lishui University covers a total area of over 65 hectares of parkland with a total building area of over 320,000 square meters. Its library boasts a collection of 1.48 million volume books and over 2,000 periodicals. In addition, it has a collection of 636,000 e-books and more than 2.4 million master theses and doctorate dissertations. Up to now, 22 various laboratories and training centers have been established on campus.