Fujian University of Technology

Fujian University of Technology is located in Fuzhou, a renowned historical and cultural city known as a gateway to the Maritime Silk Road. It is a provincial key university centered on engineering, integrating science and engineering and supporting coordinated multidisciplinary development. It was among the Ministry of Education’s first pilot universities for the “Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program,” is a Fujian first-class discipline development university and a Fujian first-class applied university development institution in Category A, and is authorized to award doctoral degrees. In May 2025, it received the title of National Civilized Campus in the third round of selections.

The university has a long educational history. It originated in “Cangxia Jingshe,” founded in 1896 by distinguished local figures of the late Qing period including Chen Bi, Lin Shu and Chen Baochen. The General Gazetteer of Fujian recorded it as “teaching the sciences and marking the beginning of schools in Fuzhou.” It began industrial education in 1907, making it one of China’s earliest schools in this field. In the 1930s it was the renowned “Fujian Advanced Industrial School.” After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, it became a principal school for training technical and managerial professionals for Fujian’s mechanical, electrical and construction industries, known as the province’s “cradle of mechanical and electrical engineers” and the “Whampoa Military Academy of the construction industry.” Its name changed several times with the times. It was upgraded to Fujian University of Technology in 2002 under the Chinese name Fujian Gongcheng Xueyuan, and adopted the Chinese name Fujian Ligong Daxue in 2023.

The university actively develops excellent educational conditions. It has two campuses, Qishan and Gushan, covering approximately 1963 mu. Its fixed assets exceed RMB 2.12632 billion, including teaching and research equipment valued at RMB 555.31 million. It has 33 Chinese and foreign-language databases, over 22000 electronic journals, over 2.32 million printed books and over 2.05 million e-books.

The university has 19 schools or departments and 22383 full-time students, including 2507 full-time master’s students, of whom 31 are international postgraduate students in China. It has 1 first-level doctoral degree authorization, 7 first-level master’s degree authorizations and 15 professional master’s degree authorizations covering 19 professional master’s fields. It has 8 national teaching platforms, including a national experimental teaching demonstration center, a national virtual simulation experimental teaching center, one of the first national modern industry colleges and one of the first national innovation and entrepreneurship education practice bases. It also has 35 provincial teaching platforms, including modern industry colleges, experimental teaching demonstration centers, industry-innovation integration practice bases and jointly developed and shared New Engineering practice platforms.

The university offers a full range of disciplines with distinctive educational strengths. Its 7 categories are engineering, management, literature, science, economics, law and arts. It has gradually developed an overall “three broad areas and one distinctive area” structure: broad mechanical and electrical engineering, broad civil engineering, broad marine engineering, and distinctive New Liberal Arts. Engineering, computer science and materials science rank in the global ESI top 1%. Civil engineering is in the 201—300 band of the ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, while urban and rural planning is in the national top 50% of ShanghaiRanking’s Best Chinese Subjects Ranking. The university pursues substantive program development closely aligned with Fujian’s leading and strategic emerging industries. It has developed 14 national first-class undergraduate program sites, and 15 programs have passed Chinese engineering education accreditation or professional assessment and accreditation by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. It has 13 national courses, including first-class undergraduate courses and model courses integrating ideological and political education. It has received approval for 2 nationally planned regular higher education textbooks and 1 Ministry of Education team for developing the higher education textbook system during the 14th Five-Year Plan. Emphasizing undergraduate teaching reform and innovation, it has won 1 second prize in the National Teaching Achievement Awards and 27 Fujian Teaching Achievement Awards over the most recent five rounds, including 5 special prizes.

The university continually advances its strategy of strengthening itself through talent. It has 1340 full-time teachers, nearly 60% of whom hold doctorates and nearly 50% senior professional titles. Its personnel have received over 160 instances of national or provincial talent recognition, including National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars recipients, leading science and technology talent and top young talent under the national “Ten Thousand Talents Plan,” national selectees of the “Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talents Project,” talent supported by the China Association for Science and Technology’s Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program, and scientists in the global top 2%. Faculty have received 132 instances of honors at provincial department level or above, including National Outstanding Teacher, National May 1 Labor Medal and Fujian Outstanding People’s Teacher. They have won 31 awards in teaching competitions at provincial level or above, including young teacher teaching competitions and teaching innovation competitions. There are 9 nationally or provincially distinguished teachers for ideological and political education in courses and 2 members of Ministry of Education teaching advisory committees. It has established 22 national or provincial teaching and scientific innovation teams.

The university actively focuses on regional industrial development and technological innovation needs, achieving notable social service results. It won 1 second prize in the National Technological Invention Awards in 2013. Over the past five years, it has received 78 National Natural Science Foundation and humanities and social science fund projects, 2 National Key R&D Program projects, 1 International Atomic Energy Agency project and 107 major or key provincial projects. It has 63 provincial or ministerial research innovation platforms, including a Ministry of Culture and Tourism technology innovation center, and has obtained 973 invention patent authorizations. It has won 43 provincial science and technology, social science achievement, patent and other awards, including 7 first prizes.

The university has achieved notable educational outcomes. In the past five years, students have won 343 international honors and 3090 national honors in innovation, entrepreneurship and subject competitions at provincial level or above. These include 5 silver awards in the China International College Students’ Innovation Competition, 1 silver award in the “Challenge Cup” Chinese College Students’ Entrepreneurship Plan Competition and 1 second prize in the “Challenge Cup” National College Students’ Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition. The university has been named a “National May Fourth Red Flag Youth League Committee” and a “National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Practice Base.”

The university follows an open educational approach. It has partnerships with over 90 universities and research institutions in 35 countries and regions and operates inter-university exchanges and joint undergraduate, master’s and doctoral training with over 20 universities in countries and regions including the United States and the United Kingdom. It has 1 Sino-foreign cooperative institution, “Patras International Engineering School at Fujian University of Technology,” and 1 Sino-foreign cooperative program, an undergraduate digital media art program with the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino in Italy. It was selected as a Chinese member institution of the China-Africa Universities Alliance exchange mechanism and participates in transnational education platforms such as the International Scholarly Exchange Curriculum (ISEC) Program and the China-US Talent Training Program. It has been approved for the EU’s Erasmus+ program and attracts over 200 international students from more than 20 countries along the Belt and Road. It has 4 provincial country studies institutions and international science and technology innovation cooperation platforms.

The university implements the central government’s strategic support for Fujian’s exploration of integrated development across the Taiwan Strait. It established the first entry-exit service station for Taiwan residents at a Fujian university and has received approval for 4 provincial Fujian-Taiwan exchange and cooperation platforms. It steadily deepens cooperation with over 20 universities in Taiwan, pioneering comprehensive cooperation between mainland universities and public universities in Taiwan. Through platforms such as its Institute of Austronesian Studies, it helps scholars on both sides trace their roots and origins, deepens understanding of Austronesian history and culture, strengthens shared cultural identification with the pluralistic unity of the Chinese nation and fosters a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation.

A new era brings a new outlook, and new missions call for new action. Upholding the banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics and guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the university implements the spirit of the National Education Conference and the strategy of building a strong education nation. Focusing on its fundamental task of fostering virtue and educating people, it upholds its motto of “Truth, Sincerity, Diligence and Courage,” maintains its applied educational positioning and cultivates innovative, applied and versatile talent. By implementing new thinking, adopting new ideas and building a new university, it will play a greater role in developing new quality productive forces, make further contributions to a new Fujian and create a new stage of high-quality development as a high-level, innovative university of science and technology.