Wuhan University of Science & Technology, key university with central and provincial administrative condominium, lies in Wuhan City, known as the national thoroughfare. It can be traced from Craftwork School launched in 1898(in the end of Qing Dynasty) by Zhang Zhidong, Governor General of Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi. It was renamed in 1958 as Wuhan Institute of Iron and Steel, and in 1995, Wuhan Institute of Iron and Steel, Wuhan Junior College of Construction and Wuhan Junior Medical College of Metallurgical Industry, were incorporated into Wuhan University of Metallurgic Science and Technology. The present name came into being in 1999.

Here in our university we have designed most branches of learning with a distinction of specialties. Students here mainly major in engineering with a combination of engineering and science. The branches of learning cover such categories as science, engineering, medical science, liberal arts, economics, law. These branches of learning develop with coordination. There are 15 colleges offering undergraduate education, including 49 specialties.

Our university has a strong research power, unique advantages, especially in Iron and Steel Metallurgy, Chemical Material, Mechanic Controlling. We have built close link with 8 big enterprises such as “Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp”, “Handan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp”, “Lianyuan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp”, “Liuzhou Iron and Steel (Group) Corp”. We have also built strategic partnership with Shiyan City. We have set up a joint polytechnic institute with Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp. We have a national key experiment base, a national key laboratory, an engineering research center for the Educational Department, 5 provincial key laboratories and two provincial key liberal arts bases for science and research. In the past 3 years, we have taken or held 327 such National, Ministry or Provincial Key Projects as National “Project 863”, National “11th 5-Year” Science and Technology Supporting Project, National Natural Science Fund.

The total funds add up to￥356 million, with 42 projects awarded scientific rewards of ministry and provincial level, with 1 project awarded National Scientific and Technological Progress, with 5 projects awarded Ministry or Provincial Scientific and Technological Progress. We therefore have done special contributions to the local economic building and agricultural development. Thus we are honored by Hubei Province with the reputation of “Excellent Unit of Serving Hubei with Science and Technology”.

Our university insists on facing the world and opening education. One by one we have built academic relationship and communication with 22 universities from such countries as the USA, the GB, Japan, Germany, Canada and Australia. We invite famous scholars home and abroad to be honorary professors or to hold concurrent post here. We also invite a large group of foreign teachers to teach in our university. We choose some teachers to further their studies abroad to better our working staff in order to raise our international competitiveness. We also have a lot international cooperation to benefit from it so as to be more competitive. We constantly improve our capacity of university administration, as well as our core competence.