Facts & Figures


  • Located in Hangzhou city, Zhejiang Province, renowned as the Paradise on Earth
  • Established in 1911 as ¨Hangzhou Business School"
  • Renamed in 1980 as ¨Hangzhou Institute of Commerce"
  • Renamed in 2004 as ¨Zhejiang Gongshang University"
  • Co-sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Education and the Government of Zhejiang Province
  • Motto: Honesty, Persistence, Diligence and Simplicity
  • Students: 27900, including 1600 international students
  • 6 academic discipline Ph. D programs, 47 sub-discipline Ph. D programs, 16 academic discipline master degree programs, 92 sub-discipline master degree programs, 16 master of professional studies programs(covering 25 fields) and 3 postdoctorate research centers
  • Faculty and staff: 2300
  • Library collection: 3.28 million books, 3000 journals & newspapers, over 21,000 digital journals 
  • Overall floor area: 410 acres