Zhejiang Gongshang University (ZJGSU) is a public university located in Hangzhou, which is the capital city of Zhejiang Province and borders Shanghai in the east of China. The University has a student population of over 21,000 and offers forty-five bachelor degree programs, thirty-seven master degree programs and three doctor degree programs in the fields of economics, administration, science, engineering, law, literature and arts.

Zhejiang is the name of the province and "Gongshang" is the Chinese pronunciation of two Chinese words meaning "business and technology," signifying that Zhejiang Gongshang University is a public higher educational institution administrated by Zhejiang Province and focuses in the fields of business and technology.

The university had its first enrollment of international students in the late 1980s, and since then, more than 1,000 international students coming from more than 40 countries all over the world have studied long and short-term Chinese Language and Culture Programs in ZJGSU.

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Zhejiang is the name of the province and "Gongshang" is the Chinese pronunciation of two Chinese words meaning "business and technology," signifying that Zhejiang Gongshang University is a public higher educational institution administrated by Zhejiang Province and focuses on the fields of business and technology.

Established in 1911, named "Hangzhou Business School"
Renamed "Hangzhou University of Commerce" in 1980
Renamed "Zhejiang Gongshang University" in 2004
Awarded "Grade A" in the evaluation of Bachelor Degree Programs by China's Ministry of Education in 2007

Domestic students: 25,000+
Foreign Students: 500+
Faculty and staff: 1,900
Campus Size: 140 hectares or 350 acres
Library with a collection of over 2.4 million volumes of books, 11,000 kinds of magazines and journals and with online services

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