1897: Came into existence as Qiushi Academy
1928: Renamed as National Chekiang University
1936: Moved west and reputed as "Cambridge of the East"
1952: During the readjustment of China's Tertiary Education System in 1952. Zhejiang University divided into several monodisciplinary colleges while some of its disciplines were merged into other universities.
1998: The former Zhejiang University, Hangzhou University, Zhejiang Agricultural University, Zhejiang Medical University, all of which had separately grown up from the relevant colleges and departments of the parent university, successfully reunited into a new comprehensive Zhejiang University.
In September 1998, a new Zhejiang University was established on the basis of the amalgamation of the four former individual universities, namely Zhejiang University, Hangzhou University, Zhejiang Agricultural University and Zhejiang Medical University, which were all located in the garden city of Hangzhou. Approved by the State Council, the founding of the new Zhejiang University has been a significant move in the reform and development of China's higher education. The four universities have grown out of the same ancestry, the Qiushi (with the literal meaning of "seeking truth" in Chinese) Academy, which was founded a century ago as one of the earliest institutions of higher learning in China. As a result, they have all inherited from it the spirit of "Qiushi" and at the same time, built up their own distinctive features in teaching and research
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