About 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.
