Fujian University of Technology

Fujian University of Technology is located in Fuzhou, A historic and cultural city known as the gateway to the Maritime Silk Road. It is a provincial key university that focuses on engineering, integrates science and engineering, and promotes coordinated development of multiple disciplines. It is one of the first batch of pilot universities for the "Outstanding Engineers Education and Training Program" of the Ministry of Education, a first-class discipline construction university in Fujian Province, and a first-class applied construction university (Class A) in Fujian Province. Doctoral degree-granting institution. In May 2025, the school was awarded the title of National Civilized Campus for the third time.

The school has a long history of running schools, which originated from the "Cangxia Jingshe" founded in 1896 by famous local scholars such as Chen Bi, Lin Shu and Chen Baochen in the late Qing Dynasty. It is recorded in the "General Annals of Fujian" as "teaching various sciences, the beginning of schools in Fuzhou". In 1907, industrial education was initiated, making it one of the earliest schools in China to do so. In the 1930s it was the prestigious "Fujian High School of Technology"; After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it developed into the main school for training technical and management backbones in the mechanical and electrical and construction industries in Fujian Province, and was hailed as the "cradle of mechanical and electrical engineers" and "Whampoa Military Academy of the construction industry" in Fujian Province. The school has changed its name several times. It was upgraded to Fujian University of Technology in 2002 and renamed Fujian University of Technology in 2023.

The school has been working hard to improve its educational conditions and now has two campuses, Qishan and Gushan, covering an area of about 1,963 mu. The total value of the school 's fixed assets exceeded 2,126.32 million yuan, of which the total value of teaching and research equipment was 555.31 million yuan; It has 33 Chinese and foreign databases, more than 22,000 electronic periodicals, more than 2.32 million paper books and more than 2.05 million electronic books.

The university has 19 colleges (departments) and 22,383 full-time students, including 2,507 full-time postgraduate students (including 31 international students). It has 1 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization point, 7 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points and 15 master's professional degree authorization points, covering 19 master's professional degree fields. 8 national-level teaching platforms, including national-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, national-level virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, the first batch of national-level modern industry colleges, and the first batch of national-level innovation and entrepreneurship education practice bases, and 35 provincial-level teaching platforms, including provincial-level modern industry colleges, experimental teaching demonstration centers, industry-innovation integration practice bases, and new engineering co-construction and sharing practice platforms.

The school has a complete range of disciplines and distinct educational characteristics, covering seven disciplines including engineering, management, liberal arts, science, economics, law and art, and has gradually formed an overall layout of "big mechanical and electrical", "big civil engineering", "big Marine engineering" and characteristic new liberal arts. Three disciplines, namely engineering, computer science and materials science, have entered the top 1 percent of ESI global subject rankings. Civil engineering has entered the 201-300 range of the Shanghairanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, and urban and rural planning has entered the top 50% of the Shanghairanking China Best Academic Subjects Ranking. The school adheres to the development of professional connotation, closely follows the development of Fujian Province's leading industries and strategic emerging industries, has established 14 national first-class undergraduate major construction points, and 15 majors have passed the China Engineering Education Professional Accreditation or the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development Professional Evaluation Accreditation. It has 13 national courses, including national first-class undergraduate courses and model courses for ideological and political education in courses. Two national planning textbooks for regular higher education have been approved, and one team for the construction of higher education textbook system during the 14th Five-Year Plan period of the Ministry of Education has been established. Emphasis on innovation and reform in undergraduate education and teaching, one second prize of national teaching achievement Award; 27 of the last five Fujian Provincial Teaching Achievement Awards, including five special prizes.

The school continues to promote the "talent-strong school" strategy. Currently, there are 1,340 full-time teachers, among whom nearly 60% have doctoral degrees and nearly 50% have senior professional titles. It has more than 160 national and provincial talents, including recipients of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, National "Ten Thousand Talents Program" leading talents in science and technology, National "Ten Thousand Talents Program" young top-notch talents, national-level candidates of the "Hundred, Thousand, Ten Thousand Talents Project", China Association for Science and Technology's Youth Support Program, and the world's top 2% scientists. There are 132 recipients of provincial and ministerial-level or higher honors such as National Excellent Teacher, National May Day Labor Medal, and Fujian Province Outstanding People's Teacher, and 31 awards in provincial or higher teaching competitions such as Teaching Competition for Young Teachers and Teaching Innovation Competition. Nine national and provincial-level teaching masters of ideological and political education in courses, and two members of the Teaching Guidance Committee of the Ministry of Education. 22 national and provincial-level teaching and technological innovation teams have been established.

The school actively focuses on regional industrial development and technological innovation demands, and has achieved remarkable results in serving society. In 2013, it won the second prize of the National Invention Award. In the past five years, 78 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation and the National Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation, 2 projects of the National Key Research and Development Program of Science and Technology, 1 project of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and 107 provincial major (key) projects have been obtained; 63 provincial and ministerial-level research and innovation platforms, including the Ministry of Culture and Tourism Technology Innovation Center, have been established, and 973 invention patents have been authorized. 43 provincial-level science and technology awards, social science achievement awards, patent awards, etc., including 7 first prizes.

The school has achieved remarkable results in nurturing students. In the past five years, students have won 343 international honors and 3,090 national honors in innovation and entrepreneurship and subject competitions at or above the provincial level, including 5 silver awards in the China International College Students Innovation Competition, 1 silver award in the Challenge Cup China College Students' Business Plan Competition, and 1 second prize in the Challenge Cup National College Students' Extracurricular Academic and Technological Works Competition. It has been awarded the title of "National May 4th Red Flag Youth League Committee" and "National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Practice Base".

The school adheres to open education and has established cooperative relations with more than 90 universities and research institutions in 35 countries and regions, and has carried out intercollegiate exchange, undergraduate, master's and doctoral joint training programs with more than 20 universities in the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries and regions. It has one Sino-foreign cooperative education institution, Fujian University of Technology Patrice International Engineering College, and one Sino-foreign cooperative education program, Digital Media Art Undergraduate Education Program, in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts of Turin, Italy. Selected as a Chinese member of the "China-Africa University Alliance" exchange mechanism, included in the "International Undergraduate Academic Recognition Program (ISEC)", "China-Us Talent Development Program" and other transnational educational exchange platforms, approved for the EU "Erasmus +" program, and attracted more than 200 international students from over 20 countries along the "Belt and Road" to study at the university. There are currently four provincial country-specific research institutions and international cooperation technology innovation platforms.

The university implements the strategic deployment of the central government to support Fujian in exploring the integrated development of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. It has established the first Taiwan resident entry and exit service station among Fujian universities, and has been approved for four provincial-level platforms for exchanges and cooperation between Fujian and Taiwan. It has also made solid progress in in-depth cooperation with more than 20 universities in Taiwan, pioneering all-round cooperation between universities on the Chinese mainland and public universities in Taiwan. Through the establishment of platforms such as the Austronesian Language Institute, it promotes scholars on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to trace their roots, deepen their understanding of the history and culture of the Austronesian language family, enhance the cultural identity of the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait with the diversity and unity of the Chinese nation, and consolidate the awareness of the Chinese nation as a community.

The new era brings new looks, and new missions call for new actions. Implement new ideas, establish new concepts, build a new university, show greater achievements in developing new quality productive forces, make new and greater contributions to serving the construction of new Fujian, and strive to create a new situation of high-quality development of a high-level innovative university of science and technology.