East China Universtiy of Science and Technology

east china university of science and technology (ecust), originally named east china institute of chemical technology, was founded in 1952. its history dates back to 100 years to nanyang public school and aurora university, its predecessor institutions. it was the first single-subject institute in china, consolidated by the chemistry departments of jiaotong university, aurora university, utopia university, soochow university and jiangnan university, during a nation-wide restructuring of the country’s universities in the early 1950’s. it was among the first to be granted the permission to admit postgraduates in 1956. it was one of the 13 national key universities designated by the central committee of the chinese communist party in 1960 and was renamed to its current name by the state ministry of education in 1993. in june 1996, ecust was selected into the national key subjects of the "211 project", a higher education reform project supported by the chinese government for the further de