Research and education

Westlake University西湖大学

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Westlake University is a private, non-profit research university with schools of life sciences, science, engineering and medicine. It grew out of a 2015 proposal by scientists including Shi Yigong, Chen Shiyi and Pan Jianwei, was approved by the Ministry of Education on 2 April 2018 and was inaugurated on 20 October 2018, with Shi Yigong as president. Its Yunqi campus is in Xihu District, and the main Yungu campus is in Zijingang Science and Technology City. In 2025 Westlake ranked 52nd in China in the Nature Index and in the 301–400 band of the Academic Ranking of World Universities.

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