Hangzhou 2024 Superb Scholarship for Doctoral Program

About the city

Hangzhou is the capital of Zhejiang Province and the center of politics, economy, culture, science and education in Zhejiang Province. Hangzhou has a superior geographical location, located in the northern southeast coast of China, adjacent to Shanghai. As one of the seven ancient capitals of China, Hangzhou is one of the first batch of national historical and cultural cities, with representative ones including West Lake Culture, Liangzhu Culture, Silk Culture, and Tea Culture. In the 13th century, Italian traveler Marco Polo praised Hangzhou as the “most beautiful and luxurious city in the world”. The most famous scenery in Hangzhou is the beauty of West Lake, as people saying “there is paradise in the heaven, and Suzhou and Hangzhou on the earth”, which is a beautiful praise for Hangzhou. In 2011, the West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou was successfully included in the World Cultural Heritage List. The 11th G20 Summit in 2016, the World Short Pool Swimming Championships in 2018, and the 19th Asian Games were held in Hangzhou. Hangzhou is the birthplace of China’s e-commerce, and the headquarter of Alibaba Group, the world’s largest e-commerce enterprise is also located in Hangzhou. Therefore, it is known as the “City of E-commerce”.

About the univesity

It’s one of the earliest business schools in China.
It is among the key comprehensive universities of Zhejiang Province; is the First Batch of “Universities with Internationalized Characteristics” in Zhejiang Province; is one of the top 6 National Universities of Finance and Economics.
It has more than 1000 international students from over 100 countries and regions around the world, and has sighed inter-school cooperation agreements with more than 200 universities and research institutions in more than 50 countries such as the UK, the United States, Germany, France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea.