On the afternoon of May 12 at the Chengguan Campus, YANG Yongping, president of Lanzhou University (LZU) and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, met with the delegation led by Fabrizio Hochschild-Drummond, former deputy secretary-general of the United Nations (UN) and researcher at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. The two sides engaged in in-depth discussions on global governance, sustainable development, and the cultivation of young talents. Also present was ZHANG Ning,...
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On the afternoon of May 13, Elwen Evans, chancellor of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD), ZHU Wei, vice-chancellor of UWTSD, and their colleagues visited Lanzhou University (LZU). MA Xiaojie, Party secretary of LZU, and YANG Yongping, president of LZU and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, met with the guests. WANG Wei, vice-president of LZU also attended the meeting. After welcoming the delegation, MA reviewed LZU’s recent strides in discipline construction,...
On the ancient Silk Road, Rewi Alley, a New Zealander, dedicated his life to bridging Eastern and Western civilizations. Today, along the modern “academic Silk Road,” another New Zealand scholar, Dr. Michael Webster, has planted the seeds of friendship between Lanzhou University and the University of Auckland with sincerity and vision. Through his tireless efforts, the spirit of “diversity and coexistence” has taken root and flourished in academic collaboration....
On March 30, the two-day 2025 National Race Walking Grand Prix Series-2nd, which doubled as both the Race Walking Individual Event and World Athletics Championship Trial, concluded at Luogang Park in Hefei, Anhui Province. Peng Li, a member of High-level Track and Field Team of Lanzhou University (LZU), claimed third place in women’s 35- kilometer race walk with a time of 2:45:21 meeting the qualification standard for Tokyo World Championship. Meanwhile, her teammate Du Shijian achieved a person...
Recently, a research team of Lanzhou University (LZU) has achieved a significant breakthrough in the field of adsorbent materials for uranium extraction from seawater. The team proposed a dynamic spatial coordination strategy that can simultaneously achieve precise identification (with a U/V ratio reaching 215) and highly efficient extraction (uranium adsorption capacity of 588.24 mg·g−1) of uranium in complex seawater systems, showing great potential for seawater uranium resource extraction. Th...
On the afternoon of March 13, the second performance of“Enjoy Sunshine and Youth:Schools and UniversitiesExchange Performance Eventof Gansu Province”in 2025, hosted by Gansu Provincial DepartmentofEducation,was heldat Chengguan Campus, Lanzhou University (LZU). Theeventwas asymphonic wind concertjointlyperformed by LZUSymphony Orchestra andOrchestra of Lanzhou No.14 Middle School. The performance started with Distant Peaks .The classic piece Ode to theMotherland ignited patriotic fervoramong the...
Recently, the research team from the School of Pharmacy, Lanzhou University (LZU) published their latest research findings online titled “Indoloquinoline alkaloid neocryptolepine derivative inhibits Botrytis cinerea by targeting thiamine thiazole synthase” in Science Advances , a sub-journal of the internationally authoritative academic journal Science . This research not only elucidates the novel antibacterial mechanism of neocryptolepine derivatives but also provides crucial theoretical basis...
On March 5,Dr.Indermit Gill, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank Group, visited Lanzhou University(LZU).PresidentYang Yongping,memberof the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Vice PresidentWang Weimet with the guestsat the Yifu Science Building. President Yangintroducedhistorical developmentand distinctive educational featuresofLZU, and alsoreviewedthe forty-year-longhistoryofcollaboration between LZUand the World Bank.He emphasized that LZUhasdeeply delved intoareas suc...
Recently, Professor M. AslamBaig, Secretary-General of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences, sent a congratulatory letter to ProfessorXiongYoucaiof Lanzhou University (LZU),celebratinghis election as a foreignmember of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences.This marks the first time a faculty member specializing in ecology at LZU has been elected as a foreignacademician. Over the past two decades, ProfessorXiongYoucaihas beendedicated topromoting China’s northwest dryland water-saving agricultural technol...
Recently, Professor Niu Yifei’s team from the School of Nuclear Science and Technology and the Frontiers Science Center for Rare Isotopes at Lanzhou University (LZU), in collaboration with Professor Li Jianxing’s team from the School of Physics at Xi’an Jiaotong University, proposed a novel scheme based on regulating nuclear giant multipole resonances by using electron probes to solve a long-standing problem in nuclear physics “How to measure isovector giant resonances with higher multipolarity”...
