History of Wuhan Textile University

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Wuhan Textile University has experienced three stages of development in its history: Wuhan Textile Engineering College,Wuhan College Of Science and Engineering, and Wuhan Textile University. We went through a period of innovation, transformation and change from Wuhan Textile Engineering College to Wuhan Textile University. The University adheres to traditional concepts of education. Many people worked hard to make our University successful and prosperous. Today Wuhan Textile University is a well established institution to promote new development of science and technology. We are conficent that we are on the right way to a brighter future.


Important events in school

1958 -Wuhan Textile Engineering Collegewas established.

1962 - WuhanTextile Engineering Collegewas closed.

1978 - WuhanTextile Engineering Collegewas reopened.

1981 - the South Lake campus openedthedoor forherfirst students.

1986 - the main teaching buildings in South Lake campus were completed.

1998 - the college got the license for the undergraduate education from Ministry of Education.

1999 - the college changed the name into Wuhan College of Science and Technology.

2002 - the first Party Congress of Wuhan College of Science and Technology was held; we started building Sunshine Campus; merging with Hubei Foreign Trade School was completed.

2003 - the college got the right to grant a master degree.

2004 - the Sunshine Campus was officially opened.

2005 - we substitute for Hubei College of Finance,so departments of Economics, Humanities, Finance, and Materials Technology were kept in the structure of the school.

2006 - the college received the highest ranking of undergraduate teaching from the Ministry of Education.

2007 - the second party congress of Wuhan University of Science and Technology was held, and it put forward the implementation of the " Six Development Strategies ".

2008 - the University celebrated its 50th anniversary; we won the second prize of the National Technological Invention Award.

2009 - the University won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award and the second prize of the National Technological Invention Award.

2010 - we were renamed as Wuhan Textile University.

2011 - the integration with Hubei Advanced College of Economics was completed.

2012 - it was selected as the building project of the central and western universities (small"project 211").

2013 - it enrolled the first graduate students.

2014 - the first Party Congress of Wuhan Textile University was held, and the goal of "speeding up the construction of distinctive high level university" was put forward. We hosted the 89th World Textile meeting.

2015 -Accepting the evaluation of undergraduateprogramfrom the Ministry of Education.

2016 - the joint program with Birmingham Institute of Fashion and Creative Arts was formally opened to host the 7th cross-strait textile academic BBS.

2017 - it is officially confirmed that the motto of the school is "self-improvement, and the place of heaven and earth"; Millions of alumni have invested 101.58 billion yuan to help make Wuhan "design capital".Hosting 2017 China Textile Academic annual conference.

2018 - the school was selected as the "first-class domestic discipline University" in Hubei province, and the Textile science and engineering subject was selected as the "first-class domestic subject " in Hubei province.