Lanzhou university, referred to as "landa", is A national key university directly under the administration of the ministry of education of the People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of the state administration of science, technology and industry for national defense and the ministry of education. Included in the plan, 2011 plan, 111 plan, outstanding legal talent education program, outstanding doctor education training plan, outstanding talents of agriculture and forestry education program, the national college students' innovative experiment plan, national college students' innovative entrepreneurial training plan, national construction under high level university graduate student projects, new technical research and practice, Chinese government scholarship students receive in China universities, colleges and universities nationwide to deepen reform of creative education model, the national first batch of bachelor, master, doctor degree awarded and the first to establish postdoctoral scientific research in colleges and universities, approved by the Ministry of Education has a graduate school, Degree authorization independent examination unit.

Lanzhou university was founded in 1909, its predecessor was gansu law school established during the new policy of the late qing dynasty. In 1928, it was expanded into lanzhou sun yat-sen university. In 1945, it was named national lanzhou university. In 1952, it was designated as one of the 14 comprehensive universities in China. In 2001, the ministry of education and the government of gansu province signed the provincial key co-construction agreement; In 2002 and 2004, the former grassland ecology institute of gansu province and lanzhou medical college were merged into lanzhou university 

By the end of March 2019, lanta has a campus area of 3545.298 mu, 2 campuses and 3 affiliated hospitals. There are 37 teaching departments; There are 100 undergraduate programs, 45 master's degree authorized first-level disciplines, 23 doctoral degree authorized first-level disciplines, 18 master's degree authorized types, 1 doctor's degree authorized types, and 19 post-doctoral research stations. There are 19,775 undergraduate students, 10,572 postgraduate students, 2,559 doctoral students, 3,718 faculty and staff, including 2,135 teaching and research personnel.