Zhengzhou University of Industrial Technology (ZUIT), located in a famous historical city Xinzheng and Zhengzhou Airport Economic Zone, a pioneering airport economic development zone in China, is a private engineering-oriented university, sponsored by Hopeshine, an integrated trade group with education, medical treatment, medicine, real estate, and hotel. In 2014, it was renamed as Zhengzhou University of Industrial Technology. In 2016, it successfully passed the undergraduate teaching assessment of the Ministry of Education.
Ever since its foundation,ZUIT has made a positive contribution to the local economic construction and social development with nearly 80,000 graduates. ZUIT consists of 14 schools, which offer 47 undergraduate majors. At present it has an enrollment of more than 40,000 full-time students. It initially forms the engineering-oriented professional layout, coordinated with medicine, management, economics, art, and literature. ZUIT is composed of two campuses, with a total area of 366 acres. It is equipped with swimming pool, gymnasium, comprehensive sports center, academic exchanges center, student affairs comprehensive service center, etc. It has 35 experimental training centers and 199 laboratories with instruments and equipment reaching almost 200 million Yuan. The number of books collected in the library totals 2 million. ZUIT has 1,359 full-time teachers, of whom 120 teachers with senior professional titles and 389 with deputy titles; it has 951 teachers with master's or higher degree, accounting for 70%.
ZUIT follows the law of fostering applied talents and makes great efforts to promote teaching reform. According to needs of local industrial development, it established four professional clusters, i.e. advanced manufacturing, modern service, rehabilitation, urban and rural construction. Relying on the advantage of running school by trade group, it sets up an integrated development platform for research and production. It strengthens the practical teaching system which focuses on the connection between basic skill training, professional comprehensive training and enterprise actual combat training. The employment rate for ZUIT graduates consistently ranks in the top schools among all Henan’s universities every year. Graduates have received high praise from employers for their all-round abilities, creative thinking, and strong work ethic. ZUIT is taking steps on the road of building a first-class, distinctive and high-level applied technology university.
