ShanghaiTech University

ShanghaiTech University (ShanghaiTech) was established in 2013. It is a full-time general institution of higher education jointly hosted and built by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and supervised by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government. The university is committed to serving China's national economic and social development strategies, cultivating innovative entrepreneurial talents in science and technology, providing technological solutions and functioning as a think tank. It actively participates in the reform of higher education and contributes to the construction of Shanghai's Science and Innovation Center, striving to build a small-scale, high-level, international research-oriented and innovative university.
The university is located in Zhangjiang High-Tech Park Central Area, Pudong New District, Shanghai. It is an important part of the under-construction Zhangjiang Comprehensive National Science Center, integrated with major scientific facilities and research institutions such as the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, the National Center for Protein Sciences (Shanghai), the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites, and the new drug R&D platform of the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is also organically connected with the industrial and investment communities of Zhangjiang High-Tech Zone.