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Zhejiang University Advances. Zhejiang University by the West Lake in Hangzhou is ushering in the 85th anniversary of its founding. Teachers and students of the school will celebrate the occasion with abundant gains of teaching and scientific research. As one of the key institutes of higher learning, Zhejiang University is previously the "Qiushi College" founded in 1897. It changed its name repeatedly and became the State Zhejiang University in 1928. Professor Zhu Kezhen, a noted Chinese scientist, had been its president for a long time. Joseph Needham, Professor of Cambridge University and Head of the China Scientific Investigation Group from Britain in 1944 once called the university as "Cambridge in east". In 1952, the school merged parts of Zhijiang University and Xiamen (Amoy) University to become a new type university of science and engineering. Its liberal arts, agricultural and medical departments either were incorporated in an universities or upgraded to become separate colleges. Zhejiang University boasts 15 departments, 29 specialities and 7 research institutes devoted to optical instruments, chemical engineering, electrotechnics, materials engineering, conventional energy, precision instruments and applied mathematics, in addition to 8 laboratories devoted to physics, chemistry, explosion mechanics, architecture structure and designing, artificial intelligence, biological medical instruments, microwave and photoelectron technique and life science. With an enrollment of 8,553 (including 251 postgraduates), the school has 1,347 professors, associate professors and lecturers. Over the past 30 years and more, it has trained more than 27,000 scientific and technical talents, six times the total number of graduates of 50 years before liberation.